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Improving CAD Designs with Autodesk Fusion 360

By : Kevin Michael Land
Book Image

Improving CAD Designs with Autodesk Fusion 360

By: Kevin Michael Land

Overview of this book

Autodesk Fusion 360 has become an indispensable tool for designers, tinkerers, and engineers worldwide thanks to its versatility that allows for large-scale assemblies and smaller, quick 3D prints. If you’ve faced challenges with learning Fusion 360, this book will help you overcome them and build the confidence to design your own projects, explaining step-by-step instructions and the purpose of each tool. In this book, you’ll dive into the design workspace and learn sketching fundamentals such as setting up a component, recognizing when a sketch is fully constrained, and parametrically flexing models. Through trial and error, you’ll work on multiple easy-to-build projects to create simple, useful items that can be quickly 3D printed for use around the house and then advance to much bigger projects that require joint connectivity and large assemblies. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to sketch fully parametric designs, translate them into 3D models, and create your own unique designs.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
1
Part 1: Simple, Fun Projects for Around the Home
7
Part 2: Bicycle Water Bottle Holder Project
13
Part 3: FORM Modeling Techniques
17
Part 4: Working with 2D and 3D Scanned Images

Modeling a Bottle Topper

You’ve made it to the final chapter of this Fusion 360 book. I hope you have been enjoying all the projects so far. For our final chapter, we will take a scanned 3D model and import the mesh into Fusion 360. We will fix any holes within the scanned mesh and then create a bottle topper out of the mesh body. Scanning objects such as mechanical or organic parts has started to become part of the normal workday as it’s much easier to pull information from the existing geometry rather than recreate it. There are a variety of free and paid products online to help get you into the scanning business for yourself. Here is a link to all3dp.com that provides a brief overview of some free and paid scanning applications: https://all3dp.com/2/best-3d-scanner-app-iphone-android-photogrammetry/.

In this chapter, we’re going to cover the following main topics:

  • Importing a mesh model to Fusion 360
  • Fixing the mesh body
  • Getting ready for...