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Improving CAD Designs with Autodesk Fusion 360

By : Kevin Michael Land
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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

Saving to the cloud

For those who may not be aware of what the term “the cloud” means, it refers to data storage within a server that may or may not be local to your area. The cloud is useful, as it allows you to be able to work from any machine without having to worry about bringing your personal laptop, or remembering to download your files to a USB stick or external hard drive.

You may have noticed that when you save your project, by hitting the Save button in the top-left corner of your screen, there is no option to store your project on the local hard drive. It is saved to the cloud and stored there. You can still create multiple project folders as you would while storing them on your local drive, and you can also create multiple folders within.

Figure 3.32 – Showing the Save window

Figure 3.32 – Showing the Save window

If you have the Fusion 360 for personal use subscription, you will only be able to work on 10 files at a time, but this isn’t the limit...