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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

Creating a Customizable S-Hook

For our first project, we will learn how to create an S-Hook of various sizes using Fusion 360. There are a variety of ways to create an S-Hook but, for the sake of time, we will experiment with only two different ways to design an S-Hook using tools such as Line, Arc, Sweep, and Pipe. We will learn how to start a project, how to use Rule #1 (see Chapter 3), and experiment with different methods of creation.

By the end of this chapter, you will have a better understanding of how to set up a project and get a better understanding of how to fix a project.

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

  • Project setup in Fusion 360
  • Creating an S-Hook using the Pipe and Line tools
  • Creating an S-Hook using the Arc and Sweep tools