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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

Designing a Simple Bottle Holder

We are now about to start the first main project of the book, which is the design and modeling of a water bottle holder for a bicycle. Over the next few chapters, we will teach you how to take and record measurements from an existing bicycle using calipers and come up with a unique design that fits an 8-oz water bottle. In this chapter, we will learn how to create bottle holder sketches and use calipers to take measurements of the bicycle.

The first part of the project is to come up with a simple design and plan out how to approach the project. We will then come up with a few other design ideas and then add more details to the part. We will use some cheap calipers to determine the correct size of the bike support pipes and create the measurements of the bicycle holder according to the existing bicycle measurements taken. This will help you to learn how to take field measurements, adjust for proper fit, and determine the best design for what is required...