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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 Bike Reference Model

Now that we have created the pencil and paper notes for where we would like to place the bicycle water bottle holder, it’s time to take those notes into Fusion and create a reference model of the bicycle frame. The reference model will be used not only as a general 3D model visual guide but also as a projected model that will be used as a reference for our 2D design sketches. For this chapter, we will only need the handlebars (top horizontal bicycle bar), the handlepost (vertical support bar), and the handlepost clamp, but if you would like to place your bottle holder elsewhere, such as under the seat, be sure that you have captured the necessary heights, widths, and thicknesses of the part as we did in Chapter 6.

By the end of this chapter, you will have learned how to take the dimensions from Chapter 6 and create the bicycle parts that we will use as a reference model for the bottle holder. This bicycle reference model is important as we...