Fusion 360 Essential Training

Get comprehensive training in Fusion 360, the cloud-powered 3D design and fabrication tool for product design, mechanical engineering, and fabrication.

Introduction

• Use Fusion 360 to turn your ideas into designs

1. Introduction to Fusion 360

• What Fusion 360 does
• What Fusion 360 does not do
• Fusion 360 competitors and companions
• The online aspect of Fusion 360
• Browser-based CAD
• Team and client collaboration
• What is covered in this course
• What is not covered in this course

2. Creating Basic Shapes

• Introduction to creating basic shapes
• Fusion 360's environments
• Environments: Designing
• Environments: Showing
• Environments: Making
• User interface refresher
• Let's create some primitives
• An intro to sketching
• Sketch dimensions explained
• Extruding profiles to create objects
• What is lofting?
• Setting up your Loft profiles
• Lofting and controlling tangency
• Adding loft guide rails
• What are Sweeps?
• Fusion 360 can sculpt?
• What is surface modeling?

3. Planning Your Design

• Planning the process
• Take a step back
• Now get close and start drawing
• Overview of the timeline
• Editing via the timeline
• Why create user parameters?
• Timeline editing caveat: Sculpting
• The importance of edges
• The importance of cleanliness

4. Editing Your Shapes

• Intro: Modify and assemble tools
• Making shapes useful
• Making shapes nice
• Combining shapes
• Use patterns
• Sculpt edges and editing

5. Inspecting and Creating Your Work

• Analysis tools
• Analysis tools 2
• Measurement tools
• Exporting solid models
• Exporting polygonal models

6. Solid Modeling Tutorial: Headphone Hanger

• Introduction to the step-by-step section
• Introduction to planning your model
• Strategy: Inside-out
• Strategy: Outside-in
• Using paper, pencil, and a ruler
• Translating your design into a sketch
• Alternate: Uploading an image template
• Sketch and extrude the starter profile
• Creating a baseplate
• Create and extrude your aesthetic curves
• Bonus: Sweeping a lip
• Beauty through embellishments and fillets

7. Sculpt Modeling Tutorial: Headphone Hanger

• Introduction to sculpting the hanger
• Importing your template
• Sculpting a plane and editing the form
• Surface thickening the hanger portion
• Sketch and extrude a sculpted baseplate
• How to patch and stitch surface models
• Cutting holes and making it pretty

8. Now That You Have Your Model

• Let's make some photos
• Setting up your render stage
• Exporting to Meshmixer for 3D printing

Conclusion

• Other software classes to check out
• Next steps