Fusion 360 Essential Training

Course details

Design differently with Fusion 360. This cloud-powered tool from Autodesk is the key to instant 3D creativity, used for product design, mechanical engineering, and fabrication. This essential training gives you the expertise to use Fusion 360 to turn your ideas into ready-to-manufacture designs that flow to 3D printing, CNC milling, or injection molding. Instructor Nick Kloski, founder of HoneyPoint3D, provides an overview of all the basic operations in Fusion 360, including sketching, extruding 3D objects, sculpting, and surface modeling. He explains the functions of the software, while providing a solid foundation in the basics of effective 3D design. Learn how to plan a project; model your ideas; work with sketches, meshes, and surfaces; generate files for 3D printing; and analyze your designs. Plus, learn how to create photorealistic renderings and even animations of your Fusion 360 designs.

Learning objectives
Creating basic shapes
Using Fusion 360 environments
Sketching
Extruding profiles to create objects
Sculpting
Surface modeling
Editing via the timeline
Editing and combining shapes
Analyzing your work
Rendering
Exporting models

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Use Fusion 360 to turn your ideas into designs

1. Introduction to Fusion 360

02 - What Fusion 360 does
03 - What Fusion 360 does not do
04 - Fusion 360 competitors and companions
05 - The online aspect of Fusion 360
06 - Browser-based CAD
07 - Team and client collaboration
08 - What is covered in this course
09 - What is not covered in this course

2. Creating Basic Shapes

10 - Introduction to creating basic shapes
11 - Fusion 360's environments
12 - Environments - Designing
13 - Environments - Showing
14 - Environments - Making
15 - User interface refresher
16 - Let's create some primitives
17 - An intro to sketching
18 - Sketch dimensions explained
19 - Extruding profiles to create objects
20 - What is lofting
21 - Setting up your Loft profiles
22 - Lofting and controlling tangency
23 - Adding loft guide rails
24 - What are Sweeps
25 - Fusion 360 can sculpt
26 - What is surface modeling

3. Planning Your Design

27 - Planning the process
28 - Take a step back
29 - Now get close and start drawing
30 - Overview of the timeline
31 - Editing via the timeline
32 - Why create user parameters
33 - Timeline editing caveat - Sculpting
34 - The importance of edges
35 - The importance of cleanliness

4. Editing Your Shapes

36 - Intro - Modify and assemble tools
37 - Making shapes useful
38 - Making shapes nice
39 - Combining shapes
40 - Use patterns
41 - Sculpt edges and editing

5. Inspecting and Creating Your Work

42 - Analysis tools
43 - Analysis tools 2
44 - Measurement tools
45 - Exporting solid models
46 - Exporting polygonal models

6. Solid Modeling Tutorial - Headphone Hanger

47 - Introduction to the step-by-step section
48 - Introduction to planning your model
49 - Strategy - Inside-out
50 - Strategy - Outside-in
51 - Using paper, pencil, and a ruler
52 - Translating your design into a sketch
53 - Alternate - Uploading an image template
54 - Sketch and extrude the starter profile
55 - Creating a baseplate
56 - Create and extrude your aesthetic curves
57 - Bonus - Sweeping a lip
58 - Beauty through embellishments and fillets

7. Sculpt Modeling Tutorial - Headphone Hanger

59 - Introduction to sculpting the hanger
60 - Importing your template
61 - Sculpting a plane and editing the form
62 - Surface thickening the hanger portion
63 - Sketch and extrude a sculpted baseplate
64 - How to patch and stitch surface models
65 - Cutting holes and making it pretty

8. Now That You Have Your Model

66 - Let's make some photos
67 - Setting up your render stage
68 - Exporting to Meshmixer for 3D printing

Conclusion

69 - Other software classes to check out
70 - Next steps