Fusion 360: Tips, Tricks, and Techniques

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Fusion 360—the popular 3D design and fabrication tool from Autodesk—is constantly evolving. This weekly series keeps you up to date with the latest and greatest in the Fusion 360 feature set, providing tips tailored for beginners jump-starting their learning journey with this tool. Instructor Jomarc Baquiran presents a new topic each week, highlighting helpful techniques and best practices that you might not find in the Fusion 360 documentation.

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Welcome

Fusion 360 Tips and Tricks

02 - Z-up for 3D printing
03 - Sketch and modeling environment
04 - Selecting nested objects
05 - Intersect - Protruding text on faces of a cylinder
06 - Center of rotation in camera orbit
07 - Snap to grid and incremental move
08 - Capture Design History
09 - Sharing files inside Fusion 360
10 - File version and file promotion
11 - Custom keyboard shortcuts
12 - Create an arc in the Line command
13 - S key
14 - Redefining sketch planes
15 - Window and crossing selection
16 - Terminating line chain creation
17 - Right-click to grab sketch constraints
18 - Reuse sketch profiles
19 - Find in browser
20 - Click and hold a line
21 - Holding Shift when on hor ver constraint
22 - Import a CAD file without internet connection
23 - Disabling inferred constraints
24 - 3D sketching
25 - Locking views for render
26 - Selection set
27 - Named views
28 - Component color cycling
29 - DXF files in Fusion 360
30 - Removing material with shell
31 - Dimensioning circle and arc tangent
32 - Object snap in forms
33 - Formulas and mathematical operations in dimensions
34 - Concentric holes
35 - Forward slash on the timeline
36 - Component reference between two faces
37 - Merge bodies into sheet metal
38 - Identifying internal volume
39 - Animate model
40 - Exporting components from an assembly
41 - Adding a thumbnail
42 - Using sketch entities for component reference
43 - Joint limits
44 - Joint origin
45 - Creating a knurl
46 - Create components from bodies
47 - Resetting default view
48 - Multibody part modeling in Fusion 360
49 - Section analysis
50 - Measure tool
51 - Refer a friend to Fusion 360
52 - Setting multiple viewports
53 - Creating motion studies
54 - Creating a motion link
55 - Contact sets
56 - Cloud credits in Fusion 360
57 - Inserting McMaster-Carr components
58 - Importing SVG files into Fusion 360
59 - Units in values field
60 - Project geometry
61 - Scale entire sketch at first dimension
62 - Show ghosted result body
63 - Mouse pan, zoom, and orbit preferences
64 - New component
65 - Repeat last command
66 - Creating a dimple
67 - Deselect
68 - Select parent
69 - Reset default UI
70 - Reveal folders in Data Panel
71 - Cache project and offline cache
72 - Press and hold to trim
73 - Selecting sketch chained entities
74 - AnyCAD for Fusion 360

Fusion 360 Tips and Tricks

75 - Divide and conquer
76 - STL to quads
77 - Add face and edge in sculpt
78 - Add crease in sculpt
79 - Grow selection
80 - Fit curves to mesh section
81 - Desktop connector
82 - Trimming surfaces
83 - Paste new component
84 - Insert Derive
85 - Free move in insert component
86 - Lock to faces in joint origin selection
87 - Understanding chamfers
88 - Inserting tables into drawings
89 - Cost estimation
90 - Arrange tool
91 - DXF import utility
92 - Component versus bodies
93 - Add a command to the toolbar
94 - Text on path
95 - Comments in Fusion 360
96 - Fusion 360 in web browser
97 - Thin extrude
98 - Untrim surface

Fusion 360: Tips, Tricks, and Techniques

Authors

Jomarc Baquiran

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0. Introduction

Fusion 360 Tips and Tricks

Fusion 360 Tips and Tricks

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