Just a nerd forging a path through life with his own two hands. This channel is focused around helping people work through interesting and complex problems in CAD.
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What I do for work: Process Technician at Parker Aerospace
I develop safe and repeatable manufacturing processes around formed sheet metal parts for commercial and military aerospace. Working heavily with large Hydroform presses, Heat Treat Furnaces, 6 Axis CNC lasers, and additive MFG.
@Austin Shaner I don't think this is working properly. I've attempted to model a 5 string bass at 34" scale with a Zero fret. Any changes I make to the parameter for Zero Fret Offset has no affect on the design. The fingerboard stops where the Zero fret should be and is only 25.829 total length so there is NO SLOT for the Zero fret and there is no offset either. So this FB would be cut short and not work at all. 😞 Update: After playing with this quite a bit more, if I make changes at 1" increments for both scale values, I'm able to slowly scale it up to my dimensions. It's slow going, but eventually works by making each scale change and saving.
Tip 3 surprised me at first but then clicked perfectly. I've been trying to learn surface modeling and 3D sketching just feels clunky. Using an intersection curve between two orthogonal 2D sketches makes so much sense.
Wow amazing video covering this tool. I had only ever used Solid or Sketch. I didn't even know the Mesh, Surface, Sheet Metal and Utilities were buttons. I hate this new Metro design programmers are going for. I'm sure its great once you know how to use the app but I miss the days when you could find all tools from a drop down menu. In my opinion they are moving backwards with a lot of this stuff. If you don't call out that something is a button people will not know they can click it and most likely never will.
As a newcomer to hobby cnc, this is by far the best tutorial I have come across. Concise, easy to understand, and beautifully depicted with a real world example that Id be happy to make for myself. Thanks Austin. I've subscribed and smashed that bell, which is not something I do very often.
Some advice... Rather than upload your video immediately after you've captured it, maybe watch the thing and scrutinize it thoroughly beforehand? This video is mostly helpful; though enduring your mistakes and subsequent befuddlement undermines your intent. And at nearly an hour, it's tedious. Practice what you want to demonstrate and the information you want to convey. Record that instead.
Agreed. This was one of my worst videos in terms of editing. I rambled and repeated myself too much. It was also very early on in my channel and I have learned a lot since then. My newer content should feel much more succinct. I appreciate the honest feedback!
Great Video! When dealing with variable chamfer, I use a slightly different method... First apply the variable fillet, in surface modelling, Select the fillet and entire edge under the fillet, hit delete. Create a Ruled surface of the top curved edge, and apply an angle... say 110deg, stretch it out well past the bottom face of the guitar. Extrude the bottom curved edge of the guitar up, well past the Ruled edge. Using trim tool remove the 2 unwanted parts. Stitch everything together. This method reduces steps, is still parametric, the exact draft angle of the chamfer if defined. Analysis tools show a cleaner body. You can also use the same process to loft with rails, using the ruled surface as trim tools for the side curved surface.
Thanks for all the great videos! ...But no one should solder through the holes on the potentiometers, it does have any benefit, it only makes it harder when you need to make repairs. Desoldering can get quite complicated and time consuming, you might even need to take more stuff apart instead of just targeting a simple solder point. Besides, you don't need that holding power on cables without any stress/movement. Just saying...
Unfortunate that this method doesn't work if your headstock is angled. Intersection curve projection projects circles an arcs correctly but not splines and lines. Splines and lines are projected as they were not angled?. Probably a bug in the software. Work around is to project the headstock outline to a surface.
I had to watch the 3D sketch section about 10 times to follow what you did re the intersection, but I'm glad I did, it really helped me place and dimension cables & tubes properly in my design.
Austin I wonder if you could help please? I thought I had followed you note for note on this until I got to the dimension for the heel width and although I dragged it out parallel when I left clicked to put in heel dimension I got a window opened saying over constrained and asking to create a driven dimension instead?? What did I do wrong?? I check my screen against yours and I seem to have the same constraints i.e centreline/origin/fretboard end and last fret parallel constraints and nut end and bridge centre constraints. Any ideas where I might be going wrong? Hope you can help Thanks
For soldering, the more metal to heat up , the longer you have to leave the iron tip on it. Just have a little thin on the tip to create a heat bridge, wait a bit and insert the wire with additional thin.... it will solve your soldering problem. Applaying flux paste to the joint before soldering will help greatly for thin to adhere. Clean with alchool after to remove flux residue.
This channel is gold! You are gold! Just starting out my journey in fusion 360, and want to do a guitar at some point, and so far your channel is the absolute best I have found on the subject! Thank you! <3
This series is just awesome! I am so glad I found your channel and appreciate your willingness to share so much information with us! On your work holding for the back side, have you considered adding a raised strip to your jog that fits snuggly into the rod slot? That would give you real positive grab to prevent left/right shifting and potentially allow you to put a neck back on the jig after removal.
I am creating multiple components but I am using project a lot to base the new component on the other component. Is this a good workflow or would you recommend something else?
