A series is planned, however it won't be TOTALLY in depth with every tool, as mentioned there is other tutorials for that. My aim is to get you comfortable enough using the software to start drawing and learning from there. Parents are Australian, they just liked the name, and I like scotch. There are no accidents.
Tip on Cad software, don't overload the first sketch with too many details. Separate feature sketches out into multiple extrusions or cuts. You will be able to suppress or remove features later in design if a feature doesn't fit the base size of the component later. Great video for beginners!
Only came across your channel a week ago but I have been binge watching all your videos. Love the content mate, keep it up! I've been teaching myself Fusion 360 for a while but these types of videos help a lot. As others have mentioned a "CAD for Newbies - Fusion 360" series would be amazing!
Hi. Am making the shift from Blender to Fusion360. Found this first video helpful, going to binge watch the rest now. Love the drafting set you were given. I had one back in the day before CAD (makes me sound older than I am). I helped introduce AutoCAD to a few bases in the US Air Force, and moved them from board drafting to CAD. Love it all, love your videos. Thanks.
Excellent advice Angus.. I have been a toolmaker for about 30 years and you would be surprised how many Engineers use the wrong type of dimensioning in manufacturing drawings. Thanks for another great tutorial.
I think it would really help if new engineers spent a year on the floor where parts and tools get made before they get cut loose designing stuff that can't be made or measured. "Throw it over the wall I dare you to make this" drawings waste a lot of dollars. A lot of places are starting to get tooling, manufacturing,quality, engineering,design guys in the same room before the pain is discovered when the chips are flying. Some places are still stuck in the 50's.
Man, I guess I've still got some stuff to learn! I would always disregard dimensions because it looked "cleaner" and just do everything one time and almost start over if I needed to change something, but this is really helpful!
Learned something new, Thanks Angus! I remember a couple weeks ago I tried to design a parametric robot case but when I changed the values everything got out of place, this video helped explains why it didn't work and what to do in the future!
THANK YOU! This is EXACTLY the video I wanted. I can work my way around fusion but working out 'how' to dimension has been a huge sticking point for me, often resulting in a totally ruined part trying to account for 3d printer tolerances - adjust that 1 edge a couple millimeters and the whole thing spazzes out of proportion
Watching this on July 20th, 2020. This is a really good showcasing of how dimensioning works because I ended up having the same design as you even after we "randomly" placed the circles. We still had the same sketch at the end of the video. It will not be a yellow background on the sketch anymore, it is not blue. The rest of the color remarks are still relevant. 6:40 - Fillets is now underneath "modify" section, which is just to the right of "create". In other words, if you try to create a line, go over 6 spots and you'll see "fillet" which is just before the scissors.
I'm not a CAD newbie, so the constraining objects is known, but as a fusion 360 newbie, so finding out how fusion360 can attachment dimensions is very useful.
Angus, this is awesome! Although I already knew how to use dimensions, you explained the LOGIC behind dimensioning correctly -- something I certainly could do better. You are a great teacher! Thanks Angus! Love your channel!
Another great Fusion 360 video Angus! Thank you. Back in the 80's I studied drafting in technical school and I have all the, I guess you could say "vintage" drafting tools including a kit like the one you have. Manual labor days, look how far we have come!
Love the CAD for Newbies videos, Angus - thanks! This helps immensely, as this CAD Newbie has been having trouble getting to 'fully constrained' without accidentally getting the 'over-constrained' error! Question / Suggestion for a Future Episode: how much algebra is sensible in the dimensioning process? Basic example: setting a hole's distance from the edge to twice its diameter, or other calculated ratios.
Excellent video and advice Angus. Please keep creating similar videos. It has been mentioned below by a couple people, but key terms here are "Design Intent" which is used to determine how a sketch is dimensioned and constrained and "Fully Constrained" meaning ideally you want your sketches to turn black in Fusion 360. Sort of off topic note is I found it funny the SW (SolidWorks) crowd seemed to always preach Fully Constrained sketches/parts/assemblies while the Inventor (Autodesk Inventor) crowd - the term Fully Constrained sometimes resulted in heated debates, ie, do it all the time vs do it some of the time. Inventor user here who always practices Fully Constraining things due to SW was my first solid modeling training.
I've got a set of those tools (and some slide rules). I used the tools around the time that the TRS 80 hit the market (77-78). The coolest draftsman (I wasn't a draftsman btw) on the block had an electric eraser. I made blue lines of drawings that I needed using mylar with the drawing exposed on it and some treated paper. You put them together and ran them through a big machine. I don't remember the details but the the smell of ammonia was strong when we were making copies. I prefer Fusion 360 to those days but a set of good drawing tools are still pretty handy.
OH! MY! GAWD!! You just made me feel ancient. :D My first job was as an Architectural Technician in the late 80s so those compasses are very familiar to me, I still have my Rotring and Staedtler compass sets, technical pens, mechanical pencils, scale rules, etc. in a box somewhere. 8-) Thanks very much for doing these vijayos, I've got quite adept using TinkerCad but feel I need to progress to something more "grown-up" and your help is very much appreciated.
Good catch on the gift. I'm dating myself for sure but I used a drafting kit back in the day and now type this from my drafting table which I turned horizontal to hold my computer. Those were fun times actually but luckily we can be 1000 times more creative now.
Just ordered my 3D printer, and this video has helped me so much already. I modeled a fidget spinner last night, with VERY bad dimmensioning and constraints. I can't wait to redo the model now that I have a better idea of how to put it together.
I'm a big fan of ALL your 3D modelling videos. Glad you're using Fusion now, but even the vids you did with OnShape were very useful, as I could always apply the same concepts to Fusion. Thanks!
I would love to see you make an episode about common flaws with stls that people upload online that make life harder for users/downloaders. 1. Not "repairing" your model first 2. Not centering model close to the origin (which causes the model to appear far away) 3. using unnecessary detail that will not possibly be picked up by 3D printers, even good ones 4. more?
I think this is only the second video in the series, but I'm loving them, and want to thank you! I decided to experiment by extruding this sketch and ended up making, what i'm calling, a Swiss speech bubble haha
Thanks for your fusion 360 series. I’m new to both fusion 360 and 3D printing...I’ve been learning fusion from the Lars Christensen videos. I think it’s good to see how others operate too. Thanks again.
Very good video , I am new to fusion 360 and I was having trouble with my angles . No I have a better understanding what went wrong . Please continue the videos your explanation of how things work and move is spot on
Last night I designed a part in fusion for my knockoff roomba, or course it was a couple mm off the first time. When I went back in to edit my sketch it was so hard to work with because I didn't know any of this stuff I ended up just completely redoing it. This is going to save me a lot of time in the future.
Great video, can't agree more on the importance of correctly dimensioning a drawing. In my mech eng degree we had to progress through a session on hand drawing mechanical drawings before moving onto CAD.. still messed up and had my drawings explode after changing a dimension a couple of times though haha
It's like you read my mind with this video. I was just thinking it is time I should design my own parts from now on instead of using downloaded things. Thanks Angus.
Mate, thanks for your efforts with showing us noobs the ins and outs of 3d printing with the bonus of your real world application. (And we need more ozzie accents on youtube).
Angus, I am not sure if you have played with programming and Object Oriented (OO) Design; but, I feel that OO is a great way to think for all designs (including CAD). I find OO as a very helpful way to address some of the dimensioning issues you mentioned. In your video, I see three Objects within the Design you created: the Motor Mount, the Hat (of Shark Fin) and the Base. Each of these objects have properties that define their function and it is own; so, it should be described and dimensioned on its own (just like you did for the motor mount). That object should then be set in relation to the object that it has a relation to. Ex: What is the motor for? Does it couple to something on the Hat, then dimension it the Hat, not the Base. The same for the Hat, what is its purpose and how should it be dimensioned as a result of that? This is especially important as designs become more complex. Hope that makes sense. Anyway, good simple points in the video. Mark
Great video! I would love to see another video like this for the overall timeline of a design (components, assemblies, etc) so that when you go back into a completed file and make a change, the features don't blow up.
I learn design with a K&E set just like that one then learn he SUPPER AutoCAD 12 dos to transfer a bit latter to 13 Win and finish with 2004 but never work before with constrain now I have Fusion 360 and you are the greatest help that I can find just because you go to the basic and I think that I am not the only one that need it Thank !
Hi Angus. For anyone having the problem where the "Coincident" & "Midpoint" sub-menu options are missing when you right-click the line - you need to have the "Selection Filters" (found via the top menu button "SELECT") "Select Through" box to be ticked or it won't work. Susi xx
I am so jealous of that drawing kit. I had a similar one that dated back to the 1940s when I was in grade school given to me by my grandmother. Unfortunately no one else knew the value of it and would simply dig the needle points in when using them and either bent them over or completely broke them off.. havent been able to find a good vintage one since that isnt pretty obscenely priced.
Maybe this is just my AutoCAD reflexes, but whenever I do dimensions, most of the time I do them as I'm drawing the element. Then again, AutoCAD wasn't parametric (at least not how I was using it), so yeah.
Nice how the tutorial is kinda oriented to robotics. That is, motor bolt patterns for instance being a constraint. The same might be true for a battery bolt pattern, an arduino bolt pattern, a transmission bolt pattern I assume.
I was wondering... I found this video via the playlist, and I like it a lot. However, while I know this might be over the top, do you have/can you create a series like this for SolidWorks specifically? Would love to learn it better with your style of teaching. :)
Wow - that drafting kit looks very much like MINE - except that my case is blue - which I still have from High School days! That and the triangular profile ruler with several different scales, a protractor, a 45-90 triangle and a 30-60 triangle, a T-square and drawing board and - WE WERE OFF! Pencil first, then india ink. Oh - forgot the eraser, eraser-bag for cleanup, graphite holder and sharpener - what was I THINKING! Had I a clue back then where AutoCAD and similar would be, my mind may have waited to melt down into a puddle of goo.
Ty for what ever reason you decided to make this tutorial. Two questions: what hardware are you using, and what software allows you to record view of yourself, simultaneously viewing the program you are operating in? Ty in advance.
Still can't get my sketches to fully constrain but I now know how to constrain angles properly :D thanks Angus! edit: specifically, haven't worked out how to center the part.
For rectangles/squares, choose Sketch > Rectangle > Center Rectangle. For circles choose Sketch > Circle > Center Diameter Circle. For custom profiles, follow Angus's suggestion to dimension it being sure to utilize "design intent". HTH
I still have all my technical drawing tools from when I was at school and later, technical college.. I will be 70 in 2023. JUST getting into fusion 360...
Some question here for using this tool to draw scientific drawings. Is it somewhat possible to rename the numbers as parameters? So you make an angle 45 degree to look good but you can call it alpha just to emphasize that it's changeable.
Nice video, I have been enjoying all of them. The main problem I have been having is that I have to fudge factor my dimensions because my A net A8 builds everything .5mms bigger. Again I used the tolerance torture test and get only a .4 to be free but I don't know how accurate I realistically can expect. You had always scoffed at calibration cubes. I calibrated my extrusion setting and thoughts everything else would fall into line. Maybe a video on how to maximize settings and limit expectations??
Great video! Please make more for us newbies! I have a question, is it best to sketch out like your doing before going to 3d? I am trying to draw a panel for a meter I built and I am having trouble with holes and setting dimensions and locating them on the panel etc.
