Fusion 360 - Make a Tube Chassis with 3D Sketch -  

Lars, another new Fusion student here. A 65 year young one at that. I'm working on my own first drawing after watching a half dozen of your videos. You really hit the nail on the head for this 2D CAD guy looking to step up to a 3D option that I can understand. And a lot of the credit for grasping Fusion 360 goes to you and your approach to how you explain things. The number of views for your videos are not all that high but I want to assure you that you produced the "gift that keeps on giving". A hearty THANKYOU ! ! ! for all your videos. For me, at least, they really hit the mark. I'm posting this to your tube cage video but trust me, I'm a keen fan and will be watching a lot more of your YT work as I grow into Fusion.

Confusing when trying to follow using the latest version 5 years after this was recorded :) Updated version for 2022 version would be nice.

Fusion user of 3 years here: never knew about paste new until today. Wow, that could have saved a lot of time in the past ;)

Ermagerd so much inefficiency! Couple suggestions to users: 1. After the first item is placed use the move/copy on the new tube running along z-axis and rotate/copy about an origin axis, now you have a copy of your 6' long tube and won't have to repeat your joints (instead of paste new on an object that will be made identical. 2. Create an offset dimension on your 1st sketch that is the tube radius, now you have something to snap to without the joint offset. *Bonus you can account for tube size revisions* 3. Creating a plane along 3 points for your cuts takes some more planning but makes it much easier if you decide to change your primary dimensions later. Suggestion 1 saves time, 2 & 3 make for a more robust model. Suggestion 1 also makes for a much more clean bill of materials in your drawing. Great video nonetheless, still learned things.

Old video and I still learn new things ☺️ Thank you!

Man you are like a CAD Bob Ross. Thanks for the teaching

I don't want to sound too negative , but I did some contract work and had to buy a license of SolidWorks. The weldment tool in SolidWorks is about 10,000 times better than the methods you have to use in Fusion360. I would just make a few 2D or 3D sketches for where I want the pipe sections. Click on the tool select my profile (8020, I-beam, H-beam, angle, solid or tube square, round, or rectangular stock and then click the line segment. Done. If I want a offset I just use the wizard to select a point on the profile to offset. If I want weld gaps, to trim, or miter a joint use a little wizard and done. Workflow is super simple. I am trying to build a simple rectangular tube frame in fusion 360 and I am pulling my hair out.

Hi Lars, I'm new to fusion, coming from solid works. your videos are amazing, I love your presenting style, you put some life into it. You have a natural way of keeping the content moving and engaging but staying on point. Thanks for your efforts and content. I am learning fast from this. .

Thanks for sharing. I was curious if you can make bends in the roll cage instead of connecting two pieces together?

Brilliant, Been trying to figure this out for ages. I'm trying to construct a conservatory frame and this will work perfectly.Thank you so much Lars.

Fantastic insight and tutorial into 3D sketching. I had tried it before, but without too much success, now I know what I'm doing. Thanks Lars.

I feel like I'm back in school. just finished the table and now onto this one since I plan on designing something using tubing

Thanks Lars just needed this example and I basically learned fusion 360 mainly by following your tutorials😊

Layout sketch 4:46 Insert material into current design 7:36 Break link 8:10 Paste new 9:17 Joint command1 10:50 Plane at angle 14:55 Modify>Split body 15:18 Joint 15:37 Offset plane 24:51 3d sketch 25:00

Hey Lars. I was hoping this would be easy because Fusion's FEA is really nice. Solidworks is still much faster and easier for weldments. I hope they improve it.

Lars mate your Instructional Technique is outstanding and your enthusiasm is contagious! Well done on your 100th top notch tutorial, roll on #200 :)

Been teaching myself f360 and your videos are pure gold. Thank you sir!

Btw, instead of plane at angle, you can make a 45 degree plane in a corner by using midpoint plane between the walls of those two beams. I wish working with this kind of design was easier. There's pretty much nothing changed in five years to make this any easier.

AWESOME! been looking for tubing manufacturing in fusion for ever! Thank you sir!

This is a great idea!! I build framework for a living and to bring in a standard 30, 35, 40,45,and 50 is brilliant!. Thanks Lars!

Maybe I'm a single student. I explain. I'm learning English. I practice my listenig and my reading with his classes. I put subtitles in English. And I still break learn Fusion 360. Its diction and oratory is great for learning this language. Putting it all together, I became subscribed to your videos. Thank you very much for your work. Talvez eu seja aluno único. Eu explico. Estou aprendendo inglês. Pratico meu listenig e meu reading com suas aulas. Coloco legendas em inglês. E de quebra ainda aprendo Fusion 360. Sua dicção e oratória é ótima para aprender este idioma. Juntando tudo, me tornei inscrito de seus videos. Muito obrigado por seu trabalho.

Congratulations Lars with reaching #100. Excellent video's and pleasant to look at and use as reference as an absolute beginner! Keep going as you do since you are truly helping a lot of people here!

Great Help, Thank you Lars.

How would you generate a cut list for the tube?

lars could you please do a video making bends as with motorsport we don't miter where possible we bend and cope You should look at the MSA blue book if you haven't seen it .i think if you did a blue book series I think that would be really popular I I'm trying to work out what software in going to learn its going to be painful as I'm not great with computers or sitting still but so looking something easy whats you thoughts on the bend tech software . I like how you can make the tube and store it to a Library .as a fabricator that's how my mind works here's a strait piece of stock what can I do it . I also pie cuts would be cool to see .would love to see collaboration with a welder fabrication guy or girl

you coped the tube to intersect with the vertical tube. i would like to know how you would bend the tube so you have one continuous piece from bottom to top. my bender die has a 7.5" center line radius so knowing how to set the radius would be very helpful.

This technique is my main go to for woodworking, so fast. Thank you.

The century is upon us. Congratulations on making it. I've not been tuning in quite as often as I should, the house is taking priority 🏡

You are very, very clear and I finally understood how to connect pipes. Thanks a lot!

You are awesome !! With your tutorial I have designed a Router CNC machine with Square tubes . Thank you so much !

Typically 1 5/8 down to 1 inch and 3/4 for some corner bracing per sfi. Also you wouldn't use all those notches, but rather bend it and create nods where tubing comes together at joints. Pipe is for plumbers, tubing is for fab work. Great job as always Lars, congrats on 100!

Wish you had covered this topic about two months ago when I had to design a support table for an CNC Router, using two inch square tubing.

that was exactly my questin, why didn't the line turn blue... Great video, very clear

Thank you Lars, you just reminded me the accent of my friends from Copenhagen Danks!

hej Lars, congratulations on the 100th episode. Thank you for streaming all these awesome videos to us. I watch the recorded videos, because the time you go live, I'm busy doing other things in a different timezone here in Denmark. But hey, that's why the recordings are made - right? It feels good to see our national flag, Dannebrog, in the background, btw :-) Tak for alle dine tips og smittende humør. Jeg bruger Fusion 360 på hobbybasis til design af ting som jeg 3d printer. Hav en fantastisk dag. Looking forward to the next 100 episodes :-)

Thank you Lars, 3d line manipulation was very useful.

"Why is this blue" was my question when I was skipping ahead. Glad to see there are still unanswered questions.

Thanks for sharing this, but this is the outmost complicated way of constructing a pipe frame. What takes you 40 minutes takes me 5 minutes with the piping tool option as i turn a wire 2d frame into a piping 3d frame.

Your Tuts are so helpfull! So good explained! Thanks a lot!

ps thanks for the vids. Learned good working practices that make this program sooo much easier to use and doing it properly

solidworks does this 15x better i have to say. and i still dont get why they did joints the way they did in fusion. but its free so here we are

great video!

Your videos are awesome. The narration of the lessons is very nice. Very informative. I learned everything from you. I also like the t-shirt very nice.

Great job Thanks

dope 3D sketching!

Another very helpful and informative video Lars. I will be making a new motorcycle swing arm soon and this video has helped a lot with the design process for that.

Tusind tak for at tage dig tid til at lære fra dig, og tak for at du gad at lave en video omkring det.

Lars - you're the best. Congrats at 100 episode Sir :)

Lars, the way you are flying and navigating around the model makes all the moves/sketches, mods you make painless. What 3d mouse are you using ? You make it looks so e.a.s.y.....

How to make a drawing from that model to put to bending machine ?? f.e.: Straight distance(mm), bending in angle (radius), straight distance(mm), rotation of the plane (angle!), bending in angle (radius), straight distance (mm)....

I miss frame generator from Inventor when I am in Fusion 360.

Great work as always Lars. Could you please elaborate on the difference between "delete" and "remove". I don't quite understand. Congrats on #100. You do the work of the gods!

hi Lars. Trying to replicate whats in the video. You don't show the trimming of the vertical pipe to the bottom structure. When I try to split body/remove bodies - it looks really odd. Can you let me know how you would do this?

The plane with an angle only works if your bottom is a square. Mine is a rectangle and the construction lines are not 45 to the material? This seems way overly complicated. It will takes Ages to design something elaborate.

This is essential learning Lars. I am finally getting down to the drawings for my steel sub-frame . Maybe we'll over take the actual building which has already begun :-) Regards

Great videos, this helped me enormously. Thankyou

Great work as always Lars, this video was very informative and I definitely learned a trick or two!!! 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

Great video. My interest is Scale RC 4wd vehicles and this will be great for scale roll bars and bumpers. I will have to explore how to bend the pipe instead of intersect and join.

^^Congrats on #100! I look forward to watching every one

Thanks for making videos like this... Is there a virtual person in fusion 360? I watched a documentary about the first submarine ever fully designed with cad and they had a virtual person (I forget what they called him) for checking if a person could fit into certain places and do certain actions. so if I wanted to design a go cart for example I could take a 5' tall virtual person put him or her in the proper sitting position and design the go cart around him/her?

I'm a fan & new subscriber. If I may suggest it, you might consider upgrading your mic/audio. It's a bit rough & fuzzy. But the videos are really great for me. I have used half a dozen different 3D modeling programs but have never really mastered any of them. I love this one and hope to get really competent with it.

To those looking for the 3D sketch section, start watching from 25:00

thank you so much for ur help . I learn new cool stuff today

Thank you! You are a treasure.

Hi Lars great tutorial! Can you explain why you used “remove” instead of “delete”?

Nice video Lars. Now I want to see a cut list 😁

Could you imagine a 3” sch 80 roll cage with mitered joints? Lol. Not at ALL how roll cages are made, but very helpful nonetheless. Great channel

Thanks a bunch man, very easy to follow

On tube Chassis there are many bends in the tubing. The bending die have specific radius's they uses. How would you bend the upright tubing that goes from the bottom sketched rectangle to the top sketch rectangle?

If you were going to use the drawing from this project to construct a cage from, how would you know at what angle to notch the tubing?

Hey guys If you find all the cutting and deleting components a bit too much of a trouble here's an easier way to achieve the same results in less than half the time: ... When you are at this point 2:50 extrude to both sides (any length), proceed to create a new sketch and draw 45 deg. lines at each end of the pipe and extrude "cut" those corners. ... Follow the same procedure as in 8:57 to insert this stock tube into a new file. Now you just new to make the new component active and edit its length. VOILÁ ! ! ! ... place it anywhere you like. ... BTW, You may not even need a sketch in the first place. You're welcome!!!

Good stuff! Congratulations on 100!

Great vid Lars. So with compound mitres, how can you create bisector plane at 30:05? With the capabilites of simulation...fish mouth is a bit dirty lol!

instead of the 45 deg cuts how would you bend the pipe? That way you could use a tube bender. Great videos I have learned a lot from watching thanks for all the advice

Lars, you didn't cut out the horizontal pipes at the corners to align them with the vertical pipes (or you should cut out the bottom ends of the vertical pipes and leave the horizontal frame as is)

Hello Lars. I'm thankful that you take the time to do this videos. Good job! Do you have a video to design water piping? like with the reducers, 90 angles or so? or this is something that Fusion doesnt have.

This was very helpful. Great tutorial. Thanks

Great video Lars, could you possibly show how to paper template for fabricating these joins

Is there any way to use your "stock pipe"with the sweep command for bends? Or would you project the end profile on to each individual sweep path? Great videos, thanks!

You are a great teacher, helped me a lot!

thank you so much for this tutorial you beast of a man

Lars I am trying to right click and select the "insert into current design". In my case, I made a C channel, in a separate drawing. However, I am not seeing that option. I noticed this video is from about 3 years ago. Having said that, has that option on the right click been eliminated or am I doing something wrong. BTW, I am using a Mac, if that makes a difference.

found easier way then dimensioning every center line by offsetting plane to half width minus pipe etc. just offset both outsides of frame inward in sketch. make them constructiion lines.create planes at angle using offset lines. then make line in space and create coincident between both offset lines on top and bottom frame via 3d sketch. if you changle frame size and pipe it wont affect much

Great! Thank you Lars!

Hi Lars. Very good instructional video and exactly what I was looking for currently from design standpoint. Now I'm curios also from manufacturing standpoint that have you ever done instruction how to create 2d cutting template to wrap around pipe to cut angles correctly for oddly created angles? I assume this could be accomplished with "sheet metal" tools menu? BTW I absolutely love that you go over many things from looking from perspective of manufacturing. Just the way I usually generally try to think.

First off, your info is awesome.. my question is. I'm working on a bridge port with manual z and spindel. How do I work that in manual z.

Great video on weldments. Any reason at the 17min mark you didn't just take the 2 first pipes you cut and joined, copy them both and flip them over and paste? I would have thought that to be more efficient?

Thanks for reading my mind (altho scary). I’m just about to design a chassie for a lasercutter:) this guide comes at the exact right time.

G'day Lars, I am just starting out with fusion. I have built a tin, that has a similar edge to your pipes above. I am trying to join the corners but I cannot use this method as when I select the body to slice, it selects the entire project. Is there a way to just join up the corners? I took a picture but don't think I can post it here. Thanks for all your videos, I have been watching for a week and learnt so much. Very slowly. You are a great teacher and explain things very well. Thanks!

This is great. I would like to design something similar using rectangular tubing. any ideas how I would go about this? Seems to be much more complex.... at least to me. Thanks

So does it tell you the angle of what that pipe saddle or fish bowl as you called it is supposed to be once you fabricate it in the real world? Would be nice to know the exact angle your supposed to cut it before doing it

Am just starting up and this is very useful.

Congrats! I just got home, so I missed it live. :-(

THANKS LARI

excellent video!!!

You can use “ for inch as well and ‘ for ft

Nice tips again Lars. Thanks! Just curious, and I'm sure that F360 doesn't do AI but after doing the pipe 'fish fillets' you realised that the top end point needed to be offset in by 1.5" as per the bottom then you'd basically have to rewind, move the top points and then redo the angled pipes and fillets. Would that be correct?

Now I can draw my cnc milling enclosure. in this example you just done, If I make a line directly from the bottom plane corner to the top plane corner,(compound line) make it construction can I then make a new plane on the compound construction line I just created? thanks as always. what happened to your latest video 04/08/2020, I clicked to watch and got an error.

Hi Lars, Thanks again for the great video! The 3D sketching is great! I'm interested in creating helical shapes for spiral stairs cases and transitions. AutoCad creates great shapes for import as solids and breps. Creating them in fusion with multiple coils seems tedious, and the profiles are not true to form as we would build in the millworks. Is there a best practice that you could share with us? The 3D Sketching made me think of how sweep extruding a profile to a helix is in acad! Cheers man!!

Would it not have been quicker to pull in a tube, cut it to length at 45 deg each end and then simply copy that 4 times for the base?