Fusion 360 Tutorial - Sketches in 3 Levels of Difficulty | Season 3 

I really wish that the Parameters window could stay open while I'm working on a sketch. As it is right now, I have to exit the parameters to add any features, and I hate that. Ideally, I would have the Parameters windows always open to the side of the main window, with easy access to add more parameters or modify them.

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As always... so helpful. However beginners may wonder why the sketch plane doesn’t turn ‘normal to’. Maybe a good idea 💡 to turn off 3D sketch next time. Enough complaining. All my inspiration comes from this man. @Lars. Thanks for getting back at it 🔥🔥🙏🏻

Fusion 360 is the best CAD program in the universe.

Did not know you could do joints on sketches. Nice

We need a video on some advanced joints, such as a single component with dual revolute joints.

This is a great format ... refreshes the basics , re-enforces the regular level of user plus offers the scope of more advanced techniques ... great video and thanks for your efforts.

I love the tip on building joints with sketches!!!! I had no idea you could do that! I recently spent hours working out a four bar linkage in Fusion that would have been SO much easier to tune had I known about that. Thanks, Lars!

Lars the best Fusion 360 teacher! I wish you would do new videos!

Everyday I learn something new, and in doing so I add whole new list of topics I know I don't know or understand fully. Honestly it is kind of an awesome feedback loop, thank you for sharing your knowledge with us, it really helps keep the snowball rolling!

Sooooooo useful I can't describe! I had some issues regarding patterns and distribution, and this was absolutely helpful!

Hi Lars great video. I always learn something new. I had no idea you could select faces and profiles in that way. that will be a huge help vs turning the body off to select the profile. thank you

Thank you Lars, always learning new things from you!

The motion study in the expert section is fantastic!

Excellent content- as usual !!. Thanks, Lars

Another awesome, concise, and useful video, Lars. Thanks again!!!

Thank you so much for emphasizing to beginners the vital importance of fully defining sketches!! I teach this stuff, and it drives me nuts that students persist in the bad habits the program allows.

Nice job! Amazing video that made me realize my roadmap for learning how to model with fusion 360! I don't know if you had already got a better way to capture your voice/audio, if you hadn't you should. This was the first video that I watched from your channel and even with some issues to properly hear your explanation, it still kept my attention to your explanation. Congratulations for that 🎉 you have talent 🤓

plane on a line is a life saver ! cheers!

Astonishing material about sketches and joints. Appreciate for sharing with us:)

Sometimes I think Alistair Begg is teaching me Fusion free sixty lol. Awesome channel.

In the last example I would add the most complex yet useful variant: stick with width of fence piece but change the number of pieces to match the length of the whole fence. The problem is when length is not multiplication, it should adjust space between pieces and if the space is above the width of the piece (plus some spacing in between), a new piece should be added. Would that be a guru level? ;) Willing to add such solution? (I think I did something similar in my project, will have to check) Thanks

This is the important stuff, Lars. It seems like too many videos are WAAAAY too advanced. I still don't know how to dimension sketches in all situations. That 'not-able-to-select-a face-' thing, because another face was in the way buffaloed me for YEARS. Its the small, simple basics that are too steep for me to advance in fusion.

On last exemple. Concidering all the parameter, is this possible to set up something who automaticly choose the number of vertical piece depending of width and fencelength. for exemple, Fusion360 automaticly choose the number of vertical piece with "width" into 120mm and 150mm and an "fencelength" into 10 and 30.?

last 5 minutes of this video is going to save be 15 minute on my next project. well worth it thanks lars. also be good to figure out how to do this with the construct tool and offset plane, so i can space out multiple planes along a shape so i can "split body" on each plane

Hey Lars, love the video as always, long time subscriber. If there's one thing that could be improved, it's the audio quality. You have a lively dynamic style of speech and it really helps because you communicate nuance and emphasis that way, but your audio gear just isn't up to the job. Maybe one of the other subs here can provide a suggestion re mic or software to help?

Now I know that I'm professional and heading to be an expert. :)

You’re awesome Lars 👍

So happy you are back Lars!!

Always so interesting and informative. Thanks a lot for

Will Autodesk ever develop the app so we can use fusion on tablets for more than just viewing..

Awesome very usefull fro me as a beginner to see what can be done and which direction I should go. Thanks for making these video

Great tips, love the patterning fence posts. Still gotta catch your sessions on autodesk 2020 conf. Saw you had a couple.

awesome tips!!! Keep up the good work, so I can become a little less bad at making fusion work for me.

Great video Lars!! Thanks a lot for all the tips!!

Lars, At 5:35 you used the 'project' tool to define the ends of a line on the sketch plane. You showed us how to project an entity and you chose the circular top of the cylinder. You did not however show us how to project the body of the cylinder. I tried this but it failed to work on a cylinder. Is there more we should know about the 'project' feature and what it can, or cannot do? What other limitations will we encounter?

I liked learning about how to make joints. I did not know I could do this. However, I did not think your fence example was very real world, varying the width of the board. Boards come in standard widths. You should have made a calculated parameter where you calculate the maximum number of boards that will span your overall width between the posts.

Great Job Lars, I always learn from your video's

good stuff Lars, keep them coming.

Sexpert! Cool tip about using joints with sketches.

I am an aerospace engineer working in Dayton Ohio avidly learning Generative Design. My question is How does the function cylindrify work? 2nd is the cross section of the newly created part circular or a more consistent oval shape? I see a lot of structural problems with varying thicknesses in the "before" state of demo. This feature should be the No.1 Go To to refine the Generative Design Model

Lars - I would love to see you show how you scetch sheet metal in an assembly - with project a scetch from a solid body (ex base with holes for screws - sheet metal mounted with those screws and some bend. The scetch comes up in sheetmetal - you can choose some preconfigured things like stainless steel 2.5mm but you cannot easily change it, and when you use the base to extrude from, you cannot add flanges. It must be operator error!

Great tipos! I was having trouble with the cilindres!

Thank you ! I will take a closer look at training with the "parameters" (you have made tutos with parameters, thank's ^_ ^)

Can the Parameters be linked to a spreadsheet?

it sounds like you fell down a well and shouting instructions at me. Hopefully Santa brought you a microphone for Christmas.

I feel like there are so many beginner videos out there but no intermediate videos, do you think you could do some?

As always great advice!

Hey Lars, I was wondering if theres anyway to retrive unsaved files?

Sorry Lars. My free hobbiest subscription is over and for my small personal CAD work, fusion is waaay to expensive. Like buying a Rolls Royce just to drive the kids to school. So I will leave your channel, no need to learn more fusion360. Wish you the very best Lars. Gteetings from Aalborg, Denmark.

Another great vid Lars 💪

One Question.. why Fusion takes forever when saving a file as stl. Is the cloud processing an issue or is it due to restrictions of the free Version ?

This is a great way to produce helpful videos. Keep it up! (y)

Good tips Lars. Audio's a bit sketchy though :-)

Hey lars do you have a video that can help me understand how I can ad a shape say to a 90 degree tube at a specified angle within the outer Radisson the tube? I'm tring to create a motorcycle part that I can ad a hole and a fuel injector mount so I may aim the injector down the tube. I'm guessing I will have to project a plain at a few angles to orient a way to extrude the provision

You should have demonstrated how you can use a No Units parameter type to set the number of instances of fence slats so they have the same with but will fill the panels. Such as FenceSlatCount = abs(FenceLength / (SlatWidth+SlatSpacing)) Tip: use abs() to remove any decimals and get a round number 👍 Please please please get the Fusion team to export Design Parameters into the Manufacturer workspace, not having this drives me crazy, and having them pass through to CAM posts so you can access them in the post processor would be 👌

The actual tutorial's sound was harsh. Was it recorded while sitting on the toilet at the Autodesk headquarters?

Great video. Will you ever be doing the livestreams again?

Hi @Lars Christensen. I use templates at work that are 3d Printed that we use to align badges for fitment on vehicles. The more we have the better. Toyota makes these specially for us, but they have to come from Japan and take a long time for us to get more. Im wanting to have a go at printing some. The issue I have is they are shaped to the conture of the vehicle. Im thinking this would be very difficult to do in fusion 360. Im guessing Toyota probably uses their 3d model of the car. Do you have any idea how I can achieve this?

Hi Lars, Is it just me but Fusion 360 has been slow and flaky ever since thay changed the way hobbyists could access it. I am now getting frequent crashes and it seems to be off-line for hours during the European day. Maybe it is just my Mac playing up but it is only Fusion 360 that is effected. Do you know of anyone else with these problems?

how can i make a 2d print on paper,from a 2d sketch in fusion 360 using a normal printer,so all dimensions are kept,and i can print parts in the scale i need/want

Very usefull and good video - Lars !

Thanks Lars, very useful video

Hey Lars, I would love a video on joints, I really have a hard time using them :(

You are the best.

NIce Video Lars, thx. As always, very easy and understandable. But the sound-quality is sice resarting your activities still not good. Maybe you had a differnet hardware in the past. Regards Andreas from Germany

Nice info thank you.

I'm a Pro! So I guess I have to pay for the professional version now. I knew this video was just a way for Autodesk to sell me a licence. DISCLAIMER: This is a joke, it's just a joke, everybody calm down. The internet has no sense of humor.

Hi. im trying to make a rear seat cowl for my motorcycle, but thought trying to 3d print it would be a better option. I only downloaded fusion 360 last week and had a mess around with, but was wondering how can sketch a line that's say 45 degrees looking from the side view and 45 degrees looking from the top view. hope that makes sense

Does the joint on sketch option work still in the 2022 version of fusion?

I came across your channel maybe two weeks ago and was watching your series of three videos for absolute beginners from about 5 years ago. After a bit of head scratching and looking at other videos, my suspicion was conformed, there were not only one update to Fusion 360 but two between your videos and the current version of free Fusion 360. What I'm struggling with is the offset plane when you design the tabs on the lid. My sketch simply will not stick to the lid surface. I'm on the offset plane, but as soon as I ad dimensions to the sketch, it is obvious it's not attached and not even symmetrical anymore. The only difference to the model that I can see is that when I set up the construction line, I don't see two small circles on the outer surface of the lid and when I'm sketching the tabs, not the two circles in the inside either. Can you point to one of your videos that cover this in the current version of Fusion 360 ? Thanks in advance .....

Thank you it's going to help me a long way

Great to have you back Lars. One quick question. Is there a way that when you duplicate a component the joints go with it. The example I’m thinking about is a kids train set running on a curved track. If you add more carriages can they automatically keep the rotation joint to the carriage in front as well as the slider joint to the track rails?

Is this software free? Just want a program that I can create 3d resin prints on. Im a total newbie.

Is there a way instead of calculating the width of the fence pickets to calculate the maximum number of pickets that fit the distance without overlap?

can you please share the F360 file you used in this video?

Great Video

Does anyone know if theres a way to add a zipper to a sketch?

Hi, Sir I have Fusion360 Student version installed on my pc. How can it be converted into a Personal Version? Please Help

Mastercar? Where did you get the clamp model?

What's your latest video. I haven't seen you in a year. I honestly think I have learned more from you concerning f360 than anyone else. I hope all is well

Yeah! I'm an expert at sketches

According to this little level of comparison I am somewhat between pro and expert. But I doubt that haha. There is so much more cool stuff hidden in Fusion, which I do not know yet. And before I can`t design a moving robot or motor with all its complexity, a nice organic chassis, PCB board design and simulations, I do not feel ready to be called expert haha. So much to learn.....pewwww

Keep your mic volume down when your about to say you signature "and NOOWW!!" 🤣😜😜

You are looking very thin..i hope your health is gud...i like your detail explained videos

Lesson is very good, but audio is too harsh.

I was actually expecting a diverse level of sketching from scratch not different level of sketches on different level of bodies.

In german please