I'm sad this is the last one and it was a long time ago. I was hoping to continue learning from you about fusion 360. Oh well.... On to the arduino series!! Thanks for everything you do. And yes.... I have recommended this series to anyone with questions about the F360.
@PaulMcWhorter: Regarding the disappearing sketch: Preferences - General - Design - last option: Auto hide sketch on feature creation: set to off and the sketch doesn't disappear after an extrusion.
I just finished all 13 Lessons. I even 3D printed the herringbone gears. Hope that its not the last. You really make this stuff addictive. Today I took apart a fan from an old graphics card. The blade was broken. I know I have the skill to model a new one. Would really love to see your systematic approach.
Paul, I absolutely love this series and want to support you through it (what will help you the most?) - what a fantasticly real world approach. Your style of instruction (and ride-along discovery) will be immensely helpful to a lot of interested students. Thank you, again - cheers!
From the bottom of my heart I thank you so much for making this wonderful series of tutorials. I watched them all in one sitting, and have to say I was captivated right through them all. Now my Fusion 360 makes a whole lot more sense, despite the version differences! Wishing you every success in everything you do from here on!
I just wanted to thank you Paul. I have been trying to learn Fusion for a while and the official tutorials really didn’t make sense. I am now confident at making some basic designs and looking forward to printing my own creations - many thanks!
Hello Paul! I just finished the last lesson in this series. Although an electrical/software engineer for 40 years, outside of pencil/paper drafting in high school, I've never done mechanical design with a CAD program. I enjoyed your lessons and feel like it gave me a solid foundation & the confidence to develop more intricate designs. Thank you.
Well Paul, this training video series has been most enjoyable and so inspiring...So much so, that I’ve enrolled for a college course to extend my grasp on FUSION 360, and as a 67 year old, it’s been a decision I didn’t take lightly.....A really big thank you for your determination to get this wizardry across in a way that sets the benchmark in teaching....enjoy your M&M’s........Kind Regards.
I made it! I'm like Rocky at the top of the stairs! I love you dude! I've watched a number of other tutorials. They were all excellent demonstrations. They did not teach. You, sir, are by far the best TEACHER I've seen for both Fusion 360 and Arduino. (I haven't done any of your other tutorials, but I'm sure you kick butt in those domains as well.)
Hi Paul, I've just finished the 13 part tutorial. Thank you very much. It's just what I needed. I'm a hobbies woodworker who has a 3D printer. I had started to watch an excellent series of videos on Fusion for woodworkers and was very enthused but when I started to try it I went through the range of emotions that you so eloquently describe in your first video. Your approach was perfect for me. I have really been able to get to grips with it. Even the way you get yourself out of trouble has been so helpful. I'm so grateful to you. I was on the brink of giving up so was taken and could empathise entirely with the series title. Thanks again. Keep up the great work 👍👍 Robert
Please do more videos on fusion 360. Your's are the ones that prevented me from quitting after many, many hours. I gave up trying to learn the sheet metal section because I just couldn't get past Autodesk's useless info for beginners. Anything you can do further would help countless others. I have already given a number of my friends your website. They were all extremely frustrated prior to that and now are continuing to use Fusion. Autodesk should definitely pay you to promote their fantastic software which has virtually no intelligible support for anyone new to any CAD program.
I just finished all your Fusion 360 tutorials, you are a great teacher, I will get into your Arduino tutorials next, can't wait! I hope you start making more fusion 360 videos at some point, these are great!
Thanks a milion, Paul for making this series. Love the way you teach and learned all the fundamentals I needed to get started modeling my own 3d printing models in Fusion 360. P.S. The "Wow, that's good coffee!" at the end really nailed this series. ;)
Awesome last video of the course Paul! Btw. if anyone by now struggles to find the "Project/Include", in the newer versions of Fusion360 you will first have to start or edit a sketch and only then it will provide you with it under "create". Also: If you are still in the sketch, the "Move/Copy" will not be able to select the tool-body (or any other body in that matter), so you first have finish the sketch and then move the body. Paul, thanks again for the very awesome tutorial-series! I loved it and learned a big amount of new skills all thanks to you.
I appreciate that you say out load, every step and keystroke that you perform. A person can almost just listen to the audio and perform the steps on another screen. Great lessons!
Dear Paul, I have learned much about Fusion 360 (the more I learn, the more I realize I don't know). However, without your 13 tutorials, I would never have had the break through I did. You solidified the key concepts in my mind. I don't know if you are leaving the RU-vid scene or you're just busy, but I would enjoy further tutorials in F360.
I can't thank you enough Paul for all the work you have put into training me in Arduino and now Fusion 360. You are a truly great teacher and so much fun to work along with. Thinking of working through your Raspberry Pi tutorials now... Enjoy the coffee...
Hello Paul, Great set of videos. These videos have given me a good grounding in working with Fusion 360.. Thank you for the work you done in creating them.
Thank you very much for your teaching of fusion360.I like your kind of teaching.I'm now 62 and retired so I have now the time to learn new things .I would be very happy if you continue this series.Please excuse any errors,but my english is still poor.( I'm german).
Well Paul I'm a new sub'er and did all your lessons and was very impressed. I have been an Autocad guy since i had to upload 10 5.25 " floppies into my 286 computer. I'm using Autocad 16 now but need to learn 3D modeling for my new hobby. In just 13 lessons i think i have a handle how this program works. Will still need more tutorials for sure so would love to see you do a new series. Thanks from an old dog learning new tricks.
Thanks for a great series of lessons. I don't even have my printer yet, but my prusa i3 mk3s+ is on order. I watched a review that said to familiarize yourself with 3D design software before even buying a printer... because if you can't work with that, you'll never master engineering your own designs. Your lessons were great, and though I didn't have the printer yet, I did download fusion 360 "for personal use" and after learning a little about the differences between my version and yours, I was able to follow along building the first shapes. Then I watched the others and although I wasn't doing them in Fusion, I did get to the point where I could anticipate most of the commands and actions you were going to do, so I feel confident that I can do them on my own, just referring back to your vids. I do O-gauge model railroading and my ultimate project is going to be trying to create a scale model of my own house to put on my train layout. I'm also interested in the (Arduino?) electronics to build things that will animate things on my layout, so I'll be looking up some of those videos you have. Your lessons were particularly good in how you went step by step, over and over, on creating these basic shapes, gears, and even a "cutting tool". I had started the tutorials on the AutoDesk site, but they tried to show so much at once that it was overwhelming. Thanks again, Paul. I assume 13 was your last lesson on Fusion 360? Marvin - (MarvPerk3)
Thank you for the great series. You are an excellent instructor and certainly the best for a newbie like me! It would be great if you continued the series now 4 years later as I am sure you have yourself learned more about Fusion over time.
This entire series has been eye opening, easy to understand, and more helpful than quite a lot of training I have had from college. Wish there were more! Thank you
I'm sad this is the last one Paul has done of the Fusion360 series as I thoroughly enjoy these tutorials. They have helped me immensely in learning the basics of 3d CAD, and coincidentally, this last lesson has resolved a problem of how to create a concave angled shape inside an object I am trying to design, so ultimate thanks Paul, and I hope you are well where ever you are!
Thank you for these lessons, Paul. I've watched the entire series on Arduino and Fusion 360. Learned a lot and recommended them to a number of people. And I'm also a subscriber :)
Lived your lessons. I am sad you stopped doing them. This last lesson was a very useful lesson even though the product created was useless. You are a great teacher. Thank you.
Just finish this playlist. Before I was checking other playlist until I settled this one. Though this is the last one. but the most important lessons are the first 6 lessons. Because those are the core features and concepts. As Deb Morris said on lesson #6: Position, Parameter, Constraints, Dimension, PPCD
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! I loved your teaching style and as evident by this comment I didn't die trying. I sure wish you had continued the series with progressively more advanced instruction. At least you layed a great foundation of knowledge for me to continue learning.
Hooray I finished all the lessons and lived! Thanks so much for an excellent series of tutorials on a very complicated subject. I can actually understand the Fusion tutorials on the Autodesk web site now. No hope before. I think we should celebrate with a video on coffee! You look like a true connoisseur of my favourite beverage. We can talk about what types of coffee you should drink for the various operations in Fusion. Ethiopean Mild for extrusions, Parisian Dark for gear design, Double Expresso for combinations. I am looking forward to printing my own designs in Fusion 360. Thanks again for a wonderful series of instructional videos.
Coffee is indeed my love language. I source my beans from the very top of Mount Elgon, and grown in the shadow of the most beautiful Sipi Water Falls. By sourcing my coffee there, I do not mean I order it, I mean I trek up the mountain and buy from the farmer who grows it. Then I return to my home and after sorting and cleaning the raw beans, I roast them to perfection. Some to a dark oily French Roast, which makes a delicious ice coffee, and some to a lighter roast for a rich and creamy cappuccino. I roast the coffee once a week, and grind right before brewing. Coffee is indeed one of the genuine joys of life.
Paul - Thanks for the great Fusion 360 series! I truly hope you will add a few more lessons with a deeper dive into functional mechanisms. I tried other CAD tools, but none had the support I wanted for CAD to CAM 3D printing and CNC engraving/relief cutting. You stripped away the complexity and made the learning slope very gentle. You've helped create a new generation of Makers!
Glad you found the lessons useful. I honestly almost died trying to learn fusion 360 so understand what it feels like to be lost and confused in the program.
I currently just finished lesson 10 and am looking forward to the next lessons but I noticed that you stopped at 13. I have learned so much from your videos I am disappointed that it is coming to an end. Please make more as these are great learning tools. Thanks JT
Thank you Paul! Enjoyed learning with you on your lessons. Find it very helpful with how in depth you get with these. Very detailed and easy to understand. See you on the next one!
I have learned more from your Fusion 360 and Arduino tutorials than from any other source. Your ability to effectively teach a subject is world class. Thank you for the time and effort that you put into these videos, they are greatly appreciated!
thank you so much for these very structured lectures on Fusion 360. I started from zero with a newer version (2.0.8749) and could still easily follow through. I'm now more confident I can do what I need with this program! Hope in the future you would consider making a new series of lectures for "advanced users"!
Thank you very much, I only started learning anything to do with 3d modelling a few days ago with your vids and these tutorials have made it possible for me. Great building blocks to begin with, and definitely the right pace to learn it. Again, thank you for my introduction to it!
Excellent video Paul ! I was sort of scratching my head wondering why you would go to all this trouble to create a tool like this then it dawned upon me that it is much easier to design complex shapes on an external surface than in a recess ! You could make a locking mechanism that has your initials 3D printed in the bottom of a recess of a locking mechanism and on the end of a key to make your own personal lock !
Excellent series Paul. I was about to give up on fusion 360 when I found your series. Now I understand why fusion was so difficult for me to come to grips with. It's so different to pcb layout packages, drawing packages, etc that I have used. I might just have to make an M&M sorter just to put the part to use.
Thanks for making this great series. I’ve been binging your tutorials over the last three days to help me design some objects I needed to print. Thanks to your help, the objects turned out great and I think I could tackle some pretty complicated designs if I need to in the future. It’s great to learn from a teacher who loves teaching, even out of the classroom.
This series has been awesome! I went from completely overwhelmed before I started to being able to design my own complex objects. Thanks!! Also, I hope you post more some time.
There it is. I knew you hadn't given up on this 😀. Hope we get to see this project through to its completion. (Hope your not too busy with your day job.) Thanks for teaching old dogs, new tricks!!!!!
Such a fantastic series of lessons, I have learned so much, thank you for doing this series and sharing it with us!!!!! I am using 30 now and having fun w it and my 3D printer,,, now I want to take your Arduino series!! Thanks again Paul for all of your hard work on bringing these series to us!!!!!!!!!!
Paul, thank you for a fine tutorial. I admit, I have had difficulty learning a 3D modeling program. You made the process easy to understand, and fun to learn. THANK YOU !
I didn't get passed measuring all the M&Ms. I had none left after that so nothing to sort. I understand how you only had two left. Thank you very much for your help getting through the initial confusion starting with this very promising software.
This really helped me, I will finally be able to use my 3d printer! Please keep adding to this series. I would like to know how to work more with a bevel gear using the Herringbone gear.
One thing I would like to bring up is that at 20:33, a better approach is to create component that encapsulate the bullet and it's sketch. So that they can be manipulated as one item.
OK. I'm dying. I try to follow along and things don't work. There are just too many inconsistencies between your fusion displays and mine. It happens with almost every lesson. Example: When creating your "tool" you get the 4 edge points of the cylinder to appear when you make the revolve. They don't show on my display. As a result I can't get a 3-point circle that can be trimmed and revolved. Is there some inherent difference between using Fusion on a Mac versus a PC?
The same issue (being unable to create the 3-pt circle) occurs in my Windoze version of Fusion 360 - I think it is a version issue, or would appear to be. I had the same issue with the "fusion displays" and made a comment back in Lesson 1 that Paul should probably produce a brief introductory (Lesson 0?) video explaining the changes that AutoDesk have made between the version in these lessons and the "current" version - I'm not sure how difficult this would be to 'maintain' because I don't know how often AutoDesk change their interface, but unless he does that, the series runs the risk of some of the other videos I have tried to watch on RU-vid and become 'obsolete' due to being too difficult to work out where the commands are in relation to these lessons, which would be a shame, they are very good lessons. In my case, I can create the circle, but trimming doesn't work correctly i.e. I can trim either half of the circle and not the 4 segments as Paul shows - I suspect this would indicate a lack of a constraint perhaps? I don't know really.... OK, solution: Before creating the 3-pt circle, create the two lines (11:40) - I tilted the cylinder so I could see the top clearly - and then create the 3-pt circle. Once that is created then trim (but the trim will STILL not work as shown in the lesson, but you'll end up with the correct segment anyway), then do the revolve. Further: with the intersection of the 'cutter', I had to 'click-drag' to select the cutter (after it had been rotated left 90 degrees) and then did the point-to-point move - Fusion 360 would NOT do it the way Paul shows :(
Thanks so much for putting together this great series of tutorials. They've really helped me get up to speed. I'm also looking forward to your Arduino tutorials for web-hosted cistern level monitors that I'm working on.
At 9:56, just after you draw the vertical line, you've suddenly also got points on the outer circumference of the top and the bottom of the cylinder. Can't figure out where those come from, they just appear. Thing is, when I duplicate your action, mine doesn't do the same, so I had to manually put them in so that I could draw the 3-point circle.
Me too I kept watching the video I am on Mac too and those red points are not showing up .....please help.....I just want to thank Paul you are the best Fusion 360 teacher...just amazing.....Thank you
@@victorroman4044 that is because you didn't project the body to the sketch. you can do that manually by pressing P (i think) and selecting the body or set up your preferences to do it automaticly.
Really bummed to come to the end of this series. To be honest, this was just getting good (for me) in that you were starting to get into machine-design. I sure wish you'd give some consideration to continuing this series but may with the idea of using next level features of F-360 to maybe make some other machine. Did you ever finish the M&M machine (link)? Anyway thanks for what you've done...