Model a Fan Blade & Excite Your Customers - Fusion 360 - And Your Comments & Questions-  

Because of the time zones, i can't join the live broadcast, but i am really enjoying every one of these videos. Thank you for taking the time.

Great Work!! That fan blade really looks like it was meant to be. So realistic. Thanks Lars.

Thanks for this tutorial Lars! I'm new to this and your content has been very helpful. I learned a lot from this video! and have modeled my own fully parameterized fan. I have successfully 3D printed a small prototype and the full scale model is printing right now. Thanks for sharing your skills with us all!

Funny thing.. I just found this channel on the occation of wanting to spend the weekend modelling a part for a prospective boss to be. And i was gonna model something that involves a fan. What are the odds. :D You´ve made a fan of me from your beginner videos and now this.

Good job. FYI - the pitch of the angle of the blade at the hub should be greater than at the tip. The objective is to have the same pitch (transverse travel of fluid from hub to tip to be equal) . Yours is the other way around. The pitch will depend on the function of the fan. I still got a lot from the video and am looking forward to accelerating my learning curve by watching your videos.

Once again, Lars, awesome video. Really like the parameter editing thing at the end. I can be a little "indecisive" at times, so I can add some key points to the model that I can change out later on. Will definitely experiment around with that. Did get to watch this live, albeit with no chat (watched on mobile). Really good stuff. Thanks for the great content and keep up the good work!

Lars. I cannot thank you enough for these tutorials. Two days ago I started using F360 and today I just made your fanblade and paramaterised it. I wish I could hit 'like' a few more times:)

Awesome! This is the first one of your videos I've come across, you're very articulate with your teaching. I'm a Machinist by trade but use 360 to 3D print at home as a hobby, this is right up my alley.

You've made learning CAD modeling really easy and convenient. much appreciated.

Really nice vid! That loft curving feature just blow my mind. Thanks! :D

Parameters and relating dimensions - very useful stuff! Thank you.

absolutly the video a i was looking for. Trying to model and 3d-print one later. Thank you !

Thanks Lars. The channel is awesome and a real big help. Please keep it up!!!

Absolutely awesome. I'm trying to learn fusion 360 and I was a bit frustrated... but watching your videos I feel that I finally could do it... big hugs and thanks from brazil

Great tutorial, especially adding the flexibility of the parameters settings at the end. VERY helpful for my fan project! Thanks, Lars!

It’s always a pleasure to come back and see your videos ^_^ I got shivers and dumb smile on your last 5 minutes :)) those are golden tips ! Thank you very much for all the info

Thanks Lars, managed to design a BitFan in just one evening on my first use of Fusion 360. Very helpful. :-)

Thanks for this, same as all the other video's you have kindly made and shared - I must have learned at least another dozen things without pain or stress...now if I could retain that info I'm golden ;)

Thanks - easy to follow, i build my model as I watch and have no difficulty. Great way to learn.

Great, really. But, the trick is dangerous, the boss can think "what the hack, so easy to do changes, you can do much more work in your day" :)))

I learned many things about Fusion 360 with your video. Thank you so much.

Awesome. Awesome. Awesome. Simply AWESOME :-) This has taught me so much!! I followed along and 3D printed the part out. Now I have a working grasp of just how powerful Fusion360 is thanks to yourself (ex openSCAD user here) AND a pretty cool fan to boot that works! (Although I did adjust the blade angles as yours is more of an egg beater than a fan) ;-)

Excellent tutorial as usual Lars. Thanks. Found by accident, at 15:15 you don't need to keep changing between the Profiles in the Loft settings window. You can Click on the "Profile 1" or "Profile 2" grey label that is on the model to change between them.

Awesome video man! I’m really new to fusion360 and CAD and your videos are helping a TON!!! I’m saving every video of yours I watch. 👍

Would you mind creating a playlist of your videos in a specific order as if a beginner was to watch them from start to finish with basic skills leading into intermediate and so on?

I like the Diresta shirt! Great guy!

I managed to replace 4 different fans with your model, impressive content.Thanks a lot.

What an awesome guide! Exactly what I was looking for! Two questions which came up during modelling: 1st, when I tried to add the fillet, it was inverted and I didn't figure out how I can change it... (Sorry, quite a noob question...) 2nd, when you are looking for fans, they often have not straight radial blades like the one you have constructed. The blades are a bit twisted from the inner towards the outer radius. Is there a possibility to "swirl" the whole construction a bit from the central axis, similar like a twist? It seems, when you are using curved lines in the second step instead of normal ones, there are some inconvenient restrictions for continuing the procedure.

Thanks that cleared up some problems I had with 'loft', keep the vids coming, regards. RobUK

Truely. thank you very much! i always wanted to make my own props for RC boats, and i did not know how to go about it in fusion, now i do. :)

Very helpful! Just what I was looking for 👍

This was an amazing helpful video!

Awesome video Lars. Thanks to your videos I'm now really dragged into 3D modeling. Thanks. Cool stuff. :)

Thank you Bro, Best step by step tutorial I found on whole REDtube ⚡⚡💘🍻

Thank you sir for this trick, its very cool. Your teaching is awesome every time, Thank you again.

congratulations, your lessons are the best and exhaustive on youtube

Lars, I know someone before me in the comments mentioned creating a playlist. Have you gotten an intern yet? I would love to see a bunch of very short 3-5min videos all in the same playlist and each video would contain one or two of the popular techniques that you demonstrate throughout all of your videos. I find myself trying to do a step that I know I have seen you do in a video but have a hard time finding it again, and then I have to scroll through 30 or 40 min of video to find and review the operation. If these were in a bunch of short videos all grouped into a single playlist you could jump directly to the short video based on the video title. Thanks again as always for your tutorials! Jim

This was rich in content, Lars. Thanks for the lessons!

Thank you. Another awesome session! Mind blown - again :)

Hi Lars, have you done a similar video for creating turbine blades? Or are these blades suitable for use in a wind turbine?

very useful tutorial. thanks! your fan aerodynamics is a crap though :) i wonder if it's possible to simulate air streams in the fusion?

Very instructional! Best Teacher of Fusion360 ever!

Learned 3 new things from this video. How good is that!

The better way to trim of the tips of the blades would be to use extrude->intersect on the 80mm circle. It should work better if you decide to change the diameter of the fan, since you don't have to worry about the outer circle, which it self adds no value to the design. The intersect operation seems to be one of the most useful forgotten features of CAD. Sure it is often not practical to use, but when it is, it is glorious! Also you might have been able to use a rule fillet to avoid the issue when you changed the number of fan blades, though you might have ended up with more fillets than you bargained for.

Thank you very much Lars. You are awesome !!!

Thanks. Bringing knowledge years after, keep it up man :D

I just keep learning cool things from you. Thank you.

I just want to make a remark for those who now want to make a fan themselves. If you look at a real fan you will notice that the top and bottom edge are not straight like shown in this design but curved and usually the bending is not a double curve (S-curve), but a simple curve. The fan how it is designed here will work, but will probably be not very efficient.

Thankyou for this great video I really enjoyed your video.

Thank you for teaching me about the parameters

Hi Lars. Did you ever figure out why the sketches stayed blue? Was it because they needed to be closed where the two radius lines intercept the outside circle?

This software is amazing and your instruction is as well thank you👏👍

Lars, thanks for the milimeters selection...

You the MAN Lars! Thanks for your hard work man!!👍👍👍

Truly awesome tutorial. Thanks.

i really love your teaching style!

Hey Lars this was a solid addition to your standalone repository of Fusion360 knowledge base!! congrats as always..in recent new from your northern neighbour >> Heat warning in Toronto during the last week in Sept!!! Should be jacket weather by now. Anyway, seeing as how you are making this magnificent repo I had an idea Forgive if already covered. What about producing from jpeg or scanner bed the 2D image of a part you wish to reproduce and what opensource like gimp or Inkscape may be used to help in the process of importing into F360. Is Adobe absolutely necessary to convert file for instance? Can we use two angles for better implementation ?? :-) Best,..C

Very good, so helpfully What about if I need the fan to rotate on the axes ??

excellent Lars... love your works...God Bless!

Lars, Man I been trying to get this star with a company logo in it , it need to be .375 thick with the logo in the middle of it , and when i put this together the letters go over into the star points, plus one leg dont want to be nice and join the other 4 points .what am i doing wrong so it will be all one component ? i am going to plasma cut this out,if i get it done

Very powerful stuff I love fusion more and more! This video really help me see the parameters in a new light. One question. I can understand sorting yellow warning on fillet, extensions etc but on sketches I struggle to resolve them. They dont seem to interfere with the end result or adjusting things parametricly down the line. I just wish I could solve them. Often it's due to a projected line from something up the chain. I know this but still cant resolve the issue. If anyone knows the answer or could point me to a video etc that would be great. Thanks.

I was woundering what would happen if the hub had to be extruded outward past the blades to accept a screw or something like that. My luck all the blades would follow the extrusion. I like your approach to the blades. I was trying to use an plane at an angle for my 1st attempt at a fan.

New to Fusion. Tried the exact same thing but when it came to the C pattern I get an error. It says "C-Pattern1 Compute Failed "the selected faces do not form a patternable object." I tried a few different things but it won't work. What am I doing wrong?

Thanks....your skill are good. Most of people create using coil and I'm lost to follow into.

Very good, clear instruction, interesting design

To fully constrain the blade sketch you need to draw a line at each end to fully enclose the shape!

please explain how to solve problem with fillets when changing parameters. What the tricks exist?

Hi Lars thank for the videos I'm struck at 6:40. the line i am trying to draw is not snap to the inner circle i tried but it just like the snap point is not there (it's snap just not at the inner circle) Any advice that may help thank you ps i am just start with Fusion 360 and use to lean simple autocad in first year university i am really try to make a fan blade here LOL

Hi Lars, Once created, you can't change the units for a parameter, you have to delete it and create it again. For something like the number of fan blades, it's easy to forget to select the unit-less option and then wonder why your parameter creates an error.

Excellent Lars!!!!!!

Great video Lars!. Really learned alot from this one

For some reason when I use the Loft tool, I keep getting those weird triangle shape blades . Does someone recocgnize that problem? I do everything the same as Lars, including the Equal keys etc

i appreciate your work i m from india my name is nevil. thx for helping us

Hi Lars. Thanks for this great explain.

Very useful but the blade is not so efficient like that ;) At 14:57 there is a frame of the video which shows probably the best shape for it

very nice with the parameter funktion.. thanks

Thank you Lars.

Hi Lars Can you help me out, please? I created an (aeration) fan blade using your method and created some holes (fully constrained) in the blade using a construction plane. When I edited the circular pattern feuture for six blades, it showed the holes in the other (ghost) blades but when I pressed Enter they were not added. What did I do wrong here?

Hi Lars, I am really interested in the use of "Driven" dimensions" (not sure if that's the correct terminology) that you used to define the fan blades. However it seems to be a feature that doesn't work on my copy of Fusion. When I try to dimension a sketch by referencing to another dimension nothing happens. Maybe there's an option that needs to be enabled ? -Cheers

Lars, Can you please let me know if it is possible to control component visibility with parameters? For example, let's say you created two components for the fin shape (totally different shape) and then created a parameter for the number of fins. Could you write a parameter equation that showed one component if the number of fins was set to 3 and show the other component if the number of fins was set to 7? I have been searching for months but cannot find a way to do it apart from manually turning on and off component visibility when each parameter is changed... there has got to be a better way! Thanks, Nial

Hi Larse ji, 1. How abt the aerodynamic efficiency of that fan reg. blades profile n qnty..? 2. Can u show demo for metal sections in structures ..!?

Thanks so much. Just broke my head, as in fusion 360 to make the impeller

awesome!!

Thanks, good explaination and training.

wonderful software, i must learn more about it beside of my knownledge about NX and Creo 2.0-4.0....i am working with creo every day and it is suck...

greetings from Mexico, great content

appreciate the videos. question at 14:01 I do not have the "Free" feature but only "Connected" and "Direction" features, any input would be appreciated.

Thank you. Thank you and thank you!

Thanks so much for this !

genious lol love Autodesk!

I like your work and keep going......

"i hope im not going to fast" hahaha for me that's a no... i watch all your videos at 1.5x as you talk so slow my brain starts to wander (ADHD)

These videos are amazing.

Very helpful and very cool!

Your videos are awesome!!

Thank you. Good lesson

Awesome lesson! Works fine for me :)

Fantastisk - lige hvad jeg havde brug for.

"I could lose a few"!! hahaha me2!!!!! How would you taper the blades so the edges have less material ?

Wow. Amazing. I have onlyt now started with Fusion. holy shit