Fundamentals of Autodesk Fusion 360 and Learn Metal Design

Explore Fusion 360 for product design and engineering, a cloud-based CAD platform for Mac and PC, covering modeling, sculpting, rendering, and workflows to translate ideas into fabrication-ready CAD drawings.

Explore Fusion 360 as a multi-platform cad/cam tool guiding design, manufacturing, and collaboration. Learn OS X workflows, use a 3-button mouse, and work with various file types.

Explore Fusion 360 as an integrated cad cam cae solution, learn about its subscription and cloud credits model, and discover collaboration, rendering, and multi-axis design capabilities.

Save to the cloud by default in Fusion 360, so your work is stored online. Export files to save locally when you need desktop copies for exercise files.

Ensure online access for cloud rendering and collaboration, create a LinkedIn Learning project, save versioned files, and set preferences like z up and mm units with auto project edges.

Navigate fusion 360 with the view cube and mouse controls, switch orthographic to perspective views, choose adaptive or fixed grids, and adjust shading and hidden edges.

Design a leg assembly sketch in Fusion 360 inspired by Teo Jansen’s strand beasts, using L and A in millimeters, with vertical and perpendicular constraints and fixed triangles.

Create a sketch in Fusion 360 to draw struts and triangles, set precise distance measurements, manage parallel constraints, and name sketches for clear organization.

Create a Fusion 360 component by sketching a triangle with three fixed five-millimeter circles, dimensioning centers to edges, and adding five-millimeter fillets, then finish the sketch and build three-dimensional solids.

Activate the correct component, extrude interior to preserve negative spaces, create a new body, and then build a parametric stress component with sketches, circles, constraints, and driven dimensions.

Create a new component in Fusion 360, sketch two five-millimeter circles with a two-point rectangle, set a driven distance, apply five-millimeter fillets, and build a master strut template.

Copy struts with paste new to create five identical, offset parts while preserving constraints. Parametrize their lengths via sketches and extrusion, renaming strengths M, J, F, C, and K.

Create pins as cylinders on the origin to establish fixed reference points, ground them, and assemble the linkage with point-to-point joints, resolving position conflicts along the way.

Ground the triangles, add a joint, and run a motion study to animate the Jansen linkage. Render in Fusion 360, adjust materials, and produce a cloud video.

Insert reference images as canvases in fusion 360, calibrate two points for scale, and sculpt a pillowy form with symmetry and controlled subdivisions.

Learn to select individual faces, edges, and face rings in Fusion 360’s sculpting mode, switch to the orthographic view, and create and rename selection sets to streamline editing.

Sculpt an organic form in Fusion 360 by selecting nose faces, editing with translation and scale, and refining rings to avoid overlap and prepare for a rounded nose.

Master sculpting the bike seat by refining the front, back, and sides with selection sets and translation, applying a crease, and finishing the form without overlaps.

Perform finishing touches on sculpting a bike seat in Fusion 360. Sketch an ellipse on the XY plane, extrude and boolean to create a hole, then render steel.

Master fusion 360 as an all-in-one platform for geometric models, organic forms, and assemblies, with motion studies, cloud rendering, and sharing designs to Autodesk Gallery and ideas station.