
Visit the Autodesk site to download and install Fusion 360, choose free trial or student or hobbyist options, create an account, and download the macOS or Windows version.
Adjust the playback rate to match your pace as you begin Fusion 360. Download the lesson models and open them from my computer in Fusion 360 to follow along.
Explore Fusion 360 user interface, from the data panel and file controls to sketches and extrusion tools. Master navigation, view cube, timeline, and visibility to manage designs and autosave backups.
Design a box with intersections in Fusion 360 by sketching a center-point rectangle, extruding, shelling to five millimeters, adding divisions, mirroring, rounding edges, and exporting as stl for 3d printing.
Create a mug in Fusion 360 by sketching the base, applying constraints, revolving the body, adding a handle with a sweep, and refining with fillets.
Import your logo as SPG or DSF files into Fusion 360, place it on the sketch, and render with appearance and scene settings for a polished final image.
Loft two pyramids connected through the ground plane to form an octahedron, using symmetry and a 54.7° angle, then mirror the body and verify with the inspector.
Design a parametric lamp in Fusion 360 using sketches, constraints, and smart dimensions; apply extrudes, patterns, and revolve to create rings, then use combine and split operations for laser-cuttable lamp.
Congratulations on finishing Fusion 360: 1 hour quick-start, and explore bonus videos on turning the laser lamp into a laser-cuttable file, 3D printing, and laser cutting.
Turn a Fusion 360 design into a laser cut file by laying out pieces flat, sketching, and exporting a dsf ready for laser cutting software.
Explore designing for laser cutting with Fusion 360, comparing 2D software and 3D modeling, understanding constraints like thickness, assembly, and connector methods for sturdy laser-cut lamps.
Learn how to model for 3D printing in Fusion 360, covering material strength, maximum print size, printer tolerance, and practical angles, supports, and time and material costs.
This course only has one purpose: to get you started with Fusion 360 as soon as possible. To do so, I have designed this 1 hour course to give you the tools and knowledge you need to get started on Fusion 360 and start creating your own designs.
To do so, I have designed six lessons, in each of which we create a new object. Within each lesson we build upon the things learned in previous lessons and add new tips and features along the way.
Fusion 360 is a free and powerful, widely used 3d modeling software.
Fusion 360 is a huge program and it is impossible to even get close to discussing everything within the software in one hour. Therefore, I focus on the solids design workspace, but I also show you how to render your designs.
After this course you will have the confidence to create your own prototypes or designs and you will also be able to make beautiful renders of them, all in just 1 hour.
I do limit the course to the solids design workspace (sketch, create, modify, etc.) but experience tells me that once you are comfortable within this part of Fusion, you will also be able to use other parts of the program thanks to Fusion's intuitive nature.
At the end of the course I also added 3 bonus video's which will get your started designing for both 3d printing and laser cutting
If you can not wait to start creating your own designs, and want the tools to get started, this it the perfect course for you!