Fusion360 and Eagle integration to design PCB

In this lesson you will see how to download Fusion360 into your computer

Fusion360 until now (May 2021) supports only Windows and Mac OS , no official support for Linux so far.

Download fusion360 from this link [https://www.autodesk.com/products/fusion-360/overview]

Quick tour into fusion360 schematic editor, it's similar Eagle, the icon is a bit bigger and in different order, but the functionality is still the same.

Quick tour to layout editor and 3D view.

Learn how to sync your libraries to library.io and create your own managed library in Eagle so you can work from any device and use your own libraries whenever you want.

Learn how to sync your libraries to Fusion360 so you can migrate from Eagle without losing your own libraries.

In this lesson we will learn how to create a managed library and add any component to it.

We will use MCP1603 Buck IC as an example.

We will learn how to download the library for this IC from ultra librarian website.

You will find all the links and material for this lesson in the resources.

We will learn how to add MCP1603 to our library and how to run a script in Eagle.

We will learn how to sync the library we created on Eagle with Fusion360.

We will learn another way to download our libraries from snapEDA website.

You have to add the inductor by yourself and you should be able to do so after this lesson ;)

In this lesson we will see why 3D view is so important in some cases.

we will add a USB plug to our library and see what went wrong in the process.

In this lesson, we will take an example based on MCP1603 to create a buck circuit.

We will route the board using polygon only, on Eagle software.

In this lesson, we will link our board to fusion360 to create a 3D view for it.

In this lesson we will take a different approach for this project, we will import the schematic and the board to fusion360 and start routing the board on fusion360.

please download the project files from resources.

We are going to finish this project, by applying the ground polygon and show the 3D view of this board.

In this lesson we will learn how to connect our board to an existing fusion360 project, and we will learn how to link and unlink the project.

In this lesson we will create a design on fusion360 and export it to open it with Eagle.

You will find the fusion360 files, library, and schematic reference in the resources

In this lesson we will take a look at the PCB in real life and how to solder it and assemble the component on it, and test if the circuit is working as we expect.

In this lesson, we will take a look again on snapEDA and how to download a library for USB type C connector and add it to our library using EAGLE.

In this lesson we are going to see how to edit the library we created in lecture 19 using fusion360 and to understand more the difference between fusion team libraries and library.io libraries.

For the next 4 lessons  we are going to create a library in fusion360 , the component is FT232 USB to UART converter.

in this lesson we will take a look at this chip and the datasheet to know more about it.

in this lesson we will work on the symbol for FT232 and design it step by step together

In this lesson we will learn how to create 3D view and export a footprint based on it using library manager feature in Fusion360.

in the last lesson for FT232 component library, we are going to create a device and connect the footprint and symbol together

In this lesson we are going to learn the link/ unlink concept and what's the different between it and the other way we learned to use libraries between Eagle and Fusion360.

In this lesson , we are going to create a new electronics design for our project, and add all the components we want in the schematic editor.

In this lesson we will connect all the components together except the USB.

Let's know more about USB type C and how to connect it in your projects.

In this lesson we will put the final touches on the schematic design o move to the board editor.

In this lesson we are going to move to the board editor, and re-size the board and move the components to it.

In this lesson we will complete part1 of routing this board.

In this lesson we will continue routing the board and finish this process.

In this lesson we will correct one mistake we did, and we will create a polygon and run DRC to check if there is any error in our board.

In this lesson we are going to finish the board design together and check the 3D view for the board

We have some issues in this design that we didn't solve, in this lesson we are going to solve these issue, and use meander tool and correct a mistake we did in the schematic.

In this lesson we will see how to solder it and assemble the component on our FTDI PCB, and test if the circuit is working as we expect.

we will start this section by learning how to design 2D sketch for our board.

You can download the 3D file from the resources to continue this section.

In this lesson we are going to lean how to create 3D body from 2D sketch and we will learn many tools and tricks to create the Bottom part for the enclosure.

In this lesson we will see how to open a cut for the USB and the pin header using extrude tool.

In this lesson we will learn a simple trick to reduce the wall thickness for the USB connector so we can connect it more easily with a cable.

In this lesson we will add holes to our design and how to create thread for these holes

In this lesson we will move to design a lid for this enclosure, and we will start with 2D sketch

In this lesson we will see how to use joint feature and create a simple joint motion for our enclosure.

In this lesson we will learn how to export our design as STL files to print them using any 3D printer.

This lesson will cover the topic that might be interesting for you, how to print our design using any desktop 3D printer, I will show you how to do that using my Prusa 3D printer, but you can do the same using and 3D printer available, we will see the final results and see how to assemble the PCB with our enclosure.

In this lesson we are going to start with the 2D sketch design for our circuit.

In this lesson we will move from 2D sketch design to 3D sketch design and we will create the bottom body for our enclosure.

In this lesson we are going to add holes and threads for the bottom body.

In this lesson we will move to the Lid 2D sketch design.

In this lesson we will complete the lid body design and export STL files for both components to print them using 3D printer.

This lesson will cover the topic that might be interesting for you, how to print our design using any desktop 3D printer, I will show you how to do that using my Prusa 3D printer, but you can do the same using and 3D printer available, we will see the final results and see how to assemble the PCB with our enclosure.