Fusion 360: Animate a Parametric Standing Desk
51mIntermediate2021-07-02
Authors
Product Design Online
Product Designer and Instructor
Course details
Fusion 360 is a unique CAD package for product design. In this course, which is a companion to Fusion 360: Design a Parametric Standing Desk, product designer Kevin Kennedy teaches you how to animate parts and assemblies to communicate design functionality and assembly operations to project stakeholders. Beginning with the completed design from the previous course, Kevin shares practical skills that apply to creating product animations and exploded views. He shows how to leverage the animation workspace in Fusion 360 to evaluate and communicate design functionality, and to illustrate assemblies.
Skills covered
PrevizFusion 3603D AnimationProduct and Industrial DesignAutodesk3D ModelingVisualization and Real-TimeAECProduct and ManufacturingAnimation and IllustrationDeep Dive (X:Y)
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - Animating 3D models in Fusion 360
- 02 - What you should know
1. Preparing Designs for the Animation Workspace
- 03 - Preparing models for animations
2. Setting up Animations in Fusion 360
- 04 - Entering and navigating the Animation workspace
- 05 - Creating the first storyboard
3. Creating Product Animations in Fusion 360
- 06 - Auto exploding Fusion 360 designs
- 07 - Manually exploding Fusion 360 designs
- 08 - Creating a product assembly - Part 1
- 09 - Creating a product assembly - Part 2
- 10 - Creating a product assembly - Part 3
- 11 - Finishing the product assembly with callouts
- 12 - Publishing the animation video
- 13 - Sharing the animation video
Conclusion
- 14 - Next steps