Fusion 360: Designing for Metal
1h 30mBeginner2020-05-04
Authors
Thom Tremblay
Working with CAD software and its users for 30 years
Course details
If you're designing metal parts, you'll need to do things differently than you would for other materials and processes. This course shows how to use Autodesk Fusion 360—the affordable cloud-powered CAD and CAM tool that works like more expensive, industry-focused tools—to build effective designs specifically for subtractive manufacturing in metal. Thom Tremblay shows how to build solid designs, simulate how the model will hold up to the stress of production and use, render the design for presentation, and finalize it for manufacturing. The workflows showcased in this course are tailored to help the nonprofessional CAD user, and the maker, to be more effective and quickly have access to the tools that a few years ago were only available to the few and at an astronomical price.
Topics include:
Setting up parameters
Joining components
Animating and rendering the design
Testing alternative materials
Creating the setup
Publishing and posting the design
Topics include:
Setting up parameters
Joining components
Animating and rendering the design
Testing alternative materials
Creating the setup
Publishing and posting the design
Skills covered
Fusion 360Product and Industrial DesignAutodesk3D ModelingVisualization and Real-TimeAECProduct and ManufacturingAnimation and IllustrationDeep Dive (X:Y)
Concepts
Introduction
- Designing for metal manufacture
- What you should know
- Exercise files
- Setting preferences
Getting More from Solid Modeling
- Setting up parameters
- Bodies or components
- Joining components
Communicating the Design
- Animation
- 2D drawing tools for metal
- Rendering
- Collaboration
Simulation of the Design
- Creating a static stress study
- Testing with an alternative material
- Overview of generative design
Making the Design
- Creating a setup
- Defining the toolpath
- Publishing and posting
Conclusion
- Next steps