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

Skills covered

Fusion 360Product and Industrial DesignAutodesk3D ModelingVisualization and Real-TimeAECProduct and ManufacturingAnimation and IllustrationDeep Dive (X:Y)

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Designing for metal manufacture
02 - What you should know
03 - Exercise files
04 - Setting preferences

1. Getting More from Solid Modeling

05 - Setting up parameters
06 - Bodies or components
07 - Joining components

2. Communicating the Design

08 - Animation
09 - 2D drawing tools for metal
10 - Rendering
11 - Collaboration

3. Simulation of the Design

12 - Creating a static stress study
13 - Testing with an alternative material
14 - Overview of generative design

4. Making the Design

15 - Creating a setup
16 - Defining the toolpath
17 - Publishing and posting

Conclusion

18 - Next steps