I’m not a computer wiz, so I appreciate you going through this. Keep putting out the great videos sir 👍🏻

THANK YOU! I’ve struggled with making those drawings for some time. I end up drawing something in Fusion, then scribbling dimensions on paper. This will be a game changer.

Thank you James. An excellent video with enough information I will have to watch it a dozen times. I have tried to figure this out on my own with a lot of frustration. Thank you again.

Thank you ! F360 has me struggling at times, and the drawings were one part that was not making sense for me, till now. I come here for enlightenment.

Amazing video. Really detailed stuff, put across in an easy to understand way. Always thought it was tricky to produce drawings for my designs, but you've made it seem easy. I shall be doing this a lot more from now on - thanks!

Great video James! Not just a tour of F360's drawing features, but also a valuable rundown on useful drawing practice. Nicely done!

This takes we way back. Its so interesting how you're building (virtually) then drawing. When I was making shop drawings with pencil and mylar I was drawing designs so they could be built. Not machine parts but piping systems and HVAC systems. Line weights make all the difference!

Thanks James! This kind of stuff is why I'm a subscriber. I always learn something from your videos.

Best video on drawings I've seen. I've been making drawings for a while. Still learned a bunch of new, usefull things.

comprehensive video, excellent pace, clear and easy to understand. Very helpful. Thank you.

Thank you for a very detailed explanation. I've really struggled producing simple drawings in Fusion 360, but now it should be a lot easier. Cheers Andrew

This is a truly remarkable video. I know it's been a while since you published it, but I can't overstate how helpful it is going to be for me. I'm a woodworker and I use Fusion 360 to design most of the projects that I build. In the past, I've tried to create Drawings to use for dimensions when building. I quickly just resorted to referencing the original model when I couldn't seem to design the Drawings in an efficient and effective way. I randomly ran across your video and certainly didn't intend to watch the entire 35 minutes. Your presentation was clear and complete and it taught me everything I need to know to use this function going forward. I can't wait to use it on my next build! Thank you very much for the effort!

I think this is the most professionally done and informative video I have ever seen. Had no ides the Drawing functions of Fusion 360 were so powerful. Thank you.

Interesting, and a LOT of useful. I've used the drawing tools, but as with so much else, you're way ahead of me in skill. Learned a lot.

Thanks for your work and time making and publishing your YT vids, For me they have the right level of information, verbal description and screen detail to understand and learn, not just this vid but most all your channel vids. Dead set one of the best DIY machinist channels on YT

10 years as a Mechanical Designer for a profession, I hated having to do drawings (fortunately the model shop worked from the model 95% of the time). 25 years of playing machinist on the weekends, and I love drawings! It is all about your perspective I guess. Great video, I learned a bunch.

I too make drawings for everything I build in my shop and use Fusion 360 to do it. I agree, it saves a lot of wasted materials as well as time and frustration. I picked up some great tips from your video. I think the biggest one is use of section views in drawings. I hadn't realized those were available until you showed it. Thank you for your very clear explanations of everything.

Excellent presentation; well detailed, but not overwhelming for beginners. I now feel confident enough to start documenting my own designs. Good job! Much appreciated; thanks for posting.

Brilliantly done. As a long time user of Autocad 2010 (in 2D), and lately a Sketchup user (for 3D), I'm feeling the pull more than ever to make to switch to Fusion 360.

James, thank you; this tool was a puzzle for me but this has really made it accessible.

Excellent lecture. Thank You! This subject was missing in local video course I studied, so now I have complete knowledge. Keep doing.

James, thank you so much for making this video! I just purchased a license for F360 and am trying to learn the program. I have never done any CAD or CAM and am on a very steep learning curve (particularly for an older fella like me). Your explanations and examples are something I am able to relate to. Very helpful and very appreciated!

Thanks. I've always been the machinist, so I just modelled but never output a dwg for a third party. Really useful to me, and I thank you for your time in creating this useful video resource.

Pure gold! Thanks James!!

New user to F360. So much good info and practices here. I'm struggling on a lot more basic stuff, so I have a ways to go before I will be applying these concepts. Thank you. I would welcome some beginner Fusion videos from your thought process. So far I've designed 2 things.

This is excellent. My original training 1960's was with paper and pencil in Highschool. Design was a natural in fusion. This filled in the missing part of converting the model to a drawing efficiently. A big Mahalo from my retirement home in Maui.

Thanks! Amazingly well explained! I really needed this and didn't even know that I needed it. I didn't even know that Fusion had this functionality!

You explain so well , I’ve learn a lot , thanks James

Best video I've seen yet explaining this, thanks!

So glad you did this.

This is good to know, I didn't use this feature before but when I need it now I know how. Thank you!

Thanks for the tutorial James. Even though I model in Rhino, I specifically subscribe to Fusion 360 for the shop drawings. Your video is of perfect timing. Great explanation.

That's good teaching! I've been looking around YT for a comprehensive set of F360 tutorials (not just a jumble of "hacks" and "tips") and this video far outshines them all. If anyone can recommend a good place to start, the help would be appreciated. If there were a James Clough F360 course available, I'd pay several hundred bucks for it and I bet many others would as well. Hint, hint.

James great video, you are a master at presenting content in an easy to understand format. Thank you for your work.

Small tip. Been using Inventor for 20 years, Fusion is similar. Start with a C size sheet and then do a fit to print to the A size or letter sized paper. C size scales very well down to and A. This way your titleblock will not take up 50% of your available space on the sheet. D scales very nicely to 17X11 (Tabloid) if your printer does tabloid. Most don't so, start with a C and then do a fit to the Letter size paper. It will look much better when printed.

@Mawyman2316

Жыл бұрын

Interesting tip, although all of my prints are in B size.

@SurfacePatterns

Жыл бұрын

Just gave this a shot and wish I'd have thought of it sooner. Thanks for the tip @russellfinch5493

As always good stuff. Thx James!

Ah yes, I was one of the people who had asked you to show how you did the flat drawings and this tutorial was excellent. Now I just need to fire up F360 and go through this enough times that I remember it. Thank you James!

Amazing info. Thank you for the time you take to go into such wonderful detail. Im having to teach myself prety much every aspect of design and manufacture for where i work and so many of your videos have taugh me things that are super useful. Thank you.

Thanks, James! You've shown me that I've only scratched the surface of creating dimensioned drawings in Fusion 360.

That's a fantastic explanation - thank you very much!

Thank you James. Excellent content.

Thank you so much for the details - Really enjoy your channel..

Excellent tutorial James. Thanks for sharing. I’d be interested in a detailed one on modifying the title block, where you save it etc if that appeals. Cheers

This video is TOTALLY EPIC!!

Thanks for that. I've always wondered how to do this properly. Have been a flat-earther AutoCAD user since 1988 (on DOS). This is just sooo much easier.

As an amateur woodworker, I had been using sketchup but the printing capabilities were really bad. Now that I am switching over to F360 it is a real pleasure to work with. Note that the F360 learning curve is a bit steeper than sketchup. The author has a wonderful sense of how to explain things in very clear detail. Best video on printing in Fusion 360.

Awesome video as always James....you covered a few things I was trying to do manually in F360....a lot of " ohhh" & " cool" moments...keep up the great work...,Brisbane, Australia

Excellent tutorial! Much appreciated!

Nicely done. Extremely helpful. Thanks so much.

Very concise! Thank you.

Super helpful! Thanks

This is a fantastic "beginners tutorial" for beginners. This vid demystifies Fusion 360. Well done James, and I hope to see more quality content like this in the future. Holy cow was this an informative video. Fusion 360 should give you a free, one-year subscription!

This is fantastic. Imagine for a moment looking at a drawing at work that was done by a person who thought about how to actually build the damn thing!

James, many thanks. This was a very timely tutorial on the very day I started to dig in to Fusion drawings to any depth. It cleared up my misconceptions and made everything clear. Wonderful. Love your channel I learn something every time.

@Clough42

3 жыл бұрын

Just wait...I likely also propagated some new misconceptions, too. :)

@Litzwire

3 жыл бұрын

@@Clough42 I haven't noticed any yet, give it time :-)

Excellent job of explaining the drawing process. Although I work exclusively in wood, the process is the same and will help me to dimension out some of the more complicated joinery I used to assemble the various projects I make. Your video also cleared up for me what I can and can't do in the free version. I think I can make multiple pages, and then make them read-only so they don't use up my 10-project limit before I get done with a project. I somehow missed the "print" function as a way to convert my drawings to PDF, so that helped also. Thanks very much for your hard work in making this video.

This video was extremely helpful..thanks a lot once again for your fantastic videos...made so everyone can follow and understand your explanation

Thanks James! You have catered to my laziness so I didn't have to sit down and figure this out for myself.

Nice overview. I didn't even know how a "base" drawing is used. Thanks.

Excellent tutorial James, thank you, Keith

This is incredibly useful! Thanks!

Once again, informative, concise, and so well done! Been a SolidWorks user for close to 20 years. Now with getting into CAM I'm going into Fusion...SolidWorks CAM is cumbersome for me. You provide great content always and have helped this guy (and many others) greatly! Oh, one rebuttal to a comment regarding a larger format (C size and print to fit) I would avoid this technique.... in variabily getting every dimension for a part on the print is rare and if one is "at the machine" it is impossible to lay a scale on the paper to confirm what you would expect the missing dimension to be. YES THE RULE FOREVER HAS BEEN "DO NOT SCALE A PRINT", however that reverts back "pre-CAD" and rules change. Personally I would never print to fit or scale a detail that cannot be computed back easily (2:1, 4:1, 10:1.... never 3x, 5x, etc., etc.) Thank you James for your chanel.

As below, great teaching. Thank you.

It was a big effort making this video thanks

Thanks James. I spent some time around the holidays learning F360, made a few parts, became comfortable with the basics. This is one of the many areas that I still need to learn, and your practical intro will be useful. BTW on Harold's discussion show I heard you mention your views are low on this one. FYI that was the first I heard of this video; I didn't get a notification of this one, but I normally do.

Interesting! Very good video!

Really stuff here! Thank you for such a detailed video. Also the video video chapters in the timeline are so helpful. Not sure what to call them. They are so helpful in going back and reviewing specific ideas. Thanks!

@Clough42

2 жыл бұрын

KZread just calls them "video chapters." I've started adding them to most of my new videos.

Well done James. Enjoyed.

Great video!

enjoyed...great lesson

Hi James. A fabulous video in demystifying how to make a workshop drawing with Fusion 360. Having never used F360 this video makes it less scary. Thank you. Take care. Paul,,

I wish I had watched this earlier! I'm a fairly new user to Fusion 360 (the free hobbyist version), using it since I just got a hobbyist CNC router. Not totally new to CAD since I do have a little past experience with Onshape. Your videos have been the most helpful thing I've found to come up to speed on Fusion. As a sort of practice, I modelled up a roof/awning I'm planning on putting over the side door of my garage. I made of few drawing for it, again mostly for practice. They would have been a lot easier to do if I had seen this one first.

I found that video very helpful, thank you 👍

I'm kind of late to the game but that was fantastic. I've never used Fusion 360 or for that matter any 3D drawing program. But currently downloading it on my laptop. Thank you for the lesson.

Very good info!!

Thanks for sharing!

Excellent run through of the drawing environment. I use this feature a lot, and am always hoping AutoDesk will bring in features like custom attributes for the sheet, and the ability to select different units for different parameters (e.g. length in mm, weight in kg), etc.

I have seen many videos about fusion 360 but yours was the easiest to understand ! I think yours was the first one I have seen that recognises that not everyone is using the paid version of fusion - the Autodesk videos don’t tend to mention that you can get fusion for free if you are a student or home hobbyist- I wonder why 🤑

Very helpful. Thank you.

very helpful!

Thanks! Was doing a drawing of a cabinet model and was having trouble figuring out how to make the drawing for the individual parts and get them dimensioned.

I did learn things, many thanks

That was a Great Video, Thanks

Fully up to your usual standard, again. I have just moved to the free version of Fusion 360 from FreeCAD and am amazed at its capabilities. I used to spend hours manually drafting (and re-drafting) drawings of projects before producing 3D versions for machining and latterly 3D printing. Now I find Fusion 360 can do the lot, including importing manufacturer's component details. I don't know whether you have teaching qualifications but if you have and I'd been in your class life would have been a lot easier!

Never could find out how to format the dimensions/font, etc. Thanks for the tips. Now I can sleep at night 👍!

Thanks, always good information. BTW, I really like the tool post grinder. At some point I need to grind some details into an RT30 spindle that I bought so I can add an ATC to the spindle. I'll keep an eye on your progress.

Great video. Now I know why I paid extra for the drawing facility in the full version.

Wow - I had no idea that this facility existed in 360! I been trying to teach myself fusion during covid lock down and have been struggling with it. I’m still persevering with it as I can see that by getting into this would be so useful. I’m ok with AutoCAD 2021 but find Fusion360 isn’t intuitive. More like this pleas James... 👍

Nice.

Thanks mate, I have had so much trouble making decent drawings in Fusion 360. I used Autocad and inventor for years, then when I started my own business I switched to Fusion 360, but i've had so much trouble with the drawings tab, It's super clunky and nowhere near up to the standard for real life engineering, but it's ok for small business.

thanks!

Good video James, best collection of drawing tips out there. Perhaps Autodesk should sponsor you. Ciao, Marco.

Nicely done, James. I hope you'll make it to the Bash again this year.

nice tutorial

You are a talented teacher and obviously an experienced machinist . Your skill in showing the features of 360 fusion in a logical method could be expanded if you would create a tutorial On how you make the 3d solid models . Any thoughts on doing this ..

I've been into computer graphic arts for over three decades (my dad said, "Go digital, young man!"), back when you could by a nice car for what the software cost, and still I often find it easier to use CorelDraw for 2D over most of the CAD packages. Or an envelope. But I'm slowly getting to the point where Fusion 360 will be useful to me.

I've tried a couple of introductory lessons on F360, but by not using it afterwards the learning is rusty. However I found this to be very interesting and informative.

Love your videos, even though they can be technical your very thorough and helps me understand. I use illustrator but would like to try fusion 360 to see if I like it better.

@cannaroe1213

3 жыл бұрын

I use Illustrator but am thinking about switching to Blender. It's free and open source so it's got a lot going for it, even though it's not specifically for machinists. Maybe a plugin could be made

@1607rosie

3 жыл бұрын

canna roe thanks I'll give it a look.

Very cool. Have you done any other 'getting started' vids on Fusion 360? I'm sure a very basic one on modeling (from you) would be astounding.

Great video resolution...content is fantastic... and best of all, I can understand every word....but I could go on for ever about the great things this video and channel has. It's just a shame on such a wonderful learning platform like KZread that all videos can't even come close to the quality of this video. I spent a bunch of time messing around with F360 drawings try to get what I wanted but only managed to confuse myself more and ended up with more questions than answers. This video answered them all and then some. If you are frustrated with F360 drawings, quit spinning your wheels and watch this video start to finish... it is expertly done in all departments.... and don't forget to hit the subscribe button... you will not regret it.

I appreciate the directness and clarity of the video title. This video isn't for me, and the title let me know that without spending time. I will definitely be back for other videos.