Been an AutoCAD user since the mid 80's (started designing on paper in the late 70's). I'm new to Fusion and get frustrated that drawing techniques I am so used to using in AutoCAD don't translate to Fusion! I am guilty of using offset/trim/extend and fillet way too often in my sketches because its what I'm used to, and of course you end up with the dreaded partially constrained sketch. I use Fusion for my home shop projects and 3d printing. I have watched a ton of Fusion tutorials on KZread (some good, many bad) but this one has been the most helpful by far because the "Why" was explained. Thank you and subscribed.

@DCT_Aaron_Engineering

2 ай бұрын

Hello Joe. Thank you for the feedback and insight on your CAD journey. I’ve met many people who have also struggled with 3D modelling as they were traditionally trained in 2D CAD. As for me I was lucky and got solid modelling tuition during my university teaching training back in 2001. Before that I had only ever done hand drawings. I appreciate your feedback and thank you for the subscription. Regards Aaron 👍🍻

Superb learning resource - thank you. Straight to the point, clear and well reasoned advice. I could watch endless videos like this (please!). I am a hobbyist and have taught myself enough to get designs done but they are horrible.....slowly I am learning how do do things right.

@DCT_Aaron_Engineering

3 ай бұрын

Thank you 🙏. I’m glad you found the video informative. There is so much to learn in Fusion. Im still learning myself to be honest.

Good to see another video from Mr Fusion. The use of Parameters is a much easier way to draw for sure. Definitely helps to cut down on drawing time. Especially for more simple items.

@DCT_Aaron_Engineering

4 жыл бұрын

I laughed when I read the Mr.Fusion line. Mate, at 52 I’m an old man now. TBH, I’m not that hot at it. Many way better than me, and you usually find them in the year 7 class 😂. Hope you and the family are well stay safe Peter 🍺

Thank you for this video - I've been using Fusion for several years, and the information given will greatly improve my workflow.

@DCT_Aaron_Engineering

Ай бұрын

You are very welcome. I appreciate the support and feedback. Regards Aaron

The "thumbs-down" are the people still trying to figure out why Fusion hasn't created an App they can just say: Hey Fusion, I want this. Such amazing video. Thanks for taking the time to make this. Enjoy your day.

@DCT_Aaron_Engineering

3 жыл бұрын

Hi Corban. Thank you so much for the feedback. I’m so happy that you enjoyed it. Yes the trolls and negative people on KZread has grown to monumental proportions. I just ignore the FK-Wits these days. What they don’t realise is that a thumbs up or down still helps to drive my statistics. It would hurt my channel more if the didn’t click anything 😂. Cheer Aaron

@JasonNaas

27 күн бұрын

Three years later, it's not such a silly idea.

Ooh the angle definition for those holes :) I likey ;) Some great tips in there thanks Aaron.

@DCT_Aaron_Engineering

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks buddy. Some real simple ones and a couple middle of the range. I’ve made most of those mistakes myself so I thought I’d share them with everyone. 👍🍻

Constrained to the max... holds up hand and says "PRESENT". This was really good. I've been struggling with Fusion 360 to the point of (A) hating it and (B) realizing that the shortcomings are mine, not the software.

@DCT_Aaron_Engineering

3 жыл бұрын

G'day Michael. Thanks for watching my video and for commenting. Yes, unfortunately I am like you too at times. I've been using parametric 3D modelling for 20 years (different software/s) and then one of my high school kids will show me something that simply blows my mind. Stick with it (F360) mate, you'll crack this nut sooner than later. Cheers, Aaron.

Hi Aaron, what a great enjoyable short and direct Tips video - nicely edited 👍 - you should go into the film industry too ! Great resource to always reference back too. Few tips I never knew about.

@DCT_Aaron_Engineering

4 жыл бұрын

G’day Sam. Thanks buddy I appreciate it mate. Some simple ones (like me) and some other good ones from Kevin 👍

Great tip on rigid joint vs grounding

@DCT_Aaron_Engineering

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Nigel. This was a tip that Scott Moyse shared with me back in the day. It's an excellent tip. There are many Fusion360 users much smarter than me. I'm just sharing my trials and tribulations I've had over the years 😉

clear and instructive. Thanks.

@DCT_Aaron_Engineering

3 ай бұрын

Thank you 🙏

Excellent video Aaron, really enjoyed the tips. Personally, I still struggle with the last one, I can never remember how to make the tangent arcs appear 😂.Ciao, Marco.

@DCT_Aaron_Engineering

4 жыл бұрын

G'day Marco. Thanks for the feedback mate. I'm sure most people know everything that I covered. But you would be surprised, as some still see a tip and have a "Aha moment". With me that happens everyday LOL 😊

First... and this is such a great video. Amazing work Aaron! Well done! 👍

@DCT_Aaron_Engineering

4 жыл бұрын

Hey Gil. You're the best mate. Many good tips out there on the internet. Many are better than me. I just shared some common ones that I see come up constantly. Cheers, Aaron

@LaserLivestream

3 жыл бұрын

@Tyson Braden you’re right, we don’t care 🤷‍♂️

I'm learning Fusion 360. THANK YOU FOR THE VIDEO.

@DCT_Aaron_Engineering

Ай бұрын

You are very welcome. Thank you for watching and taking the time to comment. Cheers 🍻

Az, A really concise vid mate👍👍 I saw ALL of my past ( and current 🥴) mistakes in there. No wonder my locomotive assembly design has a zillion items in the time line 😂😂 Regards, Robert

@DCT_Aaron_Engineering

4 жыл бұрын

Hey Robert. Great to hear from you mate. Thanks buddy, happy to share the error in my ways 🤣

Nice one, thanks!

@DCT_Aaron_Engineering

3 жыл бұрын

pooheadlou You’re very welcome thanks for watching 👍

excellent ...Thank you

@DCT_Aaron_Engineering

8 ай бұрын

Much appreciated, thank you for watching 🙏

Aaron this is awesome. Thanks for the tips. -Ken

@DCT_Aaron_Engineering

4 жыл бұрын

G'day Ken, thanks buddy. Just a couple of little tips that I've learnt or stuffed up over years. Cheers, Aaron.

@MakeTechPtyLtd

4 жыл бұрын

@@DCT_Aaron_Engineering actually I couldn't quite understand the last bit about the curved line. "Hold down the mouse"? Haven't tried it yet

@DCT_Aaron_Engineering

4 жыл бұрын

@@MakeTechPtyLtd Hey Ken, when in the sketch environment and draw a straight line (line command) click once to draw line, click second to place line. Then, hold mouse button down and drag left or right to make and arc 😉

@MakeTechPtyLtd

4 жыл бұрын

@@DCT_Aaron_Engineering sweet. I'll try it tonight. Cheers

ahh yeah we used that laptop stand in the past. it was hard for people to get the model properly constrained so that it wouldn't blow apart after changing the parameter. I think we still use that exercise now but mostly as an extra credit item so people don't get punished as bad :)

@DCT_Aaron_Engineering

4 жыл бұрын

Hey Andrew. Hope you're ok over there in the USA. We're back in lock-down over here Melbourne FFS. Yes we made a couple of these laptop stands back in the day. They were neat item and teachers loved them. However, I didn't make the students do the tutorial 🤣

@ydna

4 жыл бұрын

yeah, we're in a bit of trouble here too (lol) and worse is I have students coming back next week to try finishing their incomplete semester from last winter. Good thing I can double-wield cans of disinfectant!

@DCT_Aaron_Engineering

4 жыл бұрын

@@ydna LOL, I laughed when I read double-wield cans. Knowing you, I wouldn't be surprised if you set a up Fanuc Robot arm with a garden sprinkler to spray them all as they walk in the room LOL. Jokes aside, stay safe and well buddy. Cheers, Aaron.

Loved this video Azza! At 17:40, you hit on something that I think I would have done messy construction lines to achieve (solution for angular placement of the circles). And Azza with Lars! Both in the same room. Great pic!

@DCT_Aaron_Engineering

4 жыл бұрын

G’day David. Great to hear from you buddy. How’s the lovely Tricia going? Thanks for following along David. Certainly some tips there for everyone I would think. Yeah that one was called “Sketched to Max”! Don’t worry I used to do the same thing 😂

you can edit the sketch as well. The parametric properties exist in the sketch.

@DCT_Aaron_Engineering

Жыл бұрын

Thanks 😊

I like to constrain everything in a sketch, but I oftentimes have issues with projections, where everything seems to be constrained but the sketch is marked as not fully constrained. And also sometimes the other way around, where sketch lines can be moved but the sketch shows the "fully constrained" icon in the tree view. Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong? Another thing that bothers me is that it is really hard to fully constrain splines, so I tend to avoid them completely unless absolutely necessary. Is there a simple way to work with splines without needing to "fix" them in place?

@DCT_Aaron_Engineering

9 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching mate. Good old Fusion360 (confusion) can be tricky at times. It could be a myriad of things causing that. I suggest posting the question on the Autodesk Fusion360 online forum. That way you can post a screenshot and get help from the user group. Cheers 🍻

Good tips, i need to design a paperclip for the mother inlaw!

@DCT_Aaron_Engineering

4 жыл бұрын

Is that for her mouth Anthony? 😂

@AWAradiola

4 жыл бұрын

@@DCT_Aaron_Engineering for her ring lmao

Excellent! I’ll be keeping an eye out for blue lines in m’ sketches...!👍🤔 Question. At 14:18 you have a sketch that’s an 80x80mm square. You came out of the sketch and there were 4 wonky holes. Back into the sketch, and there are 4 points marked (centres of the holes?). How did you add those?! The constraint work makes sense, but I can’t figure out how you added those points...! (I also did “Technical Drawing” at school (although they called it “Graphic Communication”), so am much happier with a parallel motion/T-square!)

@DCT_Aaron_Engineering

4 жыл бұрын

Hi Adrian. Thanks for following along buddy, I appreciate the support. To add points to your sketch you can do this. With an active sketch open, click the "create" dropdown button to expand the sketch options, point is located 10 lines down from the top. Click the mouse to insert your points. You can dimension these accordingly also. I hope this helps? Cheers, Aaron.

@hamiltonpianos

4 жыл бұрын

DCTSolutionsAU Excellent; many thanks Sir!😁

@DCT_Aaron_Engineering

4 жыл бұрын

Adrian Hamilton my pleasure anytime 👍🍻

Hi, what I still find strange , is the fact that if the left side and the4bottom side of a rectangle is black (FULLY defined?) then why are the 2 opposite side still blue ? The only thing that is fully defined, are the starting points of the lines and their direction, but still not their lengths Actually they should colour them grey or something as long as they are not FULLY 100% defined Nice tutorials though thanks a lot.

@DCT_Aaron_Engineering

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Hans. Yes good old confusion360 can do that to you at times. Like snapping a line to the origin and drawing horizontal will go black but no dimension is added. Cheers and thanks for watching 👍🍻

Had flashbacks to the early 2000’s club scene about every 40 seconds throughout this Fusion tutorial

@DCT_Aaron_Engineering

3 ай бұрын

Your point is?

nice video Aaron keep up the good work i just mad air 492 pol air 32 vh-pvk it's on my channel

@DCT_Aaron_Engineering

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Denzel. I’ll check it out 👍🍻

Is there a way to change all instances of a parameter in a copied component? I am building a parts storage box with three drawers. Because I plan on making a few of these for different parts, I want the entire model using parametric constraints. Once I copy my first drawer (which took me for ever to get right) I want to change all instances of the DrawerHightOne to DrawerHightTwo. Is there an easy way to do this?

@DCT_Aaron_Engineering

3 ай бұрын

Hello, to be honest with you I am totally unsure. I have seen an old video from an Autodesk staff member who designed a laptop stand. Using parameters he could change the thickness or length and it would repopulate without falling over.

Regarding Tip #4.... is the file size really an Apples-to-Apples comparison. Your sketch that you did in the feature was only based on 5 items in the pattern where as the when done in the sketch, it was a pattern of 6 items. Just saying .... could this also make a difference in the file size. (I haven't test this).

@DCT_Aaron_Engineering

3 ай бұрын

That’s a very good point. I would need to redo this to validate. Thanks for contributing 👍

Low voice level, which makes you turn up the volume and then greeted by screeming music after every point. Otherwise good vid.

@DCT_Aaron_Engineering

3 жыл бұрын

Teymur Azayev Thank you 😊

@MichaelTavel

8 ай бұрын

I want to second this point, the loud repetitive transition music between tips made me want to click away from this video every time.

@damofx

3 ай бұрын

Same here. Way too intrusive

I am sorry to say but you are wrong about tip #4, it is possible to go back to the sketch and change the pattern. Both the number of holes and how the hole looks. There is a small pattern illustration at the center of the pattern, right click on that and you can change the number of holes. //Anders

@DCT_Aaron_Engineering

4 жыл бұрын

Hi Anders. Well there you go. You taught me something. I just tried it and it worked a treat. However, the premise of #4 was to highlight the point of Patterning features not sketches. Fusion has to calculate constraints in sketches . When you pattern a feature fusion only mirrors the boolean body and doesn't do the calculation. That is what i was told by Kevin. Great tip though Anders. Thank you for showing me 😊

@atjswede

4 жыл бұрын

@@DCT_Aaron_Engineering Understand, and this feature are not so old and it is very easy to miss :) . Personally I preffer using Sketches when I draw a part. Might be because I am an old man and used to make 2d drawings, I feel that I get better control over the dimensions using Sketches. //Anders

Was looking good... until each of those chapter header graphics blared in. Had to stop. As a seasoned video and audio editor, the audio level and hard cut of those is very jarring and unnecessary.

@DCT_Aaron_Engineering

3 ай бұрын

Seriously, what is the point of your comment. Is it supposed to inspire me? Good for you pal. Not all of us are professional video / audio engineers.