Easiest to understand fusion 360 video

[KyleG]

I have a couple semesters of CAD 3d and one of Solidworks. I assumed Fusion would be similar enough for me to jump over fairly easily.

For me, the most difficult part of the transition was wrapping my head around how they handle assemblies. Other than that, geometry creation is pretty similar to solid works.

I’d be interested in hearing more about your progress and difficulties as you go along. I’m scheduled to teach a two day class on Fusion this fall, and this sounds like a good primer for me.

 

[woodchucker]

Solid works is offering hobbyists a $99 version. I may give that a try.

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[RJSakowski]

The problem for me is that when I want to execute a particular function , I don't know what the secret handshake is. There are a lot of buttons to push in fusion and knowing where to find them and which one to push for someone whose memory fails him at times is extremely frustrating. When I learned SolidWorks, I just dove right in. I had AutoCad experience which helped. but beyond some very basic instruction, the tutorials didn't help a lot. what got me through the learning curve was a series of books called the SolidWorks Bible. They were published for each release of SolidWorks from 2007 through 2011 and I purchased each when I installed the new version of SolidWorks. The advantage of the book is you can go directly to the risk at hand without having to search and sit through a video.

For SolidWorks, this wasn't a problem because they upgraded once a year. Fusion, in the other hand made revisions on the fly and every time you log in, your revision in upgrade. This makes writing a book particularly difficult. There are some books out there though. Two that I have are "Autodesk Fusion 360 Basics Tutorial (August 2019)" and "Autodesk Fusion 360 Introduction to Parametric Modeling".

As to videos, John Saunders, made some fairly easy to understand videos and a series was made by Autodesk by a guy named Erik, as I recall. There are others as well.

I must confess, I have never gotten very deep into Fusion 369 even though I have had it installed on my computer since it was first introduced. The lure for me was the integrated CAD/CAM but having SolidWorks and SprutCAM already, I would tend to take the easiest path. I was determined to to put the effort into mastering Fusion but somehow lost my round tuit.

Edit: The Fusion guy highlighted in red is Lars Christiansen. I knew it was a Scandinavian name! Thanks @BladesIIB .

 

[RJSakowski]

Solid works is offering hobbyists a $99 version. I may give that a try.

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If you go with SolidWorks, I would strongly recommend the SolidWorks Bible by Lombard. I think that the latest edition was for the 2011 version. The 2010 version is available online at https://archive.org/details/Solidworks2010Bible/page/n5/mode/2up

 

[Alexander McGilton]

Computer drafting is a profession in that of its self. Having done four 60h classes in cegep is a good stepping stone, though I don't claim to be an expert. There are still a lot of functions that I have yet to learn. I much prefer Inventor Pro as it has all the buttons are out in the open as opposed to Fusion. However the leaning in Fusion may well be more well be more inviting as there are a lot of students learning in parallel, lots of questions already answered on the forums. I can be here on this site to answer specific questions.

The item below is a D1-3 back plate. Such that once made can allow one to take lathe chuck and part off the lathe and onto the mill's rotary table. I want to get around to actually making the prototype before finalizing the model and drawings.

 

[BladesIIB]

+1 for Lars Christensen, his videos are really good. I also like the ones from NYCNC. I also find it helpful to just google the step you are stuck on and see what comes up. I just started with Fusion last July, the first project was hours of learning to get much done, after that it does get a lot better.

 

[jwmay]

I’d be interested in hearing more about your progress and difficulties as you go along.

Honestly I'd be surprised to make a whole lot of progress soon. Just like everyone, time is a major concern. But if I do get some time to fiddle with it, I'll start posting in this forum about it. Thanks!

 

[bill70j]

Lars Christensen
Tyler Beck of Tech and Expresso
Paul McWhorter
Patrick Rainsberry

are a start and all have extensive video's. Fusion 360 is quite powerful and a lot to learn.

I like this list and would also put Mr. Christensen's videos for beginners at the top of the list. I would add Kevin Kennedy (Product Design Online) as a number 2.

 

[jwmay]

Huh. Well that Arnold Rowntree got me going in a hurry. That's not hard at all. Wow! I can't remember who suggested him, but THANK YOU.

 

[MikeWi]

It always fascinates me to read the different views on this. For me Fusion360 is the most intuitive and was the easiest to learn by far, and Solidworks was much more difficult. Others here have the exact opposite experience.

That said, Lars was the biggest help for me I think. You have to be careful now with his videos, as there are a lot that were created before F360 underwent a big GUI change, so they would be confusing now.