Deep Dive Into Fusion 360 (Part 1)

The Toolbar displays commands and actions in Fusion 360 in organized categories. The Toolbar is fully customizable and is the main why to edit your designs.

The Browser lists all of the objects in you current file including the files settings, planes, sketches, and more.

The View Cube allows you to view your designs in different perspectives and angles.

The Canvas is the middle of Fusion 360 and its where you will be designing. In the Canvas you can access the right-click menu. I you right click on an object you'll see commonly used and available commands that you can use with the object you selected.

The Navigation Bar contains commands used to zoom in and out, to pan around your design, and orbit around you design. The Display Settings control of the appearance of the canvas. You can change the color, shadows and other affects, turn the grid on and off, and view your design from multiple angles.

The Timeline lists all of the major operations you've preformed on the design. Double-click on the Timeline to edit the operation, or right-click to make additional changes.

Change your view to "Fit in View", so that when you click the house above the view cube I will show the whole 3D design.

With these settings, zooming in and out will not change the viewing angle of the object and will only zoom in and out.

This is a photo of my paperclip design. To make this I had to use some new tools and those new tools came with the problems. A new tool I used was the sweep command. This command would allow me to give thickness to the paperclip. To start I put a 1mm circle on one of the paperclip, the sweep command would add a 1mm circle to the whole paperclip. I had trouble with this since I created the paperclip with different line segments because I had to close the line command a few times which messed up the sweep command. What I did to fix the problem was I re-created the paperclip in one go in the same line command.

This is the physical paperclip. It doesn't open like a normal paperclip because I needed to keep the paperclips scale. I got the print first try with no issues.

This is a photo of my beer bottle design. To make this I had to use some new tools. The new tools I used were the attached canvas command, the point command, the spine command, the revolve command, the shell command, and the appearance command. The attached canvas command allowed you to add a PNG file to the design that I used to trace. To help trace the bottle I needed to use the point and spine command. the point command allowed me to place points going up the bottles side where the bottle started to curve and the spin command connected all of the points together. The revolve command allowed me to take my outline of half of the bottle and rotate in 360 degrees so that it formed the bottle. The shell command allowed me to split the bottle in half without actually remove any of the design this let me make the top of the bottle hollow. And finally I used the appearance command to make the bottle appear like it was made of glass which does not change how it will print.

This is the physical bottle. For some reason when I tried to export the G-Code file in the Prusa Slicer, I was given the message that my print would not work if I tried to print it so I added supports and printed it. I looked back at my design I couldn't see anything that could cause such an error. The bottle itself is smaller than a normal beer bottle to save time and I don't think the normal beer bottle would fit on the printer I was assigned for the project. I got the print first try with no issues.