Deep Dive into Fusion 360

Objectives For This Project:

Identify and explore the nine areas of Fusion 360:
- - Application Bar
  - Data Panel
  - Profile and Help
  - Toolbar
  - Browser
  - View Cube
  - Canvas and Marking Menu
  - Navigation Bar and Display Settings
  - Timeline

Become fluent in designing two objects in Fusion 360:
- - a paperclip
  - a root beer bottle

Generate the first post on a digital portfolio

My Storage Box:

I'm Using the same storage box as last semester, the one I made in the Thinking Out of the Box unit.

Fusion 360 Retrospect:

One thing I remember from using Fusion 360 is when I was designing my stoplight casing in the Current Affairs Project. I wrote about it in one of my Problems Encounters section.

To reiterate, it was the process I took to rescale a model under the Mesh tool.

Pro Tricks:

Pro Trick #1

Pro Trick #1 is to use the Canvas tool to import an image as a reference. This helps you create a replica of, or create something inspired by, another object.

Pro Trick #2

Pro Trick #2 is to create a new component. When start a project off by doing so, it saves you a lot of work later along in the design process.

Fusion 360 Interface Diagram:

Application Bar

Data Panel

Profile and Help

Toolbar

Browser

View Cube

Canvas and Marking Menu

Navigation Bar

Timeline

Navigating the Fusion 360 Interface:

↪ Data Panel

↪ Canvas

#1 DATA PANEL:

This is where you can set the active Fusion Team, access projects, and fusion 360 design files
Used to create new projects and folders to organize design files

#2 APPLICATION BAR + PROFILE:

The topmost bar
The file menu lets the user create, open, save, export, 3d print, and share designs
Allows you to undo and redo to revert your most recent actions
The file name and version appear in the title tab
By clicking the new design icon you start a new design
Other icons allow access too Fusion 360 extensions, the job status, notification center, and help icon (learning, documentation, resources)
The last icon is profile, which accesses the user's Autodesk account, adjust preferences, access profile, share feedback, refer a friend, and sign out

#3 TOOLBAR:

Contains users' workspaces
Tabs divide the toolbar [solid, surface, mesh, sheet metal, tools, manage, sketch (contextual)]

#4 CANVAS:

The main area where the design assembly will display
Displayed in a grid
User can zoom in and zoom out

#5 BROWSER:

Lists all object in assembly
Organizes by component
User can control the visibility

#8 NAVIGATION BAR:

Above the Timeline and below the Canvas
Includes commands used to zoom, pan, and orbit your design
Includes display settings to change the appearance of the interface
Includes design assemblies

#6 VIEW CUBE:

Change your viewpoint
The dropdown menu can change the perspective and custom views

#9 TIMELINE:

Lists operations performed in design while Capture Design History was on
Organizes data chronologically
You can use the play and backward buttons to go through each tool in your design process (right-click to make changes)

#7 MARKING MENU:

User right clicks to access
Contextualized tools (actions depend on cursor placement)

Paperclip Design Process:

I learned how to use the Sweep and Tangent Arc tools
- - The Sweep tool was a new tool I learned to use
  - It allowed me to extrude a profile along a path
  - I refreshed on my knowledge of the Arc tool

↪ Using the Line Tool

↪ Tangent Arcs

↪ Sweep Command

↪ Finished Paperclip

Soda Bottle Design Process:

I learned how to use the Canvas, Fit-Point Spline, and Appearance tools
- - - - I learned how to:
        Create new components
        Insert a reference image
        Create a fit-point spline
        Use the revolve feature
        Add the appearance of glass
        Remove the visual edge lines

↪ Calibrating Canvas size

↪ Revolve command

↪ Filleted bottom

↪ Editing Fit-Point Spline

↪ Removed visual edge lines

↪ Final Fit-Point Spline

↪ Shelled interior

↪ Filleted mouth

↪ Connected Spline

↪ Clear Glass

↪ Finished bottle

Final Products:

IMG_0418.mov

↪ Video of 3D printing of paperclip and soda bottle

↪ Soda Bottle

↪ Paperclip

Problems I Encountered:

When I was preparing to print, the link to the printer did not work. We found out it was an issue with the network my computer was on. After a switch to a different computer, the rest of the printing process went smoothly.

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