Fusion 360 for 3D Printing LESSON 14: Understanding and Using Move, Align and Joints for Assembly

Guys I will be teaching how to use Engineering Calipers, and they will be an important part of most future lessons. You can get the calipers I am using at the following link:

You guys can help me out over at Patreon, and that will help me keep my gear updated, and help me keep this quality content coming:

In this class we will be using the Creality Ender 3 V2 Printer. Your life and my life will be easier if we are working on the same hardware. You can pick up your printer on amazon at the following link: [affiliate link]

You will also want to stock up on some filament for your printer. I like the eSun PLA. Here is a link to what I am using:

The link shows you can get different colors. I like the orange.

In this lesson we will show good engineering practices for designing a nut and bolt with knurled round bases. We will print the nut and bolt on a Creality Ender 3 V2.

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[practical_precision_shooters]

Great Lessson Paul, dont listen to the complainers or nay-sayers theyll just find something else to be unhappy about

[doverivermedia]

BRILLIANT ! I spent a full day meticulously following this one too, adding to my 'word' journal every detail. It's funny because in my version, it DID let me 'align' the small gear onto the larger shaft, even though I still had the 'Rev2' joint still in place. I couldn't replicate your problem. Went back and removed it though as 'best practice'. How funny. I see fusion 'works in mysterious ways' lol.

[danielsaenz]

Absolutely AMAZING These things are very important yet hard to explain, except when you have the Greatest Teacher EVER, it's so easy to understand! Paul you are the And by the way, I'm getting my 3D printer!!!

[edSabio]

Thanks Paul! I have been working this lesson and finally I have a good handle on what you are trying to emphasize. Your guidance is spot on helping me avoid common pitfalls

[larryplatzek]

Great lesson and can be family SAFE! Thank You Paul!

[MToR]

Great to see you revisit the topic!

I learned Fusion 360 with you few years back, it was a blast.

[StavrosSophocleous]

Thank you Paul. Very interesting lesson. i love the animation part 🙂

[Tonyjr]

Paul, this is exactly what I needed. I was tripped up a lot trying to align and get components situated so as they fit together and even animate... Great Stuff!!

[dale_ch]

Really interesting to show the animation I didn't know Fusion 360 offered that!

[alistaircook]

Great lessons Paul, managed to get the gears rotating using 5 double gear and one of each single at either end.

[scottwait]

Awesome lesson, Paul. Thanks for putting it up

[codecage]

I have an issue with my printer such that it doesn't print perfectly round holes or vertical shafts. So when you put a gear on a shaft it might start to turn OK, but will begin to bind when the shorter axis of the hole turns to the longer axis of the shaft. In other words the X & Y axis movement are not absolutely the same. They are not far off, but it doesn't need to be off much before it becomes noticeable.

I also added a cap or bracket, whatever you want to call it, to go at the very top to keep the shafts from bending outwards as the gears were turned. Since we were using such small diameter shafts, they seemed to bend rather easily (I even had one break off near the base!). Although it would have taken much longer to print, if we had used posts that were more like 14.8mm in diameter and gears with a 15 mm hole, the shafts probably would not have had that bending problem.

[ellerycadel]

Great job explaining something that is inherently confusing!! 😀

[LarryBerg]

Thank you for the very helpful videos!

[noweare]

Can not get the motion link to work. The joint animation is working but not the link. Thanks Paul, really outstanding tutorials.

[robinmilne]

fixed: started from scratch and this time it worked. Printing now. Was - Having issues where, like yours, when I rotate the gear it jumps to a new location. Unlike yours, when I try to align, it looks good until I press ok then it jumps to a different place.

[jimgreenhill]

Hi Paul, first thanks for the great series, please keep them coming. I have the gearbox drawn done in fusion, but can’t get all the rotation parts. Got the bottom ones, trying to add the next layer but not sure how, hope you will enlighten.

Started the 3D printing, at present printing the base two single gears and one double, if I am right will need a further three double

[thecarpcatcatcher]

Hi Paul, if you design this and print it, does that print in place, or is it assemble after printing? Loving the lessons, learned loads already.

[paulwilliams]

Thanks for the great lesson! Would it be fair to say that if you were not interested in animation/motion at all then you have no need for all the functions contained in Assembly?

[DNozz]

First I just wanted to say these videos have been awesome!! I did have a question on this weeks homework though. I'm not sure which of the gears out the stack should be free and which are attached.. If the whole stack is "fixed" Doesn't that just give you a 1:1 ratio?? (Or shall I say 2:1 because the the teeth double). What I'm getting at is if they're all fixed the stack would have the same output as last weeks setup??