Fusion 360 2D Tutorial Drawing series for Beginners part 1

This Fusion 360 tutorial series is for absolute beginners. This will be a multi part series that will cover everything you need to know about drawing 2D in Fusion 360. The overall goal of this series is to teach you the beginner how to draw parts in 2D so you can cut parts efficiently on your Langmuir systems Crossfire Pro CNC Plasma Table.
This video series starts off covering the tools used when measuring parts in the real world, tips, how to draw them out on paper and finally work flow through Fusion.
Part 2 will cover introduction to Fusion 360, understanding the tools and drawing your first part.
As this series evolves you will learn how to get around the program and draw efficiently, extrude parts,make tool paths, adjust cut speeds and pierce times, export your tool paths out to G code and finally on to Firecontrol, the software that comes with your Crossfire CNC plasma table. Finally we will cover cutting out your parts.
If you are patient and willing to take the time to learn, you will easily be able to follow along in this series and before you know it you will be drawing in Fusion 360!
Enjoy :)

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Disclaimer: Important Safety Information
Your plasma cutter power supply will expose you to high voltage and high amperage electrical components. It is your responsibility to make sure that all work is done safely and with the power disconnected. If you have any doubts regarding your ability to safely perform this work, you should consult the services of a professional electrician. Mike Festiva will not be held responsible for any injury or death resulting from the incorrect or unsafe execution of this procedure.

[bendavison]

This is exactly what YouTube should be showing,

[amodelman]

I watch all your videos. Period. They’re all educational and informative. Thank you for keeping it real for those of us who like real content.

[richsharp]

First and to the ten people that gave a thumbs down 👎 what is your issue.?? To me that is the most disrespectful thing you can do .... if you think you can explain it better .... DO TELL THE CLASS!! The rest of us appreciate Mike sharing info in a way we can understand and showing us what we have all wanted to know. He already went through the growing pains and is showing us the best way he can so we don’t have to struggle like he did. Mike . Thanks for the info. Rock on 🤘 and we are just as excited for the next Class session as we are the next build video. 👍😀

[puzzled]

Finally someone is doing something that will help me learn Fusion 360 and G code.

[cablebandit]

This series is going to be epic. It's one thing to watch tutorials that are "theory" only. It's quite another to actually see the process and the why's and hows of actually creating something.

[anthonytacolla]

Hey man I've been anxiously waiting this...
You got a style that I appreciate.

Thanks for taking one for the team by doing this. The maker team that is...

[neekfpv]

i dont care what youtube thinks....this is EXACTLY the content i need!!! THANK YOU!

[robertpulz]

Breb
Don this is exactly what YouTube should be promoting you are in the real world thanks

[Tubeagrutis]

Soooo looking forward to this series Mike! You've got one of the best channels on YouTube, so I hope the algorithm finally catches on and promotes the heck of your channel!!! Awesome!!!

[stevecrawley]

I don’t k ow why you tube will not promote educational videos when I want to learn something like learn how to make/build or replace parts on a truck or whatever it is I go to YouTube lol your doing a great job mike I’ve already learned a whole lot from your channel not going to lie your channel is definitely one of my favourites

[macdrew]

this series is gonna be great, hopefully it will get more popular as you go on

[glennyee]

First one I've watched but I like what I see. At this entry point, you clearly explain the "why" of Fusion 360 and how it applies to the end goal of a project. Thank you for your effort. Fusion 360 for the real world.

[jonathanbraud]

Mike, just a suggestion here, if you extrude, then create another sketch and you the point command, then hole command, you can easily edit all the hole sizes at the same time. Say you cut it out and you want all of them a different size, you can edit the hole command and it will change all of the holes at once rather than having to edit each circle in your sketch. It is great that you are teaching this skill! I’m a drafting and design student, we have learned fusion 360, inventor, and autocad.

[jubileefan]

Fusion needs to put you on the payroll. This is AWESOME!! Thanks, Mike!

[JollyRogerHobbies]

Awesome video! I'm going to have to watch this again while I'm not at work. This is great, thanks Mike Festiva!

[lazypwelding]

Mike, buddy, you are my hero! You don't know how long I've been looking for a video like the one's you are getting ready to do. Fusion and utub should be paying you my friend! Thank you!

[toddwilson]

Mike, this is SO overdue on YouTube! Thank you for "taking one for the team" and making this series. I'm looking forward to every lesson you put out. Maybe you should do it on a secondary channel so it doesn't cause you to take the hit - "MikeFestiva, s Lessons"? Thanks again!

[tylerdistl]

Thanks for deciding to this series, just got my table yesterday.

[steveschumacher]

I will really appreciate this series. the biggest reason I haven't bought a plasma table is because I wasn't sure I could navigate the cad. As I age it gets harder to fully comprehend the new ways of doing things. Thank You Mr. Mike, count on my full attention.

[hoggishhabits]

Everything You do is educational I support regardless, keep up the good work/content Sir !!!