Fusion 360 Tutorial for Absolute Beginners— Part 2

New to Fusion 360? In this tutorial, I will show you how to create a part from start to finish. Perfect for absolute beginners! Part 2

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[nicolasbusse]

Somehow this guy makes me feel alright and at peace. Also learnt some useful stuff along the way hahah

[lilbenny]

Just a note for anyone struggling on the second boss- the 2019 version of fusion 360 has the "chain faces" options reversed. In this video Lars selects the second option "extend faces" while 2019 version it is set to "extend faces" as default (took me about 15 minutes to realize why it wasnt working)

Same issue when you extrude the center out- "how the software knows to extrude past the radius"
Again, in the video fusion 360 has "chain faces" as default while the 2019 version has "extend faces" as default. Simply select "chain faces" option and it will extrude past the fillets when you "extend to object" and select the inner face

[joydeepmohanto]

In 9:34 do not select 'Chain Faces', select "Extend Faces". Then both the pieces will merge.

[ottosboyen]

Okay so I just wanna help with the extend at 9:14 and 10:40
At 9:14 you should use Extend Faces
At 10:40 you should Chain faces
Dont know why but thats how I solved it =)

[StevenVoSG]

the best fusion 360 tutorial i've ever seen, thanks man!

[BWSSoldya]

For those of you running into issues with cutting the extra bit of geometry out at around the 15:00 mark here's why this is going wrong and how to fix it:

In the step before the mirror we make the original screw cylinder. Go back and edit that feature. At the bottom of the Edit Feature panel you'll see a field named "Operation". In the newer F360 versions this apparently defaults to "New Body". This needs to be set to "Join". As someone who's literal first port of call after download F360 for the first time was this video's series, I think the difference is that "New Body" makes the cylinder a NEW object, a new item if you will whereas "Join" makes it a part of the box, I think this is the same thing as using the "To Object" measurement instead of distance for cutting the holes for example.

If you don't set it to "Join" you'll run into issues with the cutting of the mirrored cylinder and with the Fillet at around the 16:00 minute mark. You can't do a Fillet like the one show between 2 different pieces of geometry, they need to be the same piece.

[mutalibgozalov]

9:34, You select *"Extend faces"* no "Chain faces", and at 10:32 remember tobring back to "Chain faces"

[DCGdesign]

critical step at 9:30 to choose "Extend"! faces not "chain" faces as he says out loud in the tut. He actually chooses "extend" but accidentally says "chain". everything works better after that. Also - at 12:30 where he extrudes the small circle on top, his circle merges its face with the top surface of the box, but mine did not do that. After starting over, and following every step carefully again, it worked just as his does in the video - no reason why?! But it finally worked, so that moving the hole's "extrude" feature on the time line will cut the mirrored object. It wouldn't work the first time I tried it.

[GaryParkin]

Lars, I had a problem with my second connector not fitting the pipe correctly. I went over this about 3 times until I saw about 9:30 you said "Chain Faces" but you chose Extend Faces. On my copy the 2 options in the Edit Feature dialog are reversed. I thought this might help someone who is following this and looked quickly. I got the warning that went away on yours when you moved it from Chain to Extend.
And at 10:40, the default should be Chain Faces and not Extend faces. Not your fault, they switched the icons and what is default.

[marcmontecillo]

At first i had a hard time doing the chain faces @10:02 and since I'm using the updated version the extend and chain face were inverted.

[ethancrider]

I learned you really have to pay attention to the details of what he is clicking on being that fusion has updates regularly. For example I was having trouble with the extrusion on the second hole and the "chain faces" until I realized in the current version the two icons are in switched positions from the version lars is using and are called "extend". This takes place around 9:35.

[origami_canoe]

amazing, you can move features in the timeline, in case you want it done before/after something else you did. This is... honestly revolutionary for me

[drkenb]

Lars does an outstanding job with these how-to videos. It is unfortunate that they are now 5+ years old and Fusion 360 has changed enough to make following along difficult at points. For example, I was able to successfully follow along through the first video, and through the 2nd video until it came time to extrude the hole on the side piece. It did not extrude through thru the fillets of the inside walls as in Lars' example. Then when it came time to move that extrusion forward in order to extrude through the mirrored piece for the 2nd screw, that did not work at all. Then when it came time to add fillets to those screw mounts, I could not get that to work. That's where I stopped for today; I will pick up where I left off tomorrow.

Lars, if you are still keeping up on these comments, please, please, please consider re-doing these videos using the 2023 version of Fusion 360. You have a marvelous way of presenting these in a form which makes it easy to follow along (albeit with pauses). These videos are far more instructional than any of the books I've seen reviews of.

[yoni]

nice video.
but in 9:36 you say you select chain faces when you actualy select extend faces.
it will be great if you can edit or add it some how.
thanks.

[krayfox]

VERY HELPFUL.
Was getting frustrated until found your videos. Now feeling more confident.

[johnlahmann]

At 9:33, he's using the "Extend Faces" not "Chain Faces". If you pause the video when he hovers over the button you can see this. In newer versions of Fusion these buttons are swapped so if you click on the same button he does in this video it's not going to work. This is also the case at 10:30, for newer versions the "Extend Faces" is the default so you'll need to switch to "Chain Faces" to make the extrusion cut through the radius.

[mikeloose]

Excellent video. Had some trouble with operation @ 9:37. Discovered that on version 2.0.9442 it requires "Extend Faces" be selected, not "Chain Faces". Looking forward to discovering how to use "Chain Faces"....ok, editing comment, discovered where "Chain Faces" is used. @10:42 when making the center hole, need to enable "Chain Faces" instead of "Extend Faces", then it completes the operation correctly. Something changed in the software over years apparently.

[edgar]

I am doing this in January 2021 with the newest version. It seems some defaults changed. At 10:40 your hole is automatically correct. In my current version of the program I have to select Chain Faces: Chain Faces. The other option is Extend Faces.

[chrispharaoh]

This is the best series of fusion 360 lessons I've ever watched on the internet. Although the user interface for this software have changed, the commands haven't changed and this video is still relevant even today 2023. May you continue the good work

[paulharris]

I blindly followed and adapted another tutorial to enable me to design something quick. Going through this tutorial afterwards was excellent in explaining all the bits I'd done before but not quite understood fully. Your explanations were clear and made perfect sense. Thanks for this :)