Fusion 360 Mistakes I Make Sketching (10 Things To Avoid)

Time Stamps
O:00 Start
0:12 Intro
0:15 Not Using the Origin
0:43 Fully Define Sketches – Gotta Do It
1:26 Accidently Starting a New Sketch
2:16 Snapping When You Shouldn’t
2:55 Not Placing Constraints and Dimensions
5:04 Not Finishing Sketch
6:01 Units
6:54 Not Putting Origin In A Smart Spot
7:45 Sketch Size Not Even Remotely Close

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[ElizabethGreene]

Preferences >> Design >> "Scale entire sketch at first dimension" ... This tip is worth a 9 minute video.. Thanks very much for it.

[thomasseichter]

Most important hint would be: using inches will always mess up everything! Use proper units that actually work 😉. But otherwise great video with some really great hints I learned that will totally help me!

[I_Do_Not_Know_What_I_am_Doing]

I loved the tip about finding if a sketch is not closed (5:05)

[laurv]

Thumb up for the tip with drawing lines to see which side of the sketch is still not closed - really helps when the geometry is complex, I found this by myself the hard way. Kudos!

[stumcconnel]

Using the line to find missing connections and scaling drawing from first dimension are fantastic little nuggets, thanks! I've been using Fusion for a couple of years now but those are completely new to me.

[jfrollup]

Scaling your drawing around your first a Excellent tutorial!

[Know-Way]

That was one of my favorite Fusion 360 videos so far! Thanks!

[racingprincipal]

As a new Fusion user (and to CAD in general) I found this very helpful. Thank you

[vishank]

The sketch-closing line method is fantastic, thank you!

[Alluvian]

That scale entire sketch by first dimension is awesome. had no clue that existed!

[ctbram]

I have one thing that consistently WRECKS my models!!! Forgetting to make components active before making edits so I get edits associate with the top of the model hierarchy or worse associated with incorrect components! There really needs to be a mechanism that warns when you are about to make edits while outside the component being edited!!!! I don't think I have completed a single model without wrecking the hierarchy in this way. Once you have made enough modifications outside the correct component there is no going back and the entire model is RUINED! This is the primary fault in top-down fusion modeling and why I prefer the other cad software model of creating each component independently and then adding them to the assembly.

You talk about wasting time. How much time does it waste to spend forty hours modeling something and find out 2 minutes before you are done you made 80% of the edits in the wrong That's a complete restart! How hard would it be for the program to toss a warning - you are about to make edits to component x while component y is active!

[the_overflow]

The only thing is that it is made so difficult to delete sketches, but haver finally found beter way than saving to step

[jamesdownes]

This is an excellent video. I've just started learning Fusion 360, and I think I was doing most, if not all of the 10 mistakes. Thank you!

[ldscad]

Re: constraints, referred to as 'capturing the Design Intent' - capturing the fundamental characteristics/relations personality if you like, of the model. Although dimns are generally considered a constraint as well it's worth mentioning parameters at this point because they can be used as constraints - length x is always twice length y, spacing holes relative to the overall length etc. - and they can be 'constraints' across multiple sketches.

[georgeroper]

This is a GREAT VIDEO.The last tip has helped me a lot.You have no idea how many times I started my sketches over...

[cobamfg]

I want to say thank you. The amount of information i picked up from a this single video is amazing. my only negative comment is that i wish you could slow down a little. it is a little hard to keep up with everything. the content was terrific.

[josephpk]

Nice tutorial. I came to F360 from 3D Studio Max and figured it'd be a cakewalk to learn, but I find the UI and operations to be completely counterintuitive to the methodology of 3D Max. Even the simplest of models are littered with operations that I'm having to look up and try to remember for the next time and it can be quite discouraging. I'm convinced that it's just a matter of using it enough to finally have a Eureka moment where I realize that there's actually a simple system in place and I just failed to look outside of the box. Only time will tell.

[lovecastle]

Didn’t know about that last one (scale sketch after for dimension) thank you !

[EUpdate]

a couple sweet tips here. forgot about that line trick.

[splatmanoz]

Thanks for a very useful tute. It has added a couple of new tricks to my Fusion 360 repertoire.