REAL ENGINEER tries Fusion 360 for the first time

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Many have asked me what the best 3D modeling software is to use and I have always responded, "Fusion 360" but..... I have never actually used it. Well today we fix that, watch me struggle to design the simplest thing ever.

[TroubledTimes]

The difficult part is not learning Fusion 360 it is unlearning years of another cad's flow and methods.

[TheLenbus]

Subtitle of this Video: ConFusion360 😄

[Crokto]

"can i not just save it to explorer?"

*cries in a360*

[kylek]

For those curious, Fusion 360 does have assemblies (haven't used SolidWorks, but I assume it's similar). He has the pane collapsed for these. You build it out with components which can have sub-components (and so fourth). Each component can be linked (e.g. separate file, mirrored) or part of one file. He may have found it, as he does have the pane open later in the video.

There's some great YouTubers (Lars Christiansen and Tyler Beck) that specialize in F360 tutorial videos. It's worth learning this workflow because it's used in other parts of the program like Drawings, Animation, Simulation/Physics, and automatic B.O.M. takeoffs.

[karlfimm]

When learning 3D cad software (like Fusion 360) I found it useful to pick random objects from Thingiverse and try to replicate them. This pushes you outside your comfort zone and makes you do lots of "there must be a way to do that, what is it?" moments. Do one a night for a month and it's surprising the how much you learn.

[rcfuss]

I have a B.S. in ME, but I ended up with my PE in Civil as a bridge designer. I learned Solidworks 16 years ago but haven't used it since. I've mostly used MicroStation since then, but had to start re-learning AutoCAD for work a few years ago. It has not been an easy transition. I've more recently been trying to learn Fusion360 for designing my own RC car parts and it also has not been an easy task. I remember Solidworks being so intuitive and easy to learn and I felt the same way about MicroStation for Civil, but it seems to me like AutoDesk programs are easy if that's all you've ever known, and frustratingly difficult if you're coming from anything else (and vice versa). I'll get there with 360 though because I am not paying for a Solidworks license just to make a few plastic parts. Great Video by the way.

[forestfishburne]

Thank God!!
I’ve used Solidworks, Mastercam, and Partmaker for over a decade. Self taught on all of them, and Fusion 360 is THE WORST!!
I really thought I was losing it!

[dana]

Once you learn it, you could do that in less actions than in solidworks

[rfunk]

My son (28 yrs. old) is a mechanical engineer and was trained in Solidworks in college, but uses Inventor at work designing high-speed processing machines. He did go out to Las Vegas to the Autodesk convention and got his certification from them, but he did say that he did the worst on the Fuson 360 part of the desk. Last week I had him try his luck with FreeCadd that I use when I design for my 3d printed, and I was amazed how quickly he picked up FreeCadd.

[Wistbacka]

From a beginner's POV, Fusion 360 is a god-send, because it is not overly complicated out of the box. I know there are other, more advanced stuff, but to begin it is great. Especially if the only non-accurate modeling/designing I've done is in Blender, and god that is a nightmare by comparison.

[techdiyer]

In fusion to "save it" to your computer like u do in solidworks u have to export it, or u can save it locally in fusion with cash, so u don't need the internet connection to pull it from the cloud, fusion is great for organizing and u make folders and just save it in there

[Radovanslav]

the main competitor to SolidWorks is autodesk's Inventor. I had no idea that F360 was free though, I will probably check it out soon enough.

[liberatorkramit]

"Can you relax for a moment" he says to the chillest retriever I have ever seen.

I wish I could have introduced you to my Golden Retriever Kilo "relax" didn't exist in that doggos vocabulary. Even if you told him to sit, he damn near vibrated at the frequency of hummingbird wings. He was like that to the moment he had to be put down, even lost the use of one of his paws due to cancer, and didn't let him slow down.

Dogs really are the best of us.

[schizodillo]

Dude for real! Trying to learn a new program when you're used to a different one is extremely annoying.

[kosta]

Siemens NX seems to be the industry standard for solid modelling, Catia is its surface modelling counterpart

[koorite.]

I have never used a CAD software and wanted to try it out. Got Fusion360 a couple weeks ago and I am learning the basics. It is very difficult to learn, but I am having fun trying and it is exciting to see the finished product! Now I just need a 3D printer!

[fawkyooo]

LOL YOU MADE THIS LOOK SO HARD.... I use Fusion 360 daily and the stuff you were having issues with are easy things but I can see how using a different program makes it harder to find because you are use to finding things in a certain space.

[bananowy_szejk]

"I work in an engineering firm called ABB", F-ing ABB it's soo Awesome and COOL that I can't even describe it DUDE, Awesome i really want to work there after finish my university

[nickanselmo]

I think 90% of the hassle here was not using fusion as a top down design software the way it was intended. For anything under a few hundred parts theres usually not a reason to design parts independently, they should be designed as a single assembly file with each part its own component

[musicalatv]

I understand your pain. I'm a mechanical engineer as well and I was used to using stratasys 3D printers. Now I work at a place where I'm trying to get a Creatbot F430 to print high temperature materials with designs that are a lot more complicated than we designed for our Fortus 400 MC machines with Ultem 9085. I used the Dimension 1200 ES the most because that's what we used for prototypes in ABS.