Just FYI to the creator and others. When I create the new canvas, it gets added at the root of the project rather than the component. I see others having the same issue. If you are too, follow these steps. First, follow the video up until 1:50. Do not click on the orange plane on screen, ( the orange square ). Instead, expand the bottle component on your browser to the left. Then expand the "Origin" under that. From there you can click on any of the planes listed, XY, XZ, or YZ. If you want to follow along with this tutorial, click on XZ. Then resume the video.
Hi Kevin As a newcomer to 3d CAD I am really impressed by your series of videos and the straight forward explanations. I am having difficulty finding the link to download the Glass Soda Bottle (lesson 2). Could you please direct me to the download link many thanks Paul Munby
For the ones that has problem with "New component" and that the canvas gets low opacity and the canvas is not imported under the component you need to do the following: 1) Create the component 2) Deactive the "origin" folder above your new component (click the eye) (or you can right click and hide planes and hide axes) 3) Import the canvas and when you select the "Front" you need to be sure that the Yellow/orange box/side is "blue" otherwise it will be inserted in the standard Origin
In simple terms for real noobs like me, BEFORE adding the image, under the drop down "Origin" on the left side of your window, expand the list, click XZ, then there will be a blue box on your screen. NOW click the insert then canvas, then ok. This worked for me after messing around trying to figure out what's what. Like I said I'm a complete noob.
@@LnJCanadianRC I had the initial issue and i'm glad you mentioned it. by default the Origin plane is active from not our object. probably a useful feature for someone who knows more.
There is NO better basics instruction on CAD design with Fusion 360 out there. This is not just well done, Kevin creates the most cogent, concise and distraction free learning process you could ever hope to find. No shitty music, no distracting window with his face all over it, no crappy transitions and irrelevant information, no various concepts meshed into one video, no skipping over even the most BASIC mouse and keyboard controls, all the while being 100% perfectly efficient in how the knowledge is disseminated, not even one wasted word or moment. This is really the pinnacle of how good tutorials and courses can be on youtube. I honestly shudder to think about how much effort has to go into this to get it so perfectly distilled, it's really impressive. Thank you!
Very useful tutorials - thanks for making these available. One small thing - if you draw the line at the top of the bottle from the outside to the inside then Fusion 360 takes this as an extension of the existing line and a single surface. Then you can't select the top of the bottle to do the hollow step. You have to draw the line exactly as you do in the tutorial - from the centre axis to the edge - then it works.
Ahhhhh I did this but my sketch still wouldnt turn blue. Hollow step = revolve lol. I realized my curved line was dotted therefore it was a construction line not a real line (I need to make real line the default somehow). Changed the line type and now it is a blue sketch.
This FREE course is light years better than the three prior ones I had purchased on Edemy. I really appreciate you taking all this effort to make these videos.
Hey guys I found problem solution for shell command when it can not detect face, you only can select whole bottle! So basically problem fit point spline, do not round or make horizontal last top point, in video he did not do it, if you do it, fusion will think that top face isn't flat surface! I just deleted last spline point and it didn't change much my spline so I left it as it is and shell command worked! If you want round edge you better use filet tool after you do shell command, DON'T MAKE ROUND TOP EDGE IN SKECH !!!!
@@stevea1008 Even when I use a horizontal top it still chooses the whole bottle. I ended up extruding the top face up by 2 mm and then it can select the top face only.
EDIT: Accidently left feedback for this course thinking it was autodesk and Kevin got back to me right away. Not really sure what to say here but that is next level support and a totally over the top thing to do for an irate stranger... Well I am subscribed and ill be making sure to comment on every video at least once and leave a like on all of these as well. Really just a good person here, unreal
Appreciate it! My goal is to help as many people learn Fusion 360. A big part of online learning is getting help when 'stuck' and I do my best to answer as many questions as I can each week. Happy learning! 😁
Love the reboot of the series! Like another commenter said below, if your screen recorder has the option please turn on the cursor highlight and keystroke display (so we can see you press A instead of you having to comment "A as in Alpha") That is about all the wish list I have. See you Friday!
I’ve been using Fusion 360 for about a year with acceptable results but I still struggle with some basics. Your videos have been a big help as I reboot my learning curve. Thank you and keep them coming.
I just spent about 2 hours digging into Fusion360. My background and experience goes back to Rhino and Maya back in the early 2000's so a lot of these techniques and walkthroughs are a great refresher. I haven't used an modeling/design software in over 20 years and it feels like second nature. My only challenge is it just dives into the tool and interface and maybe I haven't looked at your channel but I'm finding that running these videos at 75% speed is helpful because I'm new to the UI of this application. I stumbled upon this video series and probably should have started somewhere else first but needless to say these are super easy to follow and gives real application purposes of how to leverage to the tool in its most practical form. Thanks for creating this series ( what appears to be from 2022) but all still relevant. Since I', not in any production mode yet and just getting back into it I'm hopeful the full series does not required any paid features. I'm getting back into modeling as I'm in the market of getting a 3d printer. I cannot wait to re-create what I did in the early 2000's by printing designs in a 2d plane (paper) and getting them re-modeled with newer technology and create my designs from college in a 3d space with a printer. This series ( so far) is super helpful thanks for sharing and taking the time. Only downside is it just dives directly into it but I know there are tons of videos, maybe a recommendation is to provide a VERY basic interface video before jumping in. These concepts are not foreign to me so I'm able to follow along very easily.
I was able to get this to work by opening the origin folder under the bottle. You should see the XZ access in origin under bottle high lighted. I have the front view selected in the top right.
I just finished studying for day two: Watch once, then do the tutorial. I cannot tell you how excited I was creating the lego style block... thank you so much for creating this course. I can tell how well put together this is, just after to first two lessons.
I was about to give up on 3d modelling but just 2 of your videos have me up and printing, I hope all the others are supporting you as well. Far cheaper than the over priced mind ****s offered by the so called experts. Educating is a gift and you have it in spades. Thankyou.
Getting the shell command to work was brutal! Got there in the end with a lot of trial and error. Thanks for the tutorials, only two in and they are great.
These lessons are perfect. Clear and concise instructions. I have no end of trouble trying to follow F360 tutorials. These are exactly simple enough to get started.
Thanks! I typically caution people on Udemy (specific to F360) as most of them are people who just learned trying to make a quick buck. They teach a lot of hack jobs/bad practices that I have to help folks unlearn 😊
Bro not gonna lie, you are insane man, the level of explanation and how you basically taught me to create stuff on fusion 360 is insane, I love you so much bro, please keep on creating content and I'll make sure you get enough reach. Thank you man, love you always.
Thank you so much for re-doing this series, I understand its a lot of work but hopefully worth it! I've linked a lot of people the old one because your tutorials are so well made. Now I can send them to this new one instead.
Thanks for your great tutorials, Kevin! As newcomers to the 3D printing world (we just got our hands on an X1C), my wife and I are loving your videos. Your clear explanations and step-by-step guidance are perfect for beginners like us: a 5-minute video often turns into a 30-minute learning session for us! 😄
I have wanted to learn this program for years and now I finally have a computer that can do it. Thank you so much for teaching! I am having so much fun with this!
You sir are a the best teacher I ever saw. You way of teaching makes easy to learn. Thanks to you now I'm building complex projects for 3d printing and laser cutting.
Dunno if anyone else had this problem, but if you had trouble with the shell direction of the bottle (around 10:20), in the sketch after you create a horizontal constraint for the top line of the bottle, you might need to create a vertical constraint for the last spline point that connects to the bottletop line. Before I did that, it kept attempting to create a shell in the horizontal/arbitrary angle direction of that last spline point's alignment, which would either error or mess up the whole 3d shape.
The constraint at 7:23 is for the last line (which creates the top of the bottle) not for the handle of the spline point. If you create another horizontal constraint for the handle of the spline point it indeed doesnt work. It doesn't need to be vertical though - just steep enough should do (which depends on your spline shape). I@@onemangamer587
another issue with the shell :( fusion does not let to select a bottle top face; the whole body always selected; I can select this face manually when not using a shell tool, but when the tool is selected - it's impossible
It took me a second to figure it out, but I had a problem with selecting the top of the bottle to create a shell. I was getting the "sketch is overconstrained" because I did the vertical constraint on the first curvature point, and for some reason, it didn't allow me to have two constraints. I removed that one and I was able to constrain the horizontal top point, which gave me the option to shell the bottle. Excellent tutorial!
I was having issues with the shell and sketch. No matter how much I changed my sketch, the shell command would pretty much hollow out the bottle, without leaving an opening at the top. I ended up changing the top lip constraint from horizontal to vertical which made the bottle look weird, but then I used the fillet tool at the top of the bottle at 1mm on the outside rim and inside rim to achieve the desired goal. I'm going to continue to work to find the root cause of the error in my sketch, but if you're having issues with the shell command, it could be because your curve going to the top horizontal line is too rounded. I found it needs to be more sharp/perpendicular/90 degrees for the shell command to work properly. It essentially wouldn't let me select the top face as a starting point for the shell and would just shell the object as a whole. Sorry for the long comment but it was driving me nuts and there might be someone with the same issue out there. I did this tutorial twice, gave up the first time and restarted to run into the same issue again.
Had trouble getting the canvas to show up on the component when following exactly. After reading some of the comments discovered one more "Non-intuitive" feature about Fusion. Needed to hide the "Origin" feature on the main tree which was active by default, and enable the origin feature under the component "Bottle" which was inactive by default. That fixed it so the canvas showed up under the component.
Great video for someone with 0 experience like my self! I am having problems understanding how to fix the shell problem but I guess I will understand it in the future, right now no matter what I do, I end up messing it more 😬
I found this series about fusion 360 yesterday´, helped me a lot so far! its easy to follow and gives you all the skills in small bits and bites :) leaving a comment for the algorthm
Good tutorial. I also had the problem with the shell command that I could only select the whole bottle. What I did wrong was that I put the vertical contraint at the top on the last spline point instead of the straight line on the top. This doesn't work.
Hi Katie. Glad to see the excitement :) I had to take some personal time to take care of family... was planning on 2 weeks... and here we are lol. Anyway, feeling refreshed and happy to get back into a rhythm. Will be working through this series revamp and attempting to do 1 a week. Day 3 will be ready next Friday.
Great tutorial/series. Thank you very much for the time and effort spent on creating these! Everything went fine for me both in day 1 and day 2, except when using shell on the bottle I just couldn't make the thickness to be 2.5mm. It worked with 2.2mm at the most. I tired moving around the curves and stuff but just couldn't figure it out.
I really appreciate these tutorials, as I usually figure out software by just using it and searching for solutions as I go, but it's just not possible with F360. Coming from 3D Studio Max, I find the workflow and interface surprisingly unfriendly and find that my "better intuition" is completely useless for the majority of my learning process.
I appreciate these videos! 1 small issue with this one is with the shell command there is now an option for sharp or rounded, it was defaulting to sharp and that's why it wasn't working at first.
Hey Kevin. Don't have enough words to thank you for this series and all other videos you made/make. a concern here: I am on personal edition in windows and when I create the canvas it doesn't come under the component. It goes on its standalone group in the browser. Is this something expected (change in different SW releases?) or am I doing something wrong?
Hey can you advise. I create new component. Then add the image via canvas. However the canvas is separate rather than under the new component I create. Am I doing something wrong? Or does it not matter. Thanks
I'm having trouble with the canvas command (1:57). Following the instructions, and having tried several times, it looks like it is working but never creates the "Canvas" folder within the bottle folder. The bottle image, along with the axes and faces, are transparent as well. Instead, there is a folder named "canvasses" that appears in the tree above the bottle folder. I can go to the image and perform the rescaling operation, but the image is very transparent, so I am not sure if I have failed to do something correctly. Any help would be appreciated.
I"m having the same issue, man. In fact, that's why I'm reading so far down in the comments. Hopefully someone comes along and sorts it out. Did you figure it out?
@@jeffreydauhmer385 @bruceogletree7995 Same here but found the problem. Make sure the top entry (component name - Glass Soda Bottle) in the browser pane is visible.
I made a bottle looking object, which is way more advanced than I could do yesterday. 😅 I had difficulty with the resetting the size of the mouth of the bottle, I couldn't revert back to the 2D model. I'll have to remember to make these adjustments before doing the revolve function in future attempts.
Struggling here - When I click to ccreat the canvas, it does so as a bullet at the same level as Bottle 1, insteead of as a part of Bottle 1. Can't figyre out what i'm doing wrong
When importing the image as a canvas, you have to choose a face to orient it. Change your origin visibility settings so that the face you select is the one under your bottle component instead of the whole design’s origin.
It's day two and I am going crazy because I can't seem to find the shortcuts to zoom, pan and orbit and when creating the bottle that has been bugging me constantly, I keep finding that it's shift + alt and left mouse button or middle, but it doesn't work for me, I am dying here T^T But the course is amazing, really enjoying it!! Struggling to make some of the things happen like selecting the handle of the point and then the fit point to make it smooth transition because I can't seem to find the handle point, but, we will get there
Ok guys, for any of you monkey's like me out there, here is the most destiled way I can fix that issue with the bottle not having enough brightness, the canvas folder creating outside of the bottle object folder, etc: There are 2 origins, the original "background" origin, and the new component's (the bottle that we still haven't made) origin. So you need to DISABLE the Origin folder that is OUTSIDE the component, and activate the component origin, THEN you import the picture on the XZ yellow square and voilá!
Thanks for this series! I'm having trouble with the shell command in the "How to make a body hollow" section. After following the instructions you provide, the mouth of the bottle stays closed, and when I try to do the shell operation again, it says it has already been done. Any idea what I did wrong? Thanks!
I also had some trouble. I discovered that I had not created a separate line for the top of the bottle. You use the fit curve method while you are tracing out the curved portion of the bottle outline. When you get to the Top of the bottle, complete the traced line process by clicking on the check mark leaving the last flat part of the bottle open. Then select the line function and click on the end of the previous line and then click on the center line and complete this function by clicking on the check mark. If you created a closed drawing, you can click inside the object and it will turn green. Now you can revolve the drawing to make the 3d bottle as he described. Now you should be able to click on the surface of the top of the bottle, it should turn blue, select the shell command and follow the instructions.
@@JCBoss76 Is there anything else I could be doing wrong? I've made sure the profile is closed before revolving, but I still can't select just the top face of the bottle.
@@Joe_Bandit Did you make sure you used a separate straight line for the top flat part of the bottle top? Don't just use the curve fit function to trace the top flat area. Using a separate straight line gives you a separate detail to select. Also there is a "select" function in the top tool bar. Hit escape to make sure you don't have some other function active, click on "select", then click on the top of the bottle which should select it.
The tutorials are superb!!! May I know how to shell out different thickness at different lengths of bottle? one way is to trace the sides instead of from middle of the bottle. But I would like to use the commands of shell with variable thickness along the length of the bottle or some axis. Is it possible to do?
Fun tutorial. I found that after the revolve and shell, the top of my bottle was closed. Not sure if I missed a step or did something wrong? I added a sketch to the top face and bored a hole which had the same result.
When you used Shell, did you select the body of the bottle or the top (flat) surface? Selecting the body will hollow it out without removing the top. Selecting the top will remove the top, and hollow out the body. If Shell doesn't let you select the top surface, you'll need to make sure the top sketch is horizontal (if a horizontal constraint wasn't automatically applied).
@@ProductDesignOnline Thanks for replying to my comment. I've gone back and double checked and the top is a flat surface and has a horizontal constraint but I'm still unable to replicate your steps. I've been able to repeat them on a simple cube though!🤷♂ Edit: worked as expected in the following "glass bottle" lesson. I've also started to produce my own simple designs using the shell command, so must be something in my soda bottle sketch that went wrong. Thanks again, love the series!
I have a question but first, I want to say: Kevin - You are doing a phenomenal job with these tutorials. I also like the fact that we can download the entire transcript for each lesson. After I follow the video several times, I then "go solo" with the transcripts as my cheat sheets. I ween myself off those until I can replicate the entire tutorial on my own. And because F360 seems to change more often than some folks change socks, its impossible to find a book that you can follow (like your videos) since the books aren't using the same version of F360 that we have. And you are an excellent teacher with clear, comprehensive directions and explanations. Thank you!!! I'm having one problem that I hope someone here can help me with. I am on the Day 2 video, and everything goes along swimmingly until I get to the end and have to hollow the bottle out using Shell. Can't do it because I cannot select just the top of the bottle - whenever I click on the top, the entire bottle is selected. How can I select just the top without the rest of the bottle? Its not an issue of having the thickness too great as I can't get to that point. If I am simply on the canvas and not using Shell, I can select the top of the bottle without issue. But once I issue the Shell command, the entire bottle turns blue and is selected. Any help anyone can provide will be greatly appreciated!
This is happening to me as well. I've used a lot of CAD programs in the past and usually there is a way to force it to only select faces, and I've found a filter command, but as soon as click the shell command, it will revert back to selecting the entire body and creating a hollow body, but not delete the face. In professional CAD like Solidworks and NX, there is usually a toggle option to delete face or keep it, I'm not sure why this program does not include that.
I found a solution for me... In the sketch on the top i had the curvature point parallel to the line on the top. i simply removed the parallel alignment on the curvature to the line and it worked.
I have been looking for your bottle to download for the in Day #2 tutorial. Please tell where to find and how to download to my computer. Thanks. PS so far I like your tutoial.
All applicable demo files (reference images, notes, etc) can be found on the link in the video description. You'll also find that I've made them 'd' + number of lesson - productdesignonline.com/d2
Thanks for the lesson. However, the Canvases does not looped in the component but under Origin in the Browser. I guess is version difference but it looks a bit odd to me.
I haven't tried this yet but, I think I can trace a difficult profile using the pen tool in a photo or design software program more easily and then insert its SVG into Fusion 360. I need to see if there will be problems assigning dims to the imported SVG , though.
SVGs are great if you have a logo or something fair complex. Otherwise, I would advise against it. They don't work well in Fusion as they get converted into many spline/line geometry and can be hard to manage (constrain, etc).
Thanks, I see your point. I have been making 3D printed art stencils for my wife by creating them in photo/design software then converting to SVG for insert to Fusion 360 so I can extrude them to about .8 mm for printing. I can scale them, if necessary, in Fusion but any other manipulation does cause problems. I'll stick with your method. @@ProductDesignOnline
How do you make a compete hollow surface. The shell function only shells until a bottom is reach. So if I poured water it would collect va passing through
I'm having trouble with setting the opening of the bottle to 11 mm. I horizontally constrained the final top point of the fit point spline with the top of the center axis. But setting the distance between the two to 11 mm only pushes the top point of the line as opposed to the whole line. Now I only have an opening that it wider than the neck. Did I do something wrong?
First of all Great lessons thank you for taking the time to explain things so well! Secondly, how on earth are you panning the canvas around while you are drawing lines?? I have searched everywhere for the secret to this but so far i cant find any info! Im using a laptop trackpad and cant figure it out at all. Thanks!
Thanks! I'm almost always using an Apple Magic Trackpad when I record the lessons. Any panning like that is from 3-finger swipes. I work solely on Mac so unfortunately can't speak to whether it will work on Windows trackpad as well.
At 10:34, when I apply the shell command, I get an error. It goes away if I change to 1mm width. You suggest that I could edit the bottle, instead. How would I edit the bottle?
Hi Elizabeth. You can double-click on your sketch in the timeline to edit it. Then, adjust your spline handles to modify the shape. It's most likely your top spline handle that is causing the issue.
I've done this over so many times now. I can't make a shell from the top. Is the opening just too narrow or sketched in a way it dosen't know how to hollow from top?
hi Kevin, woking my way through the course. once ive inserted the image, it does not appear in the browser in order for me to calibrate. my image is also very faded even though i adjusted the opacity. ive tried a few times creating the file from scratch but i just cant find the canvas in browser. must be missing a step😵💫
Hi , I am really enjoying the course and I am a total newbie to CAD. The trouble i m having is the file download for day 2, the soda bottle. Where can I find it?
Hi, thanks for the video. I could replicate it very well. However, I tried making a drinking glass, and the shell command is not working. It is selecting the entire body instead of the top face. Suggestions?
If it doesn't let you select the top face then it's likely the top line/face is not horizontal. Double check the sketch. The line looks horizontal, then make sure the spline handle connecting to it is also horizontal. 😄
Yes, any sheet metal designs should utilize the 'Sheet Metal Component' as that allows you to assign a sheet metal rule that will drive the bend radius, material thickness, etc.
I’m about to get into using fusion 360 for training myself on it to be extra value to my work place. But am poor as you like, is there a way to get fusion free, and do I need a top notch laptop/workstation? Cheers guys 👍😬
You can sign up for the Free Personal Use license: productdesignonline.com/tips-and-tricks/how-to-download-and-install-the-fusion-360-personal-use-license/
@@ProductDesignOnline so many. Half my issue is that I'm only using one monitor so I have to keep flipping between youtube and fusion. There's the odd bits where you'll press a button and I miss it. Just done lesson 3 and feeling more confident.
Hi there. When placing the canvas, for some reason my canvases folder is not under the bottle component but as a separate folder under 'Glass Soda Bottle v1'. Also when I insert the image, it is very light and barely visible, only when I turn opacity to 100% can I somewhat see the outline of the bottle but still not very clear. Any help regarding this would be highly appreciated. I was following the steps exactly as you did. Thanks
I have been using the CTRL+Z keys to undo my work from time to time, much like you can do in many other software programs. It does work, mostly, but should I not be using it at all and just get used to using the UNDO and REDO arrows in the menu? In other words, am I creating issues with my objects by using CTRL+Z?
Those shortcuts (CTRL + Z) are the same thing as the arrows in the Applications bar. I typically show the arrows during tutorials so learners know what's going on/can see it. Use whatever feels most convenient for you 😊
Thank you for answering my question from last night. Now have another problem, for some reason for the Shell Command I cannot select the top of the bottle. I get the top half of the bottle what am I doing wrong please.
Absolutely! Anything you design can be exported as an STL or 3MF file for your 3D printer. Simply right-click on the component > Save as Mesh > choose file type (STL or 3MF).
Having the same problem with location of Canvas. Info below helped, but none worked (for me). What I found was that (might be I misunderstood a term or something) the "eye" for the Origin portion of the component was NOT ON. I'd turned the eye for the root design off as suggested below, but that still hadn't resolved the problem. So, when I selected the FRONT face, even with the "root" origin eye OFF, the canvas was still assigned to the main design. One thing I noticed, though, was that the yellow blocks representing the axis faces were a pale, highly transparent yellow - not the nearly sold yellow shown in Kevin's tutorial. After clicking on the Component Origin eye, I noticed the axis faces were immediately a nearly solid yellow (as in the video). I'd thought it was just a characteristic of the screen capture. Once the faces were solidly yellow, everything worked as Kevin demonstrated. Phew! :)
Hello, I'm from Greece and I'm trying to keep up with your wonderful tutorials. But I come across some strugleS and I really need your help. So, for some reason I select the canvas option , I go to my computers downloads, I select the image , I open it but instead of opening it with your order, such as bottle 1> origin> canvas> image, it appears with this order;origin> canvas> (from the default) image and then bottle.And I cant understand what is going wrong. Besides that, when I open the image the opacity of the planes and image is really low, i tried putting it bigger from the canvas settings but it didint work out. So I'd love some help on that too. So sorry for any language mistakes! I'll be waiting for your response.
After adding the FIT POINT SPLINE for the bottle curve, I cannot continue to edit the points. I can edit a single point, but it will not let me select a new point to edit. Any ideas???
The appearance function is kind of weird. I dragged an appearance onto the glass bottle. say light blue but then I thought I could change the appearance by dragging another onto the bottle. It kind of stacked the appearances on top of one another until the bottle was black. I don't understand how to remove the previous appearance(s)
What is the advantage of saving designs in folders? Why not just save them directly in the project without the intermediate level of folders? What else, besides the design, is stored at the folder level?
Thank you for your videos I really do appreciate it It really is helpful. One question I have is my origin plane is very dim I can barely see it same thing for the canvas image I don't know why it's so dim it's not very bright like yours. I tried adjusting the opacity as well as the environment and still not the way it should be. I wonder why
It sounds like you may have placed the Canvas/reference image on the top-level origin plane instead of the origin plane that is nested under the Bottle component. If the bottle's origin is selected the Canvas will automatically be nested (in a 'Canvases' folder) under the Bottle component. Double-check that please. :)
Full course on UA-cam: bit.ly/30daysUpdated
(I'll update this playlists as each Day is released)
Just FYI to the creator and others.
When I create the new canvas, it gets added at the root of the project rather than the component.
I see others having the same issue. If you are too, follow these steps.
First, follow the video up until 1:50.
Do not click on the orange plane on screen, ( the orange square ).
Instead, expand the bottle component on your browser to the left.
Then expand the "Origin" under that.
From there you can click on any of the planes listed, XY, XZ, or YZ. If you want to follow along with this tutorial, click on XZ.
Then resume the video.
Ah The problem was I was taken directly to the video from a link, so I never saw the Course Description page. Thanks
@@OvhanDevos Thanks...I was wrestling with that!
Hi Kevin
As a newcomer to 3d CAD I am really impressed by your series of videos and the straight forward explanations. I am having difficulty finding the link to download the Glass Soda Bottle (lesson 2). Could you please direct me to the download link
many thanks
Paul Munby
For the ones that has problem with "New component" and that the canvas gets low opacity and the canvas is not imported under the component you need to do the following:
1) Create the component
2) Deactive the "origin" folder above your new component (click the eye) (or you can right click and hide planes and hide axes)
3) Import the canvas and when you select the "Front" you need to be sure that the Yellow/orange box/side is "blue" otherwise it will be inserted in the standard Origin
You must activate the origin in the new component
In simple terms for real noobs like me, BEFORE adding the image, under the drop down "Origin" on the left side of your window, expand the list, click XZ, then there will be a blue box on your screen. NOW click the insert then canvas, then ok. This worked for me after messing around trying to figure out what's what. Like I said I'm a complete noob.
Thank you! This was exactly my problem.@@LnJCanadianRC
@@LnJCanadianRC I had the initial issue and i'm glad you mentioned it. by default the Origin plane is active from not our object. probably a useful feature for someone who knows more.
Thank you. Saved me a ton of time.
There is NO better basics instruction on CAD design with Fusion 360 out there. This is not just well done, Kevin creates the most cogent, concise and distraction free learning process you could ever hope to find. No shitty music, no distracting window with his face all over it, no crappy transitions and irrelevant information, no various concepts meshed into one video, no skipping over even the most BASIC mouse and keyboard controls, all the while being 100% perfectly efficient in how the knowledge is disseminated, not even one wasted word or moment.
This is really the pinnacle of how good tutorials and courses can be on youtube. I honestly shudder to think about how much effort has to go into this to get it so perfectly distilled, it's really impressive. Thank you!
Late reply.. but thank you! Appreciate your support and kind words. :)
I share this sentiment. This is great material
@@ProductDesignOnline we're stilling using these over 2 years later, tysm
Very useful tutorials - thanks for making these available. One small thing - if you draw the line at the top of the bottle from the outside to the inside then Fusion 360 takes this as an extension of the existing line and a single surface. Then you can't select the top of the bottle to do the hollow step. You have to draw the line exactly as you do in the tutorial - from the centre axis to the edge - then it works.
Thanks, I couldn't find my mistake!
Ahhhhh I did this but my sketch still wouldnt turn blue. Hollow step = revolve lol. I realized my curved line was dotted therefore it was a construction line not a real line (I need to make real line the default somehow). Changed the line type and now it is a blue sketch.
HMM, I have tried that but still can't do the hollow step
This FREE course is light years better than the three prior ones I had purchased on Edemy. I really appreciate you taking all this effort to make these videos.
This is my experience as well, and I’m also very grateful
Hey guys I found problem solution for shell command when it can not detect face, you only can select whole bottle! So basically problem fit point spline, do not round or make horizontal last top point, in video he did not do it, if you do it, fusion will think that top face isn't flat surface! I just deleted last spline point and it didn't change much my spline so I left it as it is and shell command worked! If you want round edge you better use filet tool after you do shell command, DON'T MAKE ROUND TOP EDGE IN SKECH !!!!
THANK YOU - this was driving me crazy, and your suggestion fixed it. :)
@@stevea1008 Even when I use a horizontal top it still chooses the whole bottle. I ended up extruding the top face up by 2 mm and then it can select the top face only.
Thanks. I was getting frustrated also :::
Thank you. I had the same problem
You sir are a savior
EDIT: Accidently left feedback for this course thinking it was autodesk and Kevin got back to me right away. Not really sure what to say here but that is next level support and a totally over the top thing to do for an irate stranger... Well I am subscribed and ill be making sure to comment on every video at least once and leave a like on all of these as well. Really just a good person here, unreal
Appreciate it!
My goal is to help as many people learn Fusion 360. A big part of online learning is getting help when 'stuck' and I do my best to answer as many questions as I can each week. Happy learning! 😁
Love the reboot of the series! Like another commenter said below, if your screen recorder has the option please turn on the cursor highlight and keystroke display (so we can see you press A instead of you having to comment "A as in Alpha") That is about all the wish list I have. See you Friday!
personally I'd rather hear it instead of having to constantly search the screen for tiny little key icons
I’ve been using Fusion 360 for about a year with acceptable results but I still struggle with some basics. Your videos have been a big help as I reboot my learning curve. Thank you and keep them coming.
Thanks, Jim! Glad to hear they've been helpful :)
I just spent about 2 hours digging into Fusion360. My background and experience goes back to Rhino and Maya back in the early 2000's so a lot of these techniques and walkthroughs are a great refresher. I haven't used an modeling/design software in over 20 years and it feels like second nature. My only challenge is it just dives into the tool and interface and maybe I haven't looked at your channel but I'm finding that running these videos at 75% speed is helpful because I'm new to the UI of this application. I stumbled upon this video series and probably should have started somewhere else first but needless to say these are super easy to follow and gives real application purposes of how to leverage to the tool in its most practical form. Thanks for creating this series ( what appears to be from 2022) but all still relevant. Since I', not in any production mode yet and just getting back into it I'm hopeful the full series does not required any paid features. I'm getting back into modeling as I'm in the market of getting a 3d printer. I cannot wait to re-create what I did in the early 2000's by printing designs in a 2d plane (paper) and getting them re-modeled with newer technology and create my designs from college in a 3d space with a printer. This series ( so far) is super helpful thanks for sharing and taking the time. Only downside is it just dives directly into it but I know there are tons of videos, maybe a recommendation is to provide a VERY basic interface video before jumping in. These concepts are not foreign to me so I'm able to follow along very easily.
Please see the link in the description for the official playlist. The first video is covering the interface (before Day #1) :)
I was able to get this to work by opening the origin folder under the bottle. You should see the XZ access in origin under bottle high lighted. I have the front view selected in the top right.
I just finished studying for day two: Watch once, then do the tutorial. I cannot tell you how excited I was creating the lego style block... thank you so much for creating this course. I can tell how well put together this is, just after to first two lessons.
Great job watching first then working through it. That is something I often recommend.
You got this 😁💪🏼
I was about to give up on 3d modelling but just 2 of your videos have me up and printing, I hope all the others are supporting you as well. Far cheaper than the over priced mind ****s offered by the so called experts. Educating is a gift and you have it in spades. Thankyou.
Thank you Brian! I appreciate your support and kind words. Happy learning!
Getting the shell command to work was brutal! Got there in the end with a lot of trial and error. Thanks for the tutorials, only two in and they are great.
May I know how you did it?
The first two episodes are awesome! learned heaps already. Can't wait to finish the rest of the series. Thank you so much!!
These lessons are perfect. Clear and concise instructions. I have no end of trouble trying to follow F360 tutorials. These are exactly simple enough to get started.
Thanks for your support! :)
this is 10X better than most Udemy courses I purchased on Fusion 360 thank you so much for making it accessible on UA-cam
Thanks!
I typically caution people on Udemy (specific to F360) as most of them are people who just learned trying to make a quick buck. They teach a lot of hack jobs/bad practices that I have to help folks unlearn 😊
Bro not gonna lie, you are insane man, the level of explanation and how you basically taught me to create stuff on fusion 360 is insane, I love you so much bro, please keep on creating content and I'll make sure you get enough reach.
Thank you man, love you always.
Thanks for the kind words! Keep going - you got this! 😎
Thank you so much for re-doing this series, I understand its a lot of work but hopefully worth it! I've linked a lot of people the old one because your tutorials are so well made. Now I can send them to this new one instead.
Thanks for your continued support! I really appreciate you :)
A magnifying glass for a pointer would be good ,have a color triangle for point.
I am bound to learn this. Day 2 complete. Thank you for the great lesson
Thanks for your great tutorials, Kevin! As newcomers to the 3D printing world (we just got our hands on an X1C), my wife and I are loving your videos. Your clear explanations and step-by-step guidance are perfect for beginners like us: a 5-minute video often turns into a 30-minute learning session for us! 😄
Thanks for your support! Appreciate it. Happy 3D printing! 😄
I have wanted to learn this program for years and now I finally have a computer that can do it. Thank you so much for teaching! I am having so much fun with this!
Glad to hear that. You got this! 😁
You sir are a the best teacher I ever saw. You way of teaching makes easy to learn. Thanks to you now I'm building complex projects for 3d printing and laser cutting.
Thanks! Glad to hear that! I appreciate your support :)
You are a GREAT teacher, you explain the things so great! thanks a lot :D
thank you for these, im still struggling but being able to back up and rewatch is a great help, i have subscribed
Dunno if anyone else had this problem, but if you had trouble with the shell direction of the bottle (around 10:20), in the sketch after you create a horizontal constraint for the top line of the bottle, you might need to create a vertical constraint for the last spline point that connects to the bottletop line. Before I did that, it kept attempting to create a shell in the horizontal/arbitrary angle direction of that last spline point's alignment, which would either error or mess up the whole 3d shape.
Thank you! This helped me get the shell stage to work. My most top-right spline handle had to be vertical.
He does mention to add a constraint at 7:23 though
The constraint at 7:23 is for the last line (which creates the top of the bottle) not for the handle of the spline point. If you create another horizontal constraint for the handle of the spline point it indeed doesnt work. It doesn't need to be vertical though - just steep enough should do (which depends on your spline shape). I@@onemangamer587
another issue with the shell :( fusion does not let to select a bottle top face; the whole body always selected; I can select this face manually when not using a shell tool, but when the tool is selected - it's impossible
Thank you so much! I had the exact same problem, and your solution worked perfectly!
bro i start yestarday watching this tutorial ...i already feel like a pro thank you
Glad to hear that. Keep going! :)
Thank you so much for doing the new updated interface. I know its a ton of work and repetitive but its amazing. You are the best. Subbed.
It took me a second to figure it out, but I had a problem with selecting the top of the bottle to create a shell. I was getting the "sketch is overconstrained" because I did the vertical constraint on the first curvature point, and for some reason, it didn't allow me to have two constraints. I removed that one and I was able to constrain the horizontal top point, which gave me the option to shell the bottle. Excellent tutorial!
I was having issues with the shell and sketch. No matter how much I changed my sketch, the shell command would pretty much hollow out the bottle, without leaving an opening at the top. I ended up changing the top lip constraint from horizontal to vertical which made the bottle look weird, but then I used the fillet tool at the top of the bottle at 1mm on the outside rim and inside rim to achieve the desired goal. I'm going to continue to work to find the root cause of the error in my sketch, but if you're having issues with the shell command, it could be because your curve going to the top horizontal line is too rounded. I found it needs to be more sharp/perpendicular/90 degrees for the shell command to work properly. It essentially wouldn't let me select the top face as a starting point for the shell and would just shell the object as a whole. Sorry for the long comment but it was driving me nuts and there might be someone with the same issue out there. I did this tutorial twice, gave up the first time and restarted to run into the same issue again.
Your tip saved me from banging my head on the wall of this pit I'd fallen in. Cheers and thank you!
Awesome Beginner videos, Ive only completed the first two so far, So much info packed in for a newby like me. Thanks again.:)
Thanks! Here's the official series playlist: bit.ly/30daysUpdated
@@ProductDesignOnline legend, Thank you.
Had trouble getting the canvas to show up on the component when following exactly. After reading some of the comments discovered one more "Non-intuitive" feature about Fusion. Needed to hide the "Origin" feature on the main tree which was active by default, and enable the origin feature under the component "Bottle" which was inactive by default. That fixed it so the canvas showed up under the component.
thank you lol
Thanks!
Thank you!
Great video for someone with 0 experience like my self!
I am having problems understanding how to fix the shell problem but I guess I will understand it in the future, right now no matter what I do, I end up messing it more 😬
Best teacher of fusion 360 hands down!
Thanks for the kind words!
I found this series about fusion 360 yesterday´, helped me a lot so far! its easy to follow and gives you all the skills in small bits and bites :) leaving a comment for the algorthm
Appreciate you! 🙏🏼
You are the best man! I will finished the 30 days course and make a donation!
Bravo, Mr. Bonds... Bravo.
Good tutorial. I also had the problem with the shell command that I could only select the whole bottle. What I did wrong was that I put the vertical contraint at the top on the last spline point instead of the straight line on the top. This doesn't work.
I did the same thing, actually. I was wondering why the 11mm constraint made the mouth diameter so small.
Nice, couldn't figure it out what I was diong wrong, but deleting the constraint ont he spline point did it. Thanks
Anyone else notice this video came three months after Day 1? 😅 I am excited to finally learn Fusion360, though 😊
Hi Katie. Glad to see the excitement :)
I had to take some personal time to take care of family... was planning on 2 weeks... and here we are lol. Anyway, feeling refreshed and happy to get back into a rhythm. Will be working through this series revamp and attempting to do 1 a week. Day 3 will be ready next Friday.
Ikr. So glad to see you back 😄
Just starting out, so one per week will be perfect, whilst I also build my CNC machine. Hope you will cover toolpaths and G-Code output please.
Good luck it ends at 12 lol
Great tutorial/series. Thank you very much for the time and effort spent on creating these!
Everything went fine for me both in day 1 and day 2, except when using shell on the bottle I just couldn't make the thickness to be 2.5mm. It worked with 2.2mm at the most. I tired moving around the curves and stuff but just couldn't figure it out.
Thank you!
It's most likely to be the very top or bottom spline points. If it's too sharp then it won't allow a larger shell.
Just finished the old course, but its nice that you are doing it also with the new layout!
I really appreciate these tutorials, as I usually figure out software by just using it and searching for solutions as I go, but it's just not possible with F360. Coming from 3D Studio Max, I find the workflow and interface surprisingly unfriendly and find that my "better intuition" is completely useless for the majority of my learning process.
I appreciate these videos!
1 small issue with this one is with the shell command there is now an option for sharp or rounded, it was defaulting to sharp and that's why it wasn't working at first.
Going through this course again now, fantastic tutorials! And thank you for updating it!!
Thank you for this tutorial series! I was able to follow along and complete the Day 1 video. I'm looking forward to working through the rest of them.
Thanks for your support and happy learning! 😊
Hey Kevin. Don't have enough words to thank you for this series and all other videos you made/make.
a concern here: I am on personal edition in windows and when I create the canvas it doesn't come under the component. It goes on its standalone group in the browser. Is this something expected (change in different SW releases?) or am I doing something wrong?
Im having this same issue.
Yep, me too. Would be good to understand why. Not clear from googling or playing around in F360 why I'm getting different behaviour to the video.
Never mind - solved after reading comments below. Need to make sure the origin is visible in the bottle component.
@@ng5000 omg thanks for the commend! I would spend literally hours searching for solution...
@@ng5000 Thanks so much!! I had same issue and was stuck on how to resolve until reading your reply.
Hey can you advise. I create new component. Then add the image via canvas. However the canvas is separate rather than under the new component I create. Am I doing something wrong? Or does it not matter. Thanks
I'm having the same issue as well.
@@BrittaBear try to toggle the origin visibility on the browser
I'm having trouble with the canvas command (1:57). Following the instructions, and having tried several times, it looks like it is working but never creates the "Canvas" folder within the bottle folder. The bottle image, along with the axes and faces, are transparent as well. Instead, there is a folder named "canvasses" that appears in the tree above the bottle folder. I can go to the image and perform the rescaling operation, but the image is very transparent, so I am not sure if I have failed to do something correctly. Any help would be appreciated.
I"m having the same issue, man. In fact, that's why I'm reading so far down in the comments. Hopefully someone comes along and sorts it out. Did you figure it out?
@@jeffreydauhmer385 @bruceogletree7995 Same here but found the problem. Make sure the top entry (component name - Glass Soda Bottle) in the browser pane is visible.
Same here, cant figure it out...
I made a bottle looking object, which is way more advanced than I could do yesterday. 😅 I had difficulty with the resetting the size of the mouth of the bottle, I couldn't revert back to the 2D model. I'll have to remember to make these adjustments before doing the revolve function in future attempts.
Ive already learned more about cad in 2 videos than an entire year of the dumb digital arts class I had in high school
Thank you for this! It is much appreciated.
YOU ARE THE BEST! LOVE YOU FROM INDIA.
Struggling here - When I click to ccreat the canvas, it does so as a bullet at the same level as Bottle 1, insteead of as a part of Bottle 1. Can't figyre out what i'm doing wrong
When importing the image as a canvas, you have to choose a face to orient it. Change your origin visibility settings so that the face you select is the one under your bottle component instead of the whole design’s origin.
It's day two and I am going crazy because I can't seem to find the shortcuts to zoom, pan and orbit and when creating the bottle that has been bugging me constantly, I keep finding that it's shift + alt and left mouse button or middle, but it doesn't work for me, I am dying here T^T
But the course is amazing, really enjoying it!! Struggling to make some of the things happen like selecting the handle of the point and then the fit point to make it smooth transition because I can't seem to find the handle point, but, we will get there
fun tutorial. there were a few parts where i just had to start over. it was tricky! but it was fun.
Thank You Kevin!
Ok guys, for any of you monkey's like me out there, here is the most destiled way I can fix that issue with the bottle not having enough brightness, the canvas folder creating outside of the bottle object folder, etc:
There are 2 origins, the original "background" origin, and the new component's (the bottle that we still haven't made) origin. So you need to DISABLE the Origin folder that is OUTSIDE the component, and activate the component origin, THEN you import the picture on the XZ yellow square and voilá!
Thanks for this series! I'm having trouble with the shell command in the "How to make a body hollow" section. After following the instructions you provide, the mouth of the bottle stays closed, and when I try to do the shell operation again, it says it has already been done. Any idea what I did wrong? Thanks!
I also had some trouble. I discovered that I had not created a separate line for the top of the bottle. You use the fit curve method while you are tracing out the curved portion of the bottle outline. When you get to the Top of the bottle, complete the traced line process by clicking on the check mark leaving the last flat part of the bottle open. Then select the line function and click on the end of the previous line and then click on the center line and complete this function by clicking on the check mark. If you created a closed drawing, you can click inside the object and it will turn green. Now you can revolve the drawing to make the 3d bottle as he described. Now you should be able to click on the surface of the top of the bottle, it should turn blue, select the shell command and follow the instructions.
@@JCBoss76 Is there anything else I could be doing wrong? I've made sure the profile is closed before revolving, but I still can't select just the top face of the bottle.
@@Joe_Bandit Did you make sure you used a separate straight line for the top flat part of the bottle top? Don't just use the curve fit function to trace the top flat area. Using a separate straight line gives you a separate detail to select. Also there is a "select" function in the top tool bar. Hit escape to make sure you don't have some other function active, click on "select", then click on the top of the bottle which should select it.
@@JCBoss76 You helped me a lot! Thanks!
The tutorials are superb!!! May I know how to shell out different thickness at different lengths of bottle? one way is to trace the sides instead of from middle of the bottle. But I would like to use the commands of shell with variable thickness along the length of the bottle or some axis. Is it possible to do?
I withdraw my question on the other version. thank you!
Awesome tutorial, can't wait for Day 3!
got me going like a pro man thank you!
You got this 💪🏼
Fun tutorial. I found that after the revolve and shell, the top of my bottle was closed. Not sure if I missed a step or did something wrong? I added a sketch to the top face and bored a hole which had the same result.
When you used Shell, did you select the body of the bottle or the top (flat) surface? Selecting the body will hollow it out without removing the top. Selecting the top will remove the top, and hollow out the body.
If Shell doesn't let you select the top surface, you'll need to make sure the top sketch is horizontal (if a horizontal constraint wasn't automatically applied).
@@ProductDesignOnline Thanks for replying to my comment. I've gone back and double checked and the top is a flat surface and has a horizontal constraint but I'm still unable to replicate your steps. I've been able to repeat them on a simple cube though!🤷♂
Edit: worked as expected in the following "glass bottle" lesson. I've also started to produce my own simple designs using the shell command, so must be something in my soda bottle sketch that went wrong. Thanks again, love the series!
I have a question but first, I want to say: Kevin - You are doing a phenomenal job with these tutorials. I also like the fact that we can download the entire transcript for each lesson. After I follow the video several times, I then "go solo" with the transcripts as my cheat sheets. I ween myself off those until I can replicate the entire tutorial on my own. And because F360 seems to change more often than some folks change socks, its impossible to find a book that you can follow (like your videos) since the books aren't using the same version of F360 that we have. And you are an excellent teacher with clear, comprehensive directions and explanations. Thank you!!!
I'm having one problem that I hope someone here can help me with. I am on the Day 2 video, and everything goes along swimmingly until I get to the end and have to hollow the bottle out using Shell. Can't do it because I cannot select just the top of the bottle - whenever I click on the top, the entire bottle is selected. How can I select just the top without the rest of the bottle? Its not an issue of having the thickness too great as I can't get to that point. If I am simply on the canvas and not using Shell, I can select the top of the bottle without issue. But once I issue the Shell command, the entire bottle turns blue and is selected.
Any help anyone can provide will be greatly appreciated!
Hi there. If you can share your Fusion 360 file I can take a look at it here: community.productdesignonline.com/
This is happening to me as well. I've used a lot of CAD programs in the past and usually there is a way to force it to only select faces, and I've found a filter command, but as soon as click the shell command, it will revert back to selecting the entire body and creating a hollow body, but not delete the face. In professional CAD like Solidworks and NX, there is usually a toggle option to delete face or keep it, I'm not sure why this program does not include that.
I found a solution for me... In the sketch on the top i had the curvature point parallel to the line on the top. i simply removed the parallel alignment on the curvature to the line and it worked.
@@dorian1370 yeah, that works to me thanks
You, sir, are a hero!@@dorian1370
This is top notch and pretty easy to understand. Thanks!
Thanks for watching!
Amazing!!! Thank you so much for this great tutorial ..
I have been looking for your bottle to download for the in Day #2 tutorial. Please tell where to find and how to download to my computer. Thanks. PS so far I like your tutoial.
All applicable demo files (reference images, notes, etc) can be found on the link in the video description. You'll also find that I've made them 'd' + number of lesson - productdesignonline.com/d2
Thanks for the lesson. However, the Canvases does not looped in the component but under Origin in the Browser. I guess is version difference but it looks a bit odd to me.
I haven't tried this yet but, I think I can trace a difficult profile using the pen tool in a photo or design software program more easily and then insert its SVG into Fusion 360. I need to see if there will be problems assigning dims to the imported SVG , though.
SVGs are great if you have a logo or something fair complex. Otherwise, I would advise against it. They don't work well in Fusion as they get converted into many spline/line geometry and can be hard to manage (constrain, etc).
Thanks, I see your point. I have been making 3D printed art stencils for my wife by creating them in photo/design software then converting to SVG for insert to Fusion 360 so I can extrude them to about .8 mm for printing. I can scale them, if necessary, in Fusion but any other manipulation does cause problems. I'll stick with your method. @@ProductDesignOnline
How do you make a compete hollow surface. The shell function only shells until a bottom is reach. So if I poured water it would collect va passing through
Thank you very much, great lesson. How do you fill the bottle with my favorite IPA, I must of tuned out for a bit.
I'm having trouble with setting the opening of the bottle to 11 mm. I horizontally constrained the final top point of the fit point spline with the top of the center axis. But setting the distance between the two to 11 mm only pushes the top point of the line as opposed to the whole line. Now I only have an opening that it wider than the neck. Did I do something wrong?
First of all Great lessons thank you for taking the time to explain things so well!
Secondly, how on earth are you panning the canvas around while you are drawing lines??
I have searched everywhere for the secret to this but so far i cant find any info!
Im using a laptop trackpad and cant figure it out at all. Thanks!
Thanks! I'm almost always using an Apple Magic Trackpad when I record the lessons. Any panning like that is from 3-finger swipes. I work solely on Mac so unfortunately can't speak to whether it will work on Windows trackpad as well.
At 10:34, when I apply the shell command, I get an error. It goes away if I change to 1mm width. You suggest that I could edit the bottle, instead. How would I edit the bottle?
Hi Elizabeth. You can double-click on your sketch in the timeline to edit it. Then, adjust your spline handles to modify the shape.
It's most likely your top spline handle that is causing the issue.
this is the exact thing I was looking for! Amazing series
Thank you for your work
Thanks for watching!
Thanks!
Thanks for your support, John! Appreciate you
I've done this over so many times now. I can't make a shell from the top. Is the opening just too narrow or sketched in a way it dosen't know how to hollow from top?
Couldn't get it to work either.
hi Kevin, woking my way through the course. once ive inserted the image, it does not appear in the browser in order for me to calibrate. my image is also very faded even though i adjusted the opacity. ive tried a few times creating the file from scratch but i just cant find the canvas in browser. must be missing a step😵💫
Hi , I am really enjoying the course and I am a total newbie to CAD. The trouble i m having is the file download for day 2, the soda bottle. Where can I find it?
Ah, I've found an old question which has led me to the download.
Glad you found it. Links are always in the description 😁
Hi, thanks for the video. I could replicate it very well. However, I tried making a drinking glass, and the shell command is not working. It is selecting the entire body instead of the top face. Suggestions?
If it doesn't let you select the top face then it's likely the top line/face is not horizontal. Double check the sketch. The line looks horizontal, then make sure the spline handle connecting to it is also horizontal. 😄
If I’m doing a sheet metal design, should I still use the sheet metal option when making the component?
Yes, any sheet metal designs should utilize the 'Sheet Metal Component' as that allows you to assign a sheet metal rule that will drive the bend radius, material thickness, etc.
@@ProductDesignOnline thanks!
I’m about to get into using fusion 360 for training myself on it to be extra value to my work place. But am poor as you like, is there a way to get fusion free, and do I need a top notch laptop/workstation? Cheers guys 👍😬
You can sign up for the Free Personal Use license: productdesignonline.com/tips-and-tricks/how-to-download-and-install-the-fusion-360-personal-use-license/
WOW! Thanks alot for a very easy to follow tutorial. Can't imagine there's one better out there. I've just completed day 2 🙂
Your videos are brilliantly produced and your explanations are great. Thank you so much :)
Fusion is amazing. Bit pricey for the average hobbyist, but still amazing
It's free for personal use that part is almost hidden on the website, it took me almost an hour to figure it out myself
Found this trickier than lesson 1 but got there in the end. Spent about an hour doing it. Feeling a bit frazzled so off for a lie down 😬
What point did you get stuck at?
@@ProductDesignOnline so many. Half my issue is that I'm only using one monitor so I have to keep flipping between youtube and fusion. There's the odd bits where you'll press a button and I miss it. Just done lesson 3 and feeling more confident.
Hi there. When placing the canvas, for some reason my canvases folder is not under the bottle component but as a separate folder under 'Glass Soda Bottle v1'. Also when I insert the image, it is very light and barely visible, only when I turn opacity to 100% can I somewhat see the outline of the bottle but still not very clear. Any help regarding this would be highly appreciated. I was following the steps exactly as you did. Thanks
A great explanation, thanks!
I have been using the CTRL+Z keys to undo my work from time to time, much like you can do in many other software programs. It does work, mostly, but should I not be using it at all and just get used to using the UNDO and REDO arrows in the menu? In other words, am I creating issues with my objects by using CTRL+Z?
Those shortcuts (CTRL + Z) are the same thing as the arrows in the Applications bar. I typically show the arrows during tutorials so learners know what's going on/can see it. Use whatever feels most convenient for you 😊
Thank you for answering my question from last night. Now have another problem, for some reason for the Shell Command I cannot select the top of the bottle. I get the top half of the bottle what am I doing wrong please.
loving these tutorials!...much thanks. 😎👍
Glad to hear that. I appreciate your support, Douglas! Happy learning 😀
Can't get enough... wish I woulda found this a year in the future so I had them all ready to grind through
Question. Can you use this program to make 3d models to print with a 3d printer
Absolutely! Anything you design can be exported as an STL or 3MF file for your 3D printer. Simply right-click on the component > Save as Mesh > choose file type (STL or 3MF).
Having the same problem with location of Canvas. Info below helped, but none worked (for me). What I found was that (might be I misunderstood a term or something) the "eye" for the Origin portion of the component was NOT ON. I'd turned the eye for the root design off as suggested below, but that still hadn't resolved the problem. So, when I selected the FRONT face, even with the "root" origin eye OFF, the canvas was still assigned to the main design. One thing I noticed, though, was that the yellow blocks representing the axis faces were a pale, highly transparent yellow - not the nearly sold yellow shown in Kevin's tutorial.
After clicking on the Component Origin eye, I noticed the axis faces were immediately a nearly solid yellow (as in the video). I'd thought it was just a characteristic of the screen capture. Once the faces were solidly yellow, everything worked as Kevin demonstrated. Phew! :)
Hello, I'm from Greece and I'm trying to keep up with your wonderful tutorials. But I come across some strugleS and I really need your help. So, for some reason I select the canvas option , I go to my computers downloads, I select the image , I open it but instead of opening it with your order, such as bottle 1> origin> canvas> image, it appears with this order;origin> canvas> (from the default) image and then bottle.And I cant understand what is going wrong. Besides that, when I open the image the opacity of the planes and image is really low, i tried putting it bigger from the canvas settings but it didint work out. So I'd love some help on that too. So sorry for any language mistakes! I'll be waiting for your response.
After adding the FIT POINT SPLINE for the bottle curve, I cannot continue to edit the points. I can edit a single point, but it will not let me select a new point to edit. Any ideas???
I had this issue as well. Closing the program and opening it again fixed the issue.
The appearance function is kind of weird. I dragged an appearance onto the glass bottle. say light blue but then I thought I could change the appearance by dragging another onto the bottle. It kind of stacked the appearances on top of one another until the bottle was black. I don't understand how to remove the previous appearance(s)
What is the advantage of saving designs in folders? Why not just save them directly in the project without the intermediate level of folders? What else, besides the design, is stored at the folder level?
Anyone know why after I revolve I cannot select the top face of the bottle to create a shell?
I want to know also
Thank you for your videos I really do appreciate it It really is helpful. One question I have is my origin plane is very dim I can barely see it same thing for the canvas image I don't know why it's so dim it's not very bright like yours. I tried adjusting the opacity as well as the environment and still not the way it should be. I wonder why
It sounds like you may have placed the Canvas/reference image on the top-level origin plane instead of the origin plane that is nested under the Bottle component. If the bottle's origin is selected the Canvas will automatically be nested (in a 'Canvases' folder) under the Bottle component. Double-check that please. :)