Thanks for this tutorial Lars! I'm new to this and your content has been very helpful. I learned a lot from this video! and have modeled my own fully parameterized fan. I have successfully 3D printed a small prototype and the full scale model is printing right now. Thanks for sharing your skills with us all!
Lars. I cannot thank you enough for these tutorials. Two days ago I started using F360 and today I just made your fanblade and paramaterised it. I wish I could hit 'like' a few more times:)
Funny thing.. I just found this channel on the occation of wanting to spend the weekend modelling a part for a prospective boss to be. And i was gonna model something that involves a fan. What are the odds. :D You´ve made a fan of me from your beginner videos and now this.
Awesome! This is the first one of your videos I've come across, you're very articulate with your teaching. I'm a Machinist by trade but use 360 to 3D print at home as a hobby, this is right up my alley.
Good job. FYI - the pitch of the angle of the blade at the hub should be greater than at the tip. The objective is to have the same pitch (transverse travel of fluid from hub to tip to be equal) . Yours is the other way around. The pitch will depend on the function of the fan. I still got a lot from the video and am looking forward to accelerating my learning curve by watching your videos.
Once again, Lars, awesome video. Really like the parameter editing thing at the end. I can be a little "indecisive" at times, so I can add some key points to the model that I can change out later on. Will definitely experiment around with that. Did get to watch this live, albeit with no chat (watched on mobile). Really good stuff. Thanks for the great content and keep up the good work!
Excellent tutorial as usual Lars. Thanks. Found by accident, at 15:15 you don't need to keep changing between the Profiles in the Loft settings window. You can Click on the "Profile 1" or "Profile 2" grey label that is on the model to change between them.
Absolutely awesome. I'm trying to learn fusion 360 and I was a bit frustrated... but watching your videos I feel that I finally could do it... big hugs and thanks from brazil
Awesome. Awesome. Awesome. Simply AWESOME :-) This has taught me so much!! I followed along and 3D printed the part out. Now I have a working grasp of just how powerful Fusion360 is thanks to yourself (ex openSCAD user here) AND a pretty cool fan to boot that works! (Although I did adjust the blade angles as yours is more of an egg beater than a fan) ;-)
It’s always a pleasure to come back and see your videos ^_^ I got shivers and dumb smile on your last 5 minutes :)) those are golden tips ! Thank you very much for all the info
Thanks for this, same as all the other video's you have kindly made and shared - I must have learned at least another dozen things without pain or stress...now if I could retain that info I'm golden ;)
Would you mind creating a playlist of your videos in a specific order as if a beginner was to watch them from start to finish with basic skills leading into intermediate and so on?
Hi Brett Thank you for watching! That is not a bad idea. I need an intern :-)....One could suggest that if a specific video is way over your head....just fast forward a bit...I think most of the videos are a mess of beginner to advanced. Have an awesome day!
What an awesome guide! Exactly what I was looking for! Two questions which came up during modelling: 1st, when I tried to add the fillet, it was inverted and I didn't figure out how I can change it... (Sorry, quite a noob question...) 2nd, when you are looking for fans, they often have not straight radial blades like the one you have constructed. The blades are a bit twisted from the inner towards the outer radius. Is there a possibility to "swirl" the whole construction a bit from the central axis, similar like a twist? It seems, when you are using curved lines in the second step instead of normal ones, there are some inconvenient restrictions for continuing the procedure.
Hi Patrick, If the fillets are inverted, is sounds like you have multiple bodies. Check the tree on the left to see if you do. Then you could use the combine tool if they do touch. 2nd question could be done by using the loft function or instead, create the blade using sculpt
The better way to trim of the tips of the blades would be to use extrude->intersect on the 80mm circle. It should work better if you decide to change the diameter of the fan, since you don't have to worry about the outer circle, which it self adds no value to the design. The intersect operation seems to be one of the most useful forgotten features of CAD. Sure it is often not practical to use, but when it is, it is glorious! Also you might have been able to use a rule fillet to avoid the issue when you changed the number of fan blades, though you might have ended up with more fillets than you bargained for.
Lars, I know someone before me in the comments mentioned creating a playlist. Have you gotten an intern yet? I would love to see a bunch of very short 3-5min videos all in the same playlist and each video would contain one or two of the popular techniques that you demonstrate throughout all of your videos. I find myself trying to do a step that I know I have seen you do in a video but have a hard time finding it again, and then I have to scroll through 30 or 40 min of video to find and review the operation. If these were in a bunch of short videos all grouped into a single playlist you could jump directly to the short video based on the video title. Thanks again as always for your tutorials! Jim
Hi RVJimD Thank you for watching! I have not gotten a budget for an intern :-) I hope I can create some easy to search library on cadcamstuff.com this year. Thank you for taking the time to watch the videos!!!
appreciate the videos. question at 14:01 I do not have the "Free" feature but only "Connected" and "Direction" features, any input would be appreciated.
Hi Lars thank for the videos I'm struck at 6:40. the line i am trying to draw is not snap to the inner circle i tried but it just like the snap point is not there (it's snap just not at the inner circle) Any advice that may help thank you ps i am just start with Fusion 360 and use to lean simple autocad in first year university i am really try to make a fan blade here LOL
Hi Lars. Did you ever figure out why the sketches stayed blue? Was it because they needed to be closed where the two radius lines intercept the outside circle?
Hey Lars this was a solid addition to your standalone repository of Fusion360 knowledge base!! congrats as always..in recent new from your northern neighbour >> Heat warning in Toronto during the last week in Sept!!! Should be jacket weather by now. Anyway, seeing as how you are making this magnificent repo I had an idea Forgive if already covered. What about producing from jpeg or scanner bed the 2D image of a part you wish to reproduce and what opensource like gimp or Inkscape may be used to help in the process of importing into F360. Is Adobe absolutely necessary to convert file for instance? Can we use two angles for better implementation ?? :-) Best,..C
Hi Chris Leech Thank you for watching! I have done a few livestreams where I was using images: ua-cam.com/video/34ZeXHxYS28/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/AhVmPyg2WAA/v-deo.html
Lars, Man I been trying to get this star with a company logo in it , it need to be .375 thick with the logo in the middle of it , and when i put this together the letters go over into the star points, plus one leg dont want to be nice and join the other 4 points .what am i doing wrong so it will be all one component ? i am going to plasma cut this out,if i get it done
I just want to make a remark for those who now want to make a fan themselves. If you look at a real fan you will notice that the top and bottom edge are not straight like shown in this design but curved and usually the bending is not a double curve (S-curve), but a simple curve. The fan how it is designed here will work, but will probably be not very efficient.
I was woundering what would happen if the hub had to be extruded outward past the blades to accept a screw or something like that. My luck all the blades would follow the extrusion. I like your approach to the blades. I was trying to use an plane at an angle for my 1st attempt at a fan.
Hi Lars, I am really interested in the use of "Driven" dimensions" (not sure if that's the correct terminology) that you used to define the fan blades. However it seems to be a feature that doesn't work on my copy of Fusion. When I try to dimension a sketch by referencing to another dimension nothing happens. Maybe there's an option that needs to be enabled ? -Cheers
Hi Gavin Svanborg Thank you for watching! It should work for you. Double click the dimension you want to be driven so the number field highlights and then click the dimension you want to drive.
Hi Lars, Once created, you can't change the units for a parameter, you have to delete it and create it again. For something like the number of fan blades, it's easy to forget to select the unit-less option and then wonder why your parameter creates an error.
New to Fusion. Tried the exact same thing but when it came to the C pattern I get an error. It says "C-Pattern1 Compute Failed "the selected faces do not form a patternable object." I tried a few different things but it won't work. What am I doing wrong?
Because of the time zones, i can't join the live broadcast, but i am really enjoying every one of these videos. Thank you for taking the time.
Great Work!!
That fan blade really looks like it was meant to be. So realistic.
Thanks Lars.
Thanks for this tutorial Lars!
I'm new to this and your content has been very helpful. I learned a lot from this video! and have modeled my own fully parameterized fan.
I have successfully 3D printed a small prototype and the full scale model is printing right now.
Thanks for sharing your skills with us all!
Lars. I cannot thank you enough for these tutorials. Two days ago I started using F360 and today I just made your fanblade and paramaterised it. I wish I could hit 'like' a few more times:)
You've made learning CAD modeling really easy and convenient. much appreciated.
Funny thing.. I just found this channel on the occation of wanting to spend the weekend modelling a part for a prospective boss to be. And i was gonna model something that involves a fan. What are the odds. :D You´ve made a fan of me from your beginner videos and now this.
Hi Danni Houmøller Perfect!! Thank you for watching!
Parameters and relating dimensions - very useful stuff! Thank you.
Awesome! This is the first one of your videos I've come across, you're very articulate with your teaching. I'm a Machinist by trade but use 360 to 3D print at home as a hobby, this is right up my alley.
That is awesome to hear Nikolas Gieske .Thank you for watching the videos
Good job. FYI - the pitch of the angle of the blade at the hub should be greater than at the tip. The objective is to have the same pitch (transverse travel of fluid from hub to tip to be equal) . Yours is the other way around. The pitch will depend on the function of the fan. I still got a lot from the video and am looking forward to accelerating my learning curve by watching your videos.
Once again, Lars, awesome video. Really like the parameter editing thing at the end. I can be a little "indecisive" at times, so I can add some key points to the model that I can change out later on. Will definitely experiment around with that. Did get to watch this live, albeit with no chat (watched on mobile). Really good stuff. Thanks for the great content and keep up the good work!
That is awesome to hear Oleg Velichko .Thank you for watching the videos
Excellent tutorial as usual Lars. Thanks.
Found by accident, at 15:15 you don't need to keep changing between the Profiles in the Loft settings window. You can Click on the "Profile 1" or "Profile 2" grey label that is on the model to change between them.
That is awesome to hear Family OBrien .Thank you for watching the videos
Thanks Lars. The channel is awesome and a real big help. Please keep it up!!!
Really nice vid! That loft curving feature just blow my mind. Thanks! :D
Thanks Lars, managed to design a BitFan in just one evening on my first use of Fusion 360. Very helpful. :-)
Great tutorial, especially adding the flexibility of the parameters settings at the end. VERY helpful for my fan project! Thanks, Lars!
Absolutely awesome. I'm trying to learn fusion 360 and I was a bit frustrated... but watching your videos I feel that I finally could do it... big hugs and thanks from brazil
That is awesome to hear Ricardo Mangili .Thank you for watching the videos
absolutly the video a i was looking for. Trying to model and 3d-print one later. Thank you !
Awesome. Awesome. Awesome. Simply AWESOME :-) This has taught me so much!! I followed along and 3D printed the part out. Now I have a working grasp of just how powerful Fusion360 is thanks to yourself (ex openSCAD user here) AND a pretty cool fan to boot that works! (Although I did adjust the blade angles as yours is more of an egg beater than a fan) ;-)
It’s always a pleasure to come back and see your videos ^_^ I got shivers and dumb smile on your last 5 minutes :)) those are golden tips ! Thank you very much for all the info
I like the Diresta shirt! Great guy!
Thanks - easy to follow, i build my model as I watch and have no difficulty. Great way to learn.
That is awesome to hear James Aman .Thank you for watching the videos
Very instructional! Best Teacher of Fusion360 ever!
Thanks for this, same as all the other video's you have kindly made and shared - I must have learned at least another dozen things without pain or stress...now if I could retain that info I'm golden ;)
That is awesome to hear robocog .Thank you for watching the videos
I learned many things about Fusion 360 with your video. Thank you so much.
congratulations, your lessons are the best and exhaustive on youtube
This was an amazing helpful video!
Thank you very much Lars. You are awesome !!!
I managed to replace 4 different fans with your model, impressive content.Thanks a lot.
This was rich in content, Lars. Thanks for the lessons!
That is awesome to hear Richard Freeze .Thank you for watching the videos
Great, really. But, the trick is dangerous, the boss can think "what the hack, so easy to do changes, you can do much more work in your day" :)))
Learned 3 new things from this video. How good is that!
That is awesome to hear Allen McFarlen .Thank you for watching the videos
Awesome video man! I’m really new to fusion360 and CAD and your videos are helping a TON!!! I’m saving every video of yours I watch. 👍
That is awesome to hear Collin Smith .Thank you for watching the videos
Very helpful! Just what I was looking for 👍
Excellent Lars!!!!!!
i really love your teaching style!
Truly awesome tutorial. Thanks.
That is awesome to hear John Lean .Thank you for watching the videos
Would you mind creating a playlist of your videos in a specific order as if a beginner was to watch them from start to finish with basic skills leading into intermediate and so on?
Hi Brett Thank you for watching!
That is not a bad idea. I need an intern :-)....One could suggest that if a specific video is way over your head....just fast forward a bit...I think most of the videos are a mess of beginner to advanced.
Have an awesome day!
Thank you. Another awesome session! Mind blown - again :)
Thanks that cleared up some problems I had with 'loft', keep the vids coming, regards. RobUK
Thank you 3D Printing 4 Life
Thank you sir for this trick, its very cool. Your teaching is awesome every time, Thank you again.
Thank you Lars.
excellent Lars... love your works...God Bless!
Hi Lars, have you done a similar video for creating turbine blades? Or are these blades suitable for use in a wind turbine?
I just keep learning cool things from you. Thank you.
Hi Cliff Chism Thank you for watching!
Thankyou for this great video I really enjoyed your video.
Great to hear. Thank you for watching!
Lars, thanks for the milimeters selection...
You are so very welcome :-) Thank you for watching!
You the MAN Lars! Thanks for your hard work man!!👍👍👍
Very good, so helpfully
What about if I need the fan to rotate on the axes ??
Hi Ferreira Sales Thank you for watching!
You could go into the animation space
ua-cam.com/video/xhhVjKQOECY/v-deo.html
Thank you for teaching me about the parameters
Awesome video Lars. Thanks to your videos I'm now really dragged into 3D modeling. Thanks. Cool stuff. :)
That is awesome to hear Dr 3vuL .Thank you for watching the videos
Thanks. Bringing knowledge years after, keep it up man :D
Truely. thank you very much! i always wanted to make my own props for RC boats, and i did not know how to go about it in fusion, now i do. :)
This software is amazing and your instruction is as well thank you👏👍
What an awesome guide! Exactly what I was looking for!
Two questions which came up during modelling:
1st, when I tried to add the fillet, it was inverted and I didn't figure out how I can change it... (Sorry, quite a noob question...)
2nd, when you are looking for fans, they often have not straight radial blades like the one you have constructed. The blades are a bit twisted from the inner towards the outer radius. Is there a possibility to "swirl" the whole construction a bit from the central axis, similar like a twist? It seems, when you are using curved lines in the second step instead of normal ones, there are some inconvenient restrictions for continuing the procedure.
Hi Patrick, If the fillets are inverted, is sounds like you have multiple bodies. Check the tree on the left to see if you do. Then you could use the combine tool if they do touch. 2nd question could be done by using the loft function or instead, create the blade using sculpt
Thank you Bro, Best step by step tutorial I found on whole REDtube ⚡⚡💘🍻
Awesome to hear 👍😊Thank you for watching
@@cadcamstuff Thanks to you I just build this cooling system for my brushless motor a360.co/2SfDc3b . You are a star ! 🍻🍻
I guess no one caught the jist of redtube comment lmao
awesome!!
Very useful but the blade is not so efficient like that ;)
At 14:57 there is a frame of the video which shows probably the best shape for it
Hi Daniele Gerussi Thank you for watching!
Yes, I could use some engineering coaching :-)
Very good, clear instruction, interesting design
very useful tutorial. thanks!
your fan aerodynamics is a crap though :)
i wonder if it's possible to simulate air streams in the fusion?
Import the model into ANSYS. I don't think fusion has ANSYS support built in unless that is what they are using for their analysis.
Thank you. Thank you and thank you!
You are so very welcome :-) Thank you for watching!
Thanks, good explaination and training.
That is awesome to hear Şeref AKIN .Thank you for watching the videos
The better way to trim of the tips of the blades would be to use extrude->intersect on the 80mm circle. It should work better if you decide to change the diameter of the fan, since you don't have to worry about the outer circle, which it self adds no value to the design. The intersect operation seems to be one of the most useful forgotten features of CAD. Sure it is often not practical to use, but when it is, it is glorious!
Also you might have been able to use a rule fillet to avoid the issue when you changed the number of fan blades, though you might have ended up with more fillets than you bargained for.
Hi neistridlar Thank you for watching!
Awesome comment! Thank you for sharing your thoughts!!!
Lars,
I know someone before me in the comments mentioned creating a playlist. Have you gotten an intern yet? I would love to see a bunch of very short 3-5min videos all in the same playlist and each video would contain one or two of the popular techniques that you demonstrate throughout all of your videos. I find myself trying to do a step that I know I have seen you do in a video but have a hard time finding it again, and then I have to scroll through 30 or 40 min of video to find and review the operation. If these were in a bunch of short videos all grouped into a single playlist you could jump directly to the short video based on the video title. Thanks again as always for your tutorials! Jim
Hi RVJimD Thank you for watching!
I have not gotten a budget for an intern :-) I hope I can create some easy to search library on cadcamstuff.com this year.
Thank you for taking the time to watch the videos!!!
Hi Lars. Thanks for this great explain.
Thank you GwerderAkkordeon
Great video Lars!. Really learned alot from this one
That is awesome to hear Gediz Hussein .Thank you for watching the videos
To fully constrain the blade sketch you need to draw a line at each end to fully enclose the shape!
These videos are amazing.
That is awesome to hear p0wn .Thank you for watching the videos
appreciate the videos. question at 14:01 I do not have the "Free" feature but only "Connected" and "Direction" features, any input would be appreciated.
Hi Lars thank for the videos
I'm struck at 6:40. the line i am trying to draw is not snap to the inner circle
i tried but it just like the snap point is not there (it's snap just not at the inner circle)
Any advice that may help
thank you
ps i am just start with Fusion 360 and use to lean simple autocad in first year university
i am really try to make a fan blade here LOL
Excellent tutorials Lars
Thank you for watching, Bjarne
Hi Lars. Did you ever figure out why the sketches stayed blue? Was it because they needed to be closed where the two radius lines intercept the outside circle?
Honestly, I did not :-)...I should...
greetings from Mexico, great content
Thank you. Good lesson
Thanks so much for this !
very nice with the parameter funktion.. thanks
I like your work and keep going......
Thank you MrEdoben
genious lol
love Autodesk!
Thank you Lars!
i appreciate your work i m from india my name is nevil. thx for helping us
You are so very welcome :-) Thank you for watching!
man your such a beast at fusion
please explain how to solve problem with fillets when changing parameters. What the tricks exist?
Hey Lars this was a solid addition to your standalone repository of Fusion360 knowledge base!! congrats as always..in recent new from your northern neighbour >> Heat warning in Toronto during the last week in Sept!!! Should be jacket weather by now. Anyway, seeing as how you are making this magnificent repo I had an idea Forgive if already covered. What about producing from jpeg or scanner bed the 2D image of a part you wish to reproduce and what opensource like gimp or Inkscape may be used to help in the process of importing into F360. Is Adobe absolutely necessary to convert file for instance? Can we use two angles for better implementation ?? :-) Best,..C
Hi Chris Leech Thank you for watching!
I have done a few livestreams where I was using images:
ua-cam.com/video/34ZeXHxYS28/v-deo.html
ua-cam.com/video/AhVmPyg2WAA/v-deo.html
best tutorial ever!!! tnx man
You are so very welcome
Your videos are awesome!!
Lars, Man I been trying to get this star with a company logo in it , it need to be .375 thick with the logo in the middle of it , and when i put this together the letters go over into the star points, plus one leg dont want to be nice and join the other 4 points .what am i doing wrong so it will be all one component ? i am going to plasma cut this out,if i get it done
Awesome lesson! Works fine for me :)
That is awesome to hear paul 1066 .Thank you for watching the videos
Very helpful and very cool!
I just want to make a remark for those who now want to make a fan themselves. If you look at a real fan you will notice that the top and bottom edge are not straight like shown in this design but curved and usually the bending is not a double curve (S-curve), but a simple curve. The fan how it is designed here will work, but will probably be not very efficient.
Thanks. Right. It is not grabbing air but at least we know now to make a propeller.
Thank you
Thanks....your skill are good. Most of people create using coil and I'm lost to follow into.
Awesome......
Thank you rick mandrey
I was woundering what would happen if the hub had to be extruded outward past the blades to accept a screw or something like that. My luck all the blades would follow the extrusion. I like your approach to the blades. I was trying to use an plane at an angle for my 1st attempt at a fan.
Hi Lars, I am really interested in the use of "Driven" dimensions" (not sure if that's the correct terminology) that you used to define the fan blades. However it seems to be a feature that doesn't work on my copy of Fusion. When I try to dimension a sketch by referencing to another dimension nothing happens. Maybe there's an option that needs to be enabled ? -Cheers
Hi Gavin Svanborg Thank you for watching!
It should work for you. Double click the dimension you want to be driven so the number field highlights and then click the dimension you want to drive.
Found the problem. It appears this feature doesn't work if the timeline has been turned off.
Really appreciate your response. -Cheers
Great Stuff, thanks a lot!!!
You are so very welcome 👍😊
hi, nice video, but on 17:35 I get an error: c-pattern, the selected faces do not form a patternable object. Why? BTW are you danish?
I found the answer:Had to make the fanblade a new body
How did you make the blade a new body? Did you have to start over and redraw?
Yes I drew the blade again, and on the loft part after, you choose new body
Thank you!!!!!!
You are so very welcome :-) Thank you for watching!
Hi Lars,
Once created, you can't change the units for a parameter, you have to delete it and create it again.
For something like the number of fan blades, it's easy to forget to select the unit-less option and then wonder why your parameter creates an error.
Hmm, good point, Paul. I will try to pass that on to the development team
New to Fusion. Tried the exact same thing but when it came to the C pattern I get an error. It says "C-Pattern1 Compute Failed "the selected faces do not form a patternable object." I tried a few different things but it won't work. What am I doing wrong?
Hi Larse ji,
1. How abt the aerodynamic efficiency of that fan reg. blades profile n qnty..?
2. Can u show demo for metal sections in structures ..!?
1. I will have to see when flow is added to Fusion 360, then we can test aerodynamics....That will be awesome!!!
Fantastisk - lige hvad jeg havde brug for.