How to use Fusion 360 for Gear Heads 101: The Absolute Basics - Designing a Wheel Spacer
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- Опубліковано 10 кві 2021
- A ton of folks out there have expressed an interest in wanting to learn how to use Fusion 360 and CAD software to design car parts of their own, whether its for custom machinable CNC parts or CAD 1:1 sheet metal templates like I have featured in my videos.
I sat down and put together a first episode: the absolute basics of how to use some of the beginner tools to design a car part most gear heads are familiar with: a wheel spacer. This project teaches us how to use Fusion 360's Line Tool, Extrude Tool, Circle Tool, and the fillet and chamfer tools.
There's a lot to cover, and I am hopeful that this episode is easy to follow as an intro/basic 101. If you guys enjoy it, I'll be sure to produce more! - Авто та транспорт
Sorry in advance, folks: there's no Ferrari content here. This one's a Sunday bonus episode for those that want to learn how to use CAD. Back to our regularly scheduled Ferrari content on Tuesday!
Will this program kick out a file format that you can send off to get manufactured or is it just for printing out to fabricate yourself? A file output session would be a good follow up to this video.
@@MrWojg Agreed on this!
Please make more of these!
thank you for explaining what stuff is doing and why it is doing rather than just a walkthrough for a specific part. helping me learn rather than leaving me lost on how to make something myself
I always enjoy watching how other people use CAD. I’ve been using it for a decade and still learn something every time I see other people design a part. Thanks for doing this.
Thanks for posting this. I hope you make a series of tutorials like this. This is great for those of us who want to learn designing projects and parts that interest us. Thanks again Mike.
Great tutorial. Definitely a great skill for fabricating. Thanks.
I finally upgraded my HD so I can actually run fusion360 and just worked through this video. Well done. A lot tutorial videos move too fast and your pacing and direction were on point. I'd love to see more. When you aren't working on cars.
I've been tackling learning Fusion off and on for a while now. Most tutorials out there seem to go over my head because they tackle so much and start using so many of the advanced tools. Seeing you make a familiar part like this has helped me wrap my head around what is happening in the program. Keep doing these!
Thanks so much for making this video, it was a gigantic help and a real kickstart for me! You really have a natural talent for teaching people and I'm sure I speak for a lot of us when I say I really appreciate you taking the time to put this video together!
I could get down with an entire series of this. I dig it.
I’ve been using fusion 360 for years now for 3D printing and I definitely learned a few new things from this. Thanks for making it!
Your Ferrari series inspired me to try this out. Good tutorial. I had to rewind a few times but got there. All the best.
As someone with about 10 years of experience using SolidWorks, I am very jealous of how simple and use friendly Fusion 360 is hahaha
Awesome tutorial. I hope you get around to doing more!
Taught myself Fusion 360 in a couple of weeks.
it’s a gem to work with, have even tried solidworks and LOL,won’t do that again.
If you made your bolt-pattern circle a reference (construstion) line, you wouldn't have to select/deselect the bolt circle halves... at least I presume since Solidworks is that way and your reference lines for the rear pockets worked that way as well.
Also, with something like a wheel spacer, you could sketch a cross section of the part and revolve around the axis. This would reduce multiple sketches/features into one. The rear pockets and stud holes would still need to be made additionally of course, but you could sketch the main part, chamfers, fillets, and the hub extrusion in one sketch. Additionally, with any kind of patterned feature, it is faster and easier to complete all features first (extruded cut, fillet, chamfer, etc) and then pattern all of those features. If any of those features needed to be tweaked, the pattern would apply those edits to all in the pattern.
Overall, great stuff! Keep the content coming!
Bit late to the party. Been meaning to have a watch. Really good. Consider myself an absolute novice. Not a clue. But managed to fumble through following the video. Top content as always.
So cool that you made this video. As a hobbyist, you've done a very good job explaining everything. Pros usually take things for granted. Very inspiring to see that you took the time to learn this tool in order to be able to create your own custom parts. Bravo!!
Autodesk Fusion 360 is a lot of fun to use. I had the opportunity to use Inventor when I got my Associates in Mech Eng., hands down, the best course I've ever taken. It's the kind of software where you just have to sit down and play with the sketches and through trial and error you'll start to see your ideas come to shape on the screen. I'm looking forward to your next video, I could definitely use a refresher.
I love this, Have never tried CAD and this was real useful!
going to school for CAD rn this was a fun watch
Thanks so much for all the content. your creativity is inspiring. Your willingness to take the extra time to put out videos like this really help guys like me. Thank you so much. Love the series.
This is great. super simple yet informative. Thinks for your time🤙
Thanks for making this!! I am trying to break into designing and CNC/printing some parts. It has been hard to find a starting point for a beginner without CAD background. Hope that you evolve more project workflow and continue on to execution, tool paths etc.
Definitely make more videos like this one! 👌👏
Love it! Thanks Mike... I just started this program 2 weeks ago! So helpful!
Very helpful video, thanks. Wanna see more
Mike, really good stuff here. It'd be great to see a couple more of these lessons, like maybe Cardboard Aided Design into CAD or the iterations you did on the Ferrari suspension and how to use the templates? There's a couple of us out here that would love to be able to use Fusion better, and incorporate it in those hard-to-figure out situations.
This is great. I fumbled through designing a shifter adapter in 360, and I need wheel spacers.. I'd be interested to hear what kind of additional specs (materials, tolerances, etc) are required to provide to a manufacturer. These may not get Ferrari views but it's good content.
Awesome video. Most other videos explain it to complicated for beginners.
I need more CAD in my life. Thank you.
I was not aware Mike was a teacher before starting stanceworks
@stanceworks 🙌🏼 now that you have built 30 sets of control arms I think a fusion tutorial on how you build them in 360 is in need 😉
Man biiiiiig thumbs up! Really good video real simple to understand keep them coming!
sweet! thank for this content, dude!
Great intro, I'm off to get Fusion 360 now haha. Also 4x120 is a thing, really uncommon, old civics and a few old Mazda's (1500/RX5) had it
Great introduction, didn’t know that AutoCAD gave us such a great tool for free
Great tutorial. Clear voice, step by step with explanation, review of skills taught with multiple ways to get to B. As a teacher I approve of your teaching pedagogy! Would you be interested to be a guest lecturer/teacher for my Design Technology class?
Feel free to email me - Mike at StanceWorks.com
Thanks, that´s really handy.
I've been using fusion 360 for about 3 years now and didn't realize I could select faces instead of bodies on the circular pattern to make the pockets like that!
Really good!
Nice tutorial and explanation. But how much of a mechanical engineer would one have to be to ensure that what was designed has enough structural integrity as not to fail? i.e. sheer tensile, deformation, compression stresses
Is it fabricated and then these stress tests are applied before actual use?
Thanks, Mike. I've been watching all kinds of CAD tutorials since I got my 3D printer, and this was relatively easy to follow. There's another guy who has both Fusion360 and Freecad tutorials that have been very helpful to me. His YT is "Thehardwareguy." The more I see done with F360, the more I think I'll end up paying for it.
great tutorial! Never used software like this because it's all a bit overwhelming but now i feel like i could do it. I do have a question though, could ou use this program to draw stuff that you want to 3d print? Or is that done completely different? I want to start making 3d printed parts in the near future.
Cheers from Belgium!
You absolutely can, and the software can export directly to a 3D printer.
Make fusion 360 tutorials of these please
Is Fusion 360 a free download??
love this but cant stop thinking Mike sounds likes Kermit the frog
Could definitely do with working on elocution, and letting some air through his nose as he talks, unless it’s a sinus/deviated septum issue and his nose is just permanently blocked.