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  • Опубліковано 25 лис 2024

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  • @ProductDesignOnline
    @ProductDesignOnline  4 роки тому +11

    This video is a shortened version from my Masterclass: Fusion 360 for Woodworkers. Check out the full course curriculum here - bit.ly/woodworkingCourse
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    *TIMESTAMPS*
    0:00 - Understanding Bodies vs Components in Fusion 360
    0:37 - Top-Down vs Bottom-Up assemblies
    2:46 - Drawbacks of Top-Down assemblies
    3:45 - What is a Body in Fusion 360?
    4:39 - Types of Fusion 360 bodies
    8:18 - What is a Component in Fusion 360?
    10:23 - When to use Components or Bodies
    12:55 - Fusion 360 Rule #1
    13:39 - Fusion 360 Rule #2

  • @ero0k-b7l
    @ero0k-b7l 4 роки тому +11

    THIS IS THE *BEST* UA-cam CHANNEL EVER. THIS MATERIAL COSTS A LOT OF MONEY.
    THANK YOU SIR YOU ARE A GENIUS

  • @kevinchiu8596
    @kevinchiu8596 3 роки тому +5

    So underrated, deserves way more love

  • @mythosarts
    @mythosarts 3 роки тому +9

    I am brand new to Fusion, and your videos are far the best for my style of learning. I am so thankful for your tutorials! Great work, and thank you.

  • @ChipLinck
    @ChipLinck 3 роки тому +13

    One critical piece of information not covered is making a cut list for wood working. You have to use components to be able to create a table with your cut list in it. This is really useful when you are done and want to quickly create your cut list for what you need. You can even include nails, screws, drawer pulls, etc. if you add them as components.

    • @tgkonstux4127
      @tgkonstux4127 11 місяців тому

      any chance you could link to a video of this?

  • @tyh7388
    @tyh7388 4 роки тому +5

    Wish I found these tutorials a while ago. Thanks for the all the time and effort you put into your videos!

  • @DanSoussi
    @DanSoussi 4 роки тому +5

    As always, your videos are a wealth of information and presented in a pace I can follow.
    Despite feeling I have progressed from being a Fusion 360 nube, I still feel I have not mastered moving bodies between components and ensuring they are not still in some way linked to their original creation point, if that makes sense. I would welcome further videos with coverage to this area.
    Looking forward to future videos.

  • @dfontanesi
    @dfontanesi 4 роки тому +4

    Your videos are always so carefully thought out and articulate. Great job.

  • @Bholekibhakti9
    @Bholekibhakti9 4 роки тому +4

    You deserve 1 million subscribers.

  • @SuperJsToysChannel
    @SuperJsToysChannel Рік тому

    I am new to Fusion 360. this is really useful basic knowledge. thank you very much

  • @marianososa4309
    @marianososa4309 4 роки тому +1

    Your videos are even better than Autodesk's

  • @yayingzhang1506
    @yayingzhang1506 Рік тому +1

    Thanks!

  • @martinrcflyer4089
    @martinrcflyer4089 4 роки тому +1

    Hi Kevin, what a great video. Foundational and a must see for anyone using Fusion 360. You clearly explain how Components are different from Bodies, like Apples are from Pears. One thing you missed though, which I think helps in a practical sense for beginners to get their minds around it, is that Components an Origin and an Origin Plane In fact they have to include one Origin/Plane, whereas Bodies have no Origin of their own. This feature was fundamental helping me to understand the different ways I should use bodies and components when designing for 3D Printing, where one only really uses Solid Bodies, not surface etc. I hope this will help others understand the key concepts you highlighted and explain so brilliantly. Keep up the good work.

    • @ProductDesignOnline
      @ProductDesignOnline  4 роки тому

      Thanks, Martin! Wonderful addition - thanks for sharing this!

    • @christopher8116
      @christopher8116 5 днів тому

      Are you saying that components have an origin and a origin plane. Although bodes to not have an origin ?

  • @JeremyTaylorNZ
    @JeremyTaylorNZ 3 роки тому +5

    Instead of just saying 'rule number one, always start with a new component', it would have been useful to inform anyone who wasn't previously blessed with this insight how they can move/convert the body(s), sketches etc they've already drawn and made into components because that is NOT obvious

  • @pinchingstars
    @pinchingstars 2 роки тому

    TLDR: 8:43
    Thanks for the videos, I actually really appreciate that you go in depth.

  • @cialatr
    @cialatr 3 роки тому +1

    This was very useful! I think without watching this, I would have kept getting the vocabulary wrong too! Thank you! It's good to learn that a body and a component are not interchangeable terms.

  • @whitneydesignlabs8738
    @whitneydesignlabs8738 2 роки тому

    Thanks for sharing. The best practices and naming tips are great. I came from Solidworks and am struggling over some of these concepts. Your video helped a lot.

  • @practicalengineering6965
    @practicalengineering6965 8 місяців тому +1

    thanks

  • @fikamora
    @fikamora 2 роки тому

    Thanks so much for your thoughtful and detailed videos! On to the soft!

  • @cherylchristensen3515
    @cherylchristensen3515 4 роки тому

    Great job training and explaining some otherwise technical concepts. Excellent correlation to things people understand - file folders.

  • @sabaabdullah7110
    @sabaabdullah7110 3 роки тому

    hat's off to you sir , really thank you.

  • @jithupavi5223
    @jithupavi5223 4 роки тому

    really a great one to understand thank for ur resourses shared quite catchy for beginner

  • @jannatulrabibahamaharo9086
    @jannatulrabibahamaharo9086 2 роки тому

    Thank you.

  • @hveliorum8252
    @hveliorum8252 2 роки тому

    Thanks a lot!

  • @Onkarr
    @Onkarr 2 роки тому

    Very helpful 👍

  • @TheDarkstar826
    @TheDarkstar826 2 роки тому

    This is so useful to understand this crap. Thank you!!

  • @IdahoSpudnick
    @IdahoSpudnick 4 роки тому +2

    I build hoof trimming trucks. Basically rolling squeeze chutes they are armored with metal tubing all the way around I have been trying to do a complete drawing of one but keep getting stuck in different ways. I’m a welding shop and need to draw weldments and structural components

    • @ProductDesignOnline
      @ProductDesignOnline  4 роки тому

      Hi Steve. Proper weldments are one area where Fusion 360 lacks a feature (if you're looking for similar functionality to SolidWorks). Are there any other areas or workflows that you're finding challenging?

    • @jimbarchuk
      @jimbarchuk 3 роки тому

      Hi Steve! Your post is a year old but I had an idea about your design issues so I'll write it up. Weldments as a connection tool caused the issues, but other connection tools could just as easily mess up too.
      It was the 'top down' and 'components are containers' comments in the vid that caused this idea. I'm thinking, 'the design fails because it's not starting at the top. Where *is* the top?' And the answer I found was, 'the cow is the top.' Excuse me while I crow a bit, this is pretty brilliant. I don't have ideas this good very often and I'm having fun with it. LOL!!!
      I think of this as the 'aroundment' problem. You need to contain a cow. With normal design, you start building the frame at one point, go around the cow in width, height and length, and meet up "somewhere on the other side." That's where points don't line up. Or they do but won't 'connect.'
      I think this is one way to describe the root of issue: Both ends/legs of the structures that goes around the cow are part of the same component/container, and when the meet on the other side won't 'connect to itself. F360 basically says, 'Nope nope nope, not gonna do it, try again.' :( Yes, been there, done that.
      My idea is to build the cow itself into the design, so the aroundment bits always have a 'common shape' to reference and hang on to.
      Not just 'the' cow though, or one cow, but the cow as it exists through *time* as it passes *through* your machine! Stick with me on this...
      A cow walks up to your machine. There's a gate, and the side rails start, and maybe there's a ramp. The cow is the shape that your machine must contain.
      Create a sketch shape the height and width of a cow, imagine it's facing the gate and ready to enter the machine.
      Create an extrusion that moves forward into the machine (the machine that isn't there yet, this is just the cow.) Make the extrusion as long as you want the cow to walk into the machine. I'm guessing that after it walks into the machine the exit gate is in front of the cow and it stops there.
      If you need a ramp to get into the machine, extrude upwards at an angle, then go forward the length of the cow at a level angle, and have the cow outline go down another angle at the other end..
      You should have a blocky shape on your screen that looks one of two ways. If it's just a cow, no ramps, there's a rectangular block about 3' wide, 8' long and 6' high, or similar. You can make the outline more realistic if that's important for how the animals are held. If it has ramps then those shapes are attached to the one in the middle, and slope downwards on each side.
      So there's your cow. Now build the cage around it. I'm not going to say at all how to do that because there are a few ways and you know what you prefer.
      But here's an idea for how to continue, that keeps an original 'reference' cow available in the background. Yes timeline could do this to but this will be faster later.
      The cow as shown can't be the actual design surface; it's too small, the cage is bigger than the actual cow. It needs to be enlarged to allow for largest animals, tubing diameters and such.
      Leave the cow there, and build another box around it. I forget the name of the tool for that, but it references one body to create another completely around it. Make it x% wider and y% longer by whatever factors you use to get to your overall size. Then turn off the cow, but it'll still be there.
      The box that you built around the cow is hollow. If there's no roof, take that off. With the box shape left, use the corners and edges to define endpoints of tubing.
      Cut the front and back off the box and split those vertically to make barn door gates, or don't split it to make a single gate, or the gate drops and becomes a ramp, you know what you're doing.
      Here's another way to say it: The Trail of Dimensional Authenticity starts with a single fully defined component, and everything references back to it.

  • @AP_EDUARDO
    @AP_EDUARDO 4 роки тому

    Thank you so much for this video (and all of your videos) they are very helpful.

  • @buddwieser
    @buddwieser 4 роки тому

    Love your videos man.
    New Zealand

  • @IceCreams62
    @IceCreams62 4 роки тому

    Great explanation Kevin, thanks a lot

  • @JMayhemMusic
    @JMayhemMusic 2 роки тому

    Inventor offers parametric modeling as well.

  • @ELECTRICMOTOCROSSMACHINE
    @ELECTRICMOTOCROSSMACHINE 3 роки тому

    Nice.

  • @rjlatheart
    @rjlatheart 4 роки тому

    K, This was a great refresher, thanks

  • @mecanodesign7245
    @mecanodesign7245 3 місяці тому

    Awesome video, How to export all these parts of wood to a DXF file?

  • @souvikbiswas6736
    @souvikbiswas6736 4 роки тому +1

    Hi, can you make a video on toggle system used in injection molding machine?

  • @avejst
    @avejst 4 роки тому

    Thanks for sharing 👍😁

  • @mohammadtabish5949
    @mohammadtabish5949 4 роки тому +2

    From India

  • @DennisMurphey
    @DennisMurphey 4 роки тому

    Great stuff i needed it

  • @onecarwood
    @onecarwood 4 роки тому +1

    Damn your spot on. I was asking someone today how they set up their projects. You getting my Alexa recordings! Lol

  • @bruce5724
    @bruce5724 4 роки тому

    Great job, thanks alot :)

  • @DargoDog
    @DargoDog 4 роки тому +2

    Great information here. Seems like the term "component" is a bit of a misnomer, and should actually be called a "file".

  • @eric-eklund
    @eric-eklund 21 день тому

    Awesome idea, thank you.
    I am about to design a sauna in Fusion and thinking about the process. Would you recommend cresting a new component for each beam in the framing and then sub-assembly the framing. And joining together each beam component to the right position?
    And do the same for the walls, each side is a sub-assembly off wall components where each component is a stud or wall board?
    Thank you in advance.

    • @ProductDesignOnline
      @ProductDesignOnline  19 днів тому +1

      Yes! That will give you the full benefit of being able to use Joints... And will also make sure that if you create a parts list later, everything shows up as the correct quantity.

    • @eric-eklund
      @eric-eklund 17 днів тому

      @@ProductDesignOnline awesome, i did this and it went so much bather then my first attempt. Though when i copy one sub-assembly (the wall) all the changes i will do after will reflect on bot the sides? One wall should have a window and not the other one.

  • @SigamaCrafts
    @SigamaCrafts Місяць тому

    Thats why im here 🤣

  • @HockingRob
    @HockingRob 2 роки тому

    Hi As a beginner and not an engineer I find the use of terms outside of those in Fusion 360 quite confusing . As an example you use the word assets. I guess as a veteran and expert this make sense but not to me. Unless you define assets clearly its a worry. Another term used quite a bit is a container. Bodies, assemblies and components ball contain stuff.. Sorry Just sayin. I still found this very useful :)

  • @tarahgudmundson3532
    @tarahgudmundson3532 Рік тому

    Any tips for when I am trying to remove a nested component and make it its own component, but I can't drag and drop any of my assemblies for some reason?

  • @Mr2Xri
    @Mr2Xri 3 роки тому

    Hello Kevin, could you make a future video especially with an example about subassemblies and when do you suggest to use them?

    • @ProductDesignOnline
      @ProductDesignOnline  3 роки тому +1

      Thanks - love the idea! I definitely need to do a video on assemblies and subassemblies.

  • @brezovprut4431
    @brezovprut4431 Рік тому

    How to deal with imported large component assemblies and regroup thousands of individual components more conveniently?

  • @matthewhuber4330
    @matthewhuber4330 2 роки тому

    how do I find the video that comes before this one?

    • @ProductDesignOnline
      @ProductDesignOnline  2 роки тому

      Hi Matthew. This video is a shortened version from my "Masterclass: Fusion 360 for Woodworkers." Check out the full course curriculum here - bit.ly/woodworkingCourse

  • @vicradon
    @vicradon 2 роки тому

    Hi Kevin. Thank you for this awesome explanation. I have a question on components. Should I copy a component or mirror it?
    Also, is there a style guide for naming components?

    • @ProductDesignOnline
      @ProductDesignOnline  2 роки тому +1

      Great questions, Osinachi! You can copy or mirror - that will often depend on your design intent and other intentions. For example, if you're creating a parts lists you'll want to copy instead of mirror. Otherwise, the mirrored parts will show as 'different' on the parts list.
      Naming components is really up to you. Generally, I try to name things concise, but descriptive so someone else new to the file could understand what it represents.

  • @TheHalloweenmasks
    @TheHalloweenmasks Рік тому +2

    I am still not clear😕

    • @ProductDesignOnline
      @ProductDesignOnline  Рік тому

      What part(s) do you find confusing?

    • @TheHalloweenmasks
      @TheHalloweenmasks Рік тому

      @@ProductDesignOnline Bodies and components. I am not clear of what they are or the role they play in a design.

  • @istvanszabo4650
    @istvanszabo4650 4 роки тому

    Hi, nice post thanks. Is there any system requirement, like NVidia Quadro if you access F360 through browser? Moreover, can you sync offline projects woth the online library? Can you use both online and offline versions one after the other? Thanks. Regards Istvan

  • @kenweiland9816
    @kenweiland9816 4 роки тому

    Hi Kevin. Great video. If you drag components together to make a sub-assembly, how do you then break them apart if you don't want the sub-assembly anymore?

    • @ProductDesignOnline
      @ProductDesignOnline  4 роки тому +1

      You would have to redrag them to their new position. There's no way to "ungroup" them :)

  • @toby5407
    @toby5407 2 роки тому

    Rule #1 always start a design with a new component. So I draw a circle and extrude it, under operation, should I choose "New Body" or "New Component"? What is the difference? It is so confusing. Coming from SW.

    • @ProductDesignOnline
      @ProductDesignOnline  2 роки тому +1

      Generally, you should already have a component created and active before you sketch out the Circle/Extrude it. Think of Components as 'folders' or ways to group all your sketches, bodies, construction planes, and other features that relate to that part. The intention is that you can copy, delete, insert into another design, etc...without risk of losing critical relations/refrence objects that destroys the parametric nature of the file.
      There's not a 1 for 1 equivalent in SW. The closest thing would be to think of Components as a 'Part File'...but that analogy gets messy when it comes to assemblies as Fusion 360 caters to both bottom-up and top-down assemblies methods, as well as some unique hybrid approaches.

    • @toby5407
      @toby5407 2 роки тому

      @@ProductDesignOnline kind of understand. Thanks for making such a great tutorial.

  • @Proven88
    @Proven88 Рік тому

    I was really hoping you would cover how to create a component from a group of bodies. It seems like a really critical step, yet every single video I have watched seems to just completely skip this part.

    • @ProductDesignOnline
      @ProductDesignOnline  Рік тому +2

      That's not a good practice, at all. You have to create your component(s) first so the relevant sketches, bodies, construction planes, etc are all placed in the correct component. If you create the component after the body, you won't have the sketches in there which will cause many issues with assemblies - especially if the part is copy/pasted or reused in other files.

  • @kimpanattoni
    @kimpanattoni 2 роки тому

    I understand this now, coming from Solidworks, however... Every time I try to add sketches to my newly created body, I get an error saying that doing so is illegal and cause a bad dependency. If a body is supposed to contain all of the elements of that particular object, why do I get this error? I have no idea why this ought to happen based upon the instructions in this video. What am I doing wrong?

  • @adityavarma7366
    @adityavarma7366 4 роки тому

    Could you please make a video on how to use tool's in meshmixer ..I am facing a issue while inserting .stl file in meshmixer for 3d printing

    • @ProductDesignOnline
      @ProductDesignOnline  4 роки тому

      Hi, aditya. Can you elaborate on the issue that you are facing?

  • @tds-uf6qp
    @tds-uf6qp 4 роки тому

    Can we convert a surface to a stl file for 3d printing?

    • @ProductDesignOnline
      @ProductDesignOnline  4 роки тому

      Yep - you can export surface bodies as STL files. However, note that they're very thin and in most situations won't print without getting "thickened" first.

  • @radon8452
    @radon8452 4 роки тому

    Hello Kevin, I want to know which software do you suggest for Photorealistic rendering & Animation?

  • @173roberto
    @173roberto 4 роки тому

    How can I make the feature design tree not expand too much. I had the problem when I tried to make an assembly that I lost in the Feature tree beacuse it was huge, not like SW that only saves mates in assemblies but Fusion also saves joints in the same tree.

    • @ProductDesignOnline
      @ProductDesignOnline  4 роки тому

      Creating sub-assembly components will help you keep things organized (group several components that make sense). Other than that, it's hard to say without seeing a specific file or example :)

    • @173roberto
      @173roberto 4 роки тому

      @@ProductDesignOnline I wish I could find the equivalent to the coincident solidworks mate. And also how to align planes or use sketch entities with joints

  • @broom6958
    @broom6958 3 роки тому

    can i let bodies interact between two components?

    • @ProductDesignOnline
      @ProductDesignOnline  3 роки тому

      Your bodies can interact in any way (cut, intersect, combine) regardless of how the components are organized. The components are just there to keep the bodies "Group" how you need per other requirements :)

  • @hugodi4zcr
    @hugodi4zcr 2 роки тому

    Tell us how it been!!

  • @marknthetrails7627
    @marknthetrails7627 Рік тому

    👍✌🖖🥃good, straight forward, and understandable... thanks

  • @tag_of_frank
    @tag_of_frank Рік тому

    I'm more confused now. So bodies are a subset of components... okay... I still don't get when to use bodies over components

  • @martinbolduc9602
    @martinbolduc9602 3 роки тому

    Not sure I understand why the entire bookshelf could not be a single component and each piece of wood a body within that single component??

    • @ProductDesignOnline
      @ProductDesignOnline  3 роки тому

      The main reason - You would not be able to use Joints per each board. The 'parts' would also display incorrectly in the parts list, as well as other disadvantages.

  • @broderp
    @broderp 3 роки тому +8

    Way too much info to properly digest and comprehend for the beginner. I'm sure at some point it will start to make sense, but not today. This confused me more than before I watched. You need to take each section and explain it. "Here's a body, let's make one"..then do another followed by how to create the assembly with examples of how changing one thing can imoa the other or whatever the case.

  • @jamesbarratt593
    @jamesbarratt593 4 роки тому

    so if container is like folder on computer, and a way to organise stuff, why have you put every section of a book case in its own container. surely one container labelled bookshelf would have sufficed. I think containers are so you can have joints. Example if you wanted a car modelled and the wheels each rotating independently the wheels would all be in their own separate containers. This is ridiculously hard when designing to remember to use containers. Even the first container when you start fusion. If its of unparalleled importance then fusion should ask the container name before you get past origin.

    • @ProductDesignOnline
      @ProductDesignOnline  4 роки тому

      Hi James, I do agree that the naming and workflow could be improved.... just remember that components (containers) CAN include multiple bodies (or with your example, multiple books). I may not have made that very clear in this video.

    • @jamesbarratt593
      @jamesbarratt593 4 роки тому

      Loads wrong with fusion I have to say. Anyway so heres the question. Mid design I open a new component. Then I sketch out the body and extrude it. Only the body does not appear in bodies under the new component. It still appears under the bodies of the first component list I was using. Why is that?

  • @Gloriousvid
    @Gloriousvid 2 роки тому

    Are you live?

  • @samehbijo
    @samehbijo 3 роки тому

    guess how many time he said body :)

  • @Justin-fb7ni
    @Justin-fb7ni Рік тому

    are you talking about components when you say parts?

  • @nill9503
    @nill9503 2 роки тому

    missing my ti line sir.

  • @emblemcc
    @emblemcc 2 роки тому

    small note.. can you update the quality of your sound? The voice has strange low-fi quality to it, which is quite annoying.. do not take this comment too critical, as the content is great as always, only the voice broken like this kinda forces me to skip the video

  • @hongtse6723
    @hongtse6723 4 роки тому

    I wish I had watched this a year ago xD I have a few hundred components to takecare of now lol

  • @sahilgupta7628
    @sahilgupta7628 4 роки тому

    Hey
    Can you share your email please
    I am facing some problems in fusion 360 .

  • @chuuba_lover
    @chuuba_lover 3 роки тому

    lol, toe kick

  • @michaelcasper4727
    @michaelcasper4727 3 роки тому

    Have completed the project. 20211127