I really wish that the Parameters window could stay open while I'm working on a sketch. As it is right now, I have to exit the parameters to add any features, and I hate that. Ideally, I would have the Parameters windows always open to the side of the main window, with easy access to add more parameters or modify them.
I second this feature request. Lars, can you please pass this idea along to the team? Ideally it would be open while I'm modeling so I can quickly add parameters or change parameters.
Agree, especially for modifying. You can now create new ones within the actual dimension itself, so that isn't quite as important as it once would have been. But pinning open for modifying would be great. Even better yet, pinning that window open on another monitor.
I totally agree. It would save us all a million mouse clicks 😉 (For beginners he might want to turn off 3D sketch so the auto ‘normal to’ works as anticipated)
@@BrianRussellFromWA Quickly adding parameters is possible. You just type _yourParamter = xxx_ when dimensioning something and this will create a new parameter with that given name and value. However, redefining existing parameters the same way would be a nice feature. As would be the original proposal to keep the parameters window open.
As always... so helpful. However beginners may wonder why the sketch plane doesn’t turn ‘normal to’. Maybe a good idea 💡 to turn off 3D sketch next time. Enough complaining. All my inspiration comes from this man. @Lars. Thanks for getting back at it 🔥🔥🙏🏻
This is a great format ... refreshes the basics , re-enforces the regular level of user plus offers the scope of more advanced techniques ... great video and thanks for your efforts.
FRC Team 203 and Mentor Andy McAlpin would like to extend a special thank you for your Videos and how they contribute to our students learning of Autodesk® Fusion 360™. The Pandemic is an unfortunate world dilemma, but the silver lining from remote learning led to our team's many great advances in the CAD design process, knowledge, and basic Fusion 360 CAM skills. Our 203 Team members have made great strides in Redesigning our robot and taking Macinice manufacturing to the next level. From your series and how the collaboration of Fusion 360 engaged our students to learn, our high school decided to switch to Fusion 360. Fusion 360 allows our students to work remotely but collaboratively in a learning environment to grow and learn in a real-world setting. You have a gift that keeps on giving toward grabbing our student's attention. Your unique sense of humor and presentation skills draws our students like a magnet. These last six months have been a large learning curve from taking Autodesk Design Academy web lessons, watching your Fusion 360 Tutorials and learning to design parts, and then taking these ideas from Autodesk® Fusion 360™ CAD to properly sketch and model 3D parts for the design and manufacture of our parts is a critical step forward for us. Learning and understanding the process of our new HASS CNC machine is one of the best accomplishments I personally contribute toward your efforts as a presenter in your series of work. Keep up the awesome job! You are becoming a celebrity in the robotics community.
I love the tip on building joints with sketches!!!! I had no idea you could do that! I recently spent hours working out a four bar linkage in Fusion that would have been SO much easier to tune had I known about that. Thanks, Lars!
Hi Lars great video. I always learn something new. I had no idea you could select faces and profiles in that way. that will be a huge help vs turning the body off to select the profile. thank you
Everyday I learn something new, and in doing so I add whole new list of topics I know I don't know or understand fully. Honestly it is kind of an awesome feedback loop, thank you for sharing your knowledge with us, it really helps keep the snowball rolling!
Lars, At 5:35 you used the 'project' tool to define the ends of a line on the sketch plane. You showed us how to project an entity and you chose the circular top of the cylinder. You did not however show us how to project the body of the cylinder. I tried this but it failed to work on a cylinder. Is there more we should know about the 'project' feature and what it can, or cannot do? What other limitations will we encounter?
Thank you so much for emphasizing to beginners the vital importance of fully defining sketches!! I teach this stuff, and it drives me nuts that students persist in the bad habits the program allows.
In the last example I would add the most complex yet useful variant: stick with width of fence piece but change the number of pieces to match the length of the whole fence. The problem is when length is not multiplication, it should adjust space between pieces and if the space is above the width of the piece (plus some spacing in between), a new piece should be added. Would that be a guru level? ;) Willing to add such solution? (I think I did something similar in my project, will have to check) Thanks
Nice job! Amazing video that made me realize my roadmap for learning how to model with fusion 360! I don't know if you had already got a better way to capture your voice/audio, if you hadn't you should. This was the first video that I watched from your channel and even with some issues to properly hear your explanation, it still kept my attention to your explanation. Congratulations for that 🎉 you have talent 🤓
last 5 minutes of this video is going to save be 15 minute on my next project. well worth it thanks lars. also be good to figure out how to do this with the construct tool and offset plane, so i can space out multiple planes along a shape so i can "split body" on each plane
On last exemple. Concidering all the parameter, is this possible to set up something who automaticly choose the number of vertical piece depending of width and fencelength. for exemple, Fusion360 automaticly choose the number of vertical piece with "width" into 120mm and 150mm and an "fencelength" into 10 and 30.?
Adding my voice to this - while I'm still pretty new to F360, it seems hard to learn anything new other than 'trial and error' on my own. Some more advanced techniques would be really appreciated.
Hey lars do you have a video that can help me understand how I can ad a shape say to a 90 degree tube at a specified angle within the outer Radisson the tube? I'm tring to create a motorcycle part that I can ad a hole and a fuel injector mount so I may aim the injector down the tube. I'm guessing I will have to project a plain at a few angles to orient a way to extrude the provision
This is the important stuff, Lars. It seems like too many videos are WAAAAY too advanced. I still don't know how to dimension sketches in all situations. That 'not-able-to-select-a face-' thing, because another face was in the way buffaloed me for YEARS. Its the small, simple basics that are too steep for me to advance in fusion.
I am an aerospace engineer working in Dayton Ohio avidly learning Generative Design. My question is How does the function cylindrify work? 2nd is the cross section of the newly created part circular or a more consistent oval shape? I see a lot of structural problems with varying thicknesses in the "before" state of demo. This feature should be the No.1 Go To to refine the Generative Design Model
Lars - I would love to see you show how you scetch sheet metal in an assembly - with project a scetch from a solid body (ex base with holes for screws - sheet metal mounted with those screws and some bend. The scetch comes up in sheetmetal - you can choose some preconfigured things like stainless steel 2.5mm but you cannot easily change it, and when you use the base to extrude from, you cannot add flanges. It must be operator error!
Great to have you back Lars. One quick question. Is there a way that when you duplicate a component the joints go with it. The example I’m thinking about is a kids train set running on a curved track. If you add more carriages can they automatically keep the rotation joint to the carriage in front as well as the slider joint to the track rails?
I don't think so, but if you have joints between parts WITHIN an assembly, then you can copy the assembly, and and the joints will be copied over as well. Joint between parts in the assembly to parts outside the assembly do not get copied when you use this method, which is probably not what you'd want anyway. One way to assemble something like bike chain with less work is to do a "pyramid scheme": first, you make an assembly that has two links. Then, you copy that and link the two together. Now you have an assembly with 4 links. Make a copy of that and join them. Now you have a chain with 8 links. By repeating this, you can grow your chain as an exponential function of the number of joints that you have to manually create (most of them get copied). E.g. you could theoretically create a chain with over one million links while only manually creating 20 joints (of course, your CPU would commit suicide before getting to that level; this is purely a thought experiment).
That would require conditionals in parameters, which Fusion does not currently support (Inventor does) You might be able to cheat and use math.min or math.max. The other option is to write a script that sets the parameters.
Hey Lars, love the video as always, long time subscriber. If there's one thing that could be improved, it's the audio quality. You have a lively dynamic style of speech and it really helps because you communicate nuance and emphasis that way, but your audio gear just isn't up to the job. Maybe one of the other subs here can provide a suggestion re mic or software to help?
It's free with some restrictions that you probably wouldn't even notice as a hobbyist. I've been using the free version for years. Totally worth the download.
how can i make a 2d print on paper,from a 2d sketch in fusion 360 using a normal printer,so all dimensions are kept,and i can print parts in the scale i need/want
Hi. im trying to make a rear seat cowl for my motorcycle, but thought trying to 3d print it would be a better option. I only downloaded fusion 360 last week and had a mess around with, but was wondering how can sketch a line that's say 45 degrees looking from the side view and 45 degrees looking from the top view. hope that makes sense
Hey, Lars doesn't do these anymore, but I think the second part of this video where he's doing a plane along a path is going to be the best way to crack that particular nut.
I liked learning about how to make joints. I did not know I could do this. However, I did not think your fence example was very real world, varying the width of the board. Boards come in standard widths. You should have made a calculated parameter where you calculate the maximum number of boards that will span your overall width between the posts.
I came across your channel maybe two weeks ago and was watching your series of three videos for absolute beginners from about 5 years ago. After a bit of head scratching and looking at other videos, my suspicion was conformed, there were not only one update to Fusion 360 but two between your videos and the current version of free Fusion 360. What I'm struggling with is the offset plane when you design the tabs on the lid. My sketch simply will not stick to the lid surface. I'm on the offset plane, but as soon as I ad dimensions to the sketch, it is obvious it's not attached and not even symmetrical anymore. The only difference to the model that I can see is that when I set up the construction line, I don't see two small circles on the outer surface of the lid and when I'm sketching the tabs, not the two circles in the inside either. Can you point to one of your videos that cover this in the current version of Fusion 360 ? Thanks in advance .....
I think Lars doesn't work on fusion 360 anymore, but from what I could understand of your question, maybe you must use the projection tool he showed on this video for getting your problem solved.
Hi Lars, Is it just me but Fusion 360 has been slow and flaky ever since thay changed the way hobbyists could access it. I am now getting frequent crashes and it seems to be off-line for hours during the European day. Maybe it is just my Mac playing up but it is only Fusion 360 that is effected. Do you know of anyone else with these problems?
Hi Bruce. I have used f360 as a hobbyist for a year now and have had no troubles whatsoever. I reside in the UK and use a 200 Mb cable internet connection.I don't know why you have this problem but it doesn't seem to be Fusion 360's problem. Sorry you have this experience and hope it is resolved soon, Regards Keith Barnes
@@keithkgb thanks for your reply Keith, I am starting to think that there is something wrong with F360 in France, for the last couple of weeks I can very rarely get files exported in the STL format. Fusion keeps say that they are not on-line and then I keep getting measages that I am not connected to the internet when clearly I am. I use a fully loaded Mac pro so it can not be machine resourses. However, it could be that I use the latest version of OS-X Catalina which used to be a real problem. So today I am going to bring up F360 on my CAD PC workstation and see what happends. Regards Bruce
I'm a Pro! So I guess I have to pay for the professional version now. I knew this video was just a way for Autodesk to sell me a licence. DISCLAIMER: This is a joke, it's just a joke, everybody calm down. The internet has no sense of humor.
NIce Video Lars, thx. As always, very easy and understandable. But the sound-quality is sice resarting your activities still not good. Maybe you had a differnet hardware in the past. Regards Andreas from Germany
You should have demonstrated how you can use a No Units parameter type to set the number of instances of fence slats so they have the same with but will fill the panels. Such as FenceSlatCount = abs(FenceLength / (SlatWidth+SlatSpacing)) Tip: use abs() to remove any decimals and get a round number 👍 Please please please get the Fusion team to export Design Parameters into the Manufacturer workspace, not having this drives me crazy, and having them pass through to CAM posts so you can access them in the post processor would be 👌
You will need to contact Autodesk Fusion 360 support through your Autodesk Account webpage. (you can just click on the circle with your initials or picture in the upper right of Fusion 360 and select Autodesk Account. Make sure to tell them in the desription that you have an Education account and that you want to convert it to a Personal account.
What's your latest video. I haven't seen you in a year. I honestly think I have learned more from you concerning f360 than anyone else. I hope all is well
Same. I owe Lars for single-handedly teaching me the RIGHT way to use Fusion 360. Like...I could make stuff before Lars. But now I can make stuff and it doesn't look like a 4-year-old did it and then a hurricane hit the timeline.
You are right on the money. Lars was THE one I could rely on for down to earth information. There are plenty of good people( very knowledgeable people) but I just enjoyed Lars
@@shifty1016 As soon as I see Lars, I relax and know that I can learn this. He is really good at teaching from a beginner's perspective. Be good to see some new content from him but I think I saw somewhere he is busy working for Autodesk.
According to this little level of comparison I am somewhat between pro and expert. But I doubt that haha. There is so much more cool stuff hidden in Fusion, which I do not know yet. And before I can`t design a moving robot or motor with all its complexity, a nice organic chassis, PCB board design and simulations, I do not feel ready to be called expert haha. So much to learn.....pewwww
Sorry Lars. My free hobbiest subscription is over and for my small personal CAD work, fusion is waaay to expensive. Like buying a Rolls Royce just to drive the kids to school. So I will leave your channel, no need to learn more fusion360. Wish you the very best Lars. Gteetings from Aalborg, Denmark.
If you are genuinely a hobbyist, you can follow the SubscribeNow/Trial Expires button in the Fusion 360 program itself to open a dialogue and find an option to renew for free. I can't remember the exact process and it's a little obscured, but I've extended my startup licence for free not long ago.
@@Jamvan001 It is made so difficult to figure out how to find it, that i dont bother anymore. Same procedure next year. I would be happy to pay $50 a year for a hobbiest subscription.
@@cadcamstuff Yours are the only Fusion 360 videos I've archived over several years. Your attention to the small details makes a significant difference, regardless of the price. Thank you
Hi @Lars Christensen. I use templates at work that are 3d Printed that we use to align badges for fitment on vehicles. The more we have the better. Toyota makes these specially for us, but they have to come from Japan and take a long time for us to get more. Im wanting to have a go at printing some. The issue I have is they are shaped to the conture of the vehicle. Im thinking this would be very difficult to do in fusion 360. Im guessing Toyota probably uses their 3d model of the car. Do you have any idea how I can achieve this?
I really wish that the Parameters window could stay open while I'm working on a sketch. As it is right now, I have to exit the parameters to add any features, and I hate that. Ideally, I would have the Parameters windows always open to the side of the main window, with easy access to add more parameters or modify them.
I second this feature request. Lars, can you please pass this idea along to the team? Ideally it would be open while I'm modeling so I can quickly add parameters or change parameters.
Agree, especially for modifying. You can now create new ones within the actual dimension itself, so that isn't quite as important as it once would have been. But pinning open for modifying would be great. Even better yet, pinning that window open on another monitor.
I totally agree. It would save us all a million mouse clicks 😉
(For beginners he might want to turn off 3D sketch so the auto ‘normal to’ works as anticipated)
@@BrianRussellFromWA Quickly adding parameters is possible. You just type _yourParamter = xxx_ when dimensioning something and this will create a new parameter with that given name and value.
However, redefining existing parameters the same way would be a nice feature.
As would be the original proposal to keep the parameters window open.
Agree would be a nice feature
Fusion 360 is the best CAD program in the universe.
As always... so helpful. However beginners may wonder why the sketch plane doesn’t turn ‘normal to’.
Maybe a good idea 💡 to turn off 3D sketch next time.
Enough complaining. All my inspiration comes from this man. @Lars. Thanks for getting back at it 🔥🔥🙏🏻
This is a great format ... refreshes the basics , re-enforces the regular level of user plus offers the scope of more advanced techniques ... great video and thanks for your efforts.
FRC Team 203 and Mentor Andy McAlpin would like to extend a special thank you for your Videos and how they contribute to our students learning of Autodesk® Fusion 360™. The Pandemic is an unfortunate world dilemma, but the silver lining from remote learning led to our team's many great advances in the CAD design process, knowledge, and basic Fusion 360 CAM skills. Our 203 Team members have made great strides in Redesigning our robot and taking Macinice manufacturing to the next level.
From your series and how the collaboration of Fusion 360 engaged our students to learn, our high school decided to switch to Fusion 360.
Fusion 360 allows our students to work remotely but collaboratively in a learning environment to grow and learn in a real-world setting. You have a gift that keeps on giving toward grabbing our student's attention. Your unique sense of humor and presentation skills draws our students like a magnet. These last six months have been a large learning curve from taking Autodesk Design Academy web lessons, watching your Fusion 360 Tutorials and learning to design parts, and then taking these ideas from Autodesk® Fusion 360™ CAD to properly sketch and model 3D parts for the design and manufacture of our parts is a critical step forward for us.
Learning and understanding the process of our new HASS CNC machine is one of the best accomplishments I personally contribute toward your efforts as a presenter in your series of work.
Keep up the awesome job!
You are becoming a celebrity in the robotics community.
I love the tip on building joints with sketches!!!! I had no idea you could do that! I recently spent hours working out a four bar linkage in Fusion that would have been SO much easier to tune had I known about that. Thanks, Lars!
Lars the best Fusion 360 teacher! I wish you would do new videos!
Hi Lars great video. I always learn something new. I had no idea you could select faces and profiles in that way. that will be a huge help vs turning the body off to select the profile. thank you
Everyday I learn something new, and in doing so I add whole new list of topics I know I don't know or understand fully. Honestly it is kind of an awesome feedback loop, thank you for sharing your knowledge with us, it really helps keep the snowball rolling!
Did not know you could do joints on sketches. Nice
We need a video on some advanced joints, such as a single component with dual revolute joints.
Sooooooo useful I can't describe! I had some issues regarding patterns and distribution, and this was absolutely helpful!
The motion study in the expert section is fantastic!
Thank you Lars, always learning new things from you!
Lars,
At 5:35 you used the 'project' tool to define the ends of a line on the sketch plane. You showed us how to project an entity and you chose the circular top of the cylinder. You did not however show us how to project the body of the cylinder. I tried this but it failed to work on a cylinder.
Is there more we should know about the 'project' feature and what it can, or cannot do? What other limitations will we encounter?
Thank you so much for emphasizing to beginners the vital importance of fully defining sketches!! I teach this stuff, and it drives me nuts that students persist in the bad habits the program allows.
In the last example I would add the most complex yet useful variant: stick with width of fence piece but change the number of pieces to match the length of the whole fence. The problem is when length is not multiplication, it should adjust space between pieces and if the space is above the width of the piece (plus some spacing in between), a new piece should be added. Would that be a guru level? ;) Willing to add such solution? (I think I did something similar in my project, will have to check)
Thanks
Nice job! Amazing video that made me realize my roadmap for learning how to model with fusion 360! I don't know if you had already got a better way to capture your voice/audio, if you hadn't you should. This was the first video that I watched from your channel and even with some issues to properly hear your explanation, it still kept my attention to your explanation. Congratulations for that 🎉 you have talent 🤓
Excellent content- as usual !!. Thanks, Lars
So happy you are back Lars!!
Astonishing material about sketches and joints. Appreciate for sharing with us:)
Another awesome, concise, and useful video, Lars. Thanks again!!!
You are so very welcome. Thank you for watching!
Can the Parameters be linked to a spreadsheet?
last 5 minutes of this video is going to save be 15 minute on my next project. well worth it thanks lars. also be good to figure out how to do this with the construct tool and offset plane, so i can space out multiple planes along a shape so i can "split body" on each plane
On last exemple. Concidering all the parameter, is this possible to set up something who automaticly choose the number of vertical piece depending of width and fencelength. for exemple, Fusion360 automaticly choose the number of vertical piece with "width" into 120mm and 150mm and an "fencelength" into 10 and 30.?
Hey Lars, I was wondering if theres anyway to retrive unsaved files?
Great tips, love the patterning fence posts. Still gotta catch your sessions on autodesk 2020 conf. Saw you had a couple.
plane on a line is a life saver ! cheers!
Will Autodesk ever develop the app so we can use fusion on tablets for more than just viewing..
I feel like there are so many beginner videos out there but no intermediate videos, do you think you could do some?
Agreed, I think Lars' expert and intermediate videos are super valuable.
Adding my voice to this - while I'm still pretty new to F360, it seems hard to learn anything new other than 'trial and error' on my own. Some more advanced techniques would be really appreciated.
Great video. Will you ever be doing the livestreams again?
Awesome very usefull fro me as a beginner to see what can be done and which direction I should go. Thanks for making these video
Great video Lars!! Thanks a lot for all the tips!!
Sometimes I think Alistair Begg is teaching me Fusion free sixty lol. Awesome channel.
Always so interesting and informative. Thanks a lot for
One Question.. why Fusion takes forever when saving a file as stl. Is the cloud processing an issue or is it due to restrictions of the free Version ?
Yes, it is very annoying.
Might be a better way to do it but i just right click a body and hit save as mesh/STL, its instant without having to deal the the cloud nonsense.
awesome tips!!! Keep up the good work, so I can become a little less bad at making fusion work for me.
Hey lars do you have a video that can help me understand how I can ad a shape say to a 90 degree tube at a specified angle within the outer Radisson the tube?
I'm tring to create a motorcycle part that I can ad a hole and a fuel injector mount so I may aim the injector down the tube.
I'm guessing I will have to project a plain at a few angles to orient a way to extrude the provision
Great tipos! I was having trouble with the cilindres!
Does the joint on sketch option work still in the 2022 version of fusion?
This is the important stuff, Lars.
It seems like too many videos are WAAAAY too advanced.
I still don't know how to dimension sketches in all situations.
That 'not-able-to-select-a face-' thing, because another face was in the way buffaloed me for YEARS.
Its the small, simple basics that are too steep for me to advance in fusion.
Mastercar? Where did you get the clamp model?
In the design workspace, under the insert drop down :)
@@JimBarnesog ok cool
McMaster-Carr is a supplier for small quantities of virtually anything industrial. They have a huge catalog online.
I am an aerospace engineer working in Dayton Ohio avidly learning Generative Design.
My question is How does the function cylindrify work? 2nd is the cross section of the newly created part circular or a more consistent oval shape? I see a lot of structural problems with varying thicknesses in the "before" state of demo. This feature should be the No.1 Go To to refine the Generative Design Model
Lars - I would love to see you show how you scetch sheet metal in an assembly - with project a scetch from a solid body (ex base with holes for screws - sheet metal mounted with those screws and some bend. The scetch comes up in sheetmetal - you can choose some preconfigured things like stainless steel 2.5mm but you cannot easily change it, and when you use the base to extrude from, you cannot add flanges. It must be operator error!
Great Job Lars, I always learn from your video's
Now I know that I'm professional and heading to be an expert. :)
You’re awesome Lars 👍
Great to have you back Lars. One quick question. Is there a way that when you duplicate a component the joints go with it. The example I’m thinking about is a kids train set running on a curved track. If you add more carriages can they automatically keep the rotation joint to the carriage in front as well as the slider joint to the track rails?
I don't think so, but if you have joints between parts WITHIN an assembly, then you can copy the assembly, and and the joints will be copied over as well. Joint between parts in the assembly to parts outside the assembly do not get copied when you use this method, which is probably not what you'd want anyway.
One way to assemble something like bike chain with less work is to do a "pyramid scheme": first, you make an assembly that has two links. Then, you copy that and link the two together. Now you have an assembly with 4 links. Make a copy of that and join them. Now you have a chain with 8 links. By repeating this, you can grow your chain as an exponential function of the number of joints that you have to manually create (most of them get copied). E.g. you could theoretically create a chain with over one million links while only manually creating 20 joints (of course, your CPU would commit suicide before getting to that level; this is purely a thought experiment).
That’s a great help. Thanks for your reply.
Another great vid Lars 💪
Is there a way instead of calculating the width of the fence pickets to calculate the maximum number of pickets that fit the distance without overlap?
That would require conditionals in parameters, which Fusion does not currently support (Inventor does) You might be able to cheat and use math.min or math.max. The other option is to write a script that sets the parameters.
Please see my other comment where I suggested this as an addition 👍
Hey Lars, love the video as always, long time subscriber. If there's one thing that could be improved, it's the audio quality. You have a lively dynamic style of speech and it really helps because you communicate nuance and emphasis that way, but your audio gear just isn't up to the job. Maybe one of the other subs here can provide a suggestion re mic or software to help?
The actual tutorial's sound was harsh. Was it recorded while sitting on the toilet at the Autodesk headquarters?
good stuff Lars, keep them coming.
Is this software free? Just want a program that I can create 3d resin prints on. Im a total newbie.
Yep the personal use license is free, its what I use to create my 3D files :)
It is. And it’s AWESOME
Download it and you won’t be disappointed
It's free with some restrictions that you probably wouldn't even notice as a hobbyist. I've been using the free version for years. Totally worth the download.
It is free for hobbiests. Just go to the Fusion 360 site and look for the free version.
Does anyone know if theres a way to add a zipper to a sketch?
how can i make a 2d print on paper,from a 2d sketch in fusion 360 using a normal printer,so all dimensions are kept,and i can print parts in the scale i need/want
Hi. im trying to make a rear seat cowl for my motorcycle, but thought trying to 3d print it would be a better option. I only downloaded fusion 360 last week and had a mess around with, but was wondering how can sketch a line that's say 45 degrees looking from the side view and 45 degrees looking from the top view. hope that makes sense
Hey, Lars doesn't do these anymore, but I think the second part of this video where he's doing a plane along a path is going to be the best way to crack that particular nut.
can you please share the F360 file you used in this video?
I liked learning about how to make joints. I did not know I could do this.
However, I did not think your fence example was very real world, varying the width of the board. Boards come in standard widths.
You should have made a calculated parameter where you calculate the maximum number of boards that will span your overall width between the posts.
Thank you ! I will take a closer look at training with the "parameters" (you have made tutos with parameters, thank's ^_ ^)
I came across your channel maybe two weeks ago and was watching your series of three videos for absolute beginners from about 5 years ago. After a bit of head scratching and looking at other videos, my suspicion was conformed, there were not only one update to Fusion 360 but two between your videos and the current version of free Fusion 360.
What I'm struggling with is the offset plane when you design the tabs on the lid. My sketch simply will not stick to the lid surface. I'm on the offset plane, but as soon as I ad dimensions to the sketch, it is obvious it's not attached and not even symmetrical anymore. The only difference to the model that I can see is that when I set up the construction line, I don't see two small circles on the outer surface of the lid and when I'm sketching the tabs, not the two circles in the inside either.
Can you point to one of your videos that cover this in the current version of Fusion 360 ?
Thanks in advance .....
I think Lars doesn't work on fusion 360 anymore, but from what I could understand of your question, maybe you must use the projection tool he showed on this video for getting your problem solved.
Hey Lars,
I would love a video on joints, I really have a hard time using them :(
Hi Lars, Is it just me but Fusion 360 has been slow and flaky ever since thay changed the way hobbyists could access it. I am now getting frequent crashes and it seems to be off-line for hours during the European day. Maybe it is just my Mac playing up but it is only Fusion 360 that is effected. Do you know of anyone else with these problems?
Hi Bruce. I have used f360 as a hobbyist for a year now and have had no troubles whatsoever. I reside in the UK and use a 200 Mb cable internet connection.I don't know why you have this problem but it doesn't seem to be Fusion 360's problem. Sorry you have this experience and hope it is resolved soon, Regards Keith Barnes
@@keithkgb thanks for your reply Keith, I am starting to think that there is something wrong with F360 in France, for the last couple of weeks I can very rarely get files exported in the STL format. Fusion keeps say that they are not on-line and then I keep getting measages that I am not connected to the internet when clearly I am. I use a fully loaded Mac pro so it can not be machine resourses. However, it could be that I use the latest version of OS-X Catalina which used to be a real problem. So today I am going to bring up F360 on my CAD PC workstation and see what happends. Regards Bruce
You are the best.
Thanks Lars, very useful video
This is a great way to produce helpful videos. Keep it up! (y)
As always great advice!
Very usefull and good video - Lars !
I'm a Pro! So I guess I have to pay for the professional version now. I knew this video was just a way for Autodesk to sell me a licence.
DISCLAIMER: This is a joke, it's just a joke, everybody calm down. The internet has no sense of humor.
Good tips Lars. Audio's a bit sketchy though :-)
Sexpert! Cool tip about using joints with sketches.
Nice info thank you.
NIce Video Lars, thx.
As always, very easy and understandable.
But the sound-quality is sice resarting your activities still not good.
Maybe you had a differnet hardware in the past.
Regards
Andreas from Germany
it sounds like you fell down a well and shouting instructions at me. Hopefully Santa brought you a microphone for Christmas.
You should have demonstrated how you can use a No Units parameter type to set the number of instances of fence slats so they have the same with but will fill the panels. Such as
FenceSlatCount = abs(FenceLength / (SlatWidth+SlatSpacing))
Tip: use abs() to remove any decimals and get a round number 👍
Please please please get the Fusion team to export Design Parameters into the Manufacturer workspace, not having this drives me crazy, and having them pass through to CAM posts so you can access them in the post processor would be 👌
Hi, Sir I have Fusion360 Student version installed on my pc. How can it be converted into a Personal Version? Please Help
You will need to contact Autodesk Fusion 360 support through your Autodesk Account webpage. (you can just click on the circle with your initials or picture in the upper right of Fusion 360 and select Autodesk Account. Make sure to tell them in the desription that you have an Education account and that you want to convert it to a Personal account.
What's your latest video. I haven't seen you in a year. I honestly think I have learned more from you concerning f360 than anyone else. I hope all is well
Same. I owe Lars for single-handedly teaching me the RIGHT way to use Fusion 360. Like...I could make stuff before Lars. But now I can make stuff and it doesn't look like a 4-year-old did it and then a hurricane hit the timeline.
You are right on the money. Lars was THE one I could rely on for down to earth information. There are plenty of good people( very knowledgeable people) but I just enjoyed Lars
@@shifty1016 As soon as I see Lars, I relax and know that I can learn this. He is really good at teaching from a beginner's perspective. Be good to see some new content from him but I think I saw somewhere he is busy working for Autodesk.
Thank you it's going to help me a long way
Great Video
According to this little level of comparison I am somewhat between pro and expert. But I doubt that haha. There is so much more cool stuff hidden in Fusion, which I do not know yet. And before I can`t design a moving robot or motor with all its complexity, a nice organic chassis, PCB board design and simulations, I do not feel ready to be called expert haha. So much to learn.....pewwww
Sorry Lars. My free hobbiest subscription is over and for my small personal CAD work, fusion is waaay to expensive. Like buying a Rolls Royce just to drive the kids to school.
So I will leave your channel, no need to learn more fusion360.
Wish you the very best Lars.
Gteetings from Aalborg, Denmark.
If you are genuinely a hobbyist, you can follow the SubscribeNow/Trial Expires button in the Fusion 360 program itself to open a dialogue and find an option to renew for free. I can't remember the exact process and it's a little obscured, but I've extended my startup licence for free not long ago.
@@Jamvan001 It is made so difficult to figure out how to find it, that i dont bother anymore. Same procedure next year. I would be happy to pay $50 a year for a hobbiest subscription.
Yeah! I'm an expert at sketches
Lesson is very good, but audio is too harsh.
Thank you. You are right about the audio-but the price is right :-)
@@cadcamstuff Yours are the only Fusion 360 videos I've archived over several years. Your attention to the small details makes a significant difference, regardless of the price. Thank you
You are looking very thin..i hope your health is gud...i like your detail explained videos
Keep your mic volume down when your about to say you signature "and NOOWW!!" 🤣😜😜
I was actually expecting a diverse level of sketching from scratch not different level of sketches on different level of bodies.
In german please
Hi @Lars Christensen. I use templates at work that are 3d Printed that we use to align badges for fitment on vehicles. The more we have the better. Toyota makes these specially for us, but they have to come from Japan and take a long time for us to get more. Im wanting to have a go at printing some. The issue I have is they are shaped to the conture of the vehicle. Im thinking this would be very difficult to do in fusion 360. Im guessing Toyota probably uses their 3d model of the car. Do you have any idea how I can achieve this?