Great series!!! NO ONE that I have seen has gone into the depth that you have on how to actually use Fusion 360 to build a real life cabinet. I am build a similar wall unit with a base carcass and a bookshelf on top of the base carcass. I am building it one piece at a time with Festool domino joinery but the basic process you use in your sketching and creation of components has really helped me to understand how to use Fusion 360 to do this kind of modeling. Especially the constraining that you do in the sketches and THEN create your components by extrusion using the extrude to object option for the cross pieces. Thanks very much and please do more Fusion 360 videos, especially for woodworkers.
I hope you keep up with the series. I just recently gave fusion a try as I was originally using sketch up. Being able to use the parameters to easily make different sized cabinets has obviously been a game changer and this has been my first in-depth tutorial experience with it. Using your tutorials to currently model a kitchen for my wife. Thanks
Thank you for doing this series. I am a Woodshop teacher in CT and recently my shop got a CNC Router. I used your videos to create a Template. I utilized dado for the carcass and locking rabbets for the drawers, however I couldn't see how the router would be able to cut some of the inside 90s in your design. Also it think having the joinery and avoiding pocket screws will speed assembly.
Thank you very much for the time you put into these series of Fusion 360 videos!! I have learned in the past couple of hours going through them more than the on-off videos I have seen on fusion for woodworkers for the past year. Now that I have gone through them, I am going to build a cabinet on Fusion with your videos on a separate screen as a guide. I just did the same thing with Steve Ramsey’s Sketchup Basics Video and I works great for me. Thanks Again and you won a subscriber.
Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge and experience in your very down to earth video. Not so long winded at all!... it goes at a good pace that someone with a bit of working knowledge on Fusion can keep up without much trouble. I have watched and done quite a few Fusion videos, but your's have really helped to start to put it all together. Big boost in confidence here. Thanks man.
Thank you, this is one of the best series ive seen for cabinets and fusion. this is excellent, please make more! would love to see this series finished as far as CNC work etc.
Fantastic Videos. Great that you share your knowledge like this. With a bit of work you can save a truck load of money on programs like Cabinet Vision etc. Thanks again.
Really enjoyed this series of videos . Watched em straight through and I'm excited to see what you'll come out with next. I'm looking for info on parametric drawing and cnc machining (I install high end cabinets and I'm looking to move into design/build of custom closets) and your videos have been great. If you're installing these yourself (and you've got an L or a long run of base cabinets) my favorite trick I've seen shops use for frameless boxes is to keep the toe kick separate. That way you can shim/scribe/level a long toe kick ladder on its own and once it's secured just slide the boxes on top. It saves a lot of time and effort on the install. Thanks for the videos!
So I watched all of these through and followed along and now I have a set of cabinets for my garage shop. Thanks! Fusion 360 and Map Boards Pro have updated a bit since you made these. May consider remaking them. Would like to see adding holes for hardware such as European hinges and pre-drilling for slides.
Excellent excellent video series. In use fusion360 quite a bit at work and am just now trying to understand the functionality for building cabinets. Thank you so much for your time and dedication to the videos. I learned a great deal. One question I have, one of the most frustrating, time-consuming issues for me when assembling wood working projects is alignment of parts. Have you, or anyone else, played around with shallow pockets/dados to help align parts (nailers and top boards, for instance)? Also curious if anyone has come up with a good way to make 5 piece doors (hardwood rails/stiles and MDF center) with a CNC. I’ve got some ideas for doing a shaker style with a undercut bit that would in theory prevent having to have a flip operation but I haven’t found any reference on using keyhole/undercut bits to create dados in the side profile of stock on CNC table.
Wish we could have went into the material and appearance but great series. Also wish we would have made raised panel doors because that seems like it could be tricky we did not really do anything with curved edges.
Thanks again for the videos. I have been playing myself and one thing I’ve found to help with the board thickness change is that if you break the links to the original files you then get the original parameters appear in the groups file. You can then go in and create a new parameter for each board thickness and then map each individual cabinets board thickness to that parameter. That way you only have to change the thickness once for each board size. Hope that makes sense.
Thanks for making these videos. Even though I'm fairly familiar with fusion 360 it was useful to see your process for designing cabinets. After watching the second video in the series I was looking forward to seeing how you cut these on the CNC. For example, since you created the bottom from the dado profile, there is no parameter for oversizing the dado. I was curious to see if you were going to cut it to the exact size, or if you would use the CAM parameters to give yourself some play. Along those lines, you created the bottom without dogbones for the front inset. I was curious how you were going to handle that. Thanks again for making the content, and I look forward to seeing the CAM/CNC/Assembly
I have all the materials to make the cabinets and an still planning on making that video. However I'm in they middle of my busy season so when things slow down in August look for that video. I believe I cover dog bones in a later video. As far as adding clearance that can be done a few different ways but I usually just add it to the materials thickness parameter.
@@TLARinc Again, thanks for taking the time to make a series like this. I think I found the reference to the dog bones in the Estlcam setup video. I didn't know about Estlcam, so thanks for that reference. As far as I can tell from your demonstration and the Estlcam webpage, there is only one type of overcut (dogbone), which is too bad. My preference is to hide the overcut when possible. For example in the bottom dado, my preference would be to overcut only along the depth dimension (Y in your file), that way the over cut is not visible. It's also a little strange for the over cut to widen the ends of the through dado when it's not necessary. I haven't found a real easy (and cheap) solution to this so I usually end up modeling the overcut in Fusion, which is slow. Now that I see your Estlcam workflow, I also see why it is easy to use the thickness parameter to control the tightness of the dados. Since the depth of the cuts are not driven by the thickness of the material (they are manually set in Estlcam), it doesn't throw off your dimensions if you add a little to the thickness of the material.
Very cool videos, I learned a lot! How can you make the drawings without using Mapboards Pro? I mean a list of boards to cut, so I can give them to my woodsupplier (does not have cnc cutters, just cuts each board with a saw machine)
I started watching the series about midnight last night, and went to bed around 430am. I was able to follow along with your process on my second monitor. The speed was perfect, I rarely had to stop and pause. Even though I had a relatively good idea about how I was going to tackle this project on Fusion 360, I think I would have spent weeks trying to figure out some of the basics like cut-to extrusions, understanding components clearly, as-built joints, patterns, or even this idea that plywood is never the size you expect it to be and how to handle that. If you're taking requests, I wouldn't mind seeing if you have a good way to do dovetail joints on CNC, or perhaps any panel profiles like face contours? I'm planning to experiment with making 8ft lengths of crown molding and baseboard on the CNC. Not sure if that'll turn out as I hope, but worth a shot. Great videos. Well done.
Thanks for the kind comment. Dovetails present an issue for the typical cnc router as you need to machine the dovetails vertically. My Machaine does not allow that, however there are some methods that you can use on a cnc that look like dovetails but aren't true dovetails. Thanks for the suggestion.
Thanks for your videos. Great timing for this latest one as I only found you yesterday and I’ve watch the other four and wondered what happens to the doors. I’ve learnt a lot from these. Could I ask how is it easier to delete both doors and drawers and recreate or could you delete one of each and then reset the dimensions to look at the right side rather than the divider. Shame about not being able to set global parameters. I’m currently using Sketchup with dynamic components and I’ve been looking to see whether Fusion 360 could be used instead. I’m also trying to find out as well whether I can enter IF statements into the dimension relationship code, so that you could switch off, for example, the toe kick if the toe height was 0. Thanks again.
Great work. You have some things you can do better. For example parameters for shelfs, drawers, and doors can be made much better. Also I noticed you still don’t use suppress option which can be very useful in patterns. All in all great series !! would recommend
Okay, I've figured out how to create the sketch and constrain it all dimensionally. When I try to extrude it to create the drawer face and door, I get nothing. Sometimes I get a red hatch pattern and no extrusion, sometimes I get nothing. I don't know what to do. Thoughts?
Love the video series and appreciate the level of detail! Just did some cabinets on my CNC without parameters and changed dimensions, etc. split bodies, joined bodies... blah blah blah time consuming PITA, knew I needed to learn parametric modeling and these videos are perfect. Then see the MapBoards Pro - holy crap that alone will save me an afternoon of frustration as I'm geometrically challenged! Some ideas for future videos / questions as I have yet to flush these out myself: I like inserting the drawer slides from McMaster Carr in Fusion 360 as well as the hardware I use, helps me think things through. If doing so I can essentially pre drill the drawer slide locations and screw holes during the CAM. Seems to me like that will be worth it but maybe not? Vacuum Table - 11 HP? I'd like to see a video on that! My machine is 5 x 10 and I'm realizing why folks use vacuum tables as securing a 4x8 sheet of plywood perfectly flat is challenging every time... I use the CAM on Fusion 360. Glad to hear you think it's overkill. Since I'm new I can't make comparisons but it seemed to me the defaults are set up for very precise metal milling. Lots of items I ignore for plywood milling. The radius overcuts on interior corners - I'm guessing those can be parametric as well with a diameter variable? Best bits for cabinet making - I'm finding the two flute straight flat end mills work fine for plywood, sometimes I use upcut bits for the dados... I have some compression bits but those confuse me as I try to keep the depth of cut 1/2 diameter of the bit or less, so I'm not necessarily engaging both ends of the bit at the same time.... Or at least cutting the top and bottom at the same time.... I'm nowhere near your speeds and depths. I usually do 90 ipm and 0.125 for my 0.25" straight endmill. Maybe I'm being a baby? Anyway - thanks for the tutorial - they're great! Mark.
Great suggestions for videos, I will be stealing them for sure! Stay tuned, we'll get you sorted out with those compression bits, once you get the hang of then they will be your go-to bit!
Great videos; best I've found on using Fusion 360 for designing cabinets and using parameters in general. Question: do you know if Mapboards will work with the new personal edition of Fusion 360? TIA.
I can confirm it does. I have tried exporting anything other then dxf but dxf and multi layered dxf still work. I don’t know how long this will last however, I imagine autodesk will audit all the apps and find any that violate their new policies, but for now it works great and is money well spent.
@@TLARinc Hey Joshua. When you join the cabinet units together for the complete kitchen, and then change the width on one of the units (e.g., one in the middle), how do you keep them properly joined?
It should be automatic if you use a rigid joint on both panels, I don't often put the separate cabinets together in one file, it's not really worth the effort. Just measure the room and do the math to figure out each cabinet's width.
Since watching this video 4 or 5 times to catch all the detail, I have discovered a way of keeping the parameters in a separate .csv file and reloading that file back into Fusion. There is an add-in called Parameter I/O in the Autodesk Store. It allows one to export the parameters in a .csv file that you can modify just the values of and re-import the .csv back into Fusion. Now after I thought about this, one could create like a one line parameter list, export it, add everything else in off line and re-import it and voila!! The add_in will add parameters if it doesn't see them in the original list. However be aware that you can't reorder the parameters. You can change values and add parameters but that is it. With a little/lot of thinking I believe I can warp this add_in to create several global type parameter files and insert them into a specific design files. Let me know what you think. Regards.
@@TLARinc I believe I have done it. I can create .csv files with any and all the parameters I might want and directly import them into a design file. I can also export the parameters list in .csv form and save to an external file. Now what you end up with is a partial listing but all the important stuff is there. The only thing that is not doable is reordering the parameters within a list. But the important thing here is that you can CREATE parameters external to Fusion, and then import them in to whatever you are working on at the moment. I have created several such files with subsets of your parameters for the cabinet and imported them seamlessly. I can set initial parameter values, names etc. and it all gets imported. Comments work as well. As you go along in the design, if you add a parameter that you think is important enough to be global in nature, then you must remember to add it to your external parameter file so that the next time you start a design, the new parameter is included. To start with, download the add_in, install it and restart Fusion. Then take a new design file with nothing in it, create a new parameter and export it. Choose where you want it to go on your computer. Then go look at it with Notepad or whatever text editor you want, and voila! you have the syntax to create parameters. Create a couple of new ones and try importing the file back into Fusion. Fusion might give you an update window and a twirling circle. Ignore the twirling circle and hit ok. Next hit the parameter command (fx) and you should see the new parameters at the bottom of the list. Export works similarly.
@@grumpywiseguy5992 I'm glad you found this option as ti sure would be a pain to have to enter large numbers of parameters, one at a time. Sems odd that there is no internal bulk entry feature. I also want to check out the scripting capability using the F360 API. There is a one hour video overview of scipting on the Fusion website for those who are keen.
Wow thanks so much for this awesome series! I just got a 4x8 cnc table and I have been looking at Mosaik or other cabinetry design and CAM software, but I don't make enough cabinets to justify paying for (and learning!) those other packages. But learning fusion will be invaluable, and with your tutorials I'll be able to do everything I need! Thanks I stumbled across an add-in call "fusion sheets" which may be of interest, it lets you store parameters in a google sheets file and import them into fusion, so you can quickly export lots of sizes of your modes (I think... I haven't dug into it yet).. thought it might be useful. Here's a video the creator if it posted ua-cam.com/video/dwWDpQSrz7o/v-deo.html
Great series!!! NO ONE that I have seen has gone into the depth that you have on how to actually use Fusion 360 to build a real life cabinet. I am build a similar wall unit with a base carcass and a bookshelf on top of the base carcass. I am building it one piece at a time with Festool domino joinery but the basic process you use in your sketching and creation of components has really helped me to understand how to use Fusion 360 to do this kind of modeling. Especially the constraining that you do in the sketches and THEN create your components by extrusion using the extrude to object option for the cross pieces. Thanks very much and please do more Fusion 360 videos, especially for woodworkers.
I hope you keep up with the series. I just recently gave fusion a try as I was originally using sketch up. Being able to use the parameters to easily make different sized cabinets has obviously been a game changer and this has been my first in-depth tutorial experience with it. Using your tutorials to currently model a kitchen for my wife. Thanks
I have more videos planned should be coming out soon. Thanks for the comment.
Thank you for doing this series. I am a Woodshop teacher in CT and recently my shop got a CNC Router. I used your videos to create a Template. I utilized dado for the carcass and locking rabbets for the drawers, however I couldn't see how the router would be able to cut some of the inside 90s in your design. Also it think having the joinery and avoiding pocket screws will speed assembly.
Thank you very much for the time you put into these series of Fusion 360 videos!!
I have learned in the past couple of hours going through them more than the on-off videos I have seen on fusion for woodworkers for the past year.
Now that I have gone through them, I am going to build a cabinet on Fusion with your videos on a separate screen as a guide. I just did the same thing with Steve Ramsey’s Sketchup Basics Video and I works great for me.
Thanks Again and you won a subscriber.
Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge and experience in your very down to earth video. Not so long winded at all!... it goes at a good pace that someone with a bit of working knowledge on Fusion can keep up without much trouble. I have watched and done quite a few Fusion videos, but your's have really helped to start to put it all together. Big boost in confidence here. Thanks man.
Thank you, this is one of the best series ive seen for cabinets and fusion. this is excellent, please make more! would love to see this series finished as far as CNC work etc.
Fusion expert or not I have learnt loads and I even got the doors 😀 excellent thank you very much
Great step-by-step! Thank you!
Fantastic Videos. Great that you share your knowledge like this. With a bit of work you can save a truck load of money on programs like Cabinet Vision etc.
Thanks again.
Really enjoyed this series of videos . Watched em straight through and I'm excited to see what you'll come out with next. I'm looking for info on parametric drawing and cnc machining (I install high end cabinets and I'm looking to move into design/build of custom closets) and your videos have been great. If you're installing these yourself (and you've got an L or a long run of base cabinets) my favorite trick I've seen shops use for frameless boxes is to keep the toe kick separate. That way you can shim/scribe/level a long toe kick ladder on its own and once it's secured just slide the boxes on top. It saves a lot of time and effort on the install. Thanks for the videos!
So I watched all of these through and followed along and now I have a set of cabinets for my garage shop. Thanks! Fusion 360 and Map Boards Pro have updated a bit since you made these. May consider remaking them. Would like to see adding holes for hardware such as European hinges and pre-drilling for slides.
Excellent excellent video series. In use fusion360 quite a bit at work and am just now trying to understand the functionality for building cabinets. Thank you so much for your time and dedication to the videos. I learned a great deal. One question I have, one of the most frustrating, time-consuming issues for me when assembling wood working projects is alignment of parts. Have you, or anyone else, played around with shallow pockets/dados to help align parts (nailers and top boards, for instance)?
Also curious if anyone has come up with a good way to make 5 piece doors (hardwood rails/stiles and MDF center) with a CNC. I’ve got some ideas for doing a shaker style with a undercut bit that would in theory prevent having to have a flip operation but I haven’t found any reference on using keyhole/undercut bits to create dados in the side profile of stock on CNC table.
Great tutorial, thanks, can you make a video converting the model to a face-frame cabinet. Would be great to see how its done. Thanks again
Wish we could have went into the material and appearance but great series. Also wish we would have made raised panel doors because that seems like it could be tricky we did not really do anything with curved edges.
Thanks again for the videos. I have been playing myself and one thing I’ve found to help with the board thickness change is that if you break the links to the original files you then get the original parameters appear in the groups file. You can then go in and create a new parameter for each board thickness and then map each individual cabinets board thickness to that parameter. That way you only have to change the thickness once for each board size. Hope that makes sense.
Thanks for making these videos. Even though I'm fairly familiar with fusion 360 it was useful to see your process for designing cabinets. After watching the second video in the series I was looking forward to seeing how you cut these on the CNC. For example, since you created the bottom from the dado profile, there is no parameter for oversizing the dado. I was curious to see if you were going to cut it to the exact size, or if you would use the CAM parameters to give yourself some play. Along those lines, you created the bottom without dogbones for the front inset. I was curious how you were going to handle that. Thanks again for making the content, and I look forward to seeing the CAM/CNC/Assembly
I have all the materials to make the cabinets and an still planning on making that video. However I'm in they middle of my busy season so when things slow down in August look for that video. I believe I cover dog bones in a later video. As far as adding clearance that can be done a few different ways but I usually just add it to the materials thickness parameter.
@@TLARinc Again, thanks for taking the time to make a series like this. I think I found the reference to the dog bones in the Estlcam setup video. I didn't know about Estlcam, so thanks for that reference. As far as I can tell from your demonstration and the Estlcam webpage, there is only one type of overcut (dogbone), which is too bad. My preference is to hide the overcut when possible. For example in the bottom dado, my preference would be to overcut only along the depth dimension (Y in your file), that way the over cut is not visible. It's also a little strange for the over cut to widen the ends of the through dado when it's not necessary. I haven't found a real easy (and cheap) solution to this so I usually end up modeling the overcut in Fusion, which is slow. Now that I see your Estlcam workflow, I also see why it is easy to use the thickness parameter to control the tightness of the dados. Since the depth of the cuts are not driven by the thickness of the material (they are manually set in Estlcam), it doesn't throw off your dimensions if you add a little to the thickness of the material.
Very cool videos, I learned a lot! How can you make the drawings without using Mapboards Pro? I mean a list of boards to cut, so I can give them to my woodsupplier (does not have cnc cutters, just cuts each board with a saw machine)
I started watching the series about midnight last night, and went to bed around 430am. I was able to follow along with your process on my second monitor. The speed was perfect, I rarely had to stop and pause. Even though I had a relatively good idea about how I was going to tackle this project on Fusion 360, I think I would have spent weeks trying to figure out some of the basics like cut-to extrusions, understanding components clearly, as-built joints, patterns, or even this idea that plywood is never the size you expect it to be and how to handle that. If you're taking requests, I wouldn't mind seeing if you have a good way to do dovetail joints on CNC, or perhaps any panel profiles like face contours? I'm planning to experiment with making 8ft lengths of crown molding and baseboard on the CNC. Not sure if that'll turn out as I hope, but worth a shot. Great videos. Well done.
Thanks for the kind comment. Dovetails present an issue for the typical cnc router as you need to machine the dovetails vertically. My Machaine does not allow that, however there are some methods that you can use on a cnc that look like dovetails but aren't true dovetails. Thanks for the suggestion.
Thanks for your videos. Great timing for this latest one as I only found you yesterday and I’ve watch the other four and wondered what happens to the doors. I’ve learnt a lot from these.
Could I ask how is it easier to delete both doors and drawers and recreate or could you delete one of each and then reset the dimensions to look at the right side rather than the divider.
Shame about not being able to set global parameters. I’m currently using Sketchup with dynamic components and I’ve been looking to see whether Fusion 360 could be used instead. I’m also trying to find out as well whether I can enter IF statements into the dimension relationship code, so that you could switch off, for example, the toe kick if the toe height was 0.
Thanks again.
Great work. You have some things you can do better. For example parameters for shelfs, drawers, and doors can be made much better. Also I noticed you still don’t use suppress option which can be very useful in patterns.
All in all great series !! would recommend
Okay, I've figured out how to create the sketch and constrain it all dimensionally. When I try to extrude it to create the drawer face and door, I get nothing. Sometimes I get a red hatch pattern and no extrusion, sometimes I get nothing. I don't know what to do. Thoughts?
Can you please make a video on toolpaths in fusion 360 for this project? I have Mac so I can’t run your ESTLCAM software. Would be super helpful
Love the video series and appreciate the level of detail! Just did some cabinets on my CNC without parameters and changed dimensions, etc. split bodies, joined bodies... blah blah blah time consuming PITA, knew I needed to learn parametric modeling and these videos are perfect. Then see the MapBoards Pro - holy crap that alone will save me an afternoon of frustration as I'm geometrically challenged!
Some ideas for future videos / questions as I have yet to flush these out myself:
I like inserting the drawer slides from McMaster Carr in Fusion 360 as well as the hardware I use, helps me think things through. If doing so I can essentially pre drill the drawer slide locations and screw holes during the CAM. Seems to me like that will be worth it but maybe not?
Vacuum Table - 11 HP? I'd like to see a video on that! My machine is 5 x 10 and I'm realizing why folks use vacuum tables as securing a 4x8 sheet of plywood perfectly flat is challenging every time...
I use the CAM on Fusion 360. Glad to hear you think it's overkill. Since I'm new I can't make comparisons but it seemed to me the defaults are set up for very precise metal milling. Lots of items I ignore for plywood milling. The radius overcuts on interior corners - I'm guessing those can be parametric as well with a diameter variable?
Best bits for cabinet making - I'm finding the two flute straight flat end mills work fine for plywood, sometimes I use upcut bits for the dados... I have some compression bits but those confuse me as I try to keep the depth of cut 1/2 diameter of the bit or less, so I'm not necessarily engaging both ends of the bit at the same time.... Or at least cutting the top and bottom at the same time.... I'm nowhere near your speeds and depths. I usually do 90 ipm and 0.125 for my 0.25" straight endmill. Maybe I'm being a baby?
Anyway - thanks for the tutorial - they're great!
Mark.
Great suggestions for videos, I will be stealing them for sure! Stay tuned, we'll get you sorted out with those compression bits, once you get the hang of then they will be your go-to bit!
That map board pro, can that be used for a cut list just cutting on the saw? Don't have a cnc
There are cut sheet ad ons that are free.
Great videos; best I've found on using Fusion 360 for designing cabinets and using parameters in general. Question: do you know if Mapboards will work with the new personal edition of Fusion 360? TIA.
I can confirm it does. I have tried exporting anything other then dxf but dxf and multi layered dxf still work. I don’t know how long this will last however, I imagine autodesk will audit all the apps and find any that violate their new policies, but for now it works great and is money well spent.
@@TLARinc Thank you. Greatly appreciate your videos... BTW, are you a professional cabinetmaker?
@@TLARinc Hey Joshua. When you join the cabinet units together for the complete kitchen, and then change the width on one of the units (e.g., one in the middle), how do you keep them properly joined?
It should be automatic if you use a rigid joint on both panels, I don't often put the separate cabinets together in one file, it's not really worth the effort. Just measure the room and do the math to figure out each cabinet's width.
Since watching this video 4 or 5 times to catch all the detail, I have discovered a way of keeping the parameters in a separate .csv file and reloading that file back into Fusion. There is an add-in called Parameter I/O in the Autodesk Store. It allows one to export the parameters in a .csv file that you can modify just the values of and re-import the .csv back into Fusion. Now after I thought about this, one could create like a one line parameter list, export it, add everything else in off line and re-import it and voila!! The add_in will add parameters if it doesn't see them in the original list. However be aware that you can't reorder the parameters. You can change values and add parameters but that is it. With a little/lot of thinking I believe I can warp this add_in to create several global type parameter files and insert them into a specific design files. Let me know what you think. Regards.
I'll check it out. If you've found a way to globally manage parameters I think it will help us all out a lot!
@@TLARinc I believe I have done it. I can create .csv files with any and all the parameters I might want and directly import them into a design file. I can also export the parameters list in .csv form and save to an external file. Now what you end up with is a partial listing but all the important stuff is there. The only thing that is not doable is reordering the parameters within a list. But the important thing here is that you can CREATE parameters external to Fusion, and then import them in to whatever you are working on at the moment. I have created several such files with subsets of your parameters for the cabinet and imported them seamlessly. I can set initial parameter values, names etc. and it all gets imported. Comments work as well. As you go along in the design, if you add a parameter that you think is important enough to be global in nature, then you must remember to add it to your external parameter file so that the next time you start a design, the new parameter is included. To start with, download the add_in, install it and restart Fusion. Then take a new design file with nothing in it, create a new parameter and export it. Choose where you want it to go on your computer. Then go look at it with Notepad or whatever text editor you want, and voila! you have the syntax to create parameters. Create a couple of new ones and try importing the file back into Fusion. Fusion might give you an update window and a twirling circle. Ignore the twirling circle and hit ok. Next hit the parameter command (fx) and you should see the new parameters at the bottom of the list. Export works similarly.
@@grumpywiseguy5992 I'm glad you found this option as ti sure would be a pain to have to enter large numbers of parameters, one at a time. Sems odd that there is no internal bulk entry feature. I also want to check out the scripting capability using the F360 API. There is a one hour video overview of scipting on the Fusion website for those who are keen.
A good series, but clearly starting to run out of steam. Difficult to stay engaged when the presenter sounds totally bored.
I’m happy to give you your money back.
Wow thanks so much for this awesome series! I just got a 4x8 cnc table and I have been looking at Mosaik or other cabinetry design and CAM software, but I don't make enough cabinets to justify paying for (and learning!) those other packages. But learning fusion will be invaluable, and with your tutorials I'll be able to do everything I need! Thanks
I stumbled across an add-in call "fusion sheets" which may be of interest, it lets you store parameters in a google sheets file and import them into fusion, so you can quickly export lots of sizes of your modes (I think... I haven't dug into it yet).. thought it might be useful. Here's a video the creator if it posted
ua-cam.com/video/dwWDpQSrz7o/v-deo.html