Just FYI to the creator and others. When I create the new canvas, it gets added at the root of the project rather than the component. I see others having the same issue. If you are too, follow these steps. First, follow the video up until 1:50. Do not click on the orange plane on screen, ( the orange square ). Instead, expand the bottle component on your browser to the left. Then expand the "Origin" under that. From there you can click on any of the planes listed, XY, XZ, or YZ. If you want to follow along with this tutorial, click on XZ. Then resume the video.
Hi Kevin As a newcomer to 3d CAD I am really impressed by your series of videos and the straight forward explanations. I am having difficulty finding the link to download the Glass Soda Bottle (lesson 2). Could you please direct me to the download link many thanks Paul Munby
For the ones that has problem with "New component" and that the canvas gets low opacity and the canvas is not imported under the component you need to do the following: 1) Create the component 2) Deactive the "origin" folder above your new component (click the eye) (or you can right click and hide planes and hide axes) 3) Import the canvas and when you select the "Front" you need to be sure that the Yellow/orange box/side is "blue" otherwise it will be inserted in the standard Origin
In simple terms for real noobs like me, BEFORE adding the image, under the drop down "Origin" on the left side of your window, expand the list, click XZ, then there will be a blue box on your screen. NOW click the insert then canvas, then ok. This worked for me after messing around trying to figure out what's what. Like I said I'm a complete noob.
@@LnJCanadianRC I had the initial issue and i'm glad you mentioned it. by default the Origin plane is active from not our object. probably a useful feature for someone who knows more.
Dumb question from a total beginner, when I'm in the middle of setting and adjusting spline points, how do I move the image so I can see the part I need to work on? If I zoom in enough to get good detail, then it doesn't all fit on the screen, so I need to scroll around somehow but can't while selected for fitting/changing points.
You'll want to "Pan" around, which can be done a number of ways depending on your mouse/track pad setup. You can use the pan feature at the bottom of Fusion. You can hold the middle mouse button down and move your mouse to pan. On Mac, you can use a three finger swipe on a track pad (doesn't work on all Windows machines)
Hi , I am really enjoying the course and I am a total newbie to CAD. The trouble i m having is the file download for day 2, the soda bottle. Where can I find it?
Hey guys I found problem solution for shell command when it can not detect face, you only can select whole bottle! So basically problem fit point spline, do not round or make horizontal last top point, in video he did not do it, if you do it, fusion will think that top face isn't flat surface! I just deleted last spline point and it didn't change much my spline so I left it as it is and shell command worked! If you want round edge you better use filet tool after you do shell command, DON'T MAKE ROUND TOP EDGE IN SKECH !!!!
@@stevea1008 Even when I use a horizontal top it still chooses the whole bottle. I ended up extruding the top face up by 2 mm and then it can select the top face only.
This FREE course is light years better than the three prior ones I had purchased on Edemy. I really appreciate you taking all this effort to make these videos.
Hi Katie. Glad to see the excitement :) I had to take some personal time to take care of family... was planning on 2 weeks... and here we are lol. Anyway, feeling refreshed and happy to get back into a rhythm. Will be working through this series revamp and attempting to do 1 a week. Day 3 will be ready next Friday.
I'm having trouble with the canvas command (1:57). Following the instructions, and having tried several times, it looks like it is working but never creates the "Canvas" folder within the bottle folder. The bottle image, along with the axes and faces, are transparent as well. Instead, there is a folder named "canvasses" that appears in the tree above the bottle folder. I can go to the image and perform the rescaling operation, but the image is very transparent, so I am not sure if I have failed to do something correctly. Any help would be appreciated.
I"m having the same issue, man. In fact, that's why I'm reading so far down in the comments. Hopefully someone comes along and sorts it out. Did you figure it out?
@@jeffreydauhmer385 @bruceogletree7995 Same here but found the problem. Make sure the top entry (component name - Glass Soda Bottle) in the browser pane is visible.
Very useful tutorials - thanks for making these available. One small thing - if you draw the line at the top of the bottle from the outside to the inside then Fusion 360 takes this as an extension of the existing line and a single surface. Then you can't select the top of the bottle to do the hollow step. You have to draw the line exactly as you do in the tutorial - from the centre axis to the edge - then it works.
Ahhhhh I did this but my sketch still wouldnt turn blue. Hollow step = revolve lol. I realized my curved line was dotted therefore it was a construction line not a real line (I need to make real line the default somehow). Changed the line type and now it is a blue sketch.
Good tutorial. I also had the problem with the shell command that I could only select the whole bottle. What I did wrong was that I put the vertical contraint at the top on the last spline point instead of the straight line on the top. This doesn't work.
Hey can you advise. I create new component. Then add the image via canvas. However the canvas is separate rather than under the new component I create. Am I doing something wrong? Or does it not matter. Thanks
Struggling here - When I click to ccreat the canvas, it does so as a bullet at the same level as Bottle 1, insteead of as a part of Bottle 1. Can't figyre out what i'm doing wrong
When importing the image as a canvas, you have to choose a face to orient it. Change your origin visibility settings so that the face you select is the one under your bottle component instead of the whole design’s origin.
Ok guys, for any of you monkey's like me out there, here is the most destiled way I can fix that issue with the bottle not having enough brightness, the canvas folder creating outside of the bottle object folder, etc: There are 2 origins, the original "background" origin, and the new component's (the bottle that we still haven't made) origin. So you need to DISABLE the Origin folder that is OUTSIDE the component, and activate the component origin, THEN you import the picture on the XZ yellow square and voilá!
There is NO better basics instruction on CAD design with Fusion 360 out there. This is not just well done, Kevin creates the most cogent, concise and distraction free learning process you could ever hope to find. No shitty music, no distracting window with his face all over it, no crappy transitions and irrelevant information, no various concepts meshed into one video, no skipping over even the most BASIC mouse and keyboard controls, all the while being 100% perfectly efficient in how the knowledge is disseminated, not even one wasted word or moment. This is really the pinnacle of how good tutorials and courses can be on youtube. I honestly shudder to think about how much effort has to go into this to get it so perfectly distilled, it's really impressive. Thank you!
Love the reboot of the series! Like another commenter said below, if your screen recorder has the option please turn on the cursor highlight and keystroke display (so we can see you press A instead of you having to comment "A as in Alpha") That is about all the wish list I have. See you Friday!
Hello, I'm from Greece and I'm trying to keep up with your wonderful tutorials. But I come across some strugleS and I really need your help. So, for some reason I select the canvas option , I go to my computers downloads, I select the image , I open it but instead of opening it with your order, such as bottle 1> origin> canvas> image, it appears with this order;origin> canvas> (from the default) image and then bottle.And I cant understand what is going wrong. Besides that, when I open the image the opacity of the planes and image is really low, i tried putting it bigger from the canvas settings but it didint work out. So I'd love some help on that too. So sorry for any language mistakes! I'll be waiting for your response.
I'm having trouble with setting the opening of the bottle to 11 mm. I horizontally constrained the final top point of the fit point spline with the top of the center axis. But setting the distance between the two to 11 mm only pushes the top point of the line as opposed to the whole line. Now I only have an opening that it wider than the neck. Did I do something wrong?
Hey Kevin. Don't have enough words to thank you for this series and all other videos you made/make. a concern here: I am on personal edition in windows and when I create the canvas it doesn't come under the component. It goes on its standalone group in the browser. Is this something expected (change in different SW releases?) or am I doing something wrong?
Thank you so much for re-doing this series, I understand its a lot of work but hopefully worth it! I've linked a lot of people the old one because your tutorials are so well made. Now I can send them to this new one instead.
At 10:34, when I apply the shell command, I get an error. It goes away if I change to 1mm width. You suggest that I could edit the bottle, instead. How would I edit the bottle?
Hi Elizabeth. You can double-click on your sketch in the timeline to edit it. Then, adjust your spline handles to modify the shape. It's most likely your top spline handle that is causing the issue.
Great video for someone with 0 experience like my self! I am having problems understanding how to fix the shell problem but I guess I will understand it in the future, right now no matter what I do, I end up messing it more 😬
hi Kevin, woking my way through the course. once ive inserted the image, it does not appear in the browser in order for me to calibrate. my image is also very faded even though i adjusted the opacity. ive tried a few times creating the file from scratch but i just cant find the canvas in browser. must be missing a step😵💫
These lessons are perfect. Clear and concise instructions. I have no end of trouble trying to follow F360 tutorials. These are exactly simple enough to get started.
After adding the FIT POINT SPLINE for the bottle curve, I cannot continue to edit the points. I can edit a single point, but it will not let me select a new point to edit. Any ideas???
Dunno if anyone else had this problem, but if you had trouble with the shell direction of the bottle (around 10:20), in the sketch after you create a horizontal constraint for the top line of the bottle, you might need to create a vertical constraint for the last spline point that connects to the bottletop line. Before I did that, it kept attempting to create a shell in the horizontal/arbitrary angle direction of that last spline point's alignment, which would either error or mess up the whole 3d shape.
The constraint at 7:23 is for the last line (which creates the top of the bottle) not for the handle of the spline point. If you create another horizontal constraint for the handle of the spline point it indeed doesnt work. It doesn't need to be vertical though - just steep enough should do (which depends on your spline shape). I@@onemangamer587
another issue with the shell :( fusion does not let to select a bottle top face; the whole body always selected; I can select this face manually when not using a shell tool, but when the tool is selected - it's impossible
I’ve been using Fusion 360 for about a year with acceptable results but I still struggle with some basics. Your videos have been a big help as I reboot my learning curve. Thank you and keep them coming.
EDIT: Accidently left feedback for this course thinking it was autodesk and Kevin got back to me right away. Not really sure what to say here but that is next level support and a totally over the top thing to do for an irate stranger... Well I am subscribed and ill be making sure to comment on every video at least once and leave a like on all of these as well. Really just a good person here, unreal
Appreciate it! My goal is to help as many people learn Fusion 360. A big part of online learning is getting help when 'stuck' and I do my best to answer as many questions as I can each week. Happy learning! 😁
Had trouble getting the canvas to show up on the component when following exactly. After reading some of the comments discovered one more "Non-intuitive" feature about Fusion. Needed to hide the "Origin" feature on the main tree which was active by default, and enable the origin feature under the component "Bottle" which was inactive by default. That fixed it so the canvas showed up under the component.
I have been looking for your bottle to download for the in Day #2 tutorial. Please tell where to find and how to download to my computer. Thanks. PS so far I like your tutoial.
All applicable demo files (reference images, notes, etc) can be found on the link in the video description. You'll also find that I've made them 'd' + number of lesson - productdesignonline.com/d2
Hey! I am new to fusion 360 and I set the sketch dimension 11mm but when I use shell on the top of the bottle 2.5mm is too wide and i need to use 0.25mm :I why can that be?
I was having issues with the shell and sketch. No matter how much I changed my sketch, the shell command would pretty much hollow out the bottle, without leaving an opening at the top. I ended up changing the top lip constraint from horizontal to vertical which made the bottle look weird, but then I used the fillet tool at the top of the bottle at 1mm on the outside rim and inside rim to achieve the desired goal. I'm going to continue to work to find the root cause of the error in my sketch, but if you're having issues with the shell command, it could be because your curve going to the top horizontal line is too rounded. I found it needs to be more sharp/perpendicular/90 degrees for the shell command to work properly. It essentially wouldn't let me select the top face as a starting point for the shell and would just shell the object as a whole. Sorry for the long comment but it was driving me nuts and there might be someone with the same issue out there. I did this tutorial twice, gave up the first time and restarted to run into the same issue again.
The appearance function is kind of weird. I dragged an appearance onto the glass bottle. say light blue but then I thought I could change the appearance by dragging another onto the bottle. It kind of stacked the appearances on top of one another until the bottle was black. I don't understand how to remove the previous appearance(s)
I've done this over so many times now. I can't make a shell from the top. Is the opening just too narrow or sketched in a way it dosen't know how to hollow from top?
What is the advantage of saving designs in folders? Why not just save them directly in the project without the intermediate level of folders? What else, besides the design, is stored at the folder level?
Getting the shell command to work was brutal! Got there in the end with a lot of trial and error. Thanks for the tutorials, only two in and they are great.
Thanks for the lesson. However, the Canvases does not looped in the component but under Origin in the Browser. I guess is version difference but it looks a bit odd to me.
For some reason when I perform the shell action and the fillet action it only seems to work as a decimal aka 0.25 mm instead of 2.5 mm. Do you know what the reason might be?
Everytime I make a canvas at th 1.30 mark it puts the canvases above the componnet bottle 1 not under it like yours and then later it screws things up as a result why?
I see the same thing :( Was wondering if anyone had a fix. Ok I got it, after you go to where the reference image is hosted, click on the "Glass Soda Bottle" link, to pull up the image and right click, "save as" to your computer and import that one. That one wasnt transparent for me.
Everything goes as shown until I get to correcting the bottle top size. I filet the bottom to 5mm, but when I double click on the bottle top then the time line the bottle just turns blue and I dont get the sketch view where the top can be sized to 11mm
What a nightmare piece of software this is. No idea why your workspace doesn't have the gridlines, but I can't help but feel like I'm doing something wrong. My bottle looks FAR more translucid than yours (even if I set its opacity to 100, instead of your 50), making it pretty hard to delineate around it. Somehow it's also not centered in the X plane. I fight my OCD and frustration and ignore these things. The hole in the top of my bottle was SO different in sizes (probably due to poor tracing because of the image not being displayed clearly) that upon setting the "top dimension" to 11mm cause the rest of the sketch to absolutely go to sh!t. Ignore one more thing, repair if possible and move on. "Activate the shell command"... the top of my bottle doesn't seem to be selectable and instead, the software selects the entire top half of the bottle. Moving on and typing in 2.5mm for the inside thickness results in, somehow, the entire top of my bottle disappearing and tuning my bottle into a koozie. "If you do get an error message, it's likely due to the thickness not being appropriate with the geometry of the bottle. Edit your sketch and adjust the stem of the bottle unitl the shell command works". Great. Just F around "until it works". Got it. I eventually did get this by means of restarting the whole thing (twice, as I was not getting different results), deleting points and lines and redrawing straight lines (a trick I know from Sketchup needing a shape to be "complete" or "sealed" in order to be extruded as a solid). This was more challenging than I'd care to admit and it nearly brought me to tears. I am also not a total beginner here, I learned the basics of Inventor back in college, and I've been using Sketchup for 3D design for years already. Wanted to move to Fusion for no good reason, and I still want to, but I'm starting to doubt if Fusion is the right tool for me to design stuff to 3D print. Please excuse me if it sounds like I'm complaining for a free course. I've read a lot of comments and people seem to suggest this is one of the better courses on Fusion. I know I'm a dumb individual and that may very well be the inconvenience here. Man was this excrutiating.
Hi Paul - a lot to unpack in one comment, so pardon me if I miss something. The 'layout grid' is simply visual and doesn't affect the model in any way. You can turn that on and off in the Grids and Snaps settings at the bottom of Fusion. (Icon to the right of the computer-looking icon). re: translucent. It sounds like your reference image may have been placed at the top level and not the component level. Where is the 'canvases' folder nested under in your Fusion Browser? If the top of the bottom is not selectable via the Shell command, then there is an issue with it not being perfectly flat or planar. Make sure you have a horizontal constraint on the top line if one was not automatically applied. re " Great. Just F around "until it works"". Unfortunately, with splines, that is the reality. Most of the lessons have very specific inputs, but there is so much 'freedom' with splines that when users don't trace the bottle in a similar manner (same number of fit points and accuracy of tracing) then it can change the overall size. The Shell command will trace the perimeter, so if it's got too sharp of a curve or a narrow section, then it often throws an error because it's physically impossible to define a real thickness. It sounds like that is what's happening for you. If you can share a link to your file that will also help me see what's going on with many of these issues. (File > Export > export as .f3d > email it to Kevin[at]productdesignonline.com. May take me a few days to review it and reply. I will say that out of the thousands upon thousands of students I've taught the last 5 years, those coming from SketchUp tend to struggle the most because it's a completely different mindset. It can be hard to let go of expectations based on what/how SketchUp does it. That being said, I've seen *many* former SketchUp users get over that hurdle and never look back. I believe if you stick with it, you certainly can too! It may be painful in the early days, but things will start to click. I believe in you :)
This is so good tutorial and well explained. I have two questions hoping someone will know. 1. The canvas is in the bottle folder in the side menu. Instead it has its own place above named canvases. Have anyone else experienced this and does it matter? 2. When I insert the picture I can barely see it. The opacity is the same as in the video but it's almost invisible.The same happens when I press "new component" (almost can't see it). Does anyone know how to change that?
I had the same problem, that's how you solve it: turn off the eye of the "Origin" Folder above your bottle component. Check if the "Origin"-Folder is activated in the Bottle-Folder then choose the face
@@sandyyasmin8020 I appreciate the help here too, but when I tried your fix, it didn't work. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong here. How do I make sure the Origin folder within the Bottle folder is activated? I clicked on it and it turns blue before inserting canvas, but am I missing something?
I solved it somehow 1. Hide Origin above the component by clicking on the eye icon 2. Navigate inside the component and make Origin visible. 3. Select origin, it will make it blue 4. Insert the image. You will be zoomed automatically(I don't know why) zoom out and select front Now, you will have canvases inside component and image with full visibility
@@sanjeevshrestha5049 Just adding one thing, since this seems to be a bug in Fusion 360 right now. For me, the Origin for the assembly (the top-level Origin) is the Origin that becomes visible, but the eye next to the assembly's Origin doesn't look "activated". I had to click the eye next to the assembly origin twice to actually make it go away, and then I had to manually enable the component's Origin by click it's eye, and then manually hiding it again once I was done. Oy.
Thanks! I typically caution people on Udemy (specific to F360) as most of them are people who just learned trying to make a quick buck. They teach a lot of hack jobs/bad practices that I have to help folks unlearn 😊
I really appreciate these tutorials, as I usually figure out software by just using it and searching for solutions as I go, but it's just not possible with F360. Coming from 3D Studio Max, I find the workflow and interface surprisingly unfriendly and find that my "better intuition" is completely useless for the majority of my learning process.
Thanks for this series! I'm having trouble with the shell command in the "How to make a body hollow" section. After following the instructions you provide, the mouth of the bottle stays closed, and when I try to do the shell operation again, it says it has already been done. Any idea what I did wrong? Thanks!
I also had some trouble. I discovered that I had not created a separate line for the top of the bottle. You use the fit curve method while you are tracing out the curved portion of the bottle outline. When you get to the Top of the bottle, complete the traced line process by clicking on the check mark leaving the last flat part of the bottle open. Then select the line function and click on the end of the previous line and then click on the center line and complete this function by clicking on the check mark. If you created a closed drawing, you can click inside the object and it will turn green. Now you can revolve the drawing to make the 3d bottle as he described. Now you should be able to click on the surface of the top of the bottle, it should turn blue, select the shell command and follow the instructions.
@@JCBoss76 Is there anything else I could be doing wrong? I've made sure the profile is closed before revolving, but I still can't select just the top face of the bottle.
@@Joe_Bandit Did you make sure you used a separate straight line for the top flat part of the bottle top? Don't just use the curve fit function to trace the top flat area. Using a separate straight line gives you a separate detail to select. Also there is a "select" function in the top tool bar. Hit escape to make sure you don't have some other function active, click on "select", then click on the top of the bottle which should select it.
Great course but I am having a problem with Day 2. My canvas opens above the bottle component and is very faint. I get into trouble trying to add the spline because I cannot see the bottle outline clearly. When I imported my image I closed the origin file (clicked the eye), selected the front plane...which highlights as faint blue. Still canvas doesn't open like yours in your tutorial?? I suppose I could increase opacity of the image...but am I missing something?
Try removing the canvas and reinsert it. When you go to insert again, select the origin plane in the Browser instead of the middle of the screen. Make sure you select it from the origin folder that is nested under the Bottle component. It sounds like yours referenced the parent level origin for some reason. If it still happens, please share a link to your file.
Hey there! I havent seen this asked anywhere in the comments so its potentially something on my end but when i go to select "Canvas" then select "Insert from my computer" absolutely nothing happens and the screen goes away as if it was clicked correctly. Tried everything, please help.
I just spent about 2 hours digging into Fusion360. My background and experience goes back to Rhino and Maya back in the early 2000's so a lot of these techniques and walkthroughs are a great refresher. I haven't used an modeling/design software in over 20 years and it feels like second nature. My only challenge is it just dives into the tool and interface and maybe I haven't looked at your channel but I'm finding that running these videos at 75% speed is helpful because I'm new to the UI of this application. I stumbled upon this video series and probably should have started somewhere else first but needless to say these are super easy to follow and gives real application purposes of how to leverage to the tool in its most practical form. Thanks for creating this series ( what appears to be from 2022) but all still relevant. Since I', not in any production mode yet and just getting back into it I'm hopeful the full series does not required any paid features. I'm getting back into modeling as I'm in the market of getting a 3d printer. I cannot wait to re-create what I did in the early 2000's by printing designs in a 2d plane (paper) and getting them re-modeled with newer technology and create my designs from college in a 3d space with a printer. This series ( so far) is super helpful thanks for sharing and taking the time. Only downside is it just dives directly into it but I know there are tons of videos, maybe a recommendation is to provide a VERY basic interface video before jumping in. These concepts are not foreign to me so I'm able to follow along very easily.
I was able to get this to work by opening the origin folder under the bottle. You should see the XZ access in origin under bottle high lighted. I have the front view selected in the top right.
It may be just me and how I did things, but is anyone else having a problem with the shelling of the bottle where it selects the whole bottle and not just the top face? When it selects the whole bottle, it shells out the bottle without reaching the top face creating an opening. I'm doing this in august of 2024 so I'm wondering if there have been some software changes since the posting of this video. If anyone has any suggestions, I would greatly appreciate them.
No changes to the software have effected this workflow. If it's selecting your whole bottle then it's likely your top face is not planar (perfectly flat). You'll want to make sure you have the horizontal constraint on the top line. Let me know if it is already there!
Hello, I have a problem at 2:22, the canvases folder is not inside the Bottle:1 folder, but directly above it. Could someone help me figure out why that is happening?
When placing the reference image, you'll want to make sure to select the origin plane that is nested under the Bottle component. It likely picked up on the parent origin plane.
I was about to give up on 3d modelling but just 2 of your videos have me up and printing, I hope all the others are supporting you as well. Far cheaper than the over priced mind ****s offered by the so called experts. Educating is a gift and you have it in spades. Thankyou.
Hello! Does anyone else have trouble inserting the canvas into the created component? I'm clicking on the component when creating the canvas but it always pops up as a separate tab, between the origin and component tabs. Does it matter? I wasn't sure if this was me not knowing what to do or an update to Fusion
Make sure you're selecting the origin plane that is nested under the Bottle component. There will also be a parent origin plane and if that is selected it will automatically place the Canvas outside of the Bottle component. You can select the origin plane in the Browser instead of the model, which will make sure you don't select the parent one.
Would be nice to elaborate what does mean "edit your sketch... until the shell command works" at 10:40. I'm getting this error and I have no idea what is wrong with my sketch. Thanks.
Shell will trace the outer contour, so if the desired thickness doesn't work then it's almost always due to the curvature being too tight and not having enough room for the thickness. With the bottle, it's likely the area around the lip of the bottle. Try adjusting the top spline point and see if that fixes it. If not, try the second spline point.
Bro not gonna lie, you are insane man, the level of explanation and how you basically taught me to create stuff on fusion 360 is insane, I love you so much bro, please keep on creating content and I'll make sure you get enough reach. Thank you man, love you always.
Some of the appearances (such as glass, etc) will look a bit different when in the Design workspace. If you switch to the Render workspace you'll see the more realistic appearance. It could also be related to what component you have 'active' in the Browser. Check which component is active. The Bottle component should be active.
Good tutorials, but i wish you did things a bit slower and explained more in details what you mean. I still don't know what you mean by return key, just used enter as usual. Putting the video in 50% on youtube makes the speed good enough to duplicate it in fusion during the video.
When I try to use sketch dimension it just shows me what the current dimension is, but I don't see a way to actually change my sketch using that function? Any ideas what is going on?
It sounds like you have a 'driven' dimension, which happens when another dimension is already applied. By chance, do you have another dimension on the sketch/same entity?
Link is in the description. For your convenience, here it is: productdesignonline.com/d2 All resources have an accompanying web page. Simply change the number to the day you're on 😄
Cannot get the shell to work. Spent over 2 hours messing with the sketch that went completely haywire, got it fixed and finally got a shell but with no hole through the top... pretty much give up on getting this lesson finalised
Typically due to the top surface not being planar (perfectly flat) OR the top spline handle being too sharp/narrow. Try adjusting the top spline hand point and see if that fixes it :)
Having the same problem with location of Canvas. Info below helped, but none worked (for me). What I found was that (might be I misunderstood a term or something) the "eye" for the Origin portion of the component was NOT ON. I'd turned the eye for the root design off as suggested below, but that still hadn't resolved the problem. So, when I selected the FRONT face, even with the "root" origin eye OFF, the canvas was still assigned to the main design. One thing I noticed, though, was that the yellow blocks representing the axis faces were a pale, highly transparent yellow - not the nearly sold yellow shown in Kevin's tutorial. After clicking on the Component Origin eye, I noticed the axis faces were immediately a nearly solid yellow (as in the video). I'd thought it was just a characteristic of the screen capture. Once the faces were solidly yellow, everything worked as Kevin demonstrated. Phew! :)
Hi there. When placing the canvas, for some reason my canvases folder is not under the bottle component but as a separate folder under 'Glass Soda Bottle v1'. Also when I insert the image, it is very light and barely visible, only when I turn opacity to 100% can I somewhat see the outline of the bottle but still not very clear. Any help regarding this would be highly appreciated. I was following the steps exactly as you did. Thanks
LIterally no matter how hard I try or no matter what I do, at 3:55 minutes into the video, I cannot get that "Create Sketch" from that drop down menu. I am stuck.
You can also activate the 'Create Sketch feature in the toolbar. It's the very first icon in the toolbar. It is always available in the right-click menu when you select a construction plane or planar face. It sounds like the program is thinking you're not selecting the plane. Are you right-clicking directly on the orange origin plane?
You can turn off the Origin planes in the Browser on the left side of Fusion. Select the eyeball icon for the "Origin" folder. Note that there will be a separate origin for both the file and individual components.
I know im beating a dead horse with this question, but no matter how hard i try i cannot get the reference image canvases folder to appear under the Bottle component. Bottle is active with the radio button/dot next to it. I've tried selecting both different origins, no change. Any help much appreciated. Also, does this even matter? *EDIT* Fixed it by turning the visibility of active components (unchecking) in preferences. Then turning the visibility of the first Origin off before selecting the front plane while placing the canvas. Also, thanks a lot for these tutorials theyre great.
Sorry to hear that, Josh! Can you double-check your spline hand at the very top? That is often the root cause of this issue. If the spline is too 'sharp' it will not work with the Fillet command. You'll want to adjust the spline handle and retry the fillet. It may take a few times to adjust it to get it right (or once if you can get it relative close to what is shown in the video).
Absolutely! Anything you design can be exported as an STL or 3MF file for your 3D printer. Simply right-click on the component > Save as Mesh > choose file type (STL or 3MF).
Fun tutorial. I found that after the revolve and shell, the top of my bottle was closed. Not sure if I missed a step or did something wrong? I added a sketch to the top face and bored a hole which had the same result.
When you used Shell, did you select the body of the bottle or the top (flat) surface? Selecting the body will hollow it out without removing the top. Selecting the top will remove the top, and hollow out the body. If Shell doesn't let you select the top surface, you'll need to make sure the top sketch is horizontal (if a horizontal constraint wasn't automatically applied).
@@ProductDesignOnline Thanks for replying to my comment. I've gone back and double checked and the top is a flat surface and has a horizontal constraint but I'm still unable to replicate your steps. I've been able to repeat them on a simple cube though!🤷♂ Edit: worked as expected in the following "glass bottle" lesson. I've also started to produce my own simple designs using the shell command, so must be something in my soda bottle sketch that went wrong. Thanks again, love the series!
Enjoyed the first video and this one, but the shell command just doesn’t work as shown in the video. I’m giving up on this one. Hopefully day 3 is better.
The tutorials are superb!!! May I know how to shell out different thickness at different lengths of bottle? one way is to trace the sides instead of from middle of the bottle. But I would like to use the commands of shell with variable thickness along the length of the bottle or some axis. Is it possible to do?
I cannot right click on the image below canvas for calibration on MAC, how do I overcome this? Edit: After spending 30 minutes figuring out how to do this; if anyone has the same problem, all you have to do is right click with 2 fingers and it should work.
It's day two and I am going crazy because I can't seem to find the shortcuts to zoom, pan and orbit and when creating the bottle that has been bugging me constantly, I keep finding that it's shift + alt and left mouse button or middle, but it doesn't work for me, I am dying here T^T But the course is amazing, really enjoying it!! Struggling to make some of the things happen like selecting the handle of the point and then the fit point to make it smooth transition because I can't seem to find the handle point, but, we will get there
No matter what I do, I cannot shell the bottle at 2mm. It only works at 0.2mm and then makes the bottle super thin, re-watched each step / started from scratch and nothing changes.
It seems to have something to do with the shape of the bottle neck. Shell works perfectly fine with a few bottles I've sketched but doesn't work with the ones most close to the reference image.
hmm. When I do the shell command it doesn't cut through the face, it just makes an internal copy 2.5mm smaller than the external surface. 🤔 Though even when I try to do the shell, it tries to select the entire body and not the face. It was a problem with my sketch that was preventing it from revolving correctly. I trashed the whole thing and rebuilt it from scratch.
Great tutorial - just one question about the shell command to hollow out the bottle. When I follow the instructions here, I cannot apply the shell command to just the top of the bottle, instead the entire bottle is selected and then hollowed out. In order to open the bottle up I have to then complete the bottle as per the process in a previous version of this tutorial (ruclips.net/video/4CB-FB_KoDs/видео.html). How do you specifically select just the top of the bottle to be able to hollow it out and open it up at the same time? I'm using Fusion 360 2.0.15509 on macOS.
Just realised that I can select the top if I de-select "tangent chain" in the shell options, but then I have to apply the shell in both inside & outside direction to avoid an error with the bottle body. It's a workaround, but not the same as what is happening in the video.
Double-check that your top spline handle(s) in the sketch (around the top lip of the bottle) are not too sharp. Another user had this issue and we found his spline handle was at a weird angle that prevented it from working by selecting the top.
@@ProductDesignOnline Wow yeah that was happening to me, to be fancy I had applied a horizontal constraint to the top bezier lines to make them go full horizontal at the join but having that continuous surface made it impossible to select just the top face.... feels like a bug.
@@dankcherries22 the shell command requires a flat planer surface. If your top spline handle was not horizontal then it would result in a surface that is not flat. It sounds like you adjusted it which fixed that, allowing it to work 😄
Full course on RUclips: bit.ly/30daysUpdated
(I'll update this playlists as each Day is released)
Just FYI to the creator and others.
When I create the new canvas, it gets added at the root of the project rather than the component.
I see others having the same issue. If you are too, follow these steps.
First, follow the video up until 1:50.
Do not click on the orange plane on screen, ( the orange square ).
Instead, expand the bottle component on your browser to the left.
Then expand the "Origin" under that.
From there you can click on any of the planes listed, XY, XZ, or YZ. If you want to follow along with this tutorial, click on XZ.
Then resume the video.
Ah The problem was I was taken directly to the video from a link, so I never saw the Course Description page. Thanks
@@OvhanDevos Thanks...I was wrestling with that!
Hi Kevin
As a newcomer to 3d CAD I am really impressed by your series of videos and the straight forward explanations. I am having difficulty finding the link to download the Glass Soda Bottle (lesson 2). Could you please direct me to the download link
many thanks
Paul Munby
For the ones that has problem with "New component" and that the canvas gets low opacity and the canvas is not imported under the component you need to do the following:
1) Create the component
2) Deactive the "origin" folder above your new component (click the eye) (or you can right click and hide planes and hide axes)
3) Import the canvas and when you select the "Front" you need to be sure that the Yellow/orange box/side is "blue" otherwise it will be inserted in the standard Origin
You must activate the origin in the new component
In simple terms for real noobs like me, BEFORE adding the image, under the drop down "Origin" on the left side of your window, expand the list, click XZ, then there will be a blue box on your screen. NOW click the insert then canvas, then ok. This worked for me after messing around trying to figure out what's what. Like I said I'm a complete noob.
Thank you! This was exactly my problem.@@LnJCanadianRC
@@LnJCanadianRC I had the initial issue and i'm glad you mentioned it. by default the Origin plane is active from not our object. probably a useful feature for someone who knows more.
Thank you. Saved me a ton of time.
Dumb question from a total beginner, when I'm in the middle of setting and adjusting spline points, how do I move the image so I can see the part I need to work on? If I zoom in enough to get good detail, then it doesn't all fit on the screen, so I need to scroll around somehow but can't while selected for fitting/changing points.
You'll want to "Pan" around, which can be done a number of ways depending on your mouse/track pad setup. You can use the pan feature at the bottom of Fusion. You can hold the middle mouse button down and move your mouse to pan. On Mac, you can use a three finger swipe on a track pad (doesn't work on all Windows machines)
Hi , I am really enjoying the course and I am a total newbie to CAD. The trouble i m having is the file download for day 2, the soda bottle. Where can I find it?
Ah, I've found an old question which has led me to the download.
Glad you found it. Links are always in the description 😁
Hey guys I found problem solution for shell command when it can not detect face, you only can select whole bottle! So basically problem fit point spline, do not round or make horizontal last top point, in video he did not do it, if you do it, fusion will think that top face isn't flat surface! I just deleted last spline point and it didn't change much my spline so I left it as it is and shell command worked! If you want round edge you better use filet tool after you do shell command, DON'T MAKE ROUND TOP EDGE IN SKECH !!!!
THANK YOU - this was driving me crazy, and your suggestion fixed it. :)
@@stevea1008 Even when I use a horizontal top it still chooses the whole bottle. I ended up extruding the top face up by 2 mm and then it can select the top face only.
Thanks. I was getting frustrated also :::
Thank you. I had the same problem
You sir are a savior
This FREE course is light years better than the three prior ones I had purchased on Edemy. I really appreciate you taking all this effort to make these videos.
This is my experience as well, and I’m also very grateful
Anyone else notice this video came three months after Day 1? 😅 I am excited to finally learn Fusion360, though 😊
Hi Katie. Glad to see the excitement :)
I had to take some personal time to take care of family... was planning on 2 weeks... and here we are lol. Anyway, feeling refreshed and happy to get back into a rhythm. Will be working through this series revamp and attempting to do 1 a week. Day 3 will be ready next Friday.
Ikr. So glad to see you back 😄
Just starting out, so one per week will be perfect, whilst I also build my CNC machine. Hope you will cover toolpaths and G-Code output please.
Good luck it ends at 12 lol
I'm having trouble with the canvas command (1:57). Following the instructions, and having tried several times, it looks like it is working but never creates the "Canvas" folder within the bottle folder. The bottle image, along with the axes and faces, are transparent as well. Instead, there is a folder named "canvasses" that appears in the tree above the bottle folder. I can go to the image and perform the rescaling operation, but the image is very transparent, so I am not sure if I have failed to do something correctly. Any help would be appreciated.
I"m having the same issue, man. In fact, that's why I'm reading so far down in the comments. Hopefully someone comes along and sorts it out. Did you figure it out?
@@jeffreydauhmer385 @bruceogletree7995 Same here but found the problem. Make sure the top entry (component name - Glass Soda Bottle) in the browser pane is visible.
Same here, cant figure it out...
Very useful tutorials - thanks for making these available. One small thing - if you draw the line at the top of the bottle from the outside to the inside then Fusion 360 takes this as an extension of the existing line and a single surface. Then you can't select the top of the bottle to do the hollow step. You have to draw the line exactly as you do in the tutorial - from the centre axis to the edge - then it works.
Thanks, I couldn't find my mistake!
Ahhhhh I did this but my sketch still wouldnt turn blue. Hollow step = revolve lol. I realized my curved line was dotted therefore it was a construction line not a real line (I need to make real line the default somehow). Changed the line type and now it is a blue sketch.
Good tutorial. I also had the problem with the shell command that I could only select the whole bottle. What I did wrong was that I put the vertical contraint at the top on the last spline point instead of the straight line on the top. This doesn't work.
I did the same thing, actually. I was wondering why the 11mm constraint made the mouth diameter so small.
Nice, couldn't figure it out what I was diong wrong, but deleting the constraint ont he spline point did it. Thanks
Hey can you advise. I create new component. Then add the image via canvas. However the canvas is separate rather than under the new component I create. Am I doing something wrong? Or does it not matter. Thanks
Struggling here - When I click to ccreat the canvas, it does so as a bullet at the same level as Bottle 1, insteead of as a part of Bottle 1. Can't figyre out what i'm doing wrong
When importing the image as a canvas, you have to choose a face to orient it. Change your origin visibility settings so that the face you select is the one under your bottle component instead of the whole design’s origin.
Ok guys, for any of you monkey's like me out there, here is the most destiled way I can fix that issue with the bottle not having enough brightness, the canvas folder creating outside of the bottle object folder, etc:
There are 2 origins, the original "background" origin, and the new component's (the bottle that we still haven't made) origin. So you need to DISABLE the Origin folder that is OUTSIDE the component, and activate the component origin, THEN you import the picture on the XZ yellow square and voilá!
There is NO better basics instruction on CAD design with Fusion 360 out there. This is not just well done, Kevin creates the most cogent, concise and distraction free learning process you could ever hope to find. No shitty music, no distracting window with his face all over it, no crappy transitions and irrelevant information, no various concepts meshed into one video, no skipping over even the most BASIC mouse and keyboard controls, all the while being 100% perfectly efficient in how the knowledge is disseminated, not even one wasted word or moment.
This is really the pinnacle of how good tutorials and courses can be on youtube. I honestly shudder to think about how much effort has to go into this to get it so perfectly distilled, it's really impressive. Thank you!
Late reply.. but thank you! Appreciate your support and kind words. :)
I share this sentiment. This is great material
Love the reboot of the series! Like another commenter said below, if your screen recorder has the option please turn on the cursor highlight and keystroke display (so we can see you press A instead of you having to comment "A as in Alpha") That is about all the wish list I have. See you Friday!
personally I'd rather hear it instead of having to constantly search the screen for tiny little key icons
Hello, I'm from Greece and I'm trying to keep up with your wonderful tutorials. But I come across some strugleS and I really need your help. So, for some reason I select the canvas option , I go to my computers downloads, I select the image , I open it but instead of opening it with your order, such as bottle 1> origin> canvas> image, it appears with this order;origin> canvas> (from the default) image and then bottle.And I cant understand what is going wrong. Besides that, when I open the image the opacity of the planes and image is really low, i tried putting it bigger from the canvas settings but it didint work out. So I'd love some help on that too. So sorry for any language mistakes! I'll be waiting for your response.
I'm having trouble with setting the opening of the bottle to 11 mm. I horizontally constrained the final top point of the fit point spline with the top of the center axis. But setting the distance between the two to 11 mm only pushes the top point of the line as opposed to the whole line. Now I only have an opening that it wider than the neck. Did I do something wrong?
Anyone know why after I revolve I cannot select the top face of the bottle to create a shell?
I want to know also
Hey Kevin. Don't have enough words to thank you for this series and all other videos you made/make.
a concern here: I am on personal edition in windows and when I create the canvas it doesn't come under the component. It goes on its standalone group in the browser. Is this something expected (change in different SW releases?) or am I doing something wrong?
Im having this same issue.
Yep, me too. Would be good to understand why. Not clear from googling or playing around in F360 why I'm getting different behaviour to the video.
Never mind - solved after reading comments below. Need to make sure the origin is visible in the bottle component.
@@ng5000 omg thanks for the commend! I would spend literally hours searching for solution...
@@ng5000 Thanks so much!! I had same issue and was stuck on how to resolve until reading your reply.
Thank you so much for re-doing this series, I understand its a lot of work but hopefully worth it! I've linked a lot of people the old one because your tutorials are so well made. Now I can send them to this new one instead.
Thanks for your continued support! I really appreciate you :)
A magnifying glass for a pointer would be good ,have a color triangle for point.
At 10:34, when I apply the shell command, I get an error. It goes away if I change to 1mm width. You suggest that I could edit the bottle, instead. How would I edit the bottle?
Hi Elizabeth. You can double-click on your sketch in the timeline to edit it. Then, adjust your spline handles to modify the shape.
It's most likely your top spline handle that is causing the issue.
Great video for someone with 0 experience like my self!
I am having problems understanding how to fix the shell problem but I guess I will understand it in the future, right now no matter what I do, I end up messing it more 😬
The first two episodes are awesome! learned heaps already. Can't wait to finish the rest of the series. Thank you so much!!
How come when I adjust the sketch dimension of the top of the bottle to 11mm, the line turns diagonal? helpppp
Try adding a horizontal constraint to the line. It sounds like one didn't get applied automatically when the line was drawn.
hi Kevin, woking my way through the course. once ive inserted the image, it does not appear in the browser in order for me to calibrate. my image is also very faded even though i adjusted the opacity. ive tried a few times creating the file from scratch but i just cant find the canvas in browser. must be missing a step😵💫
These lessons are perfect. Clear and concise instructions. I have no end of trouble trying to follow F360 tutorials. These are exactly simple enough to get started.
Thanks for your support! :)
After adding the FIT POINT SPLINE for the bottle curve, I cannot continue to edit the points. I can edit a single point, but it will not let me select a new point to edit. Any ideas???
I had this issue as well. Closing the program and opening it again fixed the issue.
Dunno if anyone else had this problem, but if you had trouble with the shell direction of the bottle (around 10:20), in the sketch after you create a horizontal constraint for the top line of the bottle, you might need to create a vertical constraint for the last spline point that connects to the bottletop line. Before I did that, it kept attempting to create a shell in the horizontal/arbitrary angle direction of that last spline point's alignment, which would either error or mess up the whole 3d shape.
Thank you! This helped me get the shell stage to work. My most top-right spline handle had to be vertical.
He does mention to add a constraint at 7:23 though
The constraint at 7:23 is for the last line (which creates the top of the bottle) not for the handle of the spline point. If you create another horizontal constraint for the handle of the spline point it indeed doesnt work. It doesn't need to be vertical though - just steep enough should do (which depends on your spline shape). I@@onemangamer587
another issue with the shell :( fusion does not let to select a bottle top face; the whole body always selected; I can select this face manually when not using a shell tool, but when the tool is selected - it's impossible
Thank you so much! I had the exact same problem, and your solution worked perfectly!
Is anyone else having a problem with the canvas be way too light despite putting opacity up to 100. It feels as if its 20 or something.
I’ve been using Fusion 360 for about a year with acceptable results but I still struggle with some basics. Your videos have been a big help as I reboot my learning curve. Thank you and keep them coming.
Thanks, Jim! Glad to hear they've been helpful :)
EDIT: Accidently left feedback for this course thinking it was autodesk and Kevin got back to me right away. Not really sure what to say here but that is next level support and a totally over the top thing to do for an irate stranger... Well I am subscribed and ill be making sure to comment on every video at least once and leave a like on all of these as well. Really just a good person here, unreal
Appreciate it!
My goal is to help as many people learn Fusion 360. A big part of online learning is getting help when 'stuck' and I do my best to answer as many questions as I can each week. Happy learning! 😁
Had trouble getting the canvas to show up on the component when following exactly. After reading some of the comments discovered one more "Non-intuitive" feature about Fusion. Needed to hide the "Origin" feature on the main tree which was active by default, and enable the origin feature under the component "Bottle" which was inactive by default. That fixed it so the canvas showed up under the component.
thank you lol
I have been looking for your bottle to download for the in Day #2 tutorial. Please tell where to find and how to download to my computer. Thanks. PS so far I like your tutoial.
All applicable demo files (reference images, notes, etc) can be found on the link in the video description. You'll also find that I've made them 'd' + number of lesson - productdesignonline.com/d2
Guys I face an issue I hope anyone can help, I struggle with memorizing the tools and their job, what is the best way to memorize it and know its jobs
Hey! I am new to fusion 360 and I set the sketch dimension 11mm but when I use shell on the top of the bottle 2.5mm is too wide and i need to use 0.25mm :I why can that be?
I was having issues with the shell and sketch. No matter how much I changed my sketch, the shell command would pretty much hollow out the bottle, without leaving an opening at the top. I ended up changing the top lip constraint from horizontal to vertical which made the bottle look weird, but then I used the fillet tool at the top of the bottle at 1mm on the outside rim and inside rim to achieve the desired goal. I'm going to continue to work to find the root cause of the error in my sketch, but if you're having issues with the shell command, it could be because your curve going to the top horizontal line is too rounded. I found it needs to be more sharp/perpendicular/90 degrees for the shell command to work properly. It essentially wouldn't let me select the top face as a starting point for the shell and would just shell the object as a whole. Sorry for the long comment but it was driving me nuts and there might be someone with the same issue out there. I did this tutorial twice, gave up the first time and restarted to run into the same issue again.
Hah I spent an hour and still can't figure why my bottle is not 240mm tall 😅
The appearance function is kind of weird. I dragged an appearance onto the glass bottle. say light blue but then I thought I could change the appearance by dragging another onto the bottle. It kind of stacked the appearances on top of one another until the bottle was black. I don't understand how to remove the previous appearance(s)
Everything works fine until I need to scale the top of the bottle to 11mm. It wouldn‘t let me do that. Can anyone explain why? Thank you.
I've done this over so many times now. I can't make a shell from the top. Is the opening just too narrow or sketched in a way it dosen't know how to hollow from top?
Couldn't get it to work either.
I am bound to learn this. Day 2 complete. Thank you for the great lesson
What is the advantage of saving designs in folders? Why not just save them directly in the project without the intermediate level of folders? What else, besides the design, is stored at the folder level?
Getting the shell command to work was brutal! Got there in the end with a lot of trial and error. Thanks for the tutorials, only two in and they are great.
May I know how you did it?
Thanks for the lesson. However, the Canvases does not looped in the component but under Origin in the Browser. I guess is version difference but it looks a bit odd to me.
Can't click on the top of the bottle for making the shell, no matter how I draw the outline.
For some reason when I perform the shell action and the fillet action it only seems to work as a decimal aka 0.25 mm instead of 2.5 mm. Do you know what the reason might be?
Same, no matter how much I adjust the sketch.
Everytime I make a canvas at th 1.30 mark it puts the canvases above the componnet bottle 1 not under it like yours and then later it screws things up as a result why?
I was able to download the image but the bottle canvas appears transparent. How do I make it more visible?
I see the same thing :( Was wondering if anyone had a fix. Ok I got it, after you go to where the reference image is hosted, click on the "Glass Soda Bottle" link, to pull up the image and right click, "save as" to your computer and import that one. That one wasnt transparent for me.
@@keninthekitchen1562 savior
You are a GREAT teacher, you explain the things so great! thanks a lot :D
It's pronounced "fil-ei/" not "fill-it". Otherwise, thank you for the very thorough video! Great work!
Because of the Internet, hard to tell if you're trolling or not ... But in CAD/Engineering it is pronounced fill-it. It's not a fish fillet! 😃
Everything goes as shown until I get to correcting the bottle top size. I filet the bottom to 5mm, but when I double click on the bottle top then the time line the bottle just turns blue and I dont get the sketch view where the top can be sized to 11mm
same problem...
I had to right click on the sketch, on the upper left side, and hit edit.
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What a nightmare piece of software this is. No idea why your workspace doesn't have the gridlines, but I can't help but feel like I'm doing something wrong. My bottle looks FAR more translucid than yours (even if I set its opacity to 100, instead of your 50), making it pretty hard to delineate around it. Somehow it's also not centered in the X plane. I fight my OCD and frustration and ignore these things. The hole in the top of my bottle was SO different in sizes (probably due to poor tracing because of the image not being displayed clearly) that upon setting the "top dimension" to 11mm cause the rest of the sketch to absolutely go to sh!t. Ignore one more thing, repair if possible and move on. "Activate the shell command"... the top of my bottle doesn't seem to be selectable and instead, the software selects the entire top half of the bottle. Moving on and typing in 2.5mm for the inside thickness results in, somehow, the entire top of my bottle disappearing and tuning my bottle into a koozie.
"If you do get an error message, it's likely due to the thickness not being appropriate with the geometry of the bottle. Edit your sketch and adjust the stem of the bottle unitl the shell command works". Great. Just F around "until it works". Got it. I eventually did get this by means of restarting the whole thing (twice, as I was not getting different results), deleting points and lines and redrawing straight lines (a trick I know from Sketchup needing a shape to be "complete" or "sealed" in order to be extruded as a solid). This was more challenging than I'd care to admit and it nearly brought me to tears.
I am also not a total beginner here, I learned the basics of Inventor back in college, and I've been using Sketchup for 3D design for years already. Wanted to move to Fusion for no good reason, and I still want to, but I'm starting to doubt if Fusion is the right tool for me to design stuff to 3D print.
Please excuse me if it sounds like I'm complaining for a free course. I've read a lot of comments and people seem to suggest this is one of the better courses on Fusion. I know I'm a dumb individual and that may very well be the inconvenience here. Man was this excrutiating.
Hi Paul - a lot to unpack in one comment, so pardon me if I miss something.
The 'layout grid' is simply visual and doesn't affect the model in any way. You can turn that on and off in the Grids and Snaps settings at the bottom of Fusion. (Icon to the right of the computer-looking icon).
re: translucent. It sounds like your reference image may have been placed at the top level and not the component level. Where is the 'canvases' folder nested under in your Fusion Browser?
If the top of the bottom is not selectable via the Shell command, then there is an issue with it not being perfectly flat or planar. Make sure you have a horizontal constraint on the top line if one was not automatically applied.
re " Great. Just F around "until it works"". Unfortunately, with splines, that is the reality. Most of the lessons have very specific inputs, but there is so much 'freedom' with splines that when users don't trace the bottle in a similar manner (same number of fit points and accuracy of tracing) then it can change the overall size. The Shell command will trace the perimeter, so if it's got too sharp of a curve or a narrow section, then it often throws an error because it's physically impossible to define a real thickness. It sounds like that is what's happening for you.
If you can share a link to your file that will also help me see what's going on with many of these issues. (File > Export > export as .f3d > email it to Kevin[at]productdesignonline.com. May take me a few days to review it and reply.
I will say that out of the thousands upon thousands of students I've taught the last 5 years, those coming from SketchUp tend to struggle the most because it's a completely different mindset. It can be hard to let go of expectations based on what/how SketchUp does it. That being said, I've seen *many* former SketchUp users get over that hurdle and never look back. I believe if you stick with it, you certainly can too! It may be painful in the early days, but things will start to click. I believe in you :)
This is so good tutorial and well explained. I have two questions hoping someone will know.
1. The canvas is in the bottle folder in the side menu. Instead it has its own place above named canvases. Have anyone else experienced this and does it matter?
2. When I insert the picture I can barely see it. The opacity is the same as in the video but it's almost invisible.The same happens when I press "new component" (almost can't see it). Does anyone know how to change that?
I had the same problem, that's how you solve it: turn off the eye of the "Origin" Folder above your bottle component. Check if the "Origin"-Folder is activated in the Bottle-Folder then choose the face
@@sandyyasmin8020 It worked for the origin, but the sketch is still almost invisible 😅 At least one thing solved! Thank you!!
@@sandyyasmin8020 I appreciate the help here too, but when I tried your fix, it didn't work. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong here. How do I make sure the Origin folder within the Bottle folder is activated? I clicked on it and it turns blue before inserting canvas, but am I missing something?
I solved it somehow
1. Hide Origin above the component by clicking on the eye icon
2. Navigate inside the component and make Origin visible.
3. Select origin, it will make it blue
4. Insert the image. You will be zoomed automatically(I don't know why) zoom out and select front
Now, you will have canvases inside component and image with full visibility
@@sanjeevshrestha5049 Just adding one thing, since this seems to be a bug in Fusion 360 right now. For me, the Origin for the assembly (the top-level Origin) is the Origin that becomes visible, but the eye next to the assembly's Origin doesn't look "activated". I had to click the eye next to the assembly origin twice to actually make it go away, and then I had to manually enable the component's Origin by click it's eye, and then manually hiding it again once I was done. Oy.
this is 10X better than most Udemy courses I purchased on Fusion 360 thank you so much for making it accessible on RUclips
Thanks!
I typically caution people on Udemy (specific to F360) as most of them are people who just learned trying to make a quick buck. They teach a lot of hack jobs/bad practices that I have to help folks unlearn 😊
I really appreciate these tutorials, as I usually figure out software by just using it and searching for solutions as I go, but it's just not possible with F360. Coming from 3D Studio Max, I find the workflow and interface surprisingly unfriendly and find that my "better intuition" is completely useless for the majority of my learning process.
why the new canvas not going under new component??? help
and not highlight the origin plane, when selecting it..
this happened to me too
Thanks for this series! I'm having trouble with the shell command in the "How to make a body hollow" section. After following the instructions you provide, the mouth of the bottle stays closed, and when I try to do the shell operation again, it says it has already been done. Any idea what I did wrong? Thanks!
I also had some trouble. I discovered that I had not created a separate line for the top of the bottle. You use the fit curve method while you are tracing out the curved portion of the bottle outline. When you get to the Top of the bottle, complete the traced line process by clicking on the check mark leaving the last flat part of the bottle open. Then select the line function and click on the end of the previous line and then click on the center line and complete this function by clicking on the check mark. If you created a closed drawing, you can click inside the object and it will turn green. Now you can revolve the drawing to make the 3d bottle as he described. Now you should be able to click on the surface of the top of the bottle, it should turn blue, select the shell command and follow the instructions.
@@JCBoss76 Is there anything else I could be doing wrong? I've made sure the profile is closed before revolving, but I still can't select just the top face of the bottle.
@@Joe_Bandit Did you make sure you used a separate straight line for the top flat part of the bottle top? Don't just use the curve fit function to trace the top flat area. Using a separate straight line gives you a separate detail to select. Also there is a "select" function in the top tool bar. Hit escape to make sure you don't have some other function active, click on "select", then click on the top of the bottle which should select it.
@@JCBoss76 You helped me a lot! Thanks!
@ 2:29 A barely-visible bottle appears not the one in the video.
I cannot find the glass bottle canvas to download to my computer. It is stated the download is below the video. Where?
All links in video description. Each day also has a web page with resources: productdesignonline.com/d2 (replace 2 with the day your on for each page)
The origin plane and reference image go really transparent after I import the image. Anyone know why?
Great course but I am having a problem with Day 2. My canvas opens above the bottle component and is very faint. I get into trouble trying to add the spline because I cannot see the bottle outline clearly. When I imported my image I closed the origin file (clicked the eye), selected the front plane...which highlights as faint blue. Still canvas doesn't open like yours in your tutorial?? I suppose I could increase opacity of the image...but am I missing something?
Try removing the canvas and reinsert it. When you go to insert again, select the origin plane in the Browser instead of the middle of the screen. Make sure you select it from the origin folder that is nested under the Bottle component.
It sounds like yours referenced the parent level origin for some reason.
If it still happens, please share a link to your file.
Hey there! I havent seen this asked anywhere in the comments so its potentially something on my end but when i go to select "Canvas" then select "Insert from my computer" absolutely nothing happens and the screen goes away as if it was clicked correctly. Tried everything, please help.
Hmmm... haven't heard of this before. Any chance you're using more than one monitor? Fusion doesn't do well with that and it may be hiding elsewhere.
I just spent about 2 hours digging into Fusion360. My background and experience goes back to Rhino and Maya back in the early 2000's so a lot of these techniques and walkthroughs are a great refresher. I haven't used an modeling/design software in over 20 years and it feels like second nature. My only challenge is it just dives into the tool and interface and maybe I haven't looked at your channel but I'm finding that running these videos at 75% speed is helpful because I'm new to the UI of this application. I stumbled upon this video series and probably should have started somewhere else first but needless to say these are super easy to follow and gives real application purposes of how to leverage to the tool in its most practical form. Thanks for creating this series ( what appears to be from 2022) but all still relevant. Since I', not in any production mode yet and just getting back into it I'm hopeful the full series does not required any paid features. I'm getting back into modeling as I'm in the market of getting a 3d printer. I cannot wait to re-create what I did in the early 2000's by printing designs in a 2d plane (paper) and getting them re-modeled with newer technology and create my designs from college in a 3d space with a printer. This series ( so far) is super helpful thanks for sharing and taking the time. Only downside is it just dives directly into it but I know there are tons of videos, maybe a recommendation is to provide a VERY basic interface video before jumping in. These concepts are not foreign to me so I'm able to follow along very easily.
Please see the link in the description for the official playlist. The first video is covering the interface (before Day #1) :)
I was able to get this to work by opening the origin folder under the bottle. You should see the XZ access in origin under bottle high lighted. I have the front view selected in the top right.
i cant see the snap icon, what did i do wrong?
It may be just me and how I did things, but is anyone else having a problem with the shelling of the bottle where it selects the whole bottle and not just the top face? When it selects the whole bottle, it shells out the bottle without reaching the top face creating an opening. I'm doing this in august of 2024 so I'm wondering if there have been some software changes since the posting of this video. If anyone has any suggestions, I would greatly appreciate them.
No changes to the software have effected this workflow. If it's selecting your whole bottle then it's likely your top face is not planar (perfectly flat). You'll want to make sure you have the horizontal constraint on the top line. Let me know if it is already there!
Hello, I have a problem at 2:22, the canvases folder is not inside the Bottle:1 folder, but directly above it. Could someone help me figure out why that is happening?
When placing the reference image, you'll want to make sure to select the origin plane that is nested under the Bottle component. It likely picked up on the parent origin plane.
I was about to give up on 3d modelling but just 2 of your videos have me up and printing, I hope all the others are supporting you as well. Far cheaper than the over priced mind ****s offered by the so called experts. Educating is a gift and you have it in spades. Thankyou.
Thank you Brian! I appreciate your support and kind words. Happy learning!
Hello! Does anyone else have trouble inserting the canvas into the created component? I'm clicking on the component when creating the canvas but it always pops up as a separate tab, between the origin and component tabs. Does it matter? I wasn't sure if this was me not knowing what to do or an update to Fusion
Make sure you're selecting the origin plane that is nested under the Bottle component. There will also be a parent origin plane and if that is selected it will automatically place the Canvas outside of the Bottle component.
You can select the origin plane in the Browser instead of the model, which will make sure you don't select the parent one.
Would be nice to elaborate what does mean "edit your sketch... until the shell command works" at 10:40. I'm getting this error and I have no idea what is wrong with my sketch. Thanks.
Shell will trace the outer contour, so if the desired thickness doesn't work then it's almost always due to the curvature being too tight and not having enough room for the thickness. With the bottle, it's likely the area around the lip of the bottle.
Try adjusting the top spline point and see if that fixes it. If not, try the second spline point.
Bro not gonna lie, you are insane man, the level of explanation and how you basically taught me to create stuff on fusion 360 is insane, I love you so much bro, please keep on creating content and I'll make sure you get enough reach.
Thank you man, love you always.
Thanks for the kind words! Keep going - you got this! 😎
I'm trying to figure out why when I apply the clear glass the bottle itself looks pretty dark. A little strange
Some of the appearances (such as glass, etc) will look a bit different when in the Design workspace. If you switch to the Render workspace you'll see the more realistic appearance.
It could also be related to what component you have 'active' in the Browser. Check which component is active. The Bottle component should be active.
Good tutorials, but i wish you did things a bit slower and explained more in details what you mean. I still don't know what you mean by return key, just used enter as usual. Putting the video in 50% on youtube makes the speed good enough to duplicate it in fusion during the video.
Thanks for the feedback. Return and Enter are the same as far as the software is concerned. It will depend on what your keyboard has on it.
When I try to use sketch dimension it just shows me what the current dimension is, but I don't see a way to actually change my sketch using that function? Any ideas what is going on?
It sounds like you have a 'driven' dimension, which happens when another dimension is already applied. By chance, do you have another dimension on the sketch/same entity?
thank you for these, im still struggling but being able to back up and rewatch is a great help, i have subscribed
Cannot find ref image . Day 2 1:40 ?. Can someone guide me to it please ?. Thank you . Mike
Link is in the description. For your convenience, here it is: productdesignonline.com/d2
All resources have an accompanying web page. Simply change the number to the day you're on 😄
Cannot get the shell to work. Spent over 2 hours messing with the sketch that went completely haywire, got it fixed and finally got a shell but with no hole through the top... pretty much give up on getting this lesson finalised
Can you share your file?
Help! I cant seem to select just the top face to shell. It wants to select the whole body only. Am I doing something wrong?
Typically due to the top surface not being planar (perfectly flat) OR the top spline handle being too sharp/narrow. Try adjusting the top spline hand point and see if that fixes it :)
Having the same problem with location of Canvas. Info below helped, but none worked (for me). What I found was that (might be I misunderstood a term or something) the "eye" for the Origin portion of the component was NOT ON. I'd turned the eye for the root design off as suggested below, but that still hadn't resolved the problem. So, when I selected the FRONT face, even with the "root" origin eye OFF, the canvas was still assigned to the main design. One thing I noticed, though, was that the yellow blocks representing the axis faces were a pale, highly transparent yellow - not the nearly sold yellow shown in Kevin's tutorial.
After clicking on the Component Origin eye, I noticed the axis faces were immediately a nearly solid yellow (as in the video). I'd thought it was just a characteristic of the screen capture. Once the faces were solidly yellow, everything worked as Kevin demonstrated. Phew! :)
Hi there. When placing the canvas, for some reason my canvases folder is not under the bottle component but as a separate folder under 'Glass Soda Bottle v1'. Also when I insert the image, it is very light and barely visible, only when I turn opacity to 100% can I somewhat see the outline of the bottle but still not very clear. Any help regarding this would be highly appreciated. I was following the steps exactly as you did. Thanks
LIterally no matter how hard I try or no matter what I do, at 3:55 minutes into the video, I cannot get that "Create Sketch" from that drop down menu. I am stuck.
You can also activate the 'Create Sketch feature in the toolbar. It's the very first icon in the toolbar.
It is always available in the right-click menu when you select a construction plane or planar face. It sounds like the program is thinking you're not selecting the plane. Are you right-clicking directly on the orange origin plane?
How do I remove the xyz thing and have a apace with all blank?
You can turn off the Origin planes in the Browser on the left side of Fusion. Select the eyeball icon for the "Origin" folder. Note that there will be a separate origin for both the file and individual components.
I know im beating a dead horse with this question, but no matter how hard i try i cannot get the reference image canvases folder to appear under the Bottle component. Bottle is active with the radio button/dot next to it. I've tried selecting both different origins, no change. Any help much appreciated. Also, does this even matter?
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Fixed it by turning the visibility of active components (unchecking) in preferences. Then turning the visibility of the first Origin off before selecting the front plane while placing the canvas.
Also, thanks a lot for these tutorials theyre great.
Thanks. I was making myself crazy. I had no clue what the "eyes" did.
I Can't get past the error message for shelling it I can't even do 0.5 shelling thickness.
Sorry to hear that, Josh! Can you double-check your spline hand at the very top? That is often the root cause of this issue. If the spline is too 'sharp' it will not work with the Fillet command. You'll want to adjust the spline handle and retry the fillet. It may take a few times to adjust it to get it right (or once if you can get it relative close to what is shown in the video).
Question. Can you use this program to make 3d models to print with a 3d printer
Absolutely! Anything you design can be exported as an STL or 3MF file for your 3D printer. Simply right-click on the component > Save as Mesh > choose file type (STL or 3MF).
Fun tutorial. I found that after the revolve and shell, the top of my bottle was closed. Not sure if I missed a step or did something wrong? I added a sketch to the top face and bored a hole which had the same result.
When you used Shell, did you select the body of the bottle or the top (flat) surface? Selecting the body will hollow it out without removing the top. Selecting the top will remove the top, and hollow out the body.
If Shell doesn't let you select the top surface, you'll need to make sure the top sketch is horizontal (if a horizontal constraint wasn't automatically applied).
@@ProductDesignOnline Thanks for replying to my comment. I've gone back and double checked and the top is a flat surface and has a horizontal constraint but I'm still unable to replicate your steps. I've been able to repeat them on a simple cube though!🤷♂
Edit: worked as expected in the following "glass bottle" lesson. I've also started to produce my own simple designs using the shell command, so must be something in my soda bottle sketch that went wrong. Thanks again, love the series!
Enjoyed the first video and this one, but the shell command just doesn’t work as shown in the video. I’m giving up on this one. Hopefully day 3 is better.
Awesome Beginner videos, Ive only completed the first two so far, So much info packed in for a newby like me. Thanks again.:)
Thanks! Here's the official series playlist: bit.ly/30daysUpdated
@@ProductDesignOnline legend, Thank you.
The tutorials are superb!!! May I know how to shell out different thickness at different lengths of bottle? one way is to trace the sides instead of from middle of the bottle. But I would like to use the commands of shell with variable thickness along the length of the bottle or some axis. Is it possible to do?
Day 2 out of 2 days LFG
Man. Thank you for what you do, but this program hates me 😂😂😂
What issue(s) are you having?
I cannot right click on the image below canvas for calibration on MAC, how do I overcome this?
Edit: After spending 30 minutes figuring out how to do this; if anyone has the same problem, all you have to do is right click with 2 fingers and it should work.
Are you using a trackpad?
@@ProductDesignOnlineNo, I was using the laptops touchpad.
Thank you so much for doing the new updated interface. I know its a ton of work and repetitive but its amazing. You are the best. Subbed.
It's day two and I am going crazy because I can't seem to find the shortcuts to zoom, pan and orbit and when creating the bottle that has been bugging me constantly, I keep finding that it's shift + alt and left mouse button or middle, but it doesn't work for me, I am dying here T^T
But the course is amazing, really enjoying it!! Struggling to make some of the things happen like selecting the handle of the point and then the fit point to make it smooth transition because I can't seem to find the handle point, but, we will get there
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How do I download the bottle?
No matter what I do, I cannot shell the bottle at 2mm. It only works at 0.2mm and then makes the bottle super thin, re-watched each step / started from scratch and nothing changes.
It seems to have something to do with the shape of the bottle neck. Shell works perfectly fine with a few bottles I've sketched but doesn't work with the ones most close to the reference image.
hmm. When I do the shell command it doesn't cut through the face, it just makes an internal copy 2.5mm smaller than the external surface. 🤔 Though even when I try to do the shell, it tries to select the entire body and not the face.
It was a problem with my sketch that was preventing it from revolving correctly. I trashed the whole thing and rebuilt it from scratch.
Great tutorial - just one question about the shell command to hollow out the bottle. When I follow the instructions here, I cannot apply the shell command to just the top of the bottle, instead the entire bottle is selected and then hollowed out. In order to open the bottle up I have to then complete the bottle as per the process in a previous version of this tutorial (ruclips.net/video/4CB-FB_KoDs/видео.html). How do you specifically select just the top of the bottle to be able to hollow it out and open it up at the same time? I'm using Fusion 360 2.0.15509 on macOS.
Just realised that I can select the top if I de-select "tangent chain" in the shell options, but then I have to apply the shell in both inside & outside direction to avoid an error with the bottle body. It's a workaround, but not the same as what is happening in the video.
Double-check that your top spline handle(s) in the sketch (around the top lip of the bottle) are not too sharp. Another user had this issue and we found his spline handle was at a weird angle that prevented it from working by selecting the top.
@@haroldb9154 that bug was driving me crazy, thanks
@@ProductDesignOnline Wow yeah that was happening to me, to be fancy I had applied a horizontal constraint to the top bezier lines to make them go full horizontal at the join but having that continuous surface made it impossible to select just the top face.... feels like a bug.
@@zeikjt I did the exact same thing.
for some reason i cant select the opening of the bottle to start the shell strange
I fixed it by moving the handle of the point connecting to the horizontal line at the top of the bottle, not sure why this fixed it.
@@dankcherries22 the shell command requires a flat planer surface. If your top spline handle was not horizontal then it would result in a surface that is not flat. It sounds like you adjusted it which fixed that, allowing it to work 😄