This is one of the easiest to follow series of tutorials I have found for Fusion 360. I went from no idea to drawing and printing working parts in two days. Thanks for taking the time to produce these, your technique for instructing what is quite a complex subject is brilliant.
For those of you who were having problems getting the angled plane sketch to connect to the source line, I went into my preferences and fixed it... Click on your name > Preferences > General > Design and select "Auto project edges on reference." There may be another way to do it manually, but I don't know how.
Just wanted to say thanks for an awesome, fun and super informative set of tutorials! Very clear and concise, I’ve learned a ton already...I’m glad I found your channel!
Hi Arnold, this is the best tutorial online if ever seen, it's the best explanation of Fusion 360 and by the the best online tutorial I've ever seen. I've gone from no experience to very confident to draw and produce my own parts. It's really helped me in my job, so thank you very very much. Bert, Dublin, Ireland.😁
I've been watching all your videos and I just wanted to say thank you and I think your a great teacher! I'v been learning this program for just two days and your video's have by far been the best i'v come across. Looking forward to more videos. I liked, subscribed and turned on the bell;)
@@ArnoldRowntreeTeachesFusion360 IV been using it. Design and print things on a 3d printer, simple things like boxes and stuff like that. Its a lot if fun!
Another great part! really enjoying these - the pace has picked up and makes me want to go ahead first - I tended to do everything at once on the initial plane re the holes on the initial profile. Thanks Arnold!
Hello Arnold. Thank-you for the time you've taken to make these tutorials! This one made my brain hurt a little - I had the same collinear constraint problem that others seem to have had with the angled plane sketch. The only way I could get around it was to add a dimensional constraint of 7.5 between the side and the origin. That centered it up properly but I never did figure out what I was doing wrong.
Ward, You're welcome. I've been thinking of a few methods of achieving the same result and yours is better than a few I've come up with. In fact yours is better than my original way and I'll use your idea when I re-do them.
Ward, as long as you get the result, there is no "wrong." At least not until you get into serious best practices for professional use. There are multiple ways to do a lot of the creations and operations within CAD, the more you explore the better you'll get. Avoid the mental trap of "there's a right and wrong way to do this" because eventually, that "wrong" way will help you do something that you couldn't have done another way. Over time, you will find faster and more efficient ways. Regardless, have fun with it!
For people who can't click the line at the bottom at 6:09. This worked for me. Click your Picture Top Right > Design > Select Auto project edges on references. Click Apply. Also if it's not working. Undo the plane and start it again after doing this. "Arnold said it in a comment but its stuck in a bunch of other comments."
It's getting a little bit more complicated, little by little, which is good, thank Mr. Arnold, of course, I am subscribed, like like like, and the bell on.🙂🧡Thanks again!!!
Happy to help! I remember the classrooms full of drawing boards, then I looked through classrooms full of CRT computer monitors and was very skeptical. If only I could have seen ahead.
If you don't correct the hole as you did, you can expect to find your name scrawled on the bathroom stall's wall at the machine shop. However, it can print as-is on a 3D printer. :D I'm enjoying this series. Thank you.
You're close to the end of the 16 now Shiva. Have a well earned break and when you're feeling refreshed have a look at the next series of tutorials in the intermediate playlist. ruclips.net/p/PLFCTgdiT5-kJErMn7E3Cq9gaaoeQg9NTf There is one video that I've done since which should have been the first on in the Intermediate playlist, you might like to see this one first. ruclips.net/video/MNti70F1oOo/видео.html
@@ArnoldRowntreeTeachesFusion360 will mainly be for woodwork, but some engineering project. A friends has a engineering shop and a new cnc. Looking forward to having ago with it.
Great job on the videos. I have been learning a lot from your videos. I do have a couple of questions about the part. Where did you get the dimension for the length of the slot on the back of the part? Where did you get the dimension for the depth of the 7.5mm hole from since it does not have a dimension? Also, the 2mm radius should have been called out as 2mm radius 4 places, or each radius should have had a dimension on them. I realize I might be a little picky about some of this, but I work on rotating parts for aircraft engines where a single part can up to 300 dimensions, 15 cross sections, & 2 pages of notes.
That's three more to you Donald. It was an oversight on the slot even though I put a centre mark on the end radius. I missed the 2mm radius, sometimes I might put "typ" after the R2 but I'm not sure how that would go down in the aerospace industry. As for the depth of that hole, I was a bit jaded when I got to that part of it, since it not really manufacturable by conventional methods, however it is an interesting part to demonstrate angled extrusions as well as how to read auxiliary drawing views.
Awesome videos. Thank you much for putting these together. Am at the 14th lesson in 3 days and I cannot believe being 'hooked' on to it. Your teaching style is very articulate. Have a few questions: 1. At time 5:03 - You say '5 mm' is the size of the notch? It is not clear from the drawings. 2. When pressing on E the extrude view does not automatically change. I found an answer but couldn't find it in the latest software version I downloaded a few days back. 3. Can I re-orient the part to a different plane? Meaning can I rotate the entire part around a particular axis? How to do that? 4. In the projects folder where all the parts are stored - the default isometric orientation is different from the ones shown in the drawings. 5. How to draw a dome/sphere? - I should google search this before asking I suppose :-) Apologies for the newbie questions.
Rajesh, for Q1 the main orthogonal view shows a dimension for the width of the main body of the part, 15mm. There is one other dimension nested within it, 5mm for the width of one of the sides of the notch. You should assume symmetry in this part and so two times 5 is 10 which you subtract from the overall 15 leaving 5 for the notch. Q2 Click on your name in the top right of your screen, Preferences, General - Design, find the one named 'Auto look at sketch' tick it and click Apply below and then OK.
Further to Q2, while you're there on that page in Preferences, also tick 'Scale entire sketch at first dimension'. Q3 With some model in the main window, find the MODIFY toolbar next to the CREATE toolbar, find the MOVE/COPY tool, click it and the MOVE/COPY dialog will open. Have Bodies selected in the Move Object drop down, click 'Selection' so it turns blue, click on your model, it will turn blue and you will see a complex triad attached to your model. Experiment with this until you work out how to move and how to rotate your model around either of three axes. Q4. It could be a quirk of the drawing environment, I'll look into this if its important to you? Q5 You've pointed out a missing feature in my 16 part tutorial. I should have included somewhere a revolve-extrude example which is the best way to make a dome or sphere. Thanks, I'll make a plan to correct that.
@@ArnoldRowntreeTeachesFusion360 Regarding Q1, this is still not clear on the sketch. The answer provided refers to the width of the notch which is the main body width minus the two sides. This information IS provided, however the measurement in question is the actual length of the notch, or how far into the part it goes from center to end. I cannot find this information on the sketch either. Is symmetry of depth, width and height always assumed when only 2 of the measurements are given?
I will preface this with I am a complete beginner with Fusion 360 though a very quick learner. I've run through your tutorial set now 2 times and I can honestly say it has been the most helpful set of tutorials I have used yet. Each time I run through I bump into the same problem and it's probably a very simple fix. At 6:58 you make the vertical lines colinear and they bump right into place, every time I try this I get a "Sketch geometry is over constrained" error and I cannot seem to find the fault, everything looks great but won't snap to the colinear line. Any tips?
That's very kind _Stevenson_ thanks. That trick with the sketch and lines from a previous feature has proven to be a difficulty for many and its usually due to preference settings. If you downloaded the PDF with the drawings in recent weeks you'll find screenshots of my preference settings for the purpose of being sure your settings are like mine. Pay particular attention to the General > Design page and anything with the word "project" in it. There is also another video on my channel where I've paged through the preferences so that you can stop the player and screen capture the video. ruclips.net/video/UVwJJvQR1fc/видео.html
Rajesh, the more I think about this the more I suspect there is a mixup with your sketch. The constraint tools will only work within one sketch unless there is some confusion with the initial selection of the sketch plane. This probably doesn't sound very helpful but can I ask you to try stepping through again from the creation of the angled plane (which is a feature) after that, create a new sketch and draw the sketch lines again, be careful not to delete and redraw, especially if you make a mistake. If you do mess up, delete everything back to that base shape and step through the procedure again from the angled plane. If you are getting everything done in the right sequence and it still happens let me know.
This is my second time going thru the videos and I think they're awesome. Your approach makes more sense to me than the other videos I've found and I think your doing a great service for people like me. I feel as though I should return the favor somehow and suspect I'm not alone. Have you considered a Patreon link or a subscription service like Locals? I'd subscribe to Locals if you had another 16 parts series or some type of special content you'd put out every week or so.
You're very kind tg. I'll plan to eventually put a Patreon account up, but at this stage your good will is adequate encouragement for me. I'll keep working and thanks for being here.
I think Im gonna make some minor mods to this design and then print it and use this for my new flag pole holders. Im feeling much more comfortable with each lesson.
Hey Arnold thanks for the great vids they really do a great deal. Question, Why wont my views automatically adjust when clicking on the planes or on the top, front and side views? I have to adjust the view on the Home orientation in the right always.
You're welcome Walter, Autodesk have their idiosyncrasies and this is one of them in my opinion where they come last behind most other parametric CAD. Nevertheless, its possible to work with given some practice.
Thanks for all those parts, this no 14 have problems at 2:47 and forward with the movement of drawing . When selecting the part and tries move to the centre point, the drawing gets crashed, tried now many times. Don't know if this has anything with how scetch plan is situatted. Can't get that the way you have it. As a total beginner, this serie has helped alot to understand "how to". Question not related to fusion, see you have a Scania shirt, are you working for company in Austraila? Myself has been working in Sweden for Scania for 38 years, now retired. Thanks /Dan
Hi Dan, glad you're making progress despite this problem. I've looked at the video at 2:47 and there I grab the sketch and drag it around. Is that what you're having trouble with or is it the next bit where I use a Coincident constraint? You know, when I put that shirt on that day I remember thinking that someone from Scania will ask about it. The answer is no, sorry I just picked it up in a thrift shop, you know - a charity fund raising 2nd hand shop.
Arnold just a little question on the 15mm angled hole. Why extrude it then edit the feature to put the drill point in? When all you have to do is set your cercle right click and hole feature and set depth. One step. Reply
Yes it's true Johnny, one step in the hole tool does the job. However the hole tool has more complex features than any other and I'll never forget trying to simplify it in the class room. Mature age tradesmen brought the discussion to all the complexities they deal with everyday; standards and nomenclature alone are very big topics which I will have to address but just not in a beginners video. Nevertheless the revised version will be quite different.
Yes, Chezburger, I have to remind myself that we're witnessing the 4th industrial revolution! I'm looking forward to doing some videos on metal 3D printing at home with ordinary hobby machines.
6:58 I could not get those two lines colinear. It kept erroring out with overconstrained but I don't see how. I had not put any other dimensions on that sketch yet. I ended up using dims but that was not the way I wanted to do it. I suppose in the future the answer will reveal itself as I get more familiar with the constraints.
Sorry to be so slow responding here Marty, its often a preference issue, see this video where I show my preference settings for you to screen shot, especially any thing with the word "project" on the General > Design page. ruclips.net/video/UVwJJvQR1fc/видео.html
So just for anyone who also had this issue. On the construction plane that he creates at 45 degrees. If your camera view isn't aligned correctly. Click on Constrained Orbit at the bottom. Then a circle will appear around the object. Mouse over the circle until you see the small circular arrow. Hold left click and move it left or right and you can rotate the object but stay on the correct plane. If you lose the plane and it gets all fucked up. Click on construction to the left. Then the little eye next to the pane to make it visible. Then go to the bottom again and click Look At and click on the new pane.
Hey Arnold! I've been working through this series and love your teaching style. This model is the only one I got hung up on. When adding the dimension from the origin of the curve to the end of the part it doesn't extend my lines, it moves the part so it's floating/not connected to the 1st sketch. I manually extended the lines back to the end of the part but then when I highlight both edges to use the collinear constraint, nothing happens. I started the sketch over thinking I missed something but got the the same results. I am familiar with autocad so I was able to draw it correctly from the start without having to dim or constrain it but I would like to know what I'm doing wrong. Thanks!
thanks Erica, just let me step through a couple of things, did you get the angled plane happening? And you chose that angled plane for your sketch plane? The next thing is to check a couple of Preferences, click on your picture in the top right, Preferences, General, Design and the fifth one down the page should be ticked, 'Auto project edges on reference'. Also four further down, 'Auto project geometry on active skectch plane'. Just check these things for me and we'll go from there.
@@ArnoldRowntreeTeachesFusion360 Same problem as Erica. I've also checked preference and they appear to be fine. When I click "Collinear after selecting two edges", Fusion360 says "Sketch geometry is over constrained". However, when I selected centre of the arc and one of the principal coordinate lines falling in the middle, everything moved to the desired location. Are you able to imagine where I could be going wrong? Second question(Not related to the first): while trying to move a sketch, it only works if I pick it from some of the select vertices. Using other vertices distorts the sketch. Is it normal?
Thanks for all your hard work producing the drawings and videos Arnold. I have learnt so much in a short space of time following your instructions even though I'm using a different version of Fusion to what you describe I feel I am doing well. I do however have a problem drawing part 14.....Im fine until the angled face, I can project the angle face pivoting on the top corner and draw the features but when I come extrude it keeps on selecting the lower flat face instead of the angle face.....any hints on where I'm going wrong?.....keep up the good work Arnold I really appreciate it 👍
Good on you John, yes the tutorials are getting dated. The first revised one is in the works. A few people have had the same struggle with part 14, get my video on Preference settings.
Preferences ruclips.net/video/UVwJJvQR1fc/видео.html The one to pay attention to is on the General >Design page "Auto project geometry on active sketch plane"
Thomas, you've got me there; sheetmetal is something I've never had occasion to use or learn. I do occasionally see some cool ideas for sheetmetal on RUclips and say to myself I must get into that sometime. I have done some plastic injection moulding tool design although not at a high level. I've also done some mould filling simulations with top shelf German software but everyone has the odd gap in their education. A lifetime is only long enough for a short list of careers. I do have a list of other videos, take a look at the playlist page of my channel where I've got the videos arranged in playlists:- www.youtube.com/@ArnoldRowntreeTeachesFusion360/playlists After the 16 basic tutorials I'd recommend the Bodies and Components series which only has two in it so far but they really help when you want to make a start on my Intermediate series.
So far, great videos, well done. Just some minor problems i have... Done this part about 15 times, same problem occurs... When i start modelling at the "plane of angle" at the angle of 45, it looks great. At a given moment it jumped from the 45 angle to being flat at the model (hope you understand what i mean, as english is not my 1st language...)it happens when i put the two lines Another problem i have with every video... : when you go from 2 dimensional to extrude, in the video the model turns into 3d mode... not on my fusion 360... it stays flat... i have to turn it manual by hand.. example: at 6 min.05 when you jump to create sketch, the model tuns... in the video... not on my model... So i must do something very wrong... or i am just very stubborn... Hope you can give me some advice...
Rob, both of these problems might be due to settings in Preferences. Click on your picture in the top left of the screen, Preferences in the little flyout menu. Go to the General > Design page Tick the one that says "Auto look at sketch" Untick (for now) "Allow 3D sketching of lines and splines" Tick "Auto project edges on reference" Tick "Scale entire sketch at first dimension" Let me know how this goes?
@@ArnoldRowntreeTeachesFusion360 I tried it, could not see or find any difference. what i can do: i can make a videoscreen and upload it on my channel and put the link here. Could be that i am not explaining it very well...
When I right click on the screen the different things like "construct" etc don't come up. Therefore I can't get to the plane feature. Any ideas for me?
Yes Andy, anything on a right click menu or the 's' key shortcuts dialog or any kind of shortcut can always be found the slow and boring way:- trawl through the menus in the toolbar above. Trap for young players (and us old fuddy duddys if you're grey like me) there is a different main toolbar when you're in sketch mode or feature mode or if you're in one of the other 'Workspaces' such as Surface or Sheet Metal etc. in which case you just need to check to see if you're in sketch mode or feature mode. So for the angled plane, look in the CONSTRUCT menu in the toolbar above after you've clicked FINISH SKETCH.
Good day sir! I really enjoyed watching your tutorials. You have explained very well the basics of the Fusion 360. It helped me a lot to understand different key terms and tricks to sketch different objects. However, I find this part of the tutorial to be tricky when constructing and sketching in an angled plane. I was following your video and I found out that my drawing is upside down. Because of this, I cannot make the sketch in the angled plane to be collinear with the sketch in the previous plane. Instead of making the angle of the plane to be -45deg, I had to make it -135deg to match yours. Only then I can make it collinear after flipping the sketch upside down. I think this is because we have different preferences but I'm not sure. I noticed that your Pan, Zoom, and Orbit is set to SolidWorks and your Default Orbit Type setting is set to Free Orbit. Is this so?
Hi Jose, yes a lot of people have trouble with the angled plane and the constraints. If you have managed to find a work-around that's great, move on to the next one, its better to keep moving. I'll be revising this tutorial sometime soon and I'll try to simplify the sketching procedure. In the meantime please don't waste too much time, if you've come this far you have already learned a lot and there are some neat intermediate tutorials to do when you're ready.
@@ArnoldRowntreeTeachesFusion360 Thank you so much for this Mr. Arnold. I wish more power to you as well as your channel and I hope to see more of your Fusion 360 tutorials. I just finished your 16-part tutorial and I have learned so many things to prepare for our course subject!
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Hey there :) I've been doing all these tutorials and they are simply awsome, but in this one i'm having a trouble on the angled plane, when start sketching I just can't select the line to start on the bottom, at minute 6:08 can u help plz!? thanks in advance Joao Cardoso from Portugal
Hi Joao, I've just done the angled plane myself one more time. I wonder if there is some reason for the difficulty? Have you got the angled plane touching the part along that edge? If its not touching there will be nothing for the line tool to pick up. Another thing you might try is to drop down the 'Create' menu in the tool palette, go down to the second last line 'Project / Include' then click on the first line of the fly-out - Project. Then you should be able to pick that line and it will jump onto the sketch plane. Does this work at all?
4 года назад
Hi Arnold, thanks for the reply, i figured it out few minutes later, for some reason the figure wasn't align, but it all went well thanks amd many thanks to these lessons :) u're the best. Keep safe
@@ArnoldRowntreeTeachesFusion360 Had same problem with angled plane. Your advice worked but i tryed deleting and redoing angled plane few times with same result :/ I dont know what im doing wrong...
Arnold Do you do an instruction video of data management in Fusion 360. My version (non commercial use only) allows me to save only 10 drawings. So I deleted your early lessons. How do I export my drawings to a hard drive or even my desktop. Further, my version does not allow me to arrange the axis of my planes to copy your set up.How can I change this. Perhaps we can chat via email if you can kindly spare me your time
Yes Colin, data management is a big topic but the specific issue of 10 files at one time in the Personal Use version is one that I'll publish on within a month or two. As for the set up of axes/planes click on your picture in the top right corner, go to Preferences, General, the 7th line down is 'Default modelling orientation' and there is a drop down with three options. I have it set to 'Z up' How does this help? If you'd like to chat via email I think you'll find you have my email from the download procedure for getting the 16 drawings. Please drop me a line.
Hi . Got to exercise 14 no problems . Then when I got to 1:22 putting the curve on the top . The curve would not go the way I wanted it to . It kept reversing itself . Any ideas please ?.
Hi Mike, I do get this same question once in a while and haven’t nailed the cause of whatever is happening at this stage. This way of getting a curve out of the line tool is nifty and handy but the same can be done with the circle tool or the curve tools. Play with the circle tool to get past this block for now and just a few more hours of practice will eventually crack the nut, whatever it is.
Cheers for that . I got around it by attacking it from the opposite side of the curve . Just could not get it to work from the left side . @@ArnoldRowntreeTeachesFusion360
Hi Arnold Thanks for a wonderful series on fusion 360. I really struggled at first it was all so new to me but I kept hacking away and now have fourteen sketches safely tucked away. My problem perhaps I should have highlighted it earlier is that my X Y Z axis seem to be coloured differently from yours and the faces never move automatically when I go to do a sketch or when I finish one I have to do it manually from the cube in the corner or using the orbit tool at the bottom of the screen. Please help
Martin, I've been putting it off for some time but many are having the same anxiety as you so I'll address this. I'm going to have to dig into the settings in Preferences and demonstrate some features like the 'align' tool. It will take some time but I'll be on it. In the meantime you could take a look at the intermediate playlist if you have the energy. ruclips.net/p/PLFCTgdiT5-kJErMn7E3Cq9gaaoeQg9NTf
Andreas, a couple of things to try: first, redrawing the sketch, it will change colour when it is extrudable. All the corners have to be watertight, I mean there could be a microscopic gap somewhere. That's always my first thing I check on a problem sketch. Next, try putting a line across the bottom, don't presume it will close the sketch outline by itself (where the sketch touches the base feature of the part) although usually you don't have to.
Arnold , this was Indeed the case, got it done !. BTW I have finished all the tutorials, great Introduction , I hope in the future you will go into more advanced topics . A course in a platform like Udemy would be great !
Is there an easy way to ensure that you are creating a circle on the angled plane. Every time I try to do this the circle gets created on an orthogonal axis?!
Craig, I just published an answer to your question on the Facebook page here: facebook.com/Futr.Engineering/videos/1176368623117605 I demonstrate the 'Select Through' function in Fusion 360 which I hope will help you with that problem. I don't think there are any Preference settings that could cause this.
@@ArnoldRowntreeTeachesFusion360 Thanks for the reply. The video for part 14 did not really give a hint as to what plane you were in as it appeared to be transparent in the video. One other thing if I may ask. You seem to always start out with the orthogonal planes facing you. When I open up a sketch they always appear to be facing going into the screen. In other words I would consider my view as showing the negative portion of the xy axis. Is there a way to permanently get these axis to what I see in your videos when starting a sketch? Thanks. Your videos are very helpful and much appreciated. I tutor students in math at the local community college I like to use fusion 360 for the Statics course.
Craig, I think a few more hours messing with Fusion will get you familiar with any quirks around this topic. There is an Align tool which will allow you to control where things sit as well as the Move tool. A quick search of RUclips will get you some good stuff to go on. I recommend John Hackney's channel for these kinds of questions. - Put things where you want them and give yourself some time to gain confidence about where things will be on creation. ruclips.net/user/hackneyjr I can understand Fusion 360 being useful for Statics, have you found any other useful tools? I've been trying to get familiar with Geogebra which is good for vectors and algebra and graphing with sliders. And you can have an image in the background which would be good for free body diagrams.
George, try doing the same thing a different way. I was picking a reference edge for a geometric constraint but you can use a linear dimension from the point of origin to the sketched line.
@@ArnoldRowntreeTeachesFusion360 I got it working in the end, but part my problem is, when you go new sketch, and then pick a orientation/surface for it, and your screen then snap onto that, mine does not, causing me to double triple check I'm drawing on the correct orientation, and sometimes not, some times is orientation upside down, but don't mind to much as it is still complete...
@@georgelza Sorry about this confusion George, I'd be able to spot it in a moment if I was looking over your shoulder but if you've found a way to achieve the result, then its a matter of time until you see the cause and the solution. A lot more frustrating but a much better learning experience.
hob, if only I could be there looking over your shoulder. This sounds like a simple error but I'm just guessing for now. The most common problems with the sketch on the angled plane are preference settings, check out my preferences video here ruclips.net/video/UVwJJvQR1fc/видео.html Pay attention especially on the Design page in the Prefs. Next I'd be checking on your understanding of the sketch / feature distinction (just checking) but lets do one thing at a time. Let me know how you go with prefs.
How can you change the point of Origin which you have defined it? Such has creating a center circle from the Origin, but then decide it would be better if the Origin of the part is better places somewhere else.
You're thinking Terry. Usually your very first sketch orients the model to the point of origin. You can roll back your model to the first sketch, go into "edit sketch" and make changes. If your sketch is fixed in place with constraints you may have to delete one or more of them but if you have used dimensions to locate the sketch to the origin you can edit those dimensions and then roll the history timeline forward again. Now you've got me thinking, this would be a nifty video idea.
I’m glad you asked Mike. If you go to my channel home page by clicking on the “FE” logo next to any of my videos, then go to the Playlists tab and find the next beginners level series which is “Bodies and Components”. There are only two of them at this stage but this is what you need before going on to the intermediate series. ruclips.net/p/PLFCTgdiT5-kKquu0V7q39r8aHb3e74xQA&si=UEYvRP4bucgYIyo8
When you choose a plane the plane turns to face you. Is this automatic or is there something in preferences that has to be selected. I have thoroughly enjoyed your exercises but I am stuck on 14 because I cannot draw on the angled plane and so I am trying to orientate everything exactly as you. Similarly when you hit the 'e' key your drawing automatically changes to a perspective view. I have Fusion 360 Personal 2.0.9144. Best regards from a very wet England.
Hi Ron, yes there is a preference for having a chosen plane turn toward you; in preferences (click on your picture in the top right corner of the screen), on General, Design, then almost half way down the list of options you will see "Auto look at sketch" tick that one on and test the result. For responding to the 'e' key, I'm just looking through the first page of preferences, General and down toward the end of the list on this tab you see Pan, Zoom, Orbit shortcuts. There are several options and I like to have it emulate Solidworks. I also have Free Orbit selected for the next one; 'Default Orbit type'. Keep that 'brolly handy!
@@ArnoldRowntreeTeachesFusion360 Thank you very much for your thorough and detailed reply. Please keep the lessons coming. I started as an apprentice with a very old UK company, Vickers Armstrong, worked for Ford Motor Co and then as a software designer, mainly on Insurance policies. Now eighty years of age, (I don't know why old people want to boast about their age), I use Sketchup for my woodwork designs and try to learn new software; DBMS and of late Fusion 360 just to keep the grey matter from rusting. Best regards.
@@ArnoldRowntreeTeachesFusion360 finished all 16, trying to start the intermediate 6 now, just been tad busy with other work things, planned for this coming week.
Hi Arnold, I am up to exercise 14 BUT in exercise 12 I could'nt find the division key, on Win 10 , I just halved the dimention. Today Google gave ALT 246 on the num pad, but in Fusion 360 the numbers turned red and Return gave no reaction Could you please advise . Kerry
Great Video Series Thank You. Part 14 gave me the most trouble. However, once I projected the Part Base Sketch to the Angle Plane Sketch everything begun going smoothly. I am curious. How were you able to select the edges to add colinear constrain without projecting the original sketch? Fusion wouldn't let me select the extruded face. What was I doing wrong, I wonder?
It would be great if I could be sitting next to you but I can only guess for now. If the plane isn't touching along that edge there'll be a problem, there are one or two other issues that come to mind but they are hard to describe. I'm thinking I might try to do a video to demonstrate the Project / include functions on the CREATE dropdown. At least you've found a way by the sound of it.
I had the same issue, and what ended up solving it was finishing the sketch, then pressing ctrl-z to undo and get back into the sketch. Suddenly I could select the edge from the original sketch no problem. Your guess is as good as mine as to what actually went wrong.
Guys, take a look at Joe Guzardo's comment 6 up. I think that preference was automatically set for me and Autodesk may have changed the default in the meantime for new downloads.
Douglas, there are a few people having the same problem. I expect that I'm confusing the program by referencing the side of the part on a different plane. Here's an idea for achieving the result an alternative way. Rather than use a co-linear constraint, draw a construction line from the point of origin of the curve in the sketch to the edge which was used to create the angled plane. That construction line only needs to be constrained 'vertical' and you can use a coincident constraint to move the end of the construction line to the point of origin of the document. Does that help?
@@ArnoldRowntreeTeachesFusion360 I just eyeballed it. I think I understand what you are saying :). Do you have an e-mail where I can show you some designs I came up with?
I tried to extrude the angled sketch but for some reason it doesn't recognise it as a plane or profile. Any ideas why this may be? I don't know what I have done wrong. It's the bit around 7:15
Siddharth, I think the most likely problem is a microscopic gap in your sketch. Try deleting the sketch and redoing it, slowly and deliberately, without redrawing any lines or stopping and starting the line tool. Try it a few times but don't stress. Let me know how this goes. The sketch will change colour to indicate that it is extrudable as soon as its fully enclosed.
Yes MP, you'll see by some of the comments below that various people have found this quite a challenge. How did you go with the sketch on the angled plane?
@@ArnoldRowntreeTeachesFusion360 at 7:07 the collinear constraint didn’t work (probably because of the different Fusion version), the angle plan was sticking to the original plan 🤔🤔🤔.
This is one of the easiest to follow series of tutorials I have found for Fusion 360. I went from no idea to drawing and printing working parts in two days. Thanks for taking the time to produce these, your technique for instructing what is quite a complex subject is brilliant.
Glad it helped!
For those of you who were having problems getting the angled plane sketch to connect to the source line, I went into my preferences and fixed it... Click on your name > Preferences > General > Design and select "Auto project edges on reference." There may be another way to do it manually, but I don't know how.
Thanks Joe, you're a gem.
You save me a lot of time. Thank you very much.
Legend - had me stumped
Thanks, Joe!!!
did not work for me
Just wanted to say thanks for an awesome, fun and super informative set of tutorials! Very clear and concise, I’ve learned a ton already...I’m glad I found your channel!
Great to hear! Keep learning Ramon.
Hi Arnold, this is the best tutorial online if ever seen, it's the best explanation of Fusion 360 and by the the best online tutorial I've ever seen. I've gone from no experience to very confident to draw and produce my own parts. It's really helped me in my job, so thank you very very much. Bert, Dublin, Ireland.😁
Wow, thanks! That's great to hear Bert.
I've been watching all your videos and I just wanted to say thank you and I think your a great teacher! I'v been learning this program for just two days and your video's have by far been the best i'v come across. Looking forward to more videos. I liked, subscribed and turned on the bell;)
Fantastic Joe! And thanks for your kind words. I wish I could see your work in the future. For now I've got some new stuff coming.
I agree with Joe, an excellent set of videos exactly what I was looking for. Thanks
@@ArnoldRowntreeTeachesFusion360 I made something really cool and I can't wait to share it with the world! Thanks again!
@@jev_jams That's great! What have you been getting up to Joe? What are you using Fusion 360 for?
@@ArnoldRowntreeTeachesFusion360 IV been using it. Design and print things on a 3d printer, simple things like boxes and stuff like that. Its a lot if fun!
Almost through all your videos. They are awesome! Thanks for posting them
Another great part! really enjoying these - the pace has picked up and makes me want to go ahead first - I tended to do everything at once on the initial plane re the holes on the initial profile.
Thanks Arnold!
Well done Jon, keep learning!
Hello Arnold. Thank-you for the time you've taken to make these tutorials! This one made my brain hurt a little - I had the same collinear constraint problem that others seem to have had with the angled plane sketch. The only way I could get around it was to add a dimensional constraint of 7.5 between the side and the origin. That centered it up properly but I never did figure out what I was doing wrong.
Ward, You're welcome.
I've been thinking of a few methods of achieving the same result and yours is better than a few I've come up with. In fact yours is better than my original way and I'll use your idea when I re-do them.
Ward, as long as you get the result, there is no "wrong." At least not until you get into serious best practices for professional use. There are multiple ways to do a lot of the creations and operations within CAD, the more you explore the better you'll get. Avoid the mental trap of "there's a right and wrong way to do this" because eventually, that "wrong" way will help you do something that you couldn't have done another way. Over time, you will find faster and more efficient ways. Regardless, have fun with it!
For people who can't click the line at the bottom at 6:09. This worked for me.
Click your Picture Top Right > Design > Select Auto project edges on references. Click Apply.
Also if it's not working. Undo the plane and start it again after doing this.
"Arnold said it in a comment but its stuck in a bunch of other comments."
Thanks b979, When I get to the revision of this video I'll be taking some time to be sure this is much better covered.
excellent job on the tutorials, it really helped a lot, I hope you do more soon
I'm delighted to hear that and I'm in the middle of a creative mess right now.
It's getting a little bit more complicated, little by little, which is good, thank Mr. Arnold, of course, I am subscribed, like like like, and the bell on.🙂🧡Thanks again!!!
Excellent! More power to you Filiberto.
For me as old man from the drawing board very usefull, thank you!
Happy to help! I remember the classrooms full of drawing boards, then I looked through classrooms full of CRT computer monitors and was very skeptical. If only I could have seen ahead.
If you don't correct the hole as you did, you can expect to find your name scrawled on the bathroom stall's wall at the machine shop. However, it can print as-is on a 3D printer. :D
I'm enjoying this series. Thank you.
Haha
excellent tutorial learnt many things . thanks Arnold
You're close to the end of the 16 now Shiva. Have a well earned break and when you're feeling refreshed have a look at the next series of tutorials in the intermediate playlist. ruclips.net/p/PLFCTgdiT5-kJErMn7E3Cq9gaaoeQg9NTf
There is one video that I've done since which should have been the first on in the Intermediate playlist, you might like to see this one first. ruclips.net/video/MNti70F1oOo/видео.html
@@ArnoldRowntreeTeachesFusion360 thank you so much for the video links
Very useful to watch how Fusion is used in real time. Thanks.
Glad it was helpful!
Really enjoyed learning fusion. Your instruction works so well for me. Thank you.
You're welcome SLG, what will you use Fusion 360 for?
@@ArnoldRowntreeTeachesFusion360 will mainly be for woodwork, but some engineering project. A friends has a engineering shop and a new cnc. Looking forward to having ago with it.
Great job on the videos. I have been learning a lot from your videos. I do have a couple of questions about the part.
Where did you get the dimension for the length of the slot on the back of the part?
Where did you get the dimension for the depth of the 7.5mm hole from since it does not have a dimension?
Also, the 2mm radius should have been called out as 2mm radius 4 places, or each radius should have had a dimension on them.
I realize I might be a little picky about some of this, but I work on rotating parts for aircraft engines where a single part can up to 300 dimensions, 15 cross sections, & 2 pages of notes.
That's three more to you Donald.
It was an oversight on the slot even though I put a centre mark on the end radius. I missed the 2mm radius, sometimes I might put "typ" after the R2 but I'm not sure how that would go down in the aerospace industry. As for the depth of that hole, I was a bit jaded when I got to that part of it, since it not really manufacturable by conventional methods, however it is an interesting part to demonstrate angled extrusions as well as how to read auxiliary drawing views.
Thanks for these videos, very helpful understanding Fusion 360
You're welcome HanZ, looks like you're nearly through the 16?
Wow. Went back to it. One side didn’t have a tangent. It’s done though. wow.
Well done! There's always a reason.
Awesome videos. Thank you much for putting these together. Am at the 14th lesson in 3 days and I cannot believe being 'hooked' on to it. Your teaching style is very articulate.
Have a few questions:
1. At time 5:03 - You say '5 mm' is the size of the notch? It is not clear from the drawings.
2. When pressing on E the extrude view does not automatically change. I found an answer but couldn't find it in the latest software version I downloaded a few days back.
3. Can I re-orient the part to a different plane? Meaning can I rotate the entire part around a particular axis? How to do that?
4. In the projects folder where all the parts are stored - the default isometric orientation is different from the ones shown in the drawings.
5. How to draw a dome/sphere? - I should google search this before asking I suppose :-)
Apologies for the newbie questions.
Rajesh, for Q1 the main orthogonal view shows a dimension for the width of the main body of the part, 15mm. There is one other dimension nested within it, 5mm for the width of one of the sides of the notch. You should assume symmetry in this part and so two times 5 is 10 which you subtract from the overall 15 leaving 5 for the notch.
Q2 Click on your name in the top right of your screen, Preferences, General - Design, find the one named 'Auto look at sketch' tick it and click Apply below and then OK.
Further to Q2, while you're there on that page in Preferences, also tick 'Scale entire sketch at first dimension'.
Q3 With some model in the main window, find the MODIFY toolbar next to the CREATE toolbar, find the MOVE/COPY tool, click it and the MOVE/COPY dialog will open. Have Bodies selected in the Move Object drop down, click 'Selection' so it turns blue, click on your model, it will turn blue and you will see a complex triad attached to your model. Experiment with this until you work out how to move and how to rotate your model around either of three axes.
Q4. It could be a quirk of the drawing environment, I'll look into this if its important to you?
Q5 You've pointed out a missing feature in my 16 part tutorial. I should have included somewhere a revolve-extrude example which is the best way to make a dome or sphere. Thanks, I'll make a plan to correct that.
@@ArnoldRowntreeTeachesFusion360 Regarding Q1, this is still not clear on the sketch. The answer provided refers to the width of the notch which is the main body width minus the two sides. This information IS provided, however the measurement in question is the actual length of the notch, or how far into the part it goes from center to end. I cannot find this information on the sketch either. Is symmetry of depth, width and height always assumed when only 2 of the measurements are given?
AHA! Yes, pardon me, that is indeed an error and is on the list of errors to revise for the next version of this drawing set. My apologies.
excellent tutorial series
Good on you Yoshio
I will preface this with I am a complete beginner with Fusion 360 though a very quick learner. I've run through your tutorial set now 2 times and I can honestly say it has been the most helpful set of tutorials I have used yet. Each time I run through I bump into the same problem and it's probably a very simple fix. At 6:58 you make the vertical lines colinear and they bump right into place, every time I try this I get a "Sketch geometry is over constrained" error and I cannot seem to find the fault, everything looks great but won't snap to the colinear line. Any tips?
That's very kind _Stevenson_ thanks. That trick with the sketch and lines from a previous feature has proven to be a difficulty for many and its usually due to preference settings. If you downloaded the PDF with the drawings in recent weeks you'll find screenshots of my preference settings for the purpose of being sure your settings are like mine. Pay particular attention to the General > Design page and anything with the word "project" in it. There is also another video on my channel where I've paged through the preferences so that you can stop the player and screen capture the video. ruclips.net/video/UVwJJvQR1fc/видео.html
One more - @ 7:05 , collinear constraint. Makes the sketch flatten on the object and collinear, rather than make it stay in the 45 deg plane.
Rajesh, the more I think about this the more I suspect there is a mixup with your sketch. The constraint tools will only work within one sketch unless there is some confusion with the initial selection of the sketch plane. This probably doesn't sound very helpful but can I ask you to try stepping through again from the creation of the angled plane (which is a feature) after that, create a new sketch and draw the sketch lines again, be careful not to delete and redraw, especially if you make a mistake. If you do mess up, delete everything back to that base shape and step through the procedure again from the angled plane. If you are getting everything done in the right sequence and it still happens let me know.
This is my second time going thru the videos and I think they're awesome. Your approach makes more sense to me than the other videos I've found and I think your doing a great service for people like me. I feel as though I should return the favor somehow and suspect I'm not alone. Have you considered a Patreon link or a subscription service like Locals? I'd subscribe to Locals if you had another 16 parts series or some type of special content you'd put out every week or so.
You're very kind tg. I'll plan to eventually put a Patreon account up, but at this stage your good will is adequate encouragement for me. I'll keep working and thanks for being here.
I think Im gonna make some minor mods to this design and then print it and use this for my new flag pole holders. Im feeling much more comfortable with each lesson.
That's music to my ears, you've got confidence!
Thanks Arnold. It worked OK. Kerry
Good to hear
Hey Arnold thanks for the great vids they really do a great deal. Question, Why wont my views automatically adjust when clicking on the planes or on the top, front and side views? I have to adjust the view on the Home orientation in the right always.
You're welcome Walter, Autodesk have their idiosyncrasies and this is one of them in my opinion where they come last behind most other parametric CAD. Nevertheless, its possible to work with given some practice.
Thanks for all those parts, this no 14 have problems at 2:47 and forward with the movement of drawing . When selecting the part and tries move to the centre point, the drawing gets crashed, tried now many times. Don't know if this has anything with how scetch plan is situatted. Can't get that the way you have it. As a total beginner, this serie has helped alot to understand "how to". Question not related to fusion, see you have a Scania shirt, are you working for company in Austraila? Myself has been working in Sweden for Scania for 38 years, now retired. Thanks /Dan
Hi Dan, glad you're making progress despite this problem. I've looked at the video at 2:47 and there I grab the sketch and drag it around. Is that what you're having trouble with or is it the next bit where I use a Coincident constraint?
You know, when I put that shirt on that day I remember thinking that someone from Scania will ask about it. The answer is no, sorry I just picked it up in a thrift shop, you know - a charity fund raising 2nd hand shop.
Arnold just a little question on the 15mm angled hole. Why extrude it then edit the feature to put the drill point in? When all you have to do is set your cercle right click and hole feature and set depth. One step.
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Yes it's true Johnny, one step in the hole tool does the job. However the hole tool has more complex features than any other and I'll never forget trying to simplify it in the class room. Mature age tradesmen brought the discussion to all the complexities they deal with everyday; standards and nomenclature alone are very big topics which I will have to address but just not in a beginners video. Nevertheless the revised version will be quite different.
A way to manufacture this without changing the hole would be to 3d print
Yes, Chezburger, I have to remind myself that we're witnessing the 4th industrial revolution! I'm looking forward to doing some videos on metal 3D printing at home with ordinary hobby machines.
Or sintered metal.
Possibly with CNC and a custom mill.
6:58 I could not get those two lines colinear. It kept erroring out with overconstrained but I don't see how. I had not put any other dimensions on that sketch yet. I ended up using dims but that was not the way I wanted to do it. I suppose in the future the answer will reveal itself as I get more familiar with the constraints.
Sorry to be so slow responding here Marty, its often a preference issue, see this video where I show my preference settings for you to screen shot, especially any thing with the word "project" on the General > Design page. ruclips.net/video/UVwJJvQR1fc/видео.html
So just for anyone who also had this issue.
On the construction plane that he creates at 45 degrees. If your camera view isn't aligned correctly.
Click on Constrained Orbit at the bottom.
Then a circle will appear around the object. Mouse over the circle until you see the small circular arrow. Hold left click and move it left or right and you can rotate the object but stay on the correct plane.
If you lose the plane and it gets all fucked up. Click on construction to the left. Then the little eye next to the pane to make it visible. Then go to the bottom again and click Look At and click on the new pane.
thanks blah...
Hey Arnold! I've been working through this series and love your teaching style. This model is the only one I got hung up on. When adding the dimension from the origin of the curve to the end of the part it doesn't extend my lines, it moves the part so it's floating/not connected to the 1st sketch. I manually extended the lines back to the end of the part but then when I highlight both edges to use the collinear constraint, nothing happens. I started the sketch over thinking I missed something but got the the same results. I am familiar with autocad so I was able to draw it correctly from the start without having to dim or constrain it but I would like to know what I'm doing wrong. Thanks!
thanks Erica, just let me step through a couple of things, did you get the angled plane happening? And you chose that angled plane for your sketch plane?
The next thing is to check a couple of Preferences, click on your picture in the top right, Preferences, General, Design and the fifth one down the page should be ticked, 'Auto project edges on reference'. Also four further down, 'Auto project geometry on active skectch plane'. Just check these things for me and we'll go from there.
Hi Arnold. I had the same problem as Erica but your solution above sorted it for me so just wanted to say thanks for saving my sanity.
@@paulbainborrow7864 I'm glad you got past that hump Paul. You're nearly through the basic tutorials now!
@@ArnoldRowntreeTeachesFusion360 Same problem as Erica. I've also checked preference and they appear to be fine. When I click "Collinear after selecting two edges", Fusion360 says "Sketch geometry is over constrained". However, when I selected centre of the arc and one of the principal coordinate lines falling in the middle, everything moved to the desired location.
Are you able to imagine where I could be going wrong?
Second question(Not related to the first): while trying to move a sketch, it only works if I pick it from some of the select vertices. Using other vertices distorts the sketch. Is it normal?
Thanks for all your hard work producing the drawings and videos Arnold. I have learnt so much in a short space of time following your instructions even though I'm using a different version of Fusion to what you describe I feel I am doing well. I do however have a problem drawing part 14.....Im fine until the angled face, I can project the angle face pivoting on the top corner and draw the features but when I come extrude it keeps on selecting the lower flat face instead of the angle face.....any hints on where I'm going wrong?.....keep up the good work Arnold I really appreciate it 👍
Good on you John, yes the tutorials are getting dated. The first revised one is in the works. A few people have had the same struggle with part 14, get my video on Preference settings.
Preferences ruclips.net/video/UVwJJvQR1fc/видео.html
The one to pay attention to is on the General >Design page "Auto project geometry on active sketch plane"
Hi Arnold
Do you have any videos with the sheet metal design? Do you have a list of other videos?
Thomas, you've got me there; sheetmetal is something I've never had occasion to use or learn. I do occasionally see some cool ideas for sheetmetal on RUclips and say to myself I must get into that sometime. I have done some plastic injection moulding tool design although not at a high level. I've also done some mould filling simulations with top shelf German software but everyone has the odd gap in their education. A lifetime is only long enough for a short list of careers.
I do have a list of other videos, take a look at the playlist page of my channel where I've got the videos arranged in playlists:- www.youtube.com/@ArnoldRowntreeTeachesFusion360/playlists
After the 16 basic tutorials I'd recommend the Bodies and Components series which only has two in it so far but they really help when you want to make a start on my Intermediate series.
Hi Arnold
Thanks for the reply and the videos as well. I was also wondering if you have more videos coming out with more tricks in them. Thanks again
Having done further investigation, the lines that are appearing are purple projection lines?
That's right Ron, when you project geometry from existing features onto your current sketch plane they appear as purple lines.
So far, great videos, well done.
Just some minor problems i have...
Done this part about 15 times, same problem occurs...
When i start modelling at the "plane of angle" at the angle of 45, it looks great.
At a given moment it jumped from the 45 angle to being flat at the model (hope you understand what i mean, as english is not my 1st language...)it happens when i put the two lines
Another problem i have with every video... : when you go from 2 dimensional to extrude, in the video the model turns into 3d mode... not on my fusion 360... it stays flat... i have to turn it manual by hand..
example: at 6 min.05 when you jump to create sketch, the model tuns... in the video... not on my model...
So i must do something very wrong... or i am just very stubborn...
Hope you can give me some advice...
Rob, both of these problems might be due to settings in Preferences.
Click on your picture in the top left of the screen, Preferences in the little flyout menu.
Go to the General > Design page
Tick the one that says "Auto look at sketch"
Untick (for now) "Allow 3D sketching of lines and splines"
Tick "Auto project edges on reference"
Tick "Scale entire sketch at first dimension"
Let me know how this goes?
@@ArnoldRowntreeTeachesFusion360 I tried it, could not see or find any difference.
what i can do: i can make a videoscreen and upload it on my channel and put the link here.
Could be that i am not explaining it very well...
@@RobLSmit Please do, and start at the very beginning. I might be able to spot something in a screencast.
When I right click on the screen the different things like "construct" etc don't come up. Therefore I can't get to the plane feature. Any ideas for me?
Yes Andy, anything on a right click menu or the 's' key shortcuts dialog or any kind of shortcut can always be found the slow and boring way:- trawl through the menus in the toolbar above. Trap for young players (and us old fuddy duddys if you're grey like me) there is a different main toolbar when you're in sketch mode or feature mode or if you're in one of the other 'Workspaces' such as Surface or Sheet Metal etc. in which case you just need to check to see if you're in sketch mode or feature mode.
So for the angled plane, look in the CONSTRUCT menu in the toolbar above after you've clicked FINISH SKETCH.
Good day sir! I really enjoyed watching your tutorials. You have explained very well the basics of the Fusion 360. It helped me a lot to understand different key terms and tricks to sketch different objects. However, I find this part of the tutorial to be tricky when constructing and sketching in an angled plane. I was following your video and I found out that my drawing is upside down. Because of this, I cannot make the sketch in the angled plane to be collinear with the sketch in the previous plane. Instead of making the angle of the plane to be -45deg, I had to make it -135deg to match yours. Only then I can make it collinear after flipping the sketch upside down. I think this is because we have different preferences but I'm not sure. I noticed that your Pan, Zoom, and Orbit is set to SolidWorks and your Default Orbit Type setting is set to Free Orbit. Is this so?
Hi Jose, yes a lot of people have trouble with the angled plane and the constraints. If you have managed to find a work-around that's great, move on to the next one, its better to keep moving. I'll be revising this tutorial sometime soon and I'll try to simplify the sketching procedure. In the meantime please don't waste too much time, if you've come this far you have already learned a lot and there are some neat intermediate tutorials to do when you're ready.
@@ArnoldRowntreeTeachesFusion360 Thank you so much for this Mr. Arnold. I wish more power to you as well as your channel and I hope to see more of your Fusion 360 tutorials. I just finished your 16-part tutorial and I have learned so many things to prepare for our course subject!
Hey there :) I've been doing all these tutorials and they are simply awsome, but in this one i'm having a trouble on the angled plane, when start sketching I just can't select the line to start on the bottom, at minute 6:08 can u help plz!? thanks in advance Joao Cardoso from Portugal
Hi Joao, I've just done the angled plane myself one more time. I wonder if there is some reason for the difficulty? Have you got the angled plane touching the part along that edge? If its not touching there will be nothing for the line tool to pick up. Another thing you might try is to drop down the 'Create' menu in the tool palette, go down to the second last line 'Project / Include' then click on the first line of the fly-out - Project. Then you should be able to pick that line and it will jump onto the sketch plane. Does this work at all?
Hi Arnold, thanks for the reply, i figured it out few minutes later, for some reason the figure wasn't align, but it all went well thanks amd many thanks to these lessons :) u're the best.
Keep safe
@@ArnoldRowntreeTeachesFusion360 Had same problem with angled plane. Your advice worked but i tryed deleting and redoing angled plane few times with same result :/ I dont know what im doing wrong...
@@PM-pizzagamer same for me, I wonder if things are different with the latest version of Fusion
@@elevatedperception hey, did you find the solution?? Got the same problem. Even on new drawings,
Arnold Do you do an instruction video of data management in Fusion 360. My version (non commercial use only) allows me to save only 10 drawings. So I deleted your early lessons. How do I export my drawings to a hard drive or even my desktop. Further, my version does not allow me to arrange the axis of my planes to copy your set up.How can I change this. Perhaps we can chat via email if you can kindly spare me your time
Yes Colin, data management is a big topic but the specific issue of 10 files at one time in the Personal Use version is one that I'll publish on within a month or two.
As for the set up of axes/planes click on your picture in the top right corner, go to Preferences, General, the 7th line down is 'Default modelling orientation' and there is a drop down with three options. I have it set to 'Z up' How does this help?
If you'd like to chat via email I think you'll find you have my email from the download procedure for getting the 16 drawings. Please drop me a line.
Hi . Got to exercise 14 no problems . Then when I got to 1:22 putting the curve on the top . The curve would not go the way I wanted it to . It kept reversing itself . Any ideas please ?.
Hi Mike, I do get this same question once in a while and haven’t nailed the cause of whatever is happening at this stage. This way of getting a curve out of the line tool is nifty and handy but the same can be done with the circle tool or the curve tools. Play with the circle tool to get past this block for now and just a few more hours of practice will eventually crack the nut, whatever it is.
Cheers for that . I got around it by attacking it from the opposite side of the curve . Just could not get it to work from the left side . @@ArnoldRowntreeTeachesFusion360
Hi Arnold Thanks for a wonderful series on fusion 360. I really struggled at first it was all so new to me but I kept hacking away and now have fourteen sketches safely tucked away. My problem perhaps I should have highlighted it earlier is that my X Y Z axis seem to be coloured differently from yours and the faces never move automatically when I go to do a sketch or when I finish one I have to do it manually from the cube in the corner or using the orbit tool at the bottom of the screen. Please help
Martin, I've been putting it off for some time but many are having the same anxiety as you so I'll address this. I'm going to have to dig into the settings in Preferences and demonstrate some features like the 'align' tool. It will take some time but I'll be on it. In the meantime you could take a look at the intermediate playlist if you have the energy. ruclips.net/p/PLFCTgdiT5-kJErMn7E3Cq9gaaoeQg9NTf
Hey , The best tutorial `I have found. One thing though with this one I cannot get the sketch on the angled plane to extrude at all!
Andreas, a couple of things to try: first, redrawing the sketch, it will change colour when it is extrudable. All the corners have to be watertight, I mean there could be a microscopic gap somewhere. That's always my first thing I check on a problem sketch. Next, try putting a line across the bottom, don't presume it will close the sketch outline by itself (where the sketch touches the base feature of the part) although usually you don't have to.
Arnold , this was Indeed the case, got it done !. BTW I have finished all the tutorials, great Introduction , I hope in the future you will go into more advanced topics . A course in a platform like Udemy would be great !
Is there an easy way to ensure that you are creating a circle on the angled plane. Every time I try to do this the circle gets created on an orthogonal axis?!
Craig, I just published an answer to your question on the Facebook page here: facebook.com/Futr.Engineering/videos/1176368623117605
I demonstrate the 'Select Through' function in Fusion 360 which I hope will help you with that problem. I don't think there are any Preference settings that could cause this.
@@ArnoldRowntreeTeachesFusion360 Thanks for the reply. The video for part 14 did not really give a hint as to what plane you were in as it appeared to be transparent in the video. One other thing if I may ask. You seem to always start out with the orthogonal planes facing you. When I open up a sketch they always appear to be facing going into the screen. In other words I would consider my view as showing the negative portion of the xy axis. Is there a way to permanently get these axis to what I see in your videos when starting a sketch? Thanks. Your videos are very helpful and much appreciated. I tutor students in math at the local community college I like to use fusion 360 for the Statics course.
Craig, I think a few more hours messing with Fusion will get you familiar with any quirks around this topic. There is an Align tool which will allow you to control where things sit as well as the Move tool. A quick search of RUclips will get you some good stuff to go on. I recommend John Hackney's channel for these kinds of questions. - Put things where you want them and give yourself some time to gain confidence about where things will be on creation. ruclips.net/user/hackneyjr
I can understand Fusion 360 being useful for Statics, have you found any other useful tools? I've been trying to get familiar with Geogebra which is good for vectors and algebra and graphing with sliders. And you can have an image in the background which would be good for free body diagrams.
@ 7:06 you create a co-linear constraint, my side that pulls that sketch down onto the flat/top surface of the previous sketch ?
George, try doing the same thing a different way. I was picking a reference edge for a geometric constraint but you can use a linear dimension from the point of origin to the sketched line.
@@ArnoldRowntreeTeachesFusion360 I got it working in the end, but part my problem is, when you go new sketch, and then pick a orientation/surface for it, and your screen then snap onto that, mine does not, causing me to double triple check I'm drawing on the correct orientation, and sometimes not, some times is orientation upside down, but don't mind to much as it is still complete...
@@georgelza Sorry about this confusion George, I'd be able to spot it in a moment if I was looking over your shoulder but if you've found a way to achieve the result, then its a matter of time until you see the cause and the solution. A lot more frustrating but a much better learning experience.
@@ArnoldRowntreeTeachesFusion360 Found issue, when 3D Sketch is clicked in the sketch Palette then this auto snap is disabled.
At 6:01 I create the angle, select it, then I click "sketch" and the angle plane disappears and it won't draw a line off the corner edge... [ wahhh ]
hob, if only I could be there looking over your shoulder. This sounds like a simple error but I'm just guessing for now. The most common problems with the sketch on the angled plane are preference settings, check out my preferences video here ruclips.net/video/UVwJJvQR1fc/видео.html
Pay attention especially on the Design page in the Prefs.
Next I'd be checking on your understanding of the sketch / feature distinction (just checking) but lets do one thing at a time.
Let me know how you go with prefs.
How can you change the point of Origin which you have defined it? Such has creating a center circle from the Origin, but then decide it would be better if the Origin of the part is better places somewhere else.
You're thinking Terry. Usually your very first sketch orients the model to the point of origin. You can roll back your model to the first sketch, go into "edit sketch" and make changes. If your sketch is fixed in place with constraints you may have to delete one or more of them but if you have used dimensions to locate the sketch to the origin you can edit those dimensions and then roll the history timeline forward again. Now you've got me thinking, this would be a nifty video idea.
Finished the 16 . Now where ?. I am lost :-)
I’m glad you asked Mike. If you go to my channel home page by clicking on the “FE” logo next to any of my videos, then go to the Playlists tab and find the next beginners level series which is “Bodies and Components”. There are only two of them at this stage but this is what you need before going on to the intermediate series. ruclips.net/p/PLFCTgdiT5-kKquu0V7q39r8aHb3e74xQA&si=UEYvRP4bucgYIyo8
I absolutely cannot do this one. Tried and tried. Made the plane. Drew the arch but the next step isn’t working.
The revised version will have to be the solution here I think Doug. Not too far away now.
@@ArnoldRowntreeTeachesFusion360 I finally got it.
When you choose a plane the plane turns to face you. Is this automatic or is there something in preferences that has to be selected. I have thoroughly enjoyed your exercises but I am stuck on 14 because I cannot draw on the angled plane and so I am trying to orientate everything exactly as you. Similarly when you hit the 'e' key your drawing automatically changes to a perspective view. I have Fusion 360 Personal 2.0.9144. Best regards from a very wet England.
Hi Ron, yes there is a preference for having a chosen plane turn toward you; in preferences (click on your picture in the top right corner of the screen), on General, Design, then almost half way down the list of options you will see "Auto look at sketch" tick that one on and test the result.
For responding to the 'e' key, I'm just looking through the first page of preferences, General and down toward the end of the list on this tab you see Pan, Zoom, Orbit shortcuts. There are several options and I like to have it emulate Solidworks. I also have Free Orbit selected for the next one; 'Default Orbit type'.
Keep that 'brolly handy!
@@ArnoldRowntreeTeachesFusion360 Thank you very much for your thorough and detailed reply. Please keep the lessons coming. I started as an apprentice with a very old UK company, Vickers Armstrong, worked for Ford Motor Co and then as a software designer, mainly on Insurance policies. Now eighty years of age, (I don't know why old people want to boast about their age), I use Sketchup for my woodwork designs and try to learn new software; DBMS and of late Fusion 360 just to keep the grey matter from rusting. Best regards.
Hi Ron, I saw that you left me a comment yesterday but can't access it for some reason. I'd be pleased to hear from you again. cheers
I'm going to do the same, centre that part my using a dimension... to the centre
Ah, yes, if only I'd thought of that! How did it go?
@@ArnoldRowntreeTeachesFusion360 finished all 16, trying to start the intermediate 6 now, just been tad busy with other work things, planned for this coming week.
Hi Arnold, I am up to exercise 14 BUT in exercise 12 I could'nt find the division key, on Win 10 , I just halved the dimention. Today Google gave ALT 246 on the num pad, but in Fusion 360 the numbers turned red and Return gave no reaction Could you please advise . Kerry
Kerry, see if this answers your question...
drive.google.com/file/d/1nJqJbRGp1a142SIF61D9cOYZn7a797mD/view?usp=sharing
its forward slash looks like this /
@@GamesJames bingo
Great Video Series Thank You. Part 14 gave me the most trouble. However, once I projected the Part Base Sketch to the Angle Plane Sketch everything begun going smoothly. I am curious. How were you able to select the edges to add colinear constrain without projecting the original sketch? Fusion wouldn't let me select the extruded face. What was I doing wrong, I wonder?
It would be great if I could be sitting next to you but I can only guess for now. If the plane isn't touching along that edge there'll be a problem, there are one or two other issues that come to mind but they are hard to describe. I'm thinking I might try to do a video to demonstrate the Project / include functions on the CREATE dropdown. At least you've found a way by the sound of it.
I had the same issue, and what ended up solving it was finishing the sketch, then pressing ctrl-z to undo and get back into the sketch. Suddenly I could select the edge from the original sketch no problem. Your guess is as good as mine as to what actually went wrong.
@@Gameboygenius Right. It was a good lesson. I will have to try the end method sometime if I ever encounter the issue again.
Guys, take a look at Joe Guzardo's comment 6 up. I think that preference was automatically set for me and Autodesk may have changed the default in the meantime for new downloads.
At 7:00, when i use the Collinear Constrain, it drops my sketch to the first plain. What am I doing wrong?
Douglas, there are a few people having the same problem. I expect that I'm confusing the program by referencing the side of the part on a different plane. Here's an idea for achieving the result an alternative way. Rather than use a co-linear constraint, draw a construction line from the point of origin of the curve in the sketch to the edge which was used to create the angled plane. That construction line only needs to be constrained 'vertical' and you can use a coincident constraint to move the end of the construction line to the point of origin of the document. Does that help?
@@ArnoldRowntreeTeachesFusion360 I just eyeballed it. I think I understand what you are saying :). Do you have an e-mail where I can show you some designs I came up with?
Douglas, I think I found you on FB and gave you a friend request, I'll share my email address in a PM.
I tried to extrude the angled sketch but for some reason it doesn't recognise it as a plane or profile. Any ideas why this may be? I don't know what I have done wrong. It's the bit around 7:15
Siddharth, I think the most likely problem is a microscopic gap in your sketch. Try deleting the sketch and redoing it, slowly and deliberately, without redrawing any lines or stopping and starting the line tool. Try it a few times but don't stress. Let me know how this goes. The sketch will change colour to indicate that it is extrudable as soon as its fully enclosed.
@Jamie Ellis Same issues here. I cannot get the angled line drawings to connect the line the plane was created from.
Joe, I trust your discovery of the setting in preferences was after this?
@@ArnoldRowntreeTeachesFusion360 Yes!
That was a bit harder hahahah
Yes MP, you'll see by some of the comments below that various people have found this quite a challenge. How did you go with the sketch on the angled plane?
@@ArnoldRowntreeTeachesFusion360 at 7:07 the collinear constraint didn’t work (probably because of the different Fusion version), the angle plan was sticking to the original plan 🤔🤔🤔.
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Close to home now!
Difficult! thanks!
You did it! How was that sketch on an angled plane?
@@ArnoldRowntreeTeachesFusion360 Not sure! lol