Great beginner video. As a note, if you use any free online image converter sites and convert your original image to an svg first, you woud not need to do any tracing. Again great video.
I was excited for this video but when I saw all that manual tracing I gave up on it - there are so many other ways to convert a raster image into a vector image in just a few clicks of your mouse. You could then always go back and tweak it if needed.
You're absolutely right, of course, but that's not the purpose of this video. My aim here was to teach complete beginners how to use basic tools and give them confidence. There are dozens of ways of doing just about everything in F360, but I'm a believer in grasping the basics before learning how to improve upon them. If nothing else, by the time you've outlined this image in full, you'll have a great grasp of the spline tool, be comfortable with adjusting the outline, understand why it sometimes fails, and ultimately be looking for a quicker way next time 😁😁😁
Personally I view that more as an intermediate approach. Here I was going for "basic grasp." Whenever I use the SVG approach, I have to spend ages tracking down all the broken points. Here I was demonstrating why these breaks exist and how to fix them 😁
If you can tolerate my voice for half an hour, this should be a good starting point for you. It's basically creating a 2D sketch and then extruding it into a 3D object. It's really much easier than it first seems 😁
Took a couple of days to get Fusion360 working on my computer and I had to redo everything as Fusion 360 failed to save, but second attempt was successful. Wish Autodesk would release a native Linux version. MacOS exist, and it does not differ much under the hood from Linux.
For a while there it looked like Linux was going to be a real contender. It seems to have slowed down a little these day which is a shame as I really admire its stripped down approach.
Nice wee tutorial, thanks. If I wanted to add a rough random surface to the background, is that possible? Looking to print on a resin printer so the rough surface should come out ok.
Very good question. As I say, I'm no expert, but I'm not aware of a simple texture function. You can add colours and texture in the Render aspect of F360, but I don't think that pulls through to an STL. I've seen regular rough surfaces added or even cut from faces, such as straight lines, squares, diamonds, etc, and that's easy enough to achieve, but a random texture like stone, for instance, well... it's not something I've come across. But maybe one of my clever viewers will have an answer for you 😁
That thing you did "accidentally" where you didn't actually connect the points... Yeah, fusion is perfectly happy to randomly do that for you just because, lol. Now imagine trying to track down the issue when you have several hundred points, and one is off by so little that it's hard to see at the closest zoom level (like, we're talking millionth's of a mm apart)... Welcome to Fusion 360. An utter pos software that has flourished as one of the best options for hobbyist's purely because it's free and slightly better than the OSS options out there.
You're absolutely right. It's a complete pain. That's one of the major reasons why I displayed this technique in full, rather than importing via SVG, etc. A good understanding of why it happens really helps. Personally when looking for problems, as you describe, I overlay rectangles to section off areas. This quickly highlights a general area to look at and cuts down on hair-pulling time 😁
@@vogmanDuring covid I got interested in sailing and yacht design, so I decided to teach myself fusion since it was the only robust free option and everyone said it was the best... let me tell you, over the next 8 months I managed to find ALL of fusion 360's deficiencies, lol. It really just cannot handle the type of geometry involved in designing a sailing catamaran :) I did eventually end up with a result that I was mostly happy with though, so I suppose I can't be TOO hard on it.
Just got started with solidworks. Started a tutorial( within solidworks) and accidentally clicked on the wrong thing. And now i cant follow the tutorial anymore. Not liking it so far :'(. But other than that i know its a very powerful tool. Just wish i could jump into like sketchup. But those two tools are built for different purposes so it makes sense.
After convincing my employer to step out of the Stone Age and invest in 3D solid modelling instead of 2D CAD I was treated to Solidworks 🎉 even after a weeks intensive training I’m still learning new things and I’ve been using it for nearly 18 months (not including the odd sneaky game of solitaire) So don’t give up, as the great and powerful Vog says “it’s a steep learning curve” trust me it’s worth learning
Great beginner video. As a note, if you use any free online image converter sites and convert your original image to an svg first, you woud not need to do any tracing. Again great video.
I was excited for this video but when I saw all that manual tracing I gave up on it - there are so many other ways to convert a raster image into a vector image in just a few clicks of your mouse. You could then always go back and tweak it if needed.
You're absolutely right, of course, but that's not the purpose of this video. My aim here was to teach complete beginners how to use basic tools and give them confidence. There are dozens of ways of doing just about everything in F360, but I'm a believer in grasping the basics before learning how to improve upon them. If nothing else, by the time you've outlined this image in full, you'll have a great grasp of the spline tool, be comfortable with adjusting the outline, understand why it sometimes fails, and ultimately be looking for a quicker way next time 😁😁😁
Personally I view that more as an intermediate approach. Here I was going for "basic grasp." Whenever I use the SVG approach, I have to spend ages tracking down all the broken points. Here I was demonstrating why these breaks exist and how to fix them 😁
which one would you recommend using?
Thanks the turorial,I always found CAD softwares very overwhelming, this is a good way to start learning fusion.
If you can tolerate my voice for half an hour, this should be a good starting point for you. It's basically creating a 2D sketch and then extruding it into a 3D object. It's really much easier than it first seems 😁
Using CAD is very overwhelming and extremely difficult to use! I’m a CAD draughtsman I don’t want my boss to know how easy it is thank you 😂
Brilliant. Thanks for not skippingover the small stuff, it really helps when you're just starting.
Glad it was helpful!
Best ever tutorial for a total newbe
you are VERY good at tutorials.
Thank you for the lesson.
Glad you like them!
You sound very much like the late great John Peel 😊
Great job really love the video
Glad you enjoyed it
thank you very much!
You're welcome! Thanks for watching. 😁
Took a couple of days to get Fusion360 working on my computer and I had to redo everything as Fusion 360 failed to save, but second attempt was successful. Wish Autodesk would release a native Linux version. MacOS exist, and it does not differ much under the hood from Linux.
For a while there it looked like Linux was going to be a real contender. It seems to have slowed down a little these day which is a shame as I really admire its stripped down approach.
Mandalorian and VogMan, I love this channel! #LLVM
Long live MarkMorgan8378 😁😁😁😁😁
Nice wee tutorial, thanks.
If I wanted to add a rough random surface to the background, is that possible? Looking to print on a resin printer so the rough surface should come out ok.
Very good question. As I say, I'm no expert, but I'm not aware of a simple texture function. You can add colours and texture in the Render aspect of F360, but I don't think that pulls through to an STL. I've seen regular rough surfaces added or even cut from faces, such as straight lines, squares, diamonds, etc, and that's easy enough to achieve, but a random texture like stone, for instance, well... it's not something I've come across. But maybe one of my clever viewers will have an answer for you 😁
@@vogman perhaps they can export the model to another tool that does have random texture options? (like the tools you use for your rings)
I have a quick question vog man. Can any computer run this software or does it need to be a top of the line computer or laptop to run this program ?
Any reasonably modern PC can, yes. If you're still running Windows XP, don't bother. As it's free, it's worth trying. 😁
That thing you did "accidentally" where you didn't actually connect the points... Yeah, fusion is perfectly happy to randomly do that for you just because, lol. Now imagine trying to track down the issue when you have several hundred points, and one is off by so little that it's hard to see at the closest zoom level (like, we're talking millionth's of a mm apart)... Welcome to Fusion 360. An utter pos software that has flourished as one of the best options for hobbyist's purely because it's free and slightly better than the OSS options out there.
You're absolutely right. It's a complete pain. That's one of the major reasons why I displayed this technique in full, rather than importing via SVG, etc. A good understanding of why it happens really helps.
Personally when looking for problems, as you describe, I overlay rectangles to section off areas. This quickly highlights a general area to look at and cuts down on hair-pulling time 😁
@@vogmanDuring covid I got interested in sailing and yacht design, so I decided to teach myself fusion since it was the only robust free option and everyone said it was the best... let me tell you, over the next 8 months I managed to find ALL of fusion 360's deficiencies, lol. It really just cannot handle the type of geometry involved in designing a sailing catamaran :) I did eventually end up with a result that I was mostly happy with though, so I suppose I can't be TOO hard on it.
Just got started with solidworks. Started a tutorial( within solidworks) and accidentally clicked on the wrong thing. And now i cant follow the tutorial anymore. Not liking it so far :'(. But other than that i know its a very powerful tool. Just wish i could jump into like sketchup. But those two tools are built for different purposes so it makes sense.
The learning curve is always steep. With time and persistence we can all get there 😁👍👍👍
After convincing my employer to step out of the Stone Age and invest in 3D solid modelling instead of 2D CAD
I was treated to Solidworks 🎉 even after a weeks intensive training I’m still learning new things and I’ve been using it for nearly 18 months (not including the odd sneaky game of solitaire)
So don’t give up, as the great and powerful Vog says “it’s a steep learning curve”
trust me it’s worth learning