Lars, another new Fusion student here. A 65 year young one at that. I'm working on my own first drawing after watching a half dozen of your videos. You really hit the nail on the head for this 2D CAD guy looking to step up to a 3D option that I can understand. And a lot of the credit for grasping Fusion 360 goes to you and your approach to how you explain things. The number of views for your videos are not all that high but I want to assure you that you produced the "gift that keeps on giving". A hearty THANKYOU ! ! ! for all your videos. For me, at least, they really hit the mark. I'm posting this to your tube cage video but trust me, I'm a keen fan and will be watching a lot more of your YT work as I grow into Fusion.
Layout sketch 4:46 Insert material into current design 7:36 Break link 8:10 Paste new 9:17 Joint command1 10:50 Plane at angle 14:55 Modify>Split body 15:18 Joint 15:37 Offset plane 24:51 3d sketch 25:00
Ermagerd so much inefficiency! Couple suggestions to users: 1. After the first item is placed use the move/copy on the new tube running along z-axis and rotate/copy about an origin axis, now you have a copy of your 6' long tube and won't have to repeat your joints (instead of paste new on an object that will be made identical. 2. Create an offset dimension on your 1st sketch that is the tube radius, now you have something to snap to without the joint offset. *Bonus you can account for tube size revisions* 3. Creating a plane along 3 points for your cuts takes some more planning but makes it much easier if you decide to change your primary dimensions later. Suggestion 1 saves time, 2 & 3 make for a more robust model. Suggestion 1 also makes for a much more clean bill of materials in your drawing. Great video nonetheless, still learned things.
I don't want to sound too negative , but I did some contract work and had to buy a license of SolidWorks. The weldment tool in SolidWorks is about 10,000 times better than the methods you have to use in Fusion360. I would just make a few 2D or 3D sketches for where I want the pipe sections. Click on the tool select my profile (8020, I-beam, H-beam, angle, solid or tube square, round, or rectangular stock and then click the line segment. Done. If I want a offset I just use the wizard to select a point on the profile to offset. If I want weld gaps, to trim, or miter a joint use a little wizard and done. Workflow is super simple. I am trying to build a simple rectangular tube frame in fusion 360 and I am pulling my hair out.
I did some work with BendTech but my license expired and that was a great program for this stuff. But buying a license is a lot bigger of a step than using a simple free program. If you have any other program suggestions for frame designs lmk I am trying to build a few different truck frames from scratch and I'm not sure if I should go back to BendTech or get something else. Same thing as you, rectangular steel frame.
I agree with you, I am in the same situation except that my budget is not enough for a SolidWorks license, and I think this is my only option, I don't know if you can give me some advice on some other method to make metal structures.
Hi Lars, I'm new to fusion, coming from solid works. your videos are amazing, I love your presenting style, you put some life into it. You have a natural way of keeping the content moving and engaging but staying on point. Thanks for your efforts and content. I am learning fast from this. .
you coped the tube to intersect with the vertical tube. i would like to know how you would bend the tube so you have one continuous piece from bottom to top. my bender die has a 7.5" center line radius so knowing how to set the radius would be very helpful.
Draw your 3D sketch with a bend radius and use the path command to extrude a sketch of the pipe profile. If you aren't using a center line radius you can just do a little math inside the radius dimensions (e.g. add pipe radius to center line radius if doing an inside bend).
Btw, instead of plane at angle, you can make a 45 degree plane in a corner by using midpoint plane between the walls of those two beams. I wish working with this kind of design was easier. There's pretty much nothing changed in five years to make this any easier.
Congratulations Lars with reaching #100. Excellent video's and pleasant to look at and use as reference as an absolute beginner! Keep going as you do since you are truly helping a lot of people here!
Hey guys If you find all the cutting and deleting components a bit too much of a trouble here's an easier way to achieve the same results in less than half the time: ... When you are at this point 2:50 extrude to both sides (any length), proceed to create a new sketch and draw 45 deg. lines at each end of the pipe and extrude "cut" those corners. ... Follow the same procedure as in 8:57 to insert this stock tube into a new file. Now you just new to make the new component active and edit its length. VOILÁ ! ! ! ... place it anywhere you like. ... BTW, You may not even need a sketch in the first place. You're welcome!!!
Maybe I'm a single student. I explain. I'm learning English. I practice my listenig and my reading with his classes. I put subtitles in English. And I still break learn Fusion 360. Its diction and oratory is great for learning this language. Putting it all together, I became subscribed to your videos. Thank you very much for your work. Talvez eu seja aluno único. Eu explico. Estou aprendendo inglês. Pratico meu listenig e meu reading com suas aulas. Coloco legendas em inglês. E de quebra ainda aprendo Fusion 360. Sua dicção e oratória é ótima para aprender este idioma. Juntando tudo, me tornei inscrito de seus videos. Muito obrigado por seu trabalho.
And that's not a joke. In spite of his accent I can unite the interest in Fusion 360 and my nescessidad to learn English, to take advantage of his classes. I learn English as I learned Portuguese, listening to the people around me talking. I had this start 6 months ago. I'll arrive there. E isso não é piada. Apesar de seu sotaque eu consigo unindo o interesse em Fusion 360 e minha necessidade de aprender inglês, tirar duplo proveito de suas aulas. Aprendo inglês como aprendi português, ouvindo as pessoas em minha volta falando. Tive este start há 6 meses. Eu chego lá.
Hey Lars. I was hoping this would be easy because Fusion's FEA is really nice. Solidworks is still much faster and easier for weldments. I hope they improve it.
hi Lars. Trying to replicate whats in the video. You don't show the trimming of the vertical pipe to the bottom structure. When I try to split body/remove bodies - it looks really odd. Can you let me know how you would do this?
Great vid Lars. So with compound mitres, how can you create bisector plane at 30:05? With the capabilites of simulation...fish mouth is a bit dirty lol!
Thanks for sharing this, but this is the outmost complicated way of constructing a pipe frame. What takes you 40 minutes takes me 5 minutes with the piping tool option as i turn a wire 2d frame into a piping 3d frame.
Thanks for making videos like this... Is there a virtual person in fusion 360? I watched a documentary about the first submarine ever fully designed with cad and they had a virtual person (I forget what they called him) for checking if a person could fit into certain places and do certain actions. so if I wanted to design a go cart for example I could take a 5' tall virtual person put him or her in the proper sitting position and design the go cart around him/her?
Your videos are awesome. The narration of the lessons is very nice. Very informative. I learned everything from you. I also like the t-shirt very nice.
How to make a drawing from that model to put to bending machine ?? f.e.: Straight distance(mm), bending in angle (radius), straight distance(mm), rotation of the plane (angle!), bending in angle (radius), straight distance (mm)....
lars could you please do a video making bends as with motorsport we don't miter where possible we bend and cope You should look at the MSA blue book if you haven't seen it .i think if you did a blue book series I think that would be really popular I I'm trying to work out what software in going to learn its going to be painful as I'm not great with computers or sitting still but so looking something easy whats you thoughts on the bend tech software . I like how you can make the tube and store it to a Library .as a fabricator that's how my mind works here's a strait piece of stock what can I do it . I also pie cuts would be cool to see .would love to see collaboration with a welder fabrication guy or girl
Is there any way to use your "stock pipe"with the sweep command for bends? Or would you project the end profile on to each individual sweep path? Great videos, thanks!
Typically 1 5/8 down to 1 inch and 3/4 for some corner bracing per sfi. Also you wouldn't use all those notches, but rather bend it and create nods where tubing comes together at joints. Pipe is for plumbers, tubing is for fab work. Great job as always Lars, congrats on 100!
Dave Anderson Yup...on both counts. Lars, it would be good if you could show us how to bend tubing in fusion. Specifically how you would specify the angle and bend the tube then fit it to 2 end points. Then show us how you would intersect the two end points into another tube, using the fixed tube as the cut tool. Like a fabricator would do it. Probably not something you do everyday, but a lot of fabricators would use that info daily. 👍
Awesome feedback! thank you!! Clearly you guys knows what you are talking about. For the bending, I would add sweeps, like this video: ruclips.net/video/WvCNGR8C2uo/видео.html
Marcel LeMay There is a bending software out there for about 150 bucks. IMHO way more suited for tube bending than Fusion. The softwares lays out all of bend point etc and you actually lay the whole cage out so you can see what it wil look like, it gives you cut lengths etc. Check out bend tech.
Dave Anderson Awesome, I didn't know that. It would seem that it would be highly specialized thing. Do you know if you can design the entire cage inside the software then generate a parts list?
Marcel LeMay yes, you can build the whole thing and see what it will look like. Plus it will tell you lengths to cut the tubing, you can also print out paper templates to wrap around the tube to guide your notches. It's pretty cool.
hej Lars, congratulations on the 100th episode. Thank you for streaming all these awesome videos to us. I watch the recorded videos, because the time you go live, I'm busy doing other things in a different timezone here in Denmark. But hey, that's why the recordings are made - right? It feels good to see our national flag, Dannebrog, in the background, btw :-) Tak for alle dine tips og smittende humør. Jeg bruger Fusion 360 på hobbybasis til design af ting som jeg 3d printer. Hav en fantastisk dag. Looking forward to the next 100 episodes :-)
instead of the 45 deg cuts how would you bend the pipe? That way you could use a tube bender. Great videos I have learned a lot from watching thanks for all the advice
On tube Chassis there are many bends in the tubing. The bending die have specific radius's they uses. How would you bend the upright tubing that goes from the bottom sketched rectangle to the top sketch rectangle?
This is great. I would like to design something similar using rectangular tubing. any ideas how I would go about this? Seems to be much more complex.... at least to me. Thanks
It is a little confusing :-) This might help: forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-360-design-validate/what-is-the-difference-between-delete-and-remove-a-component-or/td-p/6246554 We can for sure pick this up in a livestream Show less
Great work as always Lars. Could you please elaborate on the difference between "delete" and "remove". I don't quite understand. Congrats on #100. You do the work of the gods!
Hi Quinn Hale Thank you for watching! It is a little confusing :-) This might help: forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-360-design-validate/what-is-the-difference-between-delete-and-remove-a-component-or/td-p/6246554 We can for sure pick this up in a livestream
Thank you Lars. That pretty well clears it up. It does seem like an area that needs a bit of cleaning up though, as far as nomenclature goes. I'll look forward to seeing your next video. I watch them all.
The plane with an angle only works if your bottom is a square. Mine is a rectangle and the construction lines are not 45 to the material? This seems way overly complicated. It will takes Ages to design something elaborate.
Another very helpful and informative video Lars. I will be making a new motorcycle swing arm soon and this video has helped a lot with the design process for that.
Hey Lars, Great video.. Very helpful covering the major concepts but I am quite stuck at a point. How do you trim the pipe that goes vertical from the bottom to the top structure? It is at 29:25 in the video to be precise and I am concerned with the trimming of that vertical pipe with respect to the Joint pipes at the bottom.
This is how I solved that problems: a360.co/2P7dpZu and a360.co/2P5JzEL . You can download my project following this link... I ended up creating the bottom and the top plane kinda in a way that this video is suggesting, have had problems to do that properly too. But to do the connecting pipes this way I couldn't do it at all properly, I tried hard but to no avail. So I decided to use the Sweep option instead and I think I did well at the end... I suppose you will be able to see what I did step by step downloading the upper link and than opening the file in your Fusion 360. At least that's how it should work as far as I know... I'm kinda new to Fussion too, so... Good luck! I went on and Split all the body's properly so you can check that out too...
Lars, the way you are flying and navigating around the model makes all the moves/sketches, mods you make painless. What 3d mouse are you using ? You make it looks so e.a.s.y.....
Lars I am trying to right click and select the "insert into current design". In my case, I made a C channel, in a separate drawing. However, I am not seeing that option. I noticed this video is from about 3 years ago. Having said that, has that option on the right click been eliminated or am I doing something wrong. BTW, I am using a Mac, if that makes a difference.
Hi Lawrence KY Ho Thank you for watching! Yes, I was thinking of doing something similar as I did with the Diresta table: ruclips.net/video/stG2gfcLkjk/видео.html Best, Lars
when i right click the saved tube in my data panel i'm not getting an option to insert into current drawing, or insert anywhere for that matter. i'm using the free version, if that matters. any ideas? at a standstill on this tutorial so will re-visit when i figure this out.
Curious. After you build the base you start on the upright. Is there a way to bend the tubing instead of butting together with a fishplated tube? If this is possible is it also possible to have a fixed radius, for example my tubing bender has a cl radius of 5.5" If we could model using that it would be great. Love your videos.
Hi Bill Schultek Thank you for watching! Yes, I should have included sweeps. I was so focused on the fish mouth connection :-) Check out this video! ruclips.net/video/WvCNGR8C2uo/видео.html Have an awesome day! Best, lars
You can just stick them together, then use COMBINE-CUT. I already did a rollcage like this on Fusion. :) Biggest issue is I haven't figured out how to download the bend schedule to allow a person to make it ie Bend 1: 20 inches, 10 angles off axis, 45 degrees, bend 2: 22 inches, 0 axis, 25 degrees, etc..
Hey great video.. I was just curious if there was a way to get templates from the tubes for cutting in real life. For example when notching tubes at an angle and you need to join them at an angle, but with out a notcher or a template you would not be able to do this precisely. Thanks
Hi Matthew Martin Thank you for watching! I would think the next step would be to go into the 2D drawing environment and you could start laying things out, like shape and cut-list. ruclips.net/video/stG2gfcLkjk/видео.html Hope this is useful
Thanks for the video lars! Is there a way to unwrap each of the tubes so that I could print out patterns on sticker paper? That way I could mark all my cuts before I started grinding and cutting? I have seen people do this with solid works for creating entire car chassis.
Great video on weldments. Any reason at the 17min mark you didn't just take the 2 first pipes you cut and joined, copy them both and flip them over and paste? I would have thought that to be more efficient?
Hi Ciaran Whelan Thank you for watching! You are right. Copy, paste, pattern or mirroring is always a good option to speed things up. My only reason is that I get to show the same functions again, and repetition is the key to learning according to Zig Ziglar. Have an awesome day
Now I can draw my cnc milling enclosure. in this example you just done, If I make a line directly from the bottom plane corner to the top plane corner,(compound line) make it construction can I then make a new plane on the compound construction line I just created? thanks as always. what happened to your latest video 04/08/2020, I clicked to watch and got an error.
Thank you so much for watching! The 3D Sketch has been updated since this video and is even better!!! I will talk about that here on the channel later this week :-) Not sure why there was an error. Sorry
G'day Lars, I am just starting out with fusion. I have built a tin, that has a similar edge to your pipes above. I am trying to join the corners but I cannot use this method as when I select the body to slice, it selects the entire project. Is there a way to just join up the corners? I took a picture but don't think I can post it here. Thanks for all your videos, I have been watching for a week and learnt so much. Very slowly. You are a great teacher and explain things very well. Thanks!
Hello Lars. I'm thankful that you take the time to do this videos. Good job! Do you have a video to design water piping? like with the reducers, 90 angles or so? or this is something that Fusion doesnt have.
Hi Abraham Garcia Thank you for watching! I have not. You could model your own, or search McMaster in the "Insert" drop-down as they also have some piping you can download. Hope this is useful. BEst, Lars
So does it tell you the angle of what that pipe saddle or fish bowl as you called it is supposed to be once you fabricate it in the real world? Would be nice to know the exact angle your supposed to cut it before doing it
Lars, you didn't cut out the horizontal pipes at the corners to align them with the vertical pipes (or you should cut out the bottom ends of the vertical pipes and leave the horizontal frame as is)
Great video. My interest is Scale RC 4wd vehicles and this will be great for scale roll bars and bumpers. I will have to explore how to bend the pipe instead of intersect and join.
I'm a fan & new subscriber. If I may suggest it, you might consider upgrading your mic/audio. It's a bit rough & fuzzy. But the videos are really great for me. I have used half a dozen different 3D modeling programs but have never really mastered any of them. I love this one and hope to get really competent with it.
This is essential learning Lars. I am finally getting down to the drawings for my steel sub-frame . Maybe we'll over take the actual building which has already begun :-) Regards
Hi Lars. Very good instructional video and exactly what I was looking for currently from design standpoint. Now I'm curios also from manufacturing standpoint that have you ever done instruction how to create 2d cutting template to wrap around pipe to cut angles correctly for oddly created angles? I assume this could be accomplished with "sheet metal" tools menu? BTW I absolutely love that you go over many things from looking from perspective of manufacturing. Just the way I usually generally try to think.
Nice tips again Lars. Thanks! Just curious, and I'm sure that F360 doesn't do AI but after doing the pipe 'fish fillets' you realised that the top end point needed to be offset in by 1.5" as per the bottom then you'd basically have to rewind, move the top points and then redo the angled pipes and fillets. Would that be correct?
found easier way then dimensioning every center line by offsetting plane to half width minus pipe etc. just offset both outsides of frame inward in sketch. make them constructiion lines.create planes at angle using offset lines. then make line in space and create coincident between both offset lines on top and bottom frame via 3d sketch. if you changle frame size and pipe it wont affect much
Hi Lars I really appreciate your videos you have great tutorial videos, I want to design a box and make a video of the movement or animation option of two chassis one sliding in to another, what would u suggest. Thank you !
Lars, another new Fusion student here. A 65 year young one at that. I'm working on my own first drawing after watching a half dozen of your videos. You really hit the nail on the head for this 2D CAD guy looking to step up to a 3D option that I can understand. And a lot of the credit for grasping Fusion 360 goes to you and your approach to how you explain things. The number of views for your videos are not all that high but I want to assure you that you produced the "gift that keeps on giving". A hearty THANKYOU ! ! ! for all your videos. For me, at least, they really hit the mark.
I'm posting this to your tube cage video but trust me, I'm a keen fan and will be watching a lot more of your YT work as I grow into Fusion.
Confusing when trying to follow using the latest version 5 years after this was recorded :) Updated version for 2022 version would be nice.
Layout sketch 4:46
Insert material into current design 7:36
Break link 8:10
Paste new 9:17
Joint command1 10:50
Plane at angle 14:55
Modify>Split body 15:18
Joint 15:37
Offset plane 24:51
3d sketch 25:00
Fusion user of 3 years here: never knew about paste new until today. Wow, that could have saved a lot of time in the past ;)
Ermagerd so much inefficiency!
Couple suggestions to users:
1. After the first item is placed use the move/copy on the new tube running along z-axis and rotate/copy about an origin axis, now you have a copy of your 6' long tube and won't have to repeat your joints (instead of paste new on an object that will be made identical.
2. Create an offset dimension on your 1st sketch that is the tube radius, now you have something to snap to without the joint offset. *Bonus you can account for tube size revisions*
3. Creating a plane along 3 points for your cuts takes some more planning but makes it much easier if you decide to change your primary dimensions later.
Suggestion 1 saves time, 2 & 3 make for a more robust model. Suggestion 1 also makes for a much more clean bill of materials in your drawing.
Great video nonetheless, still learned things.
Thanks for sharing. I was curious if you can make bends in the roll cage instead of connecting two pieces together?
I don't want to sound too negative , but I did some contract work and had to buy a license of SolidWorks. The weldment tool in SolidWorks is about 10,000 times better than the methods you have to use in Fusion360. I would just make a few 2D or 3D sketches for where I want the pipe sections. Click on the tool select my profile (8020, I-beam, H-beam, angle, solid or tube square, round, or rectangular stock and then click the line segment. Done. If I want a offset I just use the wizard to select a point on the profile to offset. If I want weld gaps, to trim, or miter a joint use a little wizard and done. Workflow is super simple. I am trying to build a simple rectangular tube frame in fusion 360 and I am pulling my hair out.
I did some work with BendTech but my license expired and that was a great program for this stuff. But buying a license is a lot bigger of a step than using a simple free program. If you have any other program suggestions for frame designs lmk I am trying to build a few different truck frames from scratch and I'm not sure if I should go back to BendTech or get something else. Same thing as you, rectangular steel frame.
I agree with you, I am in the same situation except that my budget is not enough for a SolidWorks license, and I think this is my only option, I don't know if you can give me some advice on some other method to make metal structures.
Old video and I still learn new things ☺️ Thank you!
Awesome to hear. Thank you for watching 👍😊
Man you are like a CAD Bob Ross. Thanks for the teaching
Hi Lars, I'm new to fusion, coming from solid works. your videos are amazing, I love your presenting style, you put some life into it. You have a natural way of keeping the content moving and engaging but staying on point. Thanks for your efforts and content. I am learning fast from this. .
Brilliant, Been trying to figure this out for ages. I'm trying to construct a conservatory frame and this will work perfectly.Thank you so much Lars.
you coped the tube to intersect with the vertical tube. i would like to know how you would bend the tube so you have one continuous piece from bottom to top. my bender die has a 7.5" center line radius so knowing how to set the radius would be very helpful.
Draw your 3D sketch with a bend radius and use the path command to extrude a sketch of the pipe profile. If you aren't using a center line radius you can just do a little math inside the radius dimensions (e.g. add pipe radius to center line radius if doing an inside bend).
Lars mate your Instructional Technique is outstanding and your enthusiasm is contagious! Well done on your 100th top notch tutorial, roll on #200 :)
Thank you buddwieser :-)
Fantastic insight and tutorial into 3D sketching. I had tried it before, but without too much success, now I know what I'm doing.
Thanks Lars.
That is awesome to hear Spike Kent .Thank you for watching the videos
How would you generate a cut list for the tube?
Btw, instead of plane at angle, you can make a 45 degree plane in a corner by using midpoint plane between the walls of those two beams. I wish working with this kind of design was easier. There's pretty much nothing changed in five years to make this any easier.
I feel like I'm back in school. just finished the table and now onto this one since I plan on designing something using tubing
Been teaching myself f360 and your videos are pure gold. Thank you sir!
To those looking for the 3D sketch section, start watching from 25:00
Thanks Lars just needed this example and I basically learned fusion 360 mainly by following your tutorials😊
Congratulations Lars with reaching #100. Excellent video's and pleasant to look at and use as reference as an absolute beginner! Keep going as you do since you are truly helping a lot of people here!
That is awesome to hear Frans van der Werf .Thank you for watching the videos
Hey guys
If you find all the cutting and deleting components a bit too much of a trouble here's an easier way to achieve the same results in less than half the time:
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When you are at this point 2:50 extrude to both sides (any length), proceed to create a new sketch and draw 45 deg. lines at each end of the pipe and extrude "cut" those corners.
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Follow the same procedure as in 8:57 to insert this stock tube into a new file. Now you just new to make the new component active and edit its length.
VOILÁ ! ! !
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place it anywhere you like.
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BTW, You may not even need a sketch in the first place.
You're welcome!!!
AWESOME! been looking for tubing manufacturing in fusion for ever!
Thank you sir!
You are so very welcome :-) Thank you for watching!
This is a great idea!! I build framework for a living and to bring in a standard 30, 35, 40,45,and 50 is brilliant!.
Thanks Lars!
You are so very welcome :-) Thank you for watching!
This technique is my main go to for woodworking, so fast. Thank you.
Awesome to hear. Thank you for watching 👍😊
dope 3D sketching!
Maybe I'm a single student.
I explain.
I'm learning English. I practice my listenig and my reading with his classes. I put subtitles in English.
And I still break learn Fusion 360. Its diction and oratory is great for learning this language.
Putting it all together, I became subscribed to your videos.
Thank you very much for your work.
Talvez eu seja aluno único.
Eu explico.
Estou aprendendo inglês. Pratico meu listenig e meu reading com suas aulas. Coloco legendas em inglês.
E de quebra ainda aprendo Fusion 360. Sua dicção e oratória é ótima para aprender este idioma.
Juntando tudo, me tornei inscrito de seus videos.
Muito obrigado por seu trabalho.
That is awesome to hear Nelson batista,RIBEIRO .Thank you for watching the videos
And that's not a joke.
In spite of his accent I can unite the interest in Fusion 360 and my nescessidad to learn English, to take advantage of his classes. I learn English as I learned Portuguese, listening to the people around me talking.
I had this start 6 months ago. I'll arrive there.
E isso não é piada.
Apesar de seu sotaque eu consigo unindo o interesse em Fusion 360 e minha necessidade de aprender inglês, tirar duplo proveito de suas aulas. Aprendo inglês como aprendi português, ouvindo as pessoas em minha volta falando.
Tive este start há 6 meses. Eu chego lá.
Hey Lars. I was hoping this would be easy because Fusion's FEA is really nice. Solidworks is still much faster and easier for weldments. I hope they improve it.
hi Lars. Trying to replicate whats in the video. You don't show the trimming of the vertical pipe to the bottom structure. When I try to split body/remove bodies - it looks really odd. Can you let me know how you would do this?
Great vid Lars. So with compound mitres, how can you create bisector plane at 30:05? With the capabilites of simulation...fish mouth is a bit dirty lol!
Lars - you're the best. Congrats at 100 episode Sir :)
Thank you so much O. some
Great Help, Thank you Lars.
You are so very welcome :-) Thank you for watching!
You are very, very clear and I finally understood how to connect pipes. Thanks a lot!
Good stuff! Congratulations on 100!
Thank you so much Richard Freeze
Your Tuts are so helpfull! So good explained! Thanks a lot!
great video!
Thank you Oliver Bailey
that was exactly my questin, why didn't the line turn blue... Great video, very clear
^^Congrats on #100! I look forward to watching every one
Thank you so much Nick Waskow
Thanks for sharing this, but this is the outmost complicated way of constructing a pipe frame. What takes you 40 minutes takes me 5 minutes with the piping tool option as i turn a wire 2d frame into a piping 3d frame.
You are awesome !! With your tutorial I have designed a Router CNC machine with Square tubes . Thank you so much !
You are so very welcome :-) Thank you for watching!
Thank you Lars, 3d line manipulation was very useful.
That is awesome to hear K.I.S. Lending .Thank you for watching the videos
Thanks for making videos like this... Is there a virtual person in fusion 360? I watched a documentary about the first submarine ever fully designed with cad and they had a virtual person (I forget what they called him) for checking if a person could fit into certain places and do certain actions. so if I wanted to design a go cart for example I could take a 5' tall virtual person put him or her in the proper sitting position and design the go cart around him/her?
Your videos are awesome. The narration of the lessons is very nice. Very informative. I learned everything from you. I also like the t-shirt very nice.
The century is upon us. Congratulations on making it. I've not been tuning in quite as often as I should, the house is taking priority 🏡
Thank you my friend! House totally takes priority!!
Lars Christensen hopefully we will be square by Christmas.
How to make a drawing from that model to put to bending machine ?? f.e.: Straight distance(mm), bending in angle (radius), straight distance(mm), rotation of the plane (angle!), bending in angle (radius), straight distance (mm)....
you can print fabrication blueprints with this program
Thank you Lars, you just reminded me the accent of my friends from Copenhagen
Danks!
You are so very welcome :-) Thank you for watching!
lars could you please do a video making bends as with motorsport we don't miter where possible we bend and cope You should look at the MSA blue book if you haven't seen it .i think if you did a blue book series I think that would be really popular I I'm trying to work out what software in going to learn its going to be painful as I'm not great with computers or sitting still but so looking something easy whats you thoughts on the bend tech software . I like how you can make the tube and store it to a Library .as a fabricator that's how my mind works here's a strait piece of stock what can I do it . I also pie cuts would be cool to see .would love to see collaboration with a welder fabrication guy or girl
Is there any way to use your "stock pipe"with the sweep command for bends? Or would you project the end profile on to each individual sweep path?
Great videos, thanks!
Typically 1 5/8 down to 1 inch and 3/4 for some corner bracing per sfi. Also you wouldn't use all those notches, but rather bend it and create nods where tubing comes together at joints. Pipe is for plumbers, tubing is for fab work. Great job as always Lars, congrats on 100!
Dave Anderson Yup...on both counts.
Lars, it would be good if you could show us how to bend tubing in fusion. Specifically how you would specify the angle and bend the tube then fit it to 2 end points. Then show us how you would intersect the two end points into another tube, using the fixed tube as the cut tool. Like a fabricator would do it. Probably not something you do everyday, but a lot of fabricators would use that info daily. 👍
Awesome feedback! thank you!! Clearly you guys knows what you are talking about.
For the bending, I would add sweeps, like this video:
ruclips.net/video/WvCNGR8C2uo/видео.html
Marcel LeMay There is a bending software out there for about 150 bucks. IMHO way more suited for tube bending than Fusion. The softwares lays out all of bend point etc and you actually lay the whole cage out so you can see what it wil look like, it gives you cut lengths etc. Check out bend tech.
Dave Anderson Awesome, I didn't know that. It would seem that it would be highly specialized thing. Do you know if you can design the entire cage inside the software then generate a parts list?
Marcel LeMay yes, you can build the whole thing and see what it will look like. Plus it will tell you lengths to cut the tubing, you can also print out paper templates to wrap around the tube to guide your notches. It's pretty cool.
hej Lars, congratulations on the 100th episode. Thank you for streaming all these awesome videos to us. I watch the recorded videos, because the time you go live, I'm busy doing other things in a different timezone here in Denmark. But hey, that's why the recordings are made - right? It feels good to see our national flag, Dannebrog, in the background, btw :-)
Tak for alle dine tips og smittende humør. Jeg bruger Fusion 360 på hobbybasis til design af ting som jeg 3d printer. Hav en fantastisk dag.
Looking forward to the next 100 episodes :-)
Hi Poul Anker Ersly Thank you for watching!
Ha en rigtig god dag!!
instead of the 45 deg cuts how would you bend the pipe? That way you could use a tube bender. Great videos I have learned a lot from watching thanks for all the advice
Hi Joe Smith Thank you for watching!
I should have included sweeps in the video. Check this out:
ruclips.net/video/WvCNGR8C2uo/видео.html
Best,
Lars
First off, your info is awesome.. my question is. I'm working on a bridge port with manual z and spindel. How do I work that in manual z.
On tube Chassis there are many bends in the tubing. The bending die have specific radius's they uses. How would you bend the upright tubing that goes from the bottom sketched rectangle to the top sketch rectangle?
Ken Van Ness path and sweep.
ps thanks for the vids. Learned good working practices that make this program sooo much easier to use and doing it properly
This is great. I would like to design something similar using rectangular tubing. any ideas how I would go about this? Seems to be much more complex.... at least to me. Thanks
Thank you! You are a treasure.
Happy you find the content useful. Thank you for watching!
Hi Lars great tutorial! Can you explain why you used “remove” instead of “delete”?
It is a little confusing :-)
This might help:
forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-360-design-validate/what-is-the-difference-between-delete-and-remove-a-component-or/td-p/6246554
We can for sure pick this up in a livestream
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Great work as always Lars. Could you please elaborate on the difference between "delete" and "remove". I don't quite understand. Congrats on #100. You do the work of the gods!
Hi Quinn Hale Thank you for watching!
It is a little confusing :-)
This might help:
forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-360-design-validate/what-is-the-difference-between-delete-and-remove-a-component-or/td-p/6246554
We can for sure pick this up in a livestream
Thank you Lars. That pretty well clears it up. It does seem like an area that needs a bit of cleaning up though, as far as nomenclature goes. I'll look forward to seeing your next video. I watch them all.
If you were going to use the drawing from this project to construct a cage from, how would you know at what angle to notch the tubing?
The plane with an angle only works if your bottom is a square. Mine is a rectangle and the construction lines are not 45 to the material?
This seems way overly complicated. It will takes Ages to design something elaborate.
Another very helpful and informative video Lars. I will be making a new motorcycle swing arm soon and this video has helped a lot with the design process for that.
That is awesome to hear John Farrell .Thank you for watching the videos
Wish you had covered this topic about two months ago when I had to design a support table for an CNC Router, using two inch square tubing.
Hi Arie N Ellen de Vries Thank you for watching! That is lame! I take the blame for this :-) How did your table turn out?
Hey Lars, Great video.. Very helpful covering the major concepts but I am quite stuck at a point. How do you trim the pipe that goes vertical from the bottom to the top structure? It is at 29:25 in the video to be precise and I am concerned with the trimming of that vertical pipe with respect to the Joint pipes at the bottom.
This is how I solved that problems: a360.co/2P7dpZu and a360.co/2P5JzEL . You can download my project following this link... I ended up creating the bottom and the top plane kinda in a way that this video is suggesting, have had problems to do that properly too. But to do the connecting pipes this way I couldn't do it at all properly, I tried hard but to no avail. So I decided to use the Sweep option instead and I think I did well at the end... I suppose you will be able to see what I did step by step downloading the upper link and than opening the file in your Fusion 360. At least that's how it should work as far as I know... I'm kinda new to Fussion too, so... Good luck! I went on and Split all the body's properly so you can check that out too...
@@LaRouchesupport Thanks a lot!
Lars, the way you are flying and navigating around the model makes all the moves/sketches, mods you make painless. What 3d mouse are you using ? You make it looks so e.a.s.y.....
Lars I am trying to right click and select the "insert into current design". In my case, I made a C channel, in a separate drawing. However, I am not seeing that option. I noticed this video is from about 3 years ago. Having said that, has that option on the right click been eliminated or am I doing something wrong. BTW, I am using a Mac, if that makes a difference.
same issue
@@keelans2405 was having the same problem, i moves the pipe into a different folder and then i could right click and insert hope that helps
Great job Thanks
Thank you rex mcgurk
Tusind tak for at tage dig tid til at lære fra dig, og tak for at du gad at lave en video omkring det.
Hi clement583 Thank you for watching! No problem, glad you found it helpful
Great videos, this helped me enormously. Thankyou
You are so very welcome :-) Thank you for watching!
Great video Lars, could you possibly show how to paper template for fabricating these joins
Hi Lawrence KY Ho Thank you for watching!
Yes, I was thinking of doing something similar as I did with the Diresta table:
ruclips.net/video/stG2gfcLkjk/видео.html
Best,
Lars
when i right click the saved tube in my data panel i'm not getting an option to insert into current drawing, or insert anywhere for that matter. i'm using the free version, if that matters. any ideas? at a standstill on this tutorial so will re-visit when i figure this out.
Curious. After you build the base you start on the upright. Is there a way to bend the tubing instead of butting together with a fishplated tube? If this is possible is it also possible to have a fixed radius, for example my tubing bender has a cl radius of 5.5" If we could model using that it would be great. Love your videos.
Hi Bill Schultek Thank you for watching! Yes, I should have included sweeps. I was so focused on the fish mouth connection :-)
Check out this video!
ruclips.net/video/WvCNGR8C2uo/видео.html
Have an awesome day!
Best,
lars
Thanks so much for the reply, that worked pretty well.
You can just stick them together, then use COMBINE-CUT. I already did a rollcage like this on Fusion. :) Biggest issue is I haven't figured out how to download the bend schedule to allow a person to make it ie Bend 1: 20 inches, 10 angles off axis, 45 degrees, bend 2: 22 inches, 0 axis, 25 degrees, etc..
You can somewhat use the joint list for a particular run to create a bend list of sorts, but you have to format it by hand.
Hey great video.. I was just curious if there was a way to get templates from the tubes for cutting in real life. For example when notching tubes at an angle and you need to join them at an angle, but with out a notcher or a template you would not be able to do this precisely. Thanks
Hi Matthew Martin Thank you for watching!
I would think the next step would be to go into the 2D drawing environment and you could start laying things out, like shape and cut-list.
ruclips.net/video/stG2gfcLkjk/видео.html
Hope this is useful
Thanks for the video lars! Is there a way to unwrap each of the tubes so that I could print out patterns on sticker paper? That way I could mark all my cuts before I started grinding and cutting? I have seen people do this with solid works for creating entire car chassis.
ruclips.net/video/_BE9aeeTusM/видео.html like in this video
I am pretty sure you can. I’ll have to test it, but this could be a great up coming video. Thank you 👍😊
Nice video Lars. Now I want to see a cut list 😁
Hi Michael Nelson Thank you for watching!
Like this one?
ruclips.net/video/stG2gfcLkjk/видео.html
Have a great weekend!
solidworks does this 15x better i have to say. and i still dont get why they did joints the way they did in fusion. but its free so here we are
"Why is this blue" was my question when I was skipping ahead. Glad to see there are still unanswered questions.
Great video on weldments. Any reason at the 17min mark you didn't just take the 2 first pipes you cut and joined, copy them both and flip them over and paste? I would have thought that to be more efficient?
Hi Ciaran Whelan Thank you for watching!
You are right. Copy, paste, pattern or mirroring is always a good option to speed things up. My only reason is that I get to show the same functions again, and repetition is the key to learning according to Zig Ziglar.
Have an awesome day
Now I can draw my cnc milling enclosure. in this example you just done, If I make a line directly from the bottom plane corner to the top plane corner,(compound line) make it construction can I then make a new plane on the compound construction line I just created? thanks as always. what happened to your latest video 04/08/2020, I clicked to watch and got an error.
Thank you so much for watching! The 3D Sketch has been updated since this video and is even better!!! I will talk about that here on the channel later this week :-)
Not sure why there was an error. Sorry
error says, taken down by owner
G'day Lars,
I am just starting out with fusion. I have built a tin, that has a similar edge to your pipes above. I am trying to join the corners but I cannot use this method as when I select the body to slice, it selects the entire project. Is there a way to just join up the corners? I took a picture but don't think I can post it here. Thanks for all your videos, I have been watching for a week and learnt so much. Very slowly. You are a great teacher and explain things very well. Thanks!
excellent video!!!
Hello Lars. I'm thankful that you take the time to do this videos. Good job! Do you have a video to design water piping? like with the reducers, 90 angles or so? or this is something that Fusion doesnt have.
Hi Abraham Garcia Thank you for watching!
I have not. You could model your own, or search McMaster in the "Insert" drop-down as they also have some piping you can download.
Hope this is useful.
BEst,
Lars
thank you so much for ur help . I learn new cool stuff today
So does it tell you the angle of what that pipe saddle or fish bowl as you called it is supposed to be once you fabricate it in the real world? Would be nice to know the exact angle your supposed to cut it before doing it
Lars, you didn't cut out the horizontal pipes at the corners to align them with the vertical pipes (or you should cut out the bottom ends of the vertical pipes and leave the horizontal frame as is)
Great! Thank you Lars!
You are so very welcome :-) Thank you for watching!
Great video. My interest is Scale RC 4wd vehicles and this will be great for scale roll bars and bumpers. I will have to explore how to bend the pipe instead of intersect and join.
THANKS LARI
You are so very welcome :-) Thank you for watching!
I'm a fan & new subscriber. If I may suggest it, you might consider upgrading your mic/audio. It's a bit rough & fuzzy. But the videos are really great for me. I have used half a dozen different 3D modeling programs but have never really mastered any of them. I love this one and hope to get really competent with it.
Hi hammockmonk Thank you for watching!
Yes, livestreaming does come with the price of less quality, sorry
Glad you find the videos helpful!
BEst,
Lars
This is essential learning Lars. I am finally getting down to the drawings for my steel sub-frame . Maybe we'll over take the actual building which has already begun :-) Regards
That is awesome to hear Chris Leech .Thank you for watching the videos
You are a great teacher, helped me a lot!
Awesome to hear. Glad that you find the content useful :-)
Hi Lars. Very good instructional video and exactly what I was looking for currently from design standpoint. Now I'm curios also from manufacturing standpoint that have you ever done instruction how to create 2d cutting template to wrap around pipe to cut angles correctly for oddly created angles? I assume this could be accomplished with "sheet metal" tools menu? BTW I absolutely love that you go over many things from looking from perspective of manufacturing. Just the way I usually generally try to think.
Curious if there is another approach that works better for rectangular tubing? Maybe just drawing the sketch and using the sweep?
Hi kazlx Thank you for watching!
Yes, like this:
ruclips.net/video/WvCNGR8C2uo/видео.html
Great work as always Lars, this video was very informative and I definitely learned a trick or two!!! 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
That is awesome to hear David Hoskins .Thank you for watching the videos
You can use “ for inch as well and ‘ for ft
Nice tips again Lars. Thanks!
Just curious, and I'm sure that F360 doesn't do AI but after doing the pipe 'fish fillets' you realised that the top end point needed to be offset in by 1.5" as per the bottom
then you'd basically have to rewind, move the top points and then redo the angled pipes and fillets. Would that be correct?
Hi Phil B Thank you for watching!
Yes, I believe you are totally correct on that.
Have an awesome day!
found easier way then dimensioning every center line by offsetting plane to half width minus pipe etc. just offset both outsides of frame inward in sketch. make them constructiion lines.create planes at angle using offset lines. then make line in space and create coincident between both offset lines on top and bottom frame via 3d sketch. if you changle frame size and pipe it wont affect much
Could you use extrude to plane for the 45* corners?
Would it not have been quicker to pull in a tube, cut it to length at 45 deg each end and then simply copy that 4 times for the base?
Hi Lars I really appreciate your videos you have great tutorial videos, I want to design a box and make a video of the movement or animation option of two chassis one sliding in to another, what would u suggest. Thank you !
As always great !
Thank you