Hello Daniele, I just wanted to say I watched your video and followed along. Your tutorial was extremely helpful but also very comprehensive and not confusing in any way. I am brand new to fusion 360 and a hinge joint was exactly what i was looking for. I really appreciate the content and hope to see more from you or connect with you. Thanks for the teaching.
Joop Groen (Dutch) Hello Daniele. I thought it was a great tutorial. But I wonder why you only use the option "Operation: New Component" with the first and the other Sketches when extruding the sketch. Do you have any special reasons for that? Because normally you start with such a design with "New Component" followed by "Create a Sketch"
As you may know, and so others know, 'Rectangular Pattern' is a bit misnamed: can pattern at angles, too (using 'Direction' setting), e.g. for a hexagon. OK, that is all; carry on :) ...
I was wondering about that. I’m new to Fusion 360 and wasn’t sure if the joint feature automatically adds clearance. Out of curiosity, how would you add the necessary clearance? Would you just extrude the pieces to something like 0.5mm smaller/thinner/narrower?
Components can be moved around unless grounded, bodies can't. I think of components as bodies with their own origin which can be moved in reference to the document origin.
Very clear tutorial but your way of doing it back-asswards -- requires way too many steps and is not at all parametric. I was able to make the same shape with 2 sketches and 3 extrusions (1 extrusion to extrude the hinge leafs and knuckles, then 2 extrusions to cut horizontally and vertically between the knuckles (and cut out the screw holes at the same time) -- that's it! And it includes parametric tolerances. And I can even make the number of knucles parametric. In contrast, it took you 3 sketches, 8 extrusions and 2 patterns to do the same. Also, you don't need to move and do a joint -- you can do the move as part of the joint. Similarly, to create the holes, you eyeballed them and then did 2 hole operations per leaf (for a total of 4) plus a construction plane plus 2 mirror for a total of 7 operations -- while I did the cutting all for free as part of one of my earlier cuts (and precisely located -- parametrically even as part of my earlier sketch) so it required only one single chamfer operation to complete the holes. The key to good Fusion360 is to *think* and *plan* first so that you do operations as logically and compactly as possible rather than just plowing through it linearly in real-time. The trick is to do as much as you can in the 2D sketch so that the 3D operations like extrusions are as simple and minimized as possible. Similarly, construction lines are used instead of more cumbersome construction planes. Also, it's bad practice to plug in the same number (e.g., 30mm) multiple times rather than trying to make it all parametric -- because if you decide it needs to be 35mm, you have to basically go back through each of your way too many sketches and extrusions to change the number -- which is both laborious and error prone. You then separately recalculate and manually plug in numbers for the hinge pin. In contrast, I can change any of the dimenions (length, width, number of knuckles, tolerances, knuckle barrel diameter, etc.) all with a single parameter in seconds while it would probably take you many minutes of calculations and clicking just to change say the length of the hinge. That being said you are a very clear teacher and I commend you for that -- just you should be teaching best practices, not hack practices.
this video was so helpful!! thank you very much for your instructions!
Getting back into Fusion and had a hard time with components, your video really helped and I like your teaching style. Subscribed and thank you!
Thank you! As a beginner to fusion 360, you've helped me in completing my first successful exercise! 🤸
Hello Daniele, I just wanted to say I watched your video and followed along. Your tutorial was extremely helpful but also very comprehensive and not confusing in any way. I am brand new to fusion 360 and a hinge joint was exactly what i was looking for. I really appreciate the content and hope to see more from you or connect with you. Thanks for the teaching.
Thanks well teaching and clear too, keep it up and hope you have more like these 👍🏻 💯
Great video, the explanation was thorough and helped a lot, thanksss🙌
Thank you for this video, very useful :)
Great Video, you teached me a lot! Thanks!
Thank you so much this is going to save me from failing CADD class
You are great Daniele! . Excelent explanation for people starting in fusion 360. Thank you !!
Joop Groen (Dutch)
Hello Daniele. I thought it was a great tutorial. But I wonder why you only use the option "Operation: New Component" with the first and the other Sketches when extruding the sketch. Do you have any special reasons for that? Because normally you start with such a design with "New Component" followed by "Create a Sketch"
thank you sir 🫡
How do I mirror the top bracket onto the bottom; I'm having difficulties with that? I'm trying to mirror the 4 holes.
As you may know, and so others know, 'Rectangular Pattern' is a bit misnamed: can pattern at angles, too (using 'Direction' setting), e.g. for a hexagon. OK, that is all; carry on :) ...
countersunk hole on wrong side
Your hinge will never work without tolerance added. But I get it's just an easy-to-follow tutorial. Good job.
I was wondering about that. I’m new to Fusion 360 and wasn’t sure if the joint feature automatically adds clearance. Out of curiosity, how would you add the necessary clearance? Would you just extrude the pieces to something like 0.5mm smaller/thinner/narrower?
I don't comment often but when I do it is for a great tutorial.
did you 3d print to verify it works?
Hi. nice class! I selected my component and it didnt rotate. I need to click in something? 25:04
Does it print same well I did but it's joined it 😂 we have to print seperate and find a way to join
i got stuck in the part where you made rectangular pattern, i am unable to replicate it further
:) Hello
How are you moving stuff around
Components can be moved around unless grounded, bodies can't. I think of components as bodies with their own origin which can be moved in reference to the document origin.
i cant join the last part is it important
Very clear tutorial but your way of doing it back-asswards -- requires way too many steps and is not at all parametric. I was able to make the same shape with 2 sketches and 3 extrusions (1 extrusion to extrude the hinge leafs and knuckles, then 2 extrusions to cut horizontally and vertically between the knuckles (and cut out the screw holes at the same time) -- that's it! And it includes parametric tolerances. And I can even make the number of knucles parametric.
In contrast, it took you 3 sketches, 8 extrusions and 2 patterns to do the same.
Also, you don't need to move and do a joint -- you can do the move as part of the joint.
Similarly, to create the holes, you eyeballed them and then did 2 hole operations per leaf (for a total of 4) plus a construction plane plus 2 mirror for a total of 7 operations -- while I did the cutting all for free as part of one of my earlier cuts (and precisely located -- parametrically even as part of my earlier sketch) so it required only one single chamfer operation to complete the holes.
The key to good Fusion360 is to *think* and *plan* first so that you do operations as logically and compactly as possible rather than just plowing through it linearly in real-time. The trick is to do as much as you can in the 2D sketch so that the 3D operations like extrusions are as simple and minimized as possible. Similarly, construction lines are used instead of more cumbersome construction planes.
Also, it's bad practice to plug in the same number (e.g., 30mm) multiple times rather than trying to make it all parametric -- because if you decide it needs to be 35mm, you have to basically go back through each of your way too many sketches and extrusions to change the number -- which is both laborious and error prone. You then separately recalculate and manually plug in numbers for the hinge pin.
In contrast, I can change any of the dimenions (length, width, number of knuckles, tolerances, knuckle barrel diameter, etc.) all with a single parameter in seconds while it would probably take you many minutes of calculations and clicking just to change say the length of the hinge.
That being said you are a very clear teacher and I commend you for that -- just you should be teaching best practices, not hack practices.
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