David, nice looking cabinet for the multirouter, will the Pantorouter fit?
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On Jun 27, 2022, at 5:18 PM, david@... via groups.io <david@...> wrote:
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I¡¯d be happy to do a series of videos on using F360 to design something to be fabricated in the wood shop. ?I¡¯ve been thinking about doing this for a while. ?I haven¡¯t found very many YouTube videos on F360 that are geared toward woodworkers - there are some, but they aren¡¯t very good training tools IMO, largely because they are based on the original User Interface from pre-2019. ?When you try to duplicate what¡¯s being shown in the video, you quickly get lost because your user interface is different.
As James rightly points out, getting to an end result takes a lot more time if you are new to the product or restrict yourself to the basic facilities offered by Fusion. ?To be truly efficient requires a broader knowledge of ?all the facilities within the Fusion Design space, which of course requires more than a rudimentary knowledge of how to brute-force a design with the attendent long time lines, etc. ?Once you have the basics down, there are lots of video resources under the guise of ¡°Tips and Tricks¡± that explore the more advanced functions that are true time savers, which is largely how I advanced in my own knowledge. ?But of course most of those videos are geared around a product to be CNC machined, or injection moulded, so it takes patience and some time doing trial and error tests to figure out how they might apply to woodworking.
I ?just finished designing and building a custom cabinet for my Multirouter (photo below), and if some of you think it would be helpful if I made a video of the design process for the cabinet in Fusion 360, I would consider doing so. ?More details on that Multirouter project are here if anyone is interested, including F360 drawings for both the DRO enhancements and the cabinet. ? The project is still being enhanced with air cylinders and dust extraction, so more to come on that.
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The animation and drawing sections of Fusion 360 all extract from the 3D models, and if I did some videos here I would take an existing model and go through the steps of animating it to produce and exploded view, and then go into the drawing section and show how to achieve all the relevent views, parts lists, dimensions, etc. ?Like I said 2 years ago, this is a long process to get your head around all the capabilities here, and you have to use it a few times per year (IMO) to stay proficient - this isn¡¯t an application you can come back to after 3 years in a closet and expect to be proficient. ??
So, splitting some of the discussion apart, let¡¯s chat about Fusion 360. ?Here¡¯s a couple of items hopefully David Best will answer, or someone with a similar level of proficiency:
- Are there any good recommendations for a course in Fusion that will transform me into a Fusion master?
- Why when I try to go from my model through annimations to drawings do the dimensions change? ?How do I get them not to do so?
- What¡¯s the best way to produce drawings from a model?
- How do we convince David to produce a series of videos on Fusion?
Mike
