Fusion 360 is a software that lets you design a technical drawing or a 3D object. Also it is known to be a good starting sorfware for new engineers and easy to learn. Lets learn about some basic functions of Fusion 360.
Sketch is a tool that alows you to draw 2D shapes on a flat faces. Before making 3D objects you must draw a faces of it.
The most important rule in sketch is making your drawing fully defined. defined means you provide the location of a point according to origin point of your sketch. This makes the lines you draw not moveable with your mouse to move it you must change the distence of line from origin point.
You may wonder what is the benefit of making scetch fully defined. One great engineer said that Without a fully defined sketch. Your design will be ruined in one movement of your mouse
. As the engineer said if your sketch is not fully defined and you are working on a complicated design you can
accidentally ruin your sketch and this will cause you to star from zero to your design. Also some functions in Fusion 360 needs a fully defined sketch so you may not able to use that functions makes designing your object easier.
Apart from fully defining your sketch there is no restricitons about
what you can draw also tools in sketch help you to draw better.
Extrude function gives depth to your sketches that way you can start 3D modelling also you can cut a 3d object with the sketch you draw on a 3D object
In Fusion 360 after you extrude a sketch it is called body. Giving shape to body is easy but you cannot apply machanical principlea or connect two bodys to make them omve in a specific way. To able to do that you need to make that object component after you gave its final shape. After converting object to component it will be hard to give it a shape so you must finish your bodys shape before making component. Converting body to componnet allows you to make more complicated designs that needs lots of parts such as car engine or a plane.
Joint functioun can be used after body is converted to the component This function allows you to connect your components to move in a relation to each other.
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