Fusion 360 2D Tutorial Drawing series for Beginners part 1

well hello welcome back i'm mike fastiva and this video series is going to be all about drawing 2d and fusion 360. so you can actually draw some cool files and actually cut them out on a cnc plasma table why 2d because that's all we really need for cutting flat surfaces on the cnc plasma table and it's about the simplest way to start drawing in fusion 360. so we're going to cover a wide range of stuff we're not going to be doing much drawing if any in this first episode here basically i want to talk about what the series is going to be about if you want to drop some good parts you need to usually measure stuff in the real world physical parts and there's a wide range of things i have here and tricks that i like to use pretty affordable there will be links to most of these things down below in amazon where you can find similar or the same tools i use these all the time so i'm going to show you guys how to draw parts and things and take measurements get it down on paper maybe even cut a few pieces out on cardboard if you actually have to make sure one part fits into another part very well and then another series we'll go over actually importing all those measurements into fusion 360. but that series right there we start getting into fusion 360 i'm going to just assume you guys don't know anything about it that's how i started i didn't know anything about it i would have loved to come across a series like this when i first started but i just dug around video after video and a lot of them were way too complex on more 3d modeling for printing and stuff like that just wasn't relevant to me you guys have to be patient the few you subscribers that are actually watching this this video is going to be very helpful for you if you're just getting a plasma table ordered one or been struggling with it i'm going to walk you guys through how i like to use it keep in mind fusion 360 is a fast giant program i probably use only 15 percent of it and i'm sure there's a lot of different techniques i'm not utilizing in there but if you guys are familiar with my series all the stuff i've cut on my plasma table from articulating dump truck and now the mini pens gower i can get my way around the program pretty well and draw almost any part i need to so enjoy the video guys we're going to move on to some tools here and talk about the principles of measuring parts in the physical world and then how we're going to actually put them into fusion 360. all right enjoy the series guys so here's a wide range of tools i use these are all pretty affordable and if you do any metal fabrication in your shop there's a great chance you already own these things i'm going to start off with some of the simplest piece of cardboard a box knife you can use this for cutting out actual physical parts if you're really trying to double check your fitment and you really want to do that before you actually start putting anything into fusion 360. a sharpie marker for mark and metal a ballpoint pen and some pad of paper for marking down your actual rough draft of what your parts are going to look like and what you really want your true measurements set of digital calipers these are super useful i use them all the time they actually have three different modes on them fractions millimeters and thousandths so you can bounce back and forth especially if you're actually working on cutting parts for something that's like on a metric machine like a quad and you can actually measure metric and then figure out the standard equivalent i would highly recommend getting if you're going to start drawing fusion 360 it really helps you out of course a simple tape measure a magnetic level a little adjustable carpenter t-square i use this all the time and a digital angle finder i like these digital angle finders i'm sure you get one with that's not digital but this works really well this is a super useful tool i actually bought this when i started on the articulated dump truck because i actually had to measure something like a subaru bell housing on a transmission and figure out all the bolt hole placements and everything was in some weird weird angles so on belt housings there's nothing that is actually square or any holes that are in line well in line at an odd angle so this thing was super useful for me to cut my bell housing plate for that probably cost you know 75 bucks or something like that for everything here and you will not regret owning all these things why the level so you can actually put it on certain parts and pieces a lot of times when i start measuring parts i want to find a reference maybe two bolt holes or vertical or horizontal or something along those lines or a corner of a part and then i'll measure off of that and find all my reference points from it we'll get a piece out here and we'll start measuring i'll show you guys what i'm talking about all right so we're going to start off with a really simple part because uh this is a little four bolt flange bearing for a one inch shaft i used a lot of these on the articulating dump truck and i just want to have real world settings so you guys can look at these parts and be like okay i see where this is going and from here we'll get into more theories on parts and just show you different things like slotting tools and hole pattern tools and things like that in fusion 360. but right now we're going to take this little part i'm going to sketch out the drawing and i'm going to explain to you what i got going here throughout the series we'll evolve in a few more complex parts just want to really get you guys used to drawing i really want you guys to follow along when i start drawing in fusion 360. that's what i end up doing i found a few little series that were helpful but really didn't explain everything super well basically i just watched it on my little iphone and then drew on fusion 360 on my computer repeatedly did that and i started to get more and more familiar with the program so i highly recommend when i do a drawing video start to end drawing watch it on device and start drawing on your computer keep doing that and out of repetition you'll get the hang of it i promise all right let's go measure this part and i'll show you what's coming up next so we got the part here we're going to figure out the hole size here i think roughly it's 7 16. now my kerf pattern and everything on my cnc the way i have said on the program i like to go any hole if i want to cut a hole later on and just drop the bolt through without any clearance issues i usually go up from the original bolt size by 3 64. so that will be 31 64 is what we're going to cut these holes size to digital calipers are super useful for that so i'm going to write that down all right so i'm going to start taking some measurements here and we're going to figure out this when i'm going to measure like a hole pattern like this from side to side i always drop the caliper in on one edge of it and measure to the other edge you don't have to try to figure out where the center is you can just measure from this side of the hole and then this side of the hole with the calipers and you can figure it out it looks like it's two and three quarters of an inch these are super useful for precise measurements so i'm just going to draw out our whole pattern here it's basically a square and i just like to put little lines on here a little arrow representing that that two and three 4 inch i usually put a c with a line through it that's just the way i remember that's center for the holes and of course that pattern we can double check but it should be a square pattern and it is so we know that but i'll just mark it on here for reference we'll see with the line through it for those holes now we gotta figure out the center of this thing it's a one inch bore and we're going to oversize that a little bit for some clearance we're going to go to the outside of this hub let's go for an inch and 3 8 is a good center hole roughly draw a hole in the center there one and three eighths inch center hole we need to figure out the outside of this flange bearing it's three and three quarters that's a simple number but i'm going to bring it up for if we're using this in a real case scenario you might want to weld some plates next to it we're going to just bring it right up to four inches let's see where that gets is that's like that that's about eighth inch on each side there looks pretty good so i'm going to draw a line around this and that's going to be 4 inches by 4 inches all right so the simple bearing part we measured here as you guys see is a real simple way to go around this mainly with calipers and we got all those specs on paper here this just kind of gets you in the mindset thinking this way how to start measuring parts and as the series goes on you'll get more complex with it you'll start figuring out angles and reference points we'll get into that later the fusion 360 there's so much to take in that i'm going to show you a few simple little tools first and as a series evolves you're going to start understanding how to get around on the fusion 360 more and use more things basically all we need to do is make four lines and make a box or do the rectangle draw and draw a square reference four holes around the outside edges and one in the center very simple not much to it but as i said like you can follow along start scratching the surface on fusion 360. you haven't ran it before and start figuring out these things and as the series goes along we'll get into a little bit more complex parts with some more angles slots different things like that whole patterns this is very simple and it's a good little starter one and you can kind of see how you can take apart like this in the real world we can draw a mounting plate for it in fusion 360 and towards the end of the series we'll actually take these drawings cut them out on some metal so you can see what we're talking about here so we're not going to get to any drawing in this episode but i want to actually go over workflow in fusion 360 where you want to start and where you want to end in that program and how you get your files to fire control one of the first things i want to mention here before we even start moving around this program at all do not try to even use your laptop flat little mouse here i was so frustrated the first few days of trying to originally draw in here i couldn't zoom in zoom out drag parts around this doesn't work very good in fusion 360. do yourself a favor buy a 15 little mouse it needs to have a little roller knob up here i think all of them have it because it's also a button so basically with that roller knob you can actually zoom in zoom out and you can grab on the screen and move around and look at different parts so that is a must just do yourself a favor and get one of those like i said earlier we're not actually going to be doing much drawing in this episode that's going to be for the next future ones and we're going to start off with a real simple drawing like this bearing plate and we'll move on to slots and hole patterns and different things like that in future episodes i just want to keep it simple it's going to take a whole 15 to 20 minute episode just to show you guys all the tools there's so much stuff in this fusion 360. i don't want to just bombard you guys with all at once because it can be overwhelming but i'm going to actually talk about workflow real quick before we end this video basically when you open up fusion 360 you're actually going to open up a design right here is where you draw all your parts and pieces and this is where you get all your measurements and everything like that you can duplicate i usually like to nest all my stuff in here and just make the final drawing that i want to export to g-code from here you will extrude it which will make it look like a metal plate on the screen here and then you'll go down to manufacture keep in mind a year and a half ago when i started learning fusion 360 they switched name to manufacturer all the older tutorial videos said to look for some other button which wasn't on here anymore that's one thing i hate about programs is they'd like to change things constantly so that's kind of frustrating but it's called manufacture now and you click on that this is what your extruded part will look like this gray part right here and here's where you'll get your zero reference points things like that and then you'll actually work on tool paths picking out your tool paths if you want to cut the inner holes out first and then cut the main plate out you'll select tool speeds pierce times all that stuff and then you'll go up towards the top of the manufacturing part here and you can export your g-code and name it and all that and save it to a file on your desktop or wherever you might save it and then after that workflow you'd open up fire control for langmuir systems and you'd import that and that part would come in as a line drawing and fire control and from there you can zero up your piece of metal to make sure your parts going to fit on whatever scrap metal you're going to cut it out of and then you hit cut and you've got a beautiful part finish so that's kind of the basics of workflow i know i just brushed over this but we'll go into a lot more detail in the next episode one of the last things i want to mention is this tutorial series i want to make to help out some of my subscribers and non-subscribers that don't understand anything about this project and those programs it was kind of a daunting task for me it took me a little while to figure out but the problem is it's going to take my channel for the next few months because i'm going to try to drop these videos every other week with the mini penskara video coming out so it's one of those things though that youtube if they see that you're making videos that not many of your subscribers other people are watching it's not the most exciting series but it's gonna be very educational youtube will not promote that video or your channel it happens to me an occasion if i'm producing videos that are educational and not many of my subscribers watch so it's kind of a bummer because i want to produce more educational videos for everybody but youtube will not get behind educational videos their algorithm just drops channels like that it is really frustrating because i want to make this good series i want to show people but it's going to be at the cost of my channel not getting promoted for the next few months it's going to be a fun series it's going to be super useful i wish something like that existed a few years back when i was trying to learn fusion 360 but it is not going to be beneficial for my channel at all so if you guys enjoy the video and what i'm trying to do here give it a thumbs up try to leave a comment down below that helps promote the channel and the video but youtube is not gonna get behind this because it's educational all right you guys until next time thanks for watching it keep on the next video hit the notification button because we will be drawing that basic bearing part and the future videos we'll be doing a little more complex drawings of complex drawings then we'll move on to tool paths and explain all that stuff and really physically cut out some parts alright until next time take care guys bye

Channel: Mike festiva

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Length: 13min 34sec (814 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 02 2021