Fusion360 Tech Support Thread

I think these courses are a good starting point:
https://help.autodesk.com/view/fusion360/ENU/courses/

A few tips:

  • Watching is not enough, make sure you are clicking along, even if it seems trivial
  • You will learn the most from just struggling with buttons and interfaces
  • When learning CAD, don’t worry about the “right way” of doing things, just get it done, even if it’s ugly. Find a better workflow next time. Even with thousands of hours of CAD, I find better ways of doing things all the time.

I think you learn the most when you are struggling with a project that has ties to a real-world project. Here are two bike-specific exercises I am using to help people learn CAD:

If you can CAD those two parts from the drawings, you have the foundations of modeling parts. From there the full bike tutorials I created should be more meaningful:

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