Note: This article is written and published in Ukrainian and is a translated version of the original published here.
Autodesk Fusion (formerly known as Autodesk Fusion 360) is quite a popular product today, especially because of its attractive price, for which you will get a lot of functionality in the CAD/CAM/CAE direction. And this is cool, but there are problems with this. Because Fusion is no longer a product for beginners, where there are only conditionally "three buttons". Today, this is a fairly powerful system that is used by both professionals and non-professionals. And the joke is not only this, but also that these can be people who came to Fusion with very different tasks, and came in very different ways. For some, this is the first design program in general. Someone has already had experience. Someone has had experience with other CADs: Autodesk Inventor, DS Catia, DS SolidWorks, Siemens NX, Siemens Solid Edge, PTC Creo, PTC Onshape. Someone with DesignSpark products, SketchUp. Someone with productsAutodesk Alias, MCNeel Rhinoceros. Someone with M&E products: Autodesk 3ds Max, Autodesk Maya, Autodesk Mudbox, Blender, Cinema 4D, ZBrush. Someone from BIM products: Revit, Archicad. Someone fromCorelDraw, Adobe Illustrator, Inkskape.
And This imposes its own characteristics not only on the tasks that a person faces, but also on how and through what filter a person perceives information. Everything is different, including the usual and "wild" (i.e. those that seem awkward and incomprehensible) approaches to work and terminology.
And because of this, people have a lot of questions, and one of the classic ones: where to get cool "lessons", tasks, tutors. And if you put here other different ways of perceiving information. Because, someone will get a video no longer than 3 minutes, and everything else is water and nausea ... And someone in that "water" for an hour and a half will dig up a bunch of things for themselves that will clarify how the "world works". Someone needs classical training, where all aspects will be considered step by step. And someone "just" answers to the current task, because he does not have time and all that.
A very interesting fact is that the latter, sooner or later, but come to classical learning and say - how cool it was, how much new, how all this put all the knowledge on the shelves and if they had known it before... But it also happens that they used to try to watch the same videos or undergo the same training. And there was no such effect. Why? Because they were not ready, but this is a separate topic for publications. And today I will just say that there is a fairly high demand, and it has a response from the market – that is, there are many resources that will allow you to learn something from Fusion. But taking into account what is written above, everyone must choose what suits him best at his current level and with his current needs.
However, you should always start with official resources, and it is with them that we will start today.
1. Autodesk Fusion Official Resources
1.1 Reference. This is a complete help on all aspects of Autodesk Fusion. By the way, almost every section has its own tutorials.
The certificate exists in English. But there is a proposal to start translating into Ukrainianusing the Ukrainian branch of the forum.
1.2 Courses
These are short English-language courses of small videos, which are most often 3-7 minutes long (but not more than 20 usually). From each direction, there are several courses of different directions, hereinafter a short letter:
- Fundamentals (Fusion fundamentals): 7 courses / 45 videos
- 3D Modeling: 9 courses / 79 videos
- Assemblies: 3 courses / 39 videos
- Configurations: 1 year / 5 videos
- Subtractive Manufacturing (Manufacturing - Milling, Turning and Inspection): 7 courses / 47 videos
- Manufacturing - Additive: 2 courses / 8 videos
- Extensions: 7 courses / 54 videos
- Generative Design: 8 courses / 56 videos
- Electronic Design: 2 courses /16 videos
- Calculations (Simulation): 3 courses / 20 videos
- Design Documentation: 3 courses / 19 videos
- Related learning topics (Related learning) 10+ courses
As you can see, there is a fairly large number of courses here, and, believe me, a lot of necessary information is invested in these 3-7-20. Someone else would have created 10 times more content from this in time with about the same informativeness. So this is a very powerful resource.
Formally, the Autodesk Fusion channel has 225 thousand subscribers. This is a very large number. This is one of the largest numbers for such channels. And individual videos have thousands and even millions of views. But individual videos are only hundreds. HUNDREDS! Not hundreds of thousands, but hundreds of views. Anyone who is engaged in the development of a channel on YouTube will say that this means that the channel is bad and the real audience is more like videos with the least number of views. But that's it.
Main directions: "What's New" – "What's New", an overview of innovations in Autodesk Fusion, "Tutorial" – tutors and lessons (up to 15 minutes), "Overview" – an overview of opportunities, "How to" – small answers to questions on how to do something (up to 10 minutes), "Quick tips" – essentially the same only slightly different topics, "Webinars" – webinars (30 – 90 minutes). Well, and a few more useful areas. In total, there are 1100+ videos on the channel from all directions and all issues using Fusion. There are a lot of useful things there. It takes you a few hours just to look at the titles and covers of the videos. But it's worth it. However, this is up to you.
1.4 Almost official. Larsa Channel
In 2014, Lars Christensen came to the Autodesk Fusion state from the SolidWorks state. And it happens. His channel has almost as many subscribers as the official one from Fusion, but despite the narrower topic, it has much more equal indicators. All his videos have thousands and tens of thousands of views. Although in a sense, the indicators are more equal and come from less diversity. His topic is primarily CAD and CAM in this direction based on Fusion he has released more than 280 videos (on average, this is a long format >20-30 minutes). Very cool dude. Very informative videos. If you are somehow interested in production – this dude is YOUR number 1 choice.
1.5 "Not official". ChannelTech3D
The Tech3D channel is hosted by Neil Cross, an Autodesk Expert Elite who works closely with Autodesk. That is why I classified his channel as one that is +/- official. And although it has 3 times fewer subscribers than previous channels, it is quite difficult to say that the number of views is at least slightly lower. A very interesting person who is not afraid to "cut the truth", does it professionally and with pleasure. Recommend.
It should also be said that much of this can be accessed directly from Autodesk Fusion
There you will find a "Learning Panel" that will help you start dating and links to the official resources described above, and a large number of other things that can also be useful.
You may also find it useful to translate the Autodesk Fusion Help by Community Forces.
Verified and corrected translations can be found on the official platform "Help Fusion | Community translation – Ukrainian".
Well, what about the official ones, let's move on to other useful ones?
Continued in parts two, three, and four.
Note: This article is written and published in Ukrainian and is a translated version of the original published here.
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