Aaaaggggghhhhhhh!!!!!! This is a you know what!!!

[Anonymous]

This so stressful. 4 hours spent trying to learn this system and all I have to show for it is a rectangle 6"x4"x.250" with a 1/4" hole in a place I don't want it, until I hit the undo key for the 500th time. Or is that the 5,000th time? I forget and right now the dog is about to be sent to look for a new home. I am 53 and have never done anything like this in my life. I just had shoulder surgery a week ago and thought, wow, lot of time on my hands now so why not try and learn something new, right? We are going all cnc at work and I'm off for at least 6 weeks but man trying to learn this cold is so hard to do.  Guess I'll keep at it though because when I see what some folks here can create I just want to learn how to do that, you know? And I want to be able to design items and make them with a cnc 4 axis mill. Thanks for all the inspiration folks.

Thanks so much

Pat

[TrippyLighting]

Take some time to watch all the video tutorials. Some of the content is a little outdated and it will provde you with a good understanding of what you can do with Fusion 360 and provide some good guidelines on how to start.

Then pick smething specific you want to design and before gettig nto frustrated come back to this forum and ask questions.

And again, take your time. Rome was not built in a day either.

6 weeks ? Yeah, we can work with that. You'll be surprised where you can get in 6 weeks.

[Oceanconcepts]

Any 3D CAD system is difficult to get a handle on if you don’t have previous CAD background. What I can say is that Fusion is very much worth it, particularly considering what you would like to do. Think of it like learning a language or a musical instrument- the first part is the hardest. 

There are lessons for beginners in the Learning Center that introduce concepts, and a You Tube channel with some basic lessons and a lot of user input. Ask questions here freely. The forum is very responsive. 

https://www.youtube.com/user/AutodeskFusion360

[Anonymous]

Hello Folks,

Thanks for messages. I have watched some of the videos but it is difficult to locate a video for what I wanted to do believe it or not. I finally located one on youtube and the guy basically went over it step by step for us slow folks,LOL. I just wanted to make a flat plate with some bolt holes and counter sinks which he covered. It's the best (almost idiot proof) step by step I have seen and even then I screwed it up. Funny thing I noticed though, I wanted to add the distances directly into the cad drawing but it would not let me, you know the line arrow  numbers arrow line but once I took it to white paper I could do it. It's a reference drawing, not for a cad/cam program anyway. Thanks for the advice tho, I know it's a long road to learn any cad system and I am truly gratefull to Autodesk for making this available to all of us. I have Solidworks student 2016 but never loaded it. They gave the student version to veterans for $20.00 and I got it before I founf Fusion 360.

PatrickB

[HughesTooling]

Once you get the hang of drawing sketches in the model workspace it's just as easy to draw to the correct size as it is to bodge it. You can draw points and dimension there position then use the point in the hole tool.

File attached for you to experiment, just right click a feature in the time line to edit.

Mark

Edit to import the file use New Design From File in the file menu.

[Anonymous]

I understand your grief.  The tutorials can be no help.  The couple of times I used them, they mention menus and the items I need are missing!@

Ir something this simple....I wanted 7 circles 1 inch apart, each 0.25" in diameter, and in the X direction.  Then I wanted 7 in the Y direction.  Only thing is I made a mistake in one Y and put it 1.5 inches aprt.  Then went and deleted the offending Y circles.

Next all the X circles changed to 1.5" apartt on their own.  Trying to bring them back resulted in the program crashing.

I can';t believe that those tutorizals actually work, seems impossible with the number of bugs and crashes.

[Oceanconcepts]

I assume you are talking about sketching?  If you can post specifics or a file there is help available here. 

One thing that can be confusing in Fusion is the two environments- direct modeling and history based, parametric modeling. Menu items are somewhat different in each environment, and it’s important to know which one you-and the tutorial- are in. Again, if you can post specifics there is probably an answer.

[keqingsong]

@Anonymous, thank you for voicing your frustration. I completely understand how you feel. Here are some playlists that can hopefully lead to some "ah ha" moments. 

Fusion 360 for beginners: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmA_xUT-8UlLmTvSAketheHaNQWxNA5yT

Once you've watched through them, go through some of the in-product tutorials just to get your feet wet. 

Once you've gone through some of the in-product tutorials, check out this playlist geared towards existing CAD users: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmA_xUT-8UlK7kNr7oESyhgFTL5KAPZ4z

We have more topic based tutorials such as modeling, sketching, rendering, etc in our playlists section here: https://www.youtube.com/user/AutodeskFusion360/playlists

Let us know if you need help with anything, the community is here for you. 

Cheers,