Books for resource and learning?

[SuzukiGS750EZ]

Hey guys. I’m currently enrolled in PDO academy classes to learn fusion 360. While they’re easy to follow and I am learning, I’d like to pick up a book to reinforce and also read when I don’t have the time to spend at the computer during the week. Any recommendations to teaching style books? 

[jhackney1972]

You are not going to find many printed books on using Fusion because the application is always being updated.  A book could be published today and be out of date by the end of the month.  Although, a quick search on Amazon for Fusion 360 text brings up quite a few entries, I would be caution if you expect the books to reflex the application 100%. 

[Drewpan]

Hi,

I cannot more strongly recommend that the best way to learn Fusion is to start with the Fusion Documentation

that has a number of tutorials embedded within it. After this you should start on the self paced learning on the

Fusion learning area and follow this up with the Fusion YouTube videos and @TheCADWhisperer  YouTube site.

Be a bit careful about what other YouTube videos you watch about Fusion as not everyone knows what they are

really doing. They might know A way to do something but it is not always the BEST way. Your workflow and how

you go about doing things is important.

These resources are all excellent and much better than any book for the reasons explained by @jhackney1972 

There are also three RULES pinned to this forum for some guidance.

As stated in RULE 0, pick something you are interested in and start modelling it. If/when you have an issue, ask

a question on the Forum and upload the file for the Gurus to look at.

I had about five years of experience with AutoCAD before I started modelling with Fusion and this is the way I

learned to model. I am still learning and enjoying the process. I am no Guru but I have learned an enourmous

amount through them and by watching how they solve others problems in the Forum.

Cheers

Andrew

[SuzukiGS750EZ]

I am brand new to autocad. Zero experience, starting from the ground up. I’m enrolled in PDO academy. I started watching YouTube videos and the instructor in the videos was very good at articulating proper organization and also easy to follow along. He offers wood working, sheet metal, 3D printing, etc inside this course. Hours of courses. My problem is I can’t always get on the computer. I don’t mind if some of the stuff is somewhat changed I was more so looking for recommended authors if there are any. I see some of the books are on second editions. Even in the classes he’s had to amend things. I’m just looking to further my education. I’m hoping by going through each course (even though I don’t think I’ll be doing wood working modeling) there are things I can apply elsewhere. Most of what I have issues with are menu selections and where to find things. I know how I want to model and I just don’t know where to find it. I ran into the same thing with photoshop.

[Drewpan]

Hi,

I think you are going to run into this problem across the board with whatever software. People just don't make print

books available anymore and they are very expensive when they do. eBooks and print books also go out of date very

quickly. Fusion gets at least monthly updates and some of those updates are fairly big changes.

While I agree that books are sometimes the way to go, eBooks and videos are the way we are going. I recently read

an ebook about Inventor but in order to get anything out of it I had to do the exercises on the software so I needed

the computer anyway.

I recommended the resources above because they work and are mainly up to date. The key to learning Fusion is to

actually use it and not pick up bad habits while doing so. Hence modeling and submitting questions on the forum

will help you learn much faster.

Cheers

Andrew