PDF User Manual for Fusion 360 [Ultimate]

[Anonymous]

Is there, or could I suggest, a PDF User Manual for Fusion360. The easiest way to learn is to have a printed document by ones side, so that you can read and type at the same time. The video instructions provided are first class but it can be very distracting if you are flitting between the two continuously and makes for slow progress.

Thank You.

LJ

[Anonymous]

The control system is just a huge piece of sh#t let's just be honest here.

It's stupid in every single way when it comes to simple manipulation of an object post creation from moving it to cutting it, joining it, freehand modifying it and so on. 

I want to move a toros I made and link it to the end of a cylinder. 
RING OVER A FKING STICK OKAY!??!
Ring placed over a stick shouldn't be this absurd of a process.
This should be grab, drag and place over the cylinder in any practical system but nooooo, the people at Autodesk create what?

I feel like it's intended to be done with virtually reality gloves and goggles tbh and when they adapt it over for a mouse or pen it is a crude result. 

I then ask just who are the people at Autodesk and where are they coming from with this technology?
Why can I not simply select an object, drag it to where I need it, rotate view simply and not have to right click to leave rotation view, grab it again and SLIDE IT OVER THE FKING CYLINDER.

I'm not going to write off Fusion 360 and will just suffer through it until I'm mister click and zip through it, which I've seen John at NYC CNC do like riding a bike holy crap, but we need to be honest.
The user innerface is superb in some functions but general, simple and the absolute most common and frequently used functions with an A.I system assisting it is a glorified POS. 

Thanks for the link I will give his vids a try. 

[TrippyLighting]

It is NOT ok to spoil this thread about the avilability of PDF documentation with your foul language!

Create your own thread, explain your Fusion 360 related problem in clear terms, perhaps even creating a narrated screencast (also without foul language, please)

Chances are you will receive help very quickly.

If you need to calm your temper before the next post you can watch the 60 minutes of introductory Fusion 360 video tutorials in the "Learn" section . Chances are that they might already ansewr your questions.

[Anonymous]

I was simply saying what needed to be said without the prior aid of the tutorials.

With no prior experience with CAD it was much like the nightmare I recently escaped at college in an outdated and all but useless and required drafting course.

Here's the resources with very little guidance on how to use them. I'm certainly not getting younger and richer everyday lost to confusion and a lack of guidance. 

When nobody speaks up about a common problem in a way that truly expresses how severe the problem is, and I've seen many people expressing outbursting frustration, it's not uncommon that nothing gets fixed. 

After trial and error over the last year off and on for months, it needed to be said. Your precious thread is safe I can assure you. 
The tutorial in the link really needs to be more out in the forefront for new users. 
It was only just released June 6th whereas the previous lessons were really just chaotic showcasing of general functions when really, I think many of us in the throws of frustration had gotten this far on our own. 

It's not okay to lead people on aimlessly only to create another stress in life so your point has a valid counter. 

Intolerance is the virtue of a Social Justice Warrior.

My understanding is that when I get my shop running and I get into commercial manufacturing, I'm expected to pay for the software which isn't cheap. This seems to be the position hundreds of frustrated users are in. If they want to sell licenses for their software it's in their best interest to create a platform making it functional, not simply accessible, to beginners as well as people with prior experience in various CAD applications. 

[daniel_lyall]

@Anonymous it's getting there what is there is a lot better than when I started, I only learned how to use it properly from 6 users and 3 staff members, that's how bad it use to be now you jump on the forum and you will get experts tallying you how to do it, if you have a problem just ask.

this is a professional forum bad langue will get you told off and nothing else

[TrippyLighting]

Thanks you for that response. It explains much better where you are coming from!

The tutorial Link was right there in plain sight when you were typing your unharnessed frustrations into the keyboard 😉

It's been there for a while as well.

As it pertains to CAD software - I've worked with this stuff  for 25 years - Fusion 360 is not expensive, it is dirt cheap.

Also, for Entrepreneurs it is offered as a Startup license that is free until your Startup makes $100,000 a year. We're in the same boat here 😉

It is also one of the most intuitive CAD packages to learn and there is an Autodesk Fusion 360 channel on youtube with a number of excellent video tutorials.

However, all that is not important if you look for guidance. No book, PDF document or video tutorial can provide true guidance, only interaction with people has that power.

Before getting that frustrated, you should come to the Forum and ask questions. You'll be helped usually very quickly. Either by users or directly by the developers, who are very actively engaged here on the Forum.

If you've got valid suggestions for improvements for example on the documentation, the Fusion 360 team is very responsive to those. Take for example this thread I started with the attempt to improve the tutorials. In very short order the very people creating these tutorials engaged in the conversation along with other passionate users. A temporary solution was created with more permanent improvements in the works.

Just try to keep it positive.

[Anonymous]

It would be great if a tabulated list of resources were plotted in 1, 2, 3 etc. format in a sensible package provided in the learn link on Autodesk as well as a "sticky" thread linking to the resources.
While I worked with other tutorials, I also had the most recent video downloaded and waiting until I made it through one of the other instruction sets. The pipe clamp tutorial really is the clean, 1 through 100 at 1 move increments tutorial I must suggest most users should start with. 
From there arranging the others with a numerical ascension would be a good move for the Autodesk F360 community. It seems many videos and PDF kits along with videos directly associated with the Autodesk company are more focused on general function diversity and small, cherry picked skill sets that are better suited to follow in a practical order after the cement foundation I feel Aaron's video laid down. 

Many of the tutorials relate to one another well and I'm guessing by saying this but with the huge void filled by the June 6th video, there's now seems to be enough to go from beginner to intermediate in just a couple weeks. 

I don't have an extensive, formal education in electronic engineering yet but I have a lot of complex designs or inventions that are reliant on learning these key applications to unlock the potential of my CNC equipment. The demographic of beginners is likely to be people with absolutely no crucial ideas or experience in design and engineering to people with a lot of education in a relative field and they need to learn the equipment simply due to the cost of prototyping an idea. 

To prototype the exercise machine I invented, I would either be collaging off the shelf parts from a dozen retailers to dumping thousands if not tens of thousands into contracting the work to people that already know what they're doing. My primary, longterm target area is in electronics, and the enclosures, but I have a plethora of mechanical designs that are potentially much better products if I can get to a point where I have a working prototype, CAD animations and from there start for example, a kickstarter to pursue the funds to patent it and have it manufactured at a large scale well beyond a home based engineering and metal shop. 

The main fuel behind the fire in my posts is the belief that we really need to get people in America into a position where they can learn this technology and equipment without the extensive time and costs of going to school for the simple sake of our economy. I am certain we have a significant portion of the public that have tangible ideas that can make a strong contribution to the economy but, most will never have the funds to have someone knowledgeable and skilled build it let alone the time and money to start at square 1 with a college. Even just a couple million people running simple home based CNC mill and print shops can make a huge contribution to our economy and let's face it, the Asian market is kicking our butt. 

When I first saw CNC mills on Ebay 8 years ago, some of which were affordable 4'x 8' cutting area machines made in the USA by small shops, my first thought was if we can become a nation where even the Jack of no trades guys have these in their home workshops and can use them, we can get our economy back into our own hands. The ideas for innovative, hot products are abundant out there but if there's no affordable, clear means of getting them into the economy, we are unlikely to ever see domestic manufacturing a pillar of our economy again. Not everyone is going to be milling and printing elaborate products but some of the simplest designs will provide sales indefinitely. 
It seems the teaching method is finally coming together and the next step is getting people informed and aware that they can afford the consumer grade mills and printers and that learning the relative software applications is a clearcut path that generally anyone that can read, write and count to 10 can learn to a competent skill level. 

[Anonymous]

Thank you very much for this information! Its really hard to find some good PDF tutorials for FUsion 360, 

maybe some suggestions please provide like some tips and tricks , fast workflows, i've looked through your tutorials they're great!

, im really a fan of Fusion 360 and how easy it is ,  similarly to Sketchup.

one advantage of Fusion 360 that i find so useful is that alot of users from sketchup cant export to STP format that is readable and editable in solidworks / Inventor. That advantage really for me

is the reason why i am learning this software. 

One suggestion i can give you that can make sketchup users jump to autodesk Fusion 360 is if you can make the modeling style a lot more similar to sketchup , more specific to the free-flowing snap s ,and the way sketchup draws a sketch easily. 

[Anonymous]

Rather than toss anymore of my passionate posts into the thread, we should just keep this link as a sticky repost. Aaron did what I would expect a teacher to want money for. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbSkwvZyU_0

I suggest start with the pipe clamp and you'll get a better grasp onto why they didn't make it so intuitive and A.I. reliant like sketchup is. It is more of a virtual environment relationship between user and software rather than a bird's eye view over a 3D graphic you're creating. Build the pipe clamp a few times, go through the standard lessons on the main page's Learn link a few times and then step over to some of the other tutorials on youtube as they are a sometimes more fluid, intense and you need to have dexterity to follow along.

Also check out John at NYC CNC on youtube. He does a Fusion Friday and is just an awesome guy to watch on youtube every bit as good as any commercial production on cable/satellite. He recently showed a way to deal with a model to be milled with a design issue 2 ways. When he showed how to fix it with CAM, you realize that is the proper way as to not damage the model by editing it for convenience. The difference between pro and still learning.

This is a very intense program for people starting from scratch but there's no reason to start somewhere else.
Most people would probably find SolidWorks easier as a newb or coming from Sketchup but just mho, this is going to be the application everyone is on in 3-5 years. 
The more people start with Aaron's tutorial, the more they'll burn right through all the rest and we'll see the community grow.  

[daniel_lyall]

@Anonymous  you can thank @TrippyLighting for getting the ball rolling on this one, I think he was sick off saying the same thing over and over again, what this vid now covers

[Anonymous]

Just another kick in the shins on this topic.

Your competition seems to be able to put together a comprehensive, downloadable help manual/users guide:

https://cad.onshape.com/help/#help-pdf-format.htm%3FTocPath%3D_____16

pretty please?

chris

[Anonymous]

Are you interested in being advised of typographical errors in these PDF files?

[Anonymous]

The tutorials under the "Learn" tab are very good, but we live in an isolated area and have limited internet access, relying on mobile broadband, so replaying these videos can use up a lot of expensive data allowance.    I can save the first couple in an MP4 format, but after that, they all seem to come through Wistia and I can't seem to find any way to save them.   

A transcript of the dialogue in PDF format would be wonderful!   

[TrippyLighting]

If you live in such a disconnected area I'd test whether Fusion 360 works for you at all.

Fusion 360 is a Cloud based software. While you still have to download the app, all the data, all your designs live in the cloud.

Every time you open a design it will be downloaded from the cloud.

Videos, on the other hand are very data heavy, so maybe Fusion 360's data usage is acceptable 

[Anonymous]

As you say, videos are very data heavy. Is there any way to save the Wistia stored ones? Fusion 360 does work OK with the cloud storage. But I'd add my plea to others, PDF and printable files please for basic instructions? Those quoted earlier in this thread are not adequate.

[Anonymous]

Tried to dll the zip file, but got an "Unauthorized" message. Is the zip file still available?

[Anonymous]

 http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/design-validate-document/pdf-user-manual-for-fusion-360-ultimate/td-p/...

how do you get access to this page...A360 for fusion 360

[daniel_lyall]

@Anonymous that out of date 

[nuwul]

Hi @TimeraAutodesk

Why i cannot download the dataset? it said 'unauthorised'

pls help. thanks

[knobbsa]

Hello everyone,  

It looks like what's in the Data Panel is out of sync with the current training material.  The pdf files referenced in this post are also outdated.  We'll work to get this cleaned up right away.

While we're adding and cleaning up the data sets to the Data Panel, take a look at the Hands-on Exercises at the bottom of these topic pages http://www.autodesk.com/products/fusion-360/learn-training-tutorials/sketch. Under each hands-on exercise is a downloadable exercise and sample model.  

It's good to know that there's an interest in downloadable/printable content.  The downloadable exercises referenced above might be a start for some of you and we'll certainly see what we can do to package up other topics in a downloadable pdf format. 

Hopefully this helps!  Thanks for the feedback.

[daniel_lyall]

@knobbsa bad news it's out of date unless it has the stuff from the latest update in it, LOL this topic will never stop to fusion is completed.