Fusion 360 Tutorial: Woodworking Workbench
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ก.ย. 2024
- In this introduction to Fusion 360 we'll design a fully parametric version of our upcoming Roubo-inspired woodworking workbench.
Information on downloading Fusion 360 as well as this design can be found at our website:
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Slow clap, Everyone learning fusion should watch this regardless of if they are woodworking or not.
Thanks! I'm glad it was helpful!
I have been learning Fusion 360 for a while now, but this tutorial was by far better than any I had seen. The use of parameters - from beginning to end - as well as a great demonstration of the use of constrained vs. unconstrained. Finally, the walkthrough from empty page to finished render and drawings was masterful - clearly explaining how to efficiently re-use components. Thank you so much. I'm finally on my way to making this tool work for me instead of the other way around!
Thanks for the kind comment! I appreciate it and am glad the tutorial was helpful to you!
I've been watching tuts on Fusion 360 for a day and a half and this is the first one that is really helpful.
Thanks for the comment! Yell if you run into any issues!
This was the best woodworking tutorial for Fusion!!! Thanks so much for doing this. More, we need more! :)
Haha Thanks! We've been trying to finish up installing some hardwood floors and then I hope to get back to a few projects and hopefully another Fusion video.
Best Fusion 360 tutorial video I've seen for people familiar with the basics, but trying to figure out how to apply it to woodworking.
Event though the UI has seeming changed quite a bit since this video was made, I’ve scrubbed back and forth on this video at least 100x already learning from scratch. I decided to learn fusion360 because I’m in the middle of a project with some seriously funky laminates and subsequent complicated joinery. It’s a fools errand to work component lengths when mortising because the reference edge IS the tenon shoulder every single time. I can use sketchup pretty well, but never really got into building components from parameter lists, I did simple layout/visualization/use of others files. But a friend told me that if I even thought I’d ever buy a CNC (which I really don’t think I will), that I’d be best investing my time learning fusion360 over expanding my sketchup knowledge. I really appreciate now the usefulness of building out as many parameters in the table as I can possible think of, so as final thicknesses, tiny dimension changes are encountered, the entire project can immediately resize the joinery shoulders, rabbets, breadboards, etc... the concatenation of tables driving the elements in relation to each other (instead of simple snap grid dimensioning) is making the ‘top-down’ view of all this come into better and more useful focus. Who knows, I may just get a small CNC for making templates, doing personal accents, miniature mock-ups 🤪. Another great guy to learn from is Jay Bates; his videos are just as teachable/facilitatory. Thanks a bunch brother.
Thanks! Yeah, I'm still on the fence regarding getting a CNC as well, but so far Fusion has been pretty helpful on a few other projects. I always seem to run into something that changes the dimensions a little early on, so it's great being able to update the Fusion model with the new lengths and get all the new dimensions. Good luck with your projects and Fusion!
This video really helped me climb through the first part of the learning curve on Fusion 360. Still very low on the curve, but now I can hack my way through a project on my own. Thanks!
That's great! Fusion is definitely a bit different, but it can be really helpful when you need to adjust the dimensions of a project at any point.
I've never commented on a TH-cam video until now - because I've never found anything this useful before. WELL DONE.
:) Thanks! That's a pretty big compliment! Glad it was helpful!
Great Video!! When I was an engineer in the 90s I used CAD. I have been a woodworking hobbyist all my life. I have been using SketchUp for long time. About a month ago I started learning Fusion 360. I started designing all my new projects but I made them over complex. I love how you made it simple. I would love to see more of these videos. You are very good at teaching Fusion 360 for woodworkers. Thanks!!!
Thanks for the comment, I really appreciate it! I've got a couple of projects that I'll be using Fusion for a little later this year, and I hope to do another Fusion video for at least one of them.
This was fabulous. I can see myself taking my next project and using your tutorial to build it in Fusion 360 step by step. You covered it all!
Awesome! Definitely give it a shot!
i just used everything I learned from this video to help design a new desk for my wife and it went so much better than I feared, thanks largely to this video. Thank you so much!
That's great!! I've got a desk for my wife on my ToDo list as well! Glad it turned out well!
A really good and well-paced Tutorial - Perfect for me as a new convert to Fusion 360 Thank You
29:50 - mind blown!
This is the first tutorial I watched after wanting to give Fusion a try, looking to switch over from SketchUp. I found this tutorial excellent in all respects - pace of tuition, voice, details, completeness and just the right amount of depth. Thank you so much for putting this together.
Thanks for the comment! I'll really glad you liked it and found it helpful!
Viewed several tutorials for Fusion 360. Was struggling, and I was an AUTOCAD user 20 years ago. . At 15 minutes I stopped and hit the like and subscribe button. By FAR the best tutorial I've seen. Am looking forward to MORE !!
Thanks!! I'm still trying to find time to do one for a desk hopefully before too long. It's great to know that this one was helpful!
@@aroundhomediy GREAT. ! If this one is an indication of future vids, I'm sure it will be worth the wait .
OMG, that was the best tutorial for woodworkers I have seen. Moving the timeline to get things to render properly was unexpected. Only thing missing was a cut list.
Thanks!!!
By far the most informative and straight-forward tutorial I've seen for F360. Thank you!
I know this is an older video, and I'm really late to see it, but you did an amazing job! thank you so much! 🤘🏼
Thanks! I'm glad you found it useful! If Autodesk had not changed the hobbyist license and limited it so much, I would still make videos for it...
Best Fusion 360 tutorial ever. The step by step approach was very understandable & really helped me grok the way Fusion 360 works.
Awesome! Thanks for letting me know it was helpful!
I've been looking for an overview of creating a woodworking project from scratch using F360 and this was perfect. I've been using F360 for 3D printing (basically creating single models), but this explained the creation of components for an assembly and putting them all together. Well done!
Thanks! Glad it was helpful!
Outstanding. I lost count of the number of times I though "ooooohhh....I didn't know you could do that..." Thanks for this.
Awesome! Thanks for the comment! :)
Weeks of frustration just ended. Thank you so much. Please consider redoing so it matches the Sept 2019 update.
In the next video we'll show a different approach to designing the workbench using SketchUp.
Around Home DIY is fusion is better than sketchup?
Good question! If you can get the hang of Fusion and are working on a project that you think might require several tweaks to various dimensions, then it is worth the extra effort to use it and create a proper design. There are a lot of nice features in it especially if you want to create an articulated/animated object, so I'd definitely suggest learning it if you have the chance! I'll go over a few of the downsides of using SketchUp in that video.
Fusion also has a nice embedded browser-based model viewer that you can check out on our website article. It has some nice features like being able to 'explode' the model and measure the length of various edges.
Around Home DIY thanks!
I just learned about 20 Fusion tips from this excellent presentation, thank you! Your use of joints rather than sketch constraints was a real eye opener, it seems to make it much easier to align stuff.
You're welcome! Yeah, joints seemed to be the easiest way to align separate objects, even though they can be a bit fiddly sometimes to setup.
Best fusion 360 tutorial so far. Thanks
Awesome tutorial! Nice pace, gives plenty of details in case the listener doesn't know shortcuts or available options in fusion.
Thanks! Glad you liked it!
Thanks Doug, this has definitely been the most helpful tutorial I've found! Thanks for covering setting the parameters so thoroughly and showing how that's really what drives a parametric model. I still have a lot to learn in F360, but I feel like I just leveled up several jumps after following along with your video.
Thanks for the comment and glad the video helped out! Good luck with all your future projects!
Really helped me with the workflow. I was too busy trying to fit everything in place and draw it, rather than just drawing it and joining. Also, using parameters are key.
Glad it helped! Parameters are definitely worth it once you get the hang of them!
This was so helpful thank you so much. I have been trying to draw a workbench for a week so finding this was a god send
I'm just starting to use Fusion 3360 and this video is very helpful to get started. I have been a long time Sketchup user but changing dimensions after the project is built is very hard. I like the way you set this up which makes changes very easy. Thanks...
Yeah, that is definitely one of the big pluses of using Fusion 360. It's takes a little more to setup, but then you can easily change a bunch of desired dimensions which is great.
Thanks a lot. Had been looking for an option to print my woodwork designs on paper, including dimensions. You explained it perfectly towards the end of the video
Glad it was useful! I had a hard time initially finding info for that sort of thing, so I wanted to put at least a quick example in the video.
Thanks for the great video. I tried using sketchup to design a chicken coop and gave up on that and built without plans. I now have a weekend project to learn Fusion. You really kept thing simple and straight to the point and covered some really useful feature. Thanks again!
Thank you! I'm glad people were able to follow along with it!
Best video on Fusion 360 that I've found yet. Thank You.
Thanks!!
Thanks this is really helpful!
Great tutorial! Exactly what I have been looking for and so much more. All your tips are very much appreciated and the way you incorporated different ways to do things is awesome. I can tell you spent a good amount of time planning this out and it made a huge difference in the quality of the instruction. Thank you for making this video.
Thanks! It definitely took a bit longer to make than I originally though, so it's great people are finding it helpful!
Excellent!!! Fusion BLOWS away sketchup!
Thanks! Ya, I definitely agree. It might take a little getting used to, but it is far more helpful as soon as you need to modify or adjust a design.
A really great woodworking tutorial!!! Thank you!
This tutorial is so good, I opened fusion for the first time and had a finished drawing for my new piece of furniture at the end. Thanks man!
That's awesome! Thanks for letting me know it was helpful!
I've been using SketchUp and didn't even know that Fusion 360 existed. Thanks for sharing!
Fusion's definitely worth checking out!
This is the best video tutorial for Fusion 360 I've ever seen, and it's relevant to my interests as an added bonus. Thanks for making this! Subscribed!
Great! Thanks for letting us know that it was helpful!
Thank you for an excellent walk through, I have just started learning fusion and this helped me get my head around it
This was beyond helpful. Thank you!
Thank you for the great to the point and well paced video
Glad you found it useful! Thanks for the comment!
This was so very helpful! Thank you for spending the time on it. (I edit how-tos for a living, and I also train people on new software; you are great at this.)
I used SketchUp a couple of years ago to plan some custom bookcases, but struggled a little to figure out how to draw on the right axis. Plus, I work in InDesign, where you can change the position and size of objects using a menu. When I came back to try to use SketchUp again just recently, I couldn't figure out how draw anything on the proper axis. I gave up.
So when someone mentioned that Fusion360 has dynamic parameters, I decided I wanted to learn more. SO this is so helpful!
I'm going to check out your SketchUp walk-through; if it's as good as this I'll have all I need to decide which to use.
Thanks for the comment and I'm glad it was helpful! I hadn't done much in Fusion before, but I tried to make it as helpful as I could for those also starting out. I'm definitely looking forward to using it in some future projects.
@@aroundhomediy : I downloaded Fusion 360 and am watching their tutorial; yours is easier to wrap my head around.
Really helpfull, even in 2021.
Thanks!
This is great! I'm still going through the video because I'm trying to copy step-by-step as you go through so I end up with the same product. I can't wait to finish and try a few of my own plans!
Great! Good luck and yell if you run into any issues.
Thanks for including the plans! I recently downloaded Fusion and didn't really know where to start.
This will be a big help!
It definitely felt weird at first coming from SketchUp, but I love it now. Autodesk has several short video tips that are good as well.
Some seriously mad skills here!
Excellent, Thank You !
Most excellent tutorial Sir. Thank you!
Very good job explaining this. Thanks!
very sturdy workbench!
Great video - supper helpful! Thanks for making it
Thanks!
Thank you! That was very generous of you!
That was great. It would be even more complete if you use the Table feature in the Drawing to generate a bill of materials.
Thanks! Sadly, last time I looked, Fusion's Tables could not generate a dimensions column from the components making them less than useful. There's a "Description" column that you can manually enter the dimensions in, but you have to remember to update that every time you make a change.
If they ever add a "Dimensions" column, I'd probably use it more, but for now it is easy to adjust the model and have an incorrect size still in the table which can lead to some costly mistakes...
@@aroundhomediy Thanks. Obviously, I hadn't looked closely at the table generated in the Drawing mode. It is rather useless. No dimensions, only names and materials. Weird.
Great tutorial for beginners, thx lot
Great Fusion tutorial. I don't think I'll ever use Sketchup again, assuming I can learn this. Thank you for sharing.
You're welcome! I feel the same way. After using Fusion I have no plans to go back to SketchUp.
Great tutorial! Thanks.
This video helped a lot!!! Thanks much.
helped me a lot, thanks
I will learn this....
Awesome tutorial!
Great video, exactly what I needed to learn to make my projects more easily.
Although I wouldn't have created mortises in the table top, I would have placed the legs into the finished position in the top and used the legs as cutting bodies to cut the holes into the top body. Not sure how that works with respect to some of the dimensioning technique and joints, fascinating things I will have to try.
Outstanding tutorial..
Thank you!
Very good tutorial. It helped me a lot. :)
Really great job!
Thanks! Glad it was helpful!
For some reason I cant get the Line to snap to the Joints when drawing the shape for the shelf. So my lines end up being unconstrained. I have the snap option turned on,
Great tutorial by the way. Thanks
Sorry I'm not exactly sure why that would be happening. I think if you're holding down the CTRL key it will *not* add constraints, but I'm not sure if there's another option to toggle that behavior. Is it highlighting the existing bench edges as you mouse over them?
@@aroundhomediy I'm having this same problem. Excellent tutorial btw.
Nice video, much appreciated
details on the guide bar and bearing collar please. Thanks for sharing!
I just download the program and instead of model like your mines read design (top left) . how I change that?
They've changed the UI since the video. The correct mode is now "Design".
Very nice job! Thank you. I have been using 360 for a bit, but never used parameters. Seems extremely powerful given you may not know final dimensions of materials.
Yeah, they definitely come in handy when you want to experiment a bit with the size of an object or offer to build something to different customers' dimensions.
Superb thank you so much
Excellent, Great well done video
Holy crap, I never knew you could invert the zoom direction. That alone gives you a Like! (But I like the rest of the content too =D)
Haha! Thanks! Yeah the zoom thing drove me bonkers.
Hmm.. Seems like from the word go, quite a few things have changed, I'm getting asked for sub on fusion to just make the new component active at the start.
Yes, Autodesk appears to keep changing the terms for the worse. At first they limited it to a max of $1000 revenue for the free hobby plan (so I quit making tutorials) and now it appears that you can only use it for 3 years before having to pay $545/year for it: www.autodesk.com/products/fusion-360/personal
So it's pretty sad that they don't seem to care about the hobby users any more. I might check out FreeCAD next or some of the add-ons for Blender for future projects.
Really good tutorial..You should do more for fusion
Thanks! I'm hoping to get to a computer desk build using Fusion later this year.
When you create the shelf, each point you click leaves a solid, black point, indicating (as you point out at the end) that the point is constrained. I couldn't get any to be constrained as you did. So, I constrained the entire line sketch afterward; however, when I changed the TopLength parameter, my shelf did not auto-resize. When I redid the entire drawing in the other way that you suggested (rectangle, remove the leg rectangles from each corner and constrain all dimensions), then the shelf resized properly. Any ideas why the fully constrained first attempt (drawing each line segment as you did) failed the parameter auto-adjust test?
Trying to get a fully constrained point can be a bit annoying at times especially if it thinks you are clicking on an edge instead of a corner. You might try again with the shelf lines and rotate the view a little so that you can make sure it's selecting the corner you want and not some other location.
Other thoughts: When you create the sketch for the shelf, did you select the face of the top of the stretcher (@ 37:00). You may also need to check that your Fusion Preferences - General/Design//Auto project geometry on active sketch plane" is checked.
I'm not sure how you constrained the shelf sketch afterwards, but I would guess that you'd need to constrain each shelf vertex to the proper corner of the bench to get it to behave correctly.
@@aroundhomediy I am having the same issue, when drawing the lines the cursor doesnt snap in the right spot and is a little off on each corner. Is there a way to fix this, is it a prespective thing?
Did you figure out the issue? I was having the exact same issue with the shelf
Are you in the ortho (Top) view? You might try in perspective if you haven't to try to click in the corner. And you selected the face of the top stretcher when creating the sketch? I'll try this again in the latest version of Fusion this weekend and see what's up.
@@aroundhomediy Awesome, that would be great. Love the tutorial by the way, very nice work. Thanks
Im trying to follow this and my first rectangle is not oriented correctly. Instead of facing up, its facing toward me. What did I do wrong?
The very first rectangle should be the bottom face of the leg, so it should be in the horizontal plane (X/Y if you are using the Z-up setting I mentioned). Sometimes you might need to rotated the camera a little to make selecting the plane to create the sketch in easier -- I'm not sure why they can't make it easier to select.
Great tutorial to go through and lean Fusion. For use working with components and joints was an eye-opener for me. But i have a question, when showing your 3D model, the components have a thin black surrounding and a gray inside. I'm using Fusion on a mac and in my 3D view, all the components are just gray and the black lines (see your total view at 0:02) are missing. Do you know how to enable this?
Thanks! At the bottom of the 3D view, there's a "monitor" icon that if you click and select Visual Style you should be able to play with the options there and find one that is similar (Shaded with Visible Edges Only I think is what you want).
@@aroundhomediy Great!! Yes found it. I was searching through the normal settings. Thanks
Could you also have just mirrored the first mortise to the other side of the table top and _then_ mirrored the both of them across the center line?
I didn't think about it at the time, but you could probably mirror/duplicate the right mortise before adding the TopLeftOverlay constraint (or remove it after) just to save time remaking the rectangle and sizing it. Then you'd just need to add the TopRightOverlay constraint to get the copy positioned properly.
(If the mortises were not offset differently, you could also just mirror them left-to-right like I did for the top two).
Really enjoyed this. Im a beginner looking for the next step and I found it. Quick question. I want to create 4 workbenches for my garage. I am going to create a floor plan of the garage and then add each bench. Would you create them all in one project file or create 4 separate components and then link them into the floor plan project file. Thanks.
I would probably try to create a bench per file if the benches are different and then link them in. You might start with just a simple box for the workbench and then see how linking that into your floor plan file works. You should then be able to edit the workbench and update it into the floor plan file.
Appreciated, thanks
How do you go from this design to individual boards and cut measurements? Is it impractical to model the individual boards in this design?
For something like this where I know I'll be using 2x8 or 2x10 lumber, I'll pick say a top thickness that I can get by ripping a 2x8 in half and then just divide the TopBoardCount by two to get the number of 2x8s for it. Then for the legs I'll do a similar thing where I layout maybe 4 of the pieces overlaid on say an 8' 2x10. And since each leg is made of 3 pieces I'll need 3 boards (either 8' or 10' depending on how tall the leg pieces are).
You can definitely model it using individual boards and then lay those out in a schematic and arrange them to fit into 2x8/2x10s. It's just a bit harder to make it as parametric as this with a bunch of individual boards. I did it just to prove that it can be done, but I think it would have made a beginning tutorial more confusing.
For "normal" furniture I think it's worth trying to design it from individual pieces to make it easier to make a layout/cut sheet as you're probably wanting to optimize the materials as much as possible. I'll try to do that on a future project just to show how it can be done.
@@aroundhomediy Thank you! This video was great - much easier to follow and get off the ground than the official tutorials. Subbed - can't wait for future videos :)
Thanks!
@@aroundhomediy Best tutorial for beginners on youtube. Congrats! As far as I can tell, there's no (good) tutorial about the cut sheet list, which is essential to cut all the parts from sheets of plywood, for example. I anxiously await for your tutorial on this subject. Thanks a lot from Brazil!
Oh, I forgot to ask--why "reverse zoom" in preferences?
It was just what I was more used to from other 3d applications.
Sketch confused me a lot, I used to do some 3D stuff in the early 2000's in 3d studio max so maybe it will be a but more comfortable for me.
Excellent Tutorial! May I ask how you opened the reference image and had it floating on top of the app while you entered the params?
Thanks! I use MS OneNote (2016 "Desktop" version which is free) for a lot of note taking and it has an "Always on Top" option, so I just pasted an image into it and moved it on top of Fusion. You can also do it with several image viewers such as ImageGlass (imageglass.org/ also free/OpenSource) -- under Menu/Layout there's a "Keep window on top" option. It definitely comes in handy at times.
Nice! Thanks for that.
Great video man... I learned more from the first 5 minutes of this video than 3 hours on lynda.com
Thanks! I'm glad you found it helpful. Let me know if you have any questions.
I looked on their site and it's only free for a year. Not cool.
It's still free for "qualified hobbyist users" but they did make it to where I can no longer do tutorials for it without paying $60/month: www.autodesk.com/products/fusion-360/personal
@@aroundhomediy thank you for your reply. I don't build enough projects to remotely be able to afford that. But I guess I'm not their target market