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  1. StevSmar

    Fusion 360 Fastener library

    What I’m interested in is whether inserting a fastener makes the model more computer intensive? On my airplane model I left out fasteners because my poor laptop was struggling as it was.
  2. StevSmar

    Fusion 360 Fastener library

    Does seem a bit strange? Maybe in the US the younger crowd that does programming refer to imperial as “US customary units” (without realizing there is a difference between “English customary units” and “US customary units”? Probably only matters for the volume and density calculations I guess.
  3. StevSmar

    Fusion 3D Trials & Tribulations

    Yes, it looks like some sort of heavy duty thimble so you can fine adjust the stop. If you need a better photo of it let me know.
  4. StevSmar

    Fusion 3D Trials & Tribulations

    LOL, yes that was the intent of the brass screw. Maybe in version two I’ll use the slit method which I agree is nicer on a nice dial indicator. What you’re describing is a formula. In every command in Fusion you can type in the dimension name (d42 for example) and that number will be used in...
  5. StevSmar

    Fusion 360 getting started session December 2023

    That’s a great description! Even iPhone/iPads apps have a limited lifespan. Pay $2 and 5 years later it stops working and you need to buy the new version for $2.25 (tongue in cheek of course).
  6. StevSmar

    Machine StevSmar's PM-833TV Mill and Stand

    Thank-you. I should have been more specific, I didn’t powder coat it. I paid a company to do that. Based on what I saw in their shop, I bet their oven has at least an 8’ dimension. Even though it hurts the wallet, I think I’ll get all my fabrication projects powder coated. Yes I did. He said...
  7. StevSmar

    Fusion 3D Trials & Tribulations

    Thanks for the description!!! I’d wondered how you go about making a part for casting, allowing for shrinkage and draft angles- and it’s a complicated as I thought it would be!!!!
  8. StevSmar

    Fusion 3D Trials & Tribulations

    That’s essentially how this model was done: - Draw a sketch that has the profile of the cylinder and extrude. - Add the flanges. - Use the cylinder to cut the flanges, or the flanges to cut the cylinder if necessary. - Define reference planes (some of the flanges are not at 90 degrees to others)...
  9. StevSmar

    Fusion 3D Trials & Tribulations

    It does have these capabilities. I had a model where I just couldn’t blend between two bodies in a nice way. I opened the component in the Surface workspace, deleted the faces of the offending bodies and then extruded a surface that made the cuts I needed. Then I turned what was now a surface...
  10. StevSmar

    Fusion 3D Trials & Tribulations

    The time I “kill the design history” is when I’ve got a complicated assembly and I’ve exceeded the ability of my computer to manage it. Then I’ll start exporting major assemblies as an STL file and import that back in. I still have the original parametric model of course.
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