Tips/Techniques Cad

[Shoprat]

No laughing!!!!!!!!!!! But I downloaded fusion 360 to draw simple 2 d sketches for parts that I want my local water jet shop to do. Trying to up my game from pencil and box lid drawings. Well hell, I’m lost.. Back a decade or two ago I used Correl draw. Simple. What do you use? Not looking to do anything extravagant, just simple 2 d parts. Guidance needed.

 

[phaxtris]

I use fusion 360, you have to do a bit of a work around on the free version to export the DXF, but it's really not difficult

There are many good videos on fusion, I find it quite easy to use, just a little practice and you'll get the hang of it

The only thing I found when exporting DXF files, make sure you have no stray construction lines or they will translate into the DXF as a cut line

 

[Shoprat]

When u say video, are u meaning tube or fusions tutorial.

 

[TorontoBuilder]

No laughing!!!!!!!!!!! But I downloaded fusion 360 to draw simple 2 d sketches for parts that I want my local water jet shop to do. Trying to up my game from pencil and box lid drawings. Well hell, I’m lost.. Back a decade or two ago I used Correl draw. Simple. What do you use? Not looking to do anything extravagant, just simple 2 d parts. Guidance needed.

Start a new drawing

goto document settings menu, and change to imperial because metric sucks eh.. shown at the black dash in the pic

then pick a view you wish to draw upon in the upper left, and then start a sketch at menu circled.

This should take you to something you can relate to in 2d

 

[Dan Dubeau]

If you're used to corel draw, then give inkscape a try. It's pretty much free corel draw. Might do what you want to generate vector files for plasma.

 

[Shoprat]

Will do, that’s what I’m hoping. Thanks a bunch.

 

[TorontoBuilder]

anyone starting in fusion should learn to master sketches the proper manner if they wish to progress to 3d modeling because the results depend on good solid foundation sketches with proper constraints

Sketches in Fusion 360

 

[phaxtris]

When u say video, are u meaning tube or fusions tutorial.

Yes, plenty of you tube tutorials on anything and everything fusion360 related

If you come across something you can't figure out, there are probabaly 5 YouTube videos explaining how to do it

When I first started to learn how to draw things for the plasma table/3d printer I tried a few different programs, but in the end fusion seemed to be the most developed, the most capable, and easiest to use. Working around the free version isn't that big of a deal.

It's worth figuring out, and once you get the hang of sketches progressing to modelling is a cinch, just another YouTube video

 

[StevSmar]

When I first started with F360, I was baffled by how limited the sketch environment was. I was expecting it to be full featured like AutoCAD.

Took me a while to wrap my head around it being a solid modelling program and that Sketches->solid models->Drawings (or other types of outputs, like simulations).