Prusa Academy - 3D Modeling in Fusion 360  

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I'm currently taking that course, I'm only about 10 % complete so far.   But as a complete beginner to Fusion 360 I feel its a wonderful training class,  they teach you how the software works and how to use it with real examples.     Pretty damn good class so far!   I hope Prusa makes more classes / courses like this.

All the best.....

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You can get that course for 180 Prusameters too: https://www.printables.com/prusameter/rewards

It's not very different from what Joe already showed on his YT channel. But concentrated, beginner-friendly and easy to understand.

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I only see the Design Principles course available with Prusameters (besides the Mini and Mk3S basics courses). The Design Principles course was actually a lot better than I expected. 

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Oh. Yeah, sorry. I wasn't aware that there was a new one. I mixed those up.

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Thanks for sharing your experience and observations Jetsurgeon.  I went ahead and took the plunge for this course and am taking my time with it.  I am currently about 20% along with it and I completely agree.  The pace is good, the information is easy to follow and is in a fairly "digestible" form for me.  You are encouraged not to try to remember everything offered as you go along, but the important bits are easy to pick up as they are reiterated as you progress in the modules.  Tinkercad rocks, but there are more and more things I would like to do that Fusion can do easier, repeatable and in parametric form.   The price is actually a few dollars less than our last fast food drive thru bill, so the price and return on the investment I feel is pretty good.

There was a YouTube series a few years back titled something like "Learn Fusion360 or Die Trying" that was pretty good, but this is much better.

Ashley

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YOu may also want to check out the videos by Lars Christensen on Youtube. They are a bit dated now but still perfectly pertinent. I very much enjoyed his style that was not in-your-face YouTube-ish.

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This is good. Generally the feeling is that the Fusion 360 course is worthwhile. I'm a old pro at AutoCAD but the workflow for Fusion 360 is challenging for me. Maybe it would be a shallower learning curve if I hadn't used AutoCAD for so many years. I'll spring for the Prusa course.

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Hey Ashley, I hope you see this. I completed the F360 course. It was not trivial. Far from it. It took some work but I got through it and can honestly say I now have the confidence, and interest in using it regularly now instead of depending on Tinkercad. I would say it was very worthwhile.

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I haven't taken the course yet, but I really want to.

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Following this topic as well. Wondering if the course would be worth it for a non-beginner somewhere around intermediate with Fusion 360? The description of the course sounds pretty introductory, but I'm assuming there will be many small things in there for people with some Fusion 360 experience?

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I just finished it. I use Fusion pretty much every day and know my way around it pretty well but I wouldn't consider myself "professional". I have mixed feelings about the course. Maybe not surprisingly, it moved a bit too quick for beginners while for advanced users it didn't go deep enough. They made a wise decision to cover the Design environment only. Basic commands are covered in reasonable depth. I liked that they weren't dogmatic about tool choices or design strategies as more often than not there's more than one reasonable way in Fusion to accomplish a goal. 

The course ends with some design examples, guiding the users through some complete model creations. There were a few things in here that I knew about but perhaps didn't appreciate enough before seeing them "in action".  For some reason most of the examples started with tracing photos of real objects,  not really where I start my designs. 

All in all, it's a reasonable product but I'm glad I didn't spend real money on it (I used Prusameters). I learned most of what I know about Fusion from the Lars Christensen YouTube videos, which may be a bit dated now but are still great. 

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Maybe you don't know it well as you think you do.

It's worth doing.  Especially as a beginner (which is who it is really aimed at). 

Obviously, always seek out additional information.  The youtube videos referenced aren't really THAT good and are dated.

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 Reviving this thread a few years after its last post ...

While waiting for the Core One Kit to arrive I'm spending quality time following this course. Very happy with it being text-based with animated video's and the quizzes are great.

I started out learning Fusion360 on youtube and the fusion tutorials but this is a great scope (3d printing) for me. I know it's limited in scope but that's what I need.

Pea

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Think it's now called (correctly) "3D Modeling in Autodesk Fusion".  Likewise I'm using it to get up to speed before the printer (Core One kit) arrives.  Very good course and the way it's given is far far better than (eg) some of the You Tube stuff.     I do have a couple of questions about the sample projects (where I've got to so far) and is this the place to ask?  I *think* there's a mistake in the sequence but it could be my mistake! 

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I do think the course is worth it, as it covers parts of the design environment that are especially relevant to manufacturing with 3D printing (I'm thinking loft and 3d sketching, especially).

There are some things that I wish were touched upon more, especially the surface and mesh modeling environments, which are non-intuitive. I found, however, that the elements that I learned in the course helped me to interpret the other environments when I had example files to follow (see especially https://www.printables.com/model/292833-a-moderately-overengineered-olpe-vase for surface modeling).

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I've finished two other prusa courses - introduction to 3d printing and the slicer master class.

In comparison the Fusion course has been very frustrating. I keep getting stuck - unable to recreate what the course is demonstrating - and there is no comment section to ask for help (the comment section was one of the best parts of the printer bild instructions, it saved me so many times. Should really have a similar feature on these courses!).

For example they show how to extrude a polygon from the surface of a sphere, to have the extrusion adhere to the curvature of the sphere. This simply does not work.

Right now I'm stuck with the first project, building a hinged box. Created a thread about it here, trying to get some help.

https://forum.prusa3d.com/forum/postid/760105/

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Thanks ulfben for that info.  If Prusa is listening, please where can I give feedback about the course(s)?  

Going to your points, I found some of the tools/examples frustrating too, to the point that I gave up 2 or 3 times, thinking that I'll probably repeat the course before long, because by then I'll be more recepitive to the finer points which are, undoubtably, important, if not more so. 

I see your question about the hinged box and have just gone past that and am stuck later in that chapter.  I think (but could be mistaken) that they have put an action in a place where it's not possible due to previous actions.   As for your question, sorry I don't remember 100%, but I do recollect that was tricky and it was (I think) necessary to hide some part(s) in order to select the parts of the hinge to extrude.  And - important - you really have to zoom in a long way and get the angle right to see and select them.  There was no cut-out in the hinge extrusion I made. 

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For example they show how to extrude a polygon from the surface of a sphere, to have the extrusion adhere to the curvature of the sphere. This simply does not work.

Hi, please what exactly doesn't work on your end? I tried to replicate it now (using free version of Fusion just in case), and it works fine - see attached video.
Yeah, sometimes the extrusion trick might fail randomly (like many things in Fusion). As mentioned in the course, the simplest troubleshooting is just to deselect/cancel everything and try anew.
I'll take a closer look at the hinged box project steps on Monday (I am away on vacation right now). Thanks for patience!
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Thanks so much for sharing the video! As soon as I saw it, my mistake became obvious - both the sphere and the polygon must be centered on the origin. I had tried several times with shapes that were "close enough", assuming that slight offsets wouldn't matter. But sure enough, if the extrusion isn’t perfectly centered, it just won’t follow the sphere’s curvature.

The course absolutely calls this out! I just didn’t think it could possibly matter that much. (Which, in hindsight, makes the technique feel a bit fragile and situational?)

Anyway... Assumption is the mother of all fuckups, so that egg belongs squarely on my face. 😛 

Thanks again for taking the time to demonstrate the correct method - really appreciate it! Looking forward to hearing what you find out about the box hinge issue when you're back from vacation. Hope you have a great and relaxing break!