Instant "like" because the video started with "tip number one..." and the rest of the video is what the title says. No annoying intros 10 seconds long, no yapping BS, just clear information as described in the title. I'm also commenting mostly for the algo because this is the type of content maker that should be supported. Thank you Austin.

I wish everyone made YT videos like this. 100% pure and relevant information the whole time. Seems like 99% of people make 10 minute videos that "explain" something that that can be summarized in 20 seconds.

I especially like the "Only dimension what you need" part... 😀 😀

Perfect! I am using F360 over four years now and I agree with all of these recommendations! I would add two more recommendations: 1. Use parameters - move key parameters to variables to change model in the future 2. If you design supposed to be parametric - from time to time go back it timeline and change key parameters to check that it does not ruin anything

Thank you for a no-nonsense high quality tutorial

Being in design and engineering for 38 years and using from Mylar to NX and Catia you have given the best advice I have ever heard. Thank you for the outstanding advice and demo in fusion I have seen. Keep them coming please!!

SO MUCH HELP IN ONLY 12 MINUTES, love the quality of excplanation in every way !

Thank you so much for your videos Austin, they have helped me learn Fusion 360 and now I can do my own guitars better. There is still a lot to learn but loving the challenges it gives.

Austin, as a guy new to Fusion 360 (and CAD in general) I find your basic instruction stuff terrifically clear and useful. I struggle with what should be simple things, so your basic how-to videos are great for me. i hope you keep them coming. -- Hank

If you’re starting out using Fusion, then I’d recommend watching everything on this channel, but particularly this video and applying the 10 rules to everything you model. It’ll save you hours and hours of pain down the track. So good.

This is an amazing video! I hadn't fully realized how important mastering the sketching environment is and I hadn't even thought about layering modelling types and processes into certain levels to follow. The tips here are invaluable regardless of ones skill level with Fusion. Tip #7, #8 & #9 were tips I had learned on my own while working with Fusion, as my former school recommended it, but didn't show any great tutorials on getting started, so I essentially had to learn everything myself and those three tips were some of the things I discovered along the way, but the fact that they're here and made me nod while you explained them, is fantastic, as I now know I made the right call. Tip #10 is probably, imo, the most important of them all, as if you don't have the mindset of an engineer when using CAD, then you're gonna have a tough time. So to sum the mindset up: Problems only exist to be solved and solving them is your joy. Also, look at problems like a you'd look at a jigsaw puzzle. The pile itself is a mess, but every individual piece is simple and easy to grasp. Don't try to solve everything at once. Do it piece by piece.

You got a new sub tonight as you brought to light something I didn't even realize was possible! I was nodding my head to #8 and I've been naming my sketches and components for some time but I didn't know you could pick names down in the timeline! This will be a game changer as just like in the browser it will make finding what I need to tweak so much faster. thanks!

What a great tutorial! music and voice sound levels was good and the tips was fantastic. Been doing fusion 360 for many years and only now am i trying to learn how to use it properly. Thank you for this video

I appreciate your thinking and strategy, the presentation is clear and helpful, thank you!

Very nice video, I'm learning fusion so I can make functional parts for 3d printing as a hobby, and keeping an eye on these things will help me a lot along the road. Hey I'm so new to this that I didn't even knew about the loft and sweep tools and many other things. Thank you.

Amazing delivery, thank you!

I love how the body flows into the neck on the underside of that guitar! looks so comfortable

Excellent stuff. I was aware of some - but not all of this. I've absolutely made the error of setting dimensions a lot more than i probably ought to have. Will dive into use of constraints a lot more.

BRILLIANT!! Can you *please* do a corresponding "10 Tricks" version? You know, stuff like performing patterns on things in the timeline, or having parameters that can be zero, or using units in expressions, or even just smartypants expressions themselves (like logic), or anything "cool" you've learned or discovered that gets you out of tricky situations ...

Every and anytime i watch your videos i learn or discover a handful of things i NEED to learn, damn i can endlessly say the knowledge you have put out for my learning process has been mindblowing! Thanks Austin!!!

Glad I stumbled across your channel, this is going to be a great resource for improving my Fusion360 workflow. Great Video!

Austin you’re putting out a lot of value. Thank you!!

Dude this video is top notch. 10/10, we need more of that

Brilliant no bs content. Much appreciated

Such a great video, thanks for these tips!

Excellent video Austin, with an understanding like this you should be a part of the Fusion team!

Outstanding video. I enjoyed it so much that I went ahead and subscribed to your channel and I look forward to seeing more of your videos in the future. Thanks for your advice, and I will take it to heart.

wow, just crisp and very very helpful. Thanks a lot.

Great video! Especially function first, had not seen anyone else name there sketch's, will put that into practice on my next design.

So informative @austin! I love the concept, try to build something you love, you will learn more and stay interested. I am doing Cam on Ambrosia, my design. But NO, I saw your easy belly carve video! LOL Now, I’m thinking she needs some curves out back! Thanks for sharing all that knowledge again, Brother

Thank you for making this video.

Good tips, and i'm glad that i already employ most of them in my usual workflow. But one huge addition is necessary: User Parameters! After learning that Sketches should be my #1 step for every design, i soon after learned that using User Parameters for those Sketches are more like #1.1 than #2 ;-)

Thanks for the video! Good information!

excellent content. thanks!

you deserve at least half a million subs! this is pure gold. Please keep on creating valuable content, a lot of us need you! :)

I just found your channel and look forward to learning more about fusion 360 from it.

What a fantastic video, congrats and thank you!

I couldn't agree more. A component for each new part you need is sciential

Thanks dude!!

Great video; I have never thought about tool hierarchies where you should try and use one tool before others.

I seriously had to take a few breaks, although it was only 12,5mins, because I became too excited. Pretty much every sentence was packed with information. I really wish youtube would start to implement some kind of "skill meter", not only as in skills in whatever the tutorial is about, but in the tutorial itself as well. Amazing. No nonsense here. Saved and subscribed.

Good video. Been using CAD in one form or another since 2002, and I agree with every fusion360 tip outlined here.

Your tip about “make everything as a component” would be much higher on the list and for me as a long time F360 user, it would be number 1. When I get into trouble it’s because I started out thinking this will be simple so no need for components; bodies will be fine. Then when I try to go back and make my bodies into components, it is often impossible to move the base sketches into the component because some other body is dependent upon the sketch so it has to remain at the top level - and things get only get uglier from there. I have started some fairly complex projects over from scratch because of this mistake. Think components, components, components.

Great video! 🎉❤

Great video, thanks 👍

Ty, amazing video !

The Best Fusion 360 video ever !!!!! You should make advanced project based tutorial. Really wished there were website or some sort of resource , which would provide exercises with increasing complexity ; so anyone could start with a cube and after many many exercises late, exit as a pro.

Awesome video. Lots of good reasoning behind each tip. I know this is almost splitting hairs, but I prefer the adage “Form follows function” since it doesn’t place function higher than form, it simply states that form should only come after the function has been established. After that, you can go wild with all the form you want.

Excellent

Thanks for this just battling with assembly. All these tips will help alot. Cheers

I would pay for a full fledge fusion360 course by this guy.

I'm a beginner at fusion but I'd like to learn to design guitars too! The wood grain guitar was pretty sweet looking!

Absolutely underated video. The irony is newbies will not appeciate the depth of what you are saying ... While the veterans would be ike "duuuuuddde ... where were you when I deployed !!? LOL

Great video and I Subbed 🤘🤘 Do you have plans for Tutorials or is that basically what you do in your guitar videos?

thank you!

Wait... a video tutorial that starts right away, without any bs introduction, strait to the point??? How could this be real in 2023??? Awesome!

Construction planes make excellent parametric references. You can always go back in time and create new construction planes at the start without breaking anything.

Very good video, thank you

great video!

Great video Austin. I've been using Fusion since around 2018 and love it. I've developed some bad habbits with it that I need to stop doing and one is with sketches. Any chance you could do a video on best practices with sketches. I'm always creating sketches on the same face rather than editing the existing one..

Well, i wish this existed 2 yeats ago. I had to learn most of this myslef to get my certification. Good video with great points.

I am very much having to relearn 3D modeling from scratch… To top it off, this is just an offshoot of a hobby, as I switched away from mechanical design, to electronics nearly 20 years ago… So I am jumping into a whole new world in design philosophy with all the development the design programs have gone through. I am learning, slowly shifting my design brain from 2D design space. These kind of videos really show how different current 3D modeling SW is. I spent several years working with 2D CAD, and could burn through a project quickly. I was quite proud that I could work much faster than more experienced guys… I loved the process, and took the time to layout the design space/tools for efficiency. Then I learned early 3D modeling when AutoCAD 2000 was released… Where 3D modeling was heavily derived from the 2D space. But I enjoyed working with the 3D modeling, because I could often times design a part in 3D, and use the automated schematic generator built into AutoCAD to create the 2D drawings… Faster than I could draft it out. But that work was very much focused on hard dimensions, being an extension of the 2D design spaces. I am also very vague on the particulars, as I only used it for about a year, so the techniques were not as hard ingrained as the 2D was. Also learned a bit about new schematic and dimension layouts for CNC work, where critical dimensions are based on a fixed origin point rather than traditional length/height/width measurements… That one was an offshoot of work, where a tech in the field needed to know some dimensions for an adapter plate, as the one they received seemed to be out of spec, as it would not line up… Dug up our design documents, and was confronted with a very different schematic dimension layout than I am used to. Definitely one set up for programming CNC… I’m getting too old for this… heh…

Hello Austin, nice work, can you please create a more complex object using the technique of the third part of the video "Don't fall into the 3D sketch trap"?. When I want to make a complex shape I always prefer to use Rhino because it is easier to sketch in 3 dimensions, but I really want to see your technique.

@Austin Shaner, Excellent video!! Thanks!. One question please. Is there a way to change/brighten/darken the colors of the various tools showing up esply during selecting/sketching? For example I find it near impossible to see the small square that shows up when the mouse pointer goes over a point. There are many other areas where I struggle, his is just an example. nb: I have partial color blindness (the usual red/green effect that many men have, thanks to women who carry it to next generation boys).

Good vid! I picked up some tricks!

Very well done! I may join your discord server!😊

Thanks for the video, nice job! Do you have or do you recomend a video for people who starts explaining the use of the components, bodies, sketch etc.. for me is a little bit mess all this. Thanks!

Dude that was good video

Wonderful

I love how almost mellow the school of thought for Fusion360 is. If you can break it down, you can build it. (Although, I guess that's true for any CAD software. It's just Fusion360 is so fluid/intuitive in it's UX.)

Great video! How do I change my workspace from white to how yours looks?

you should make a mini course this was awesome

Would love to see a video on how you'd do the 3d stuff you made in the "3d sketch" section without using 3d sketches!

love it

Good video. Another tip. Know what features in your file's timeline depend on other features. That way, you avoid unwanted results when you need to suppress or delete something.

Good video thanks for the tips. May I ask how do you learn? Is there a great manual or website of guides out there? When I get stuck I goto youtube which can be great or very hard to pin down my issue and take hours to find a video that has what I need. I love youtube for tutorials but is something more efficient for help?

Hey Austin! Love your content and it's great to see a Fusion 360 wizard out there! I'm hosting another 3D CAD speedmodeling tournament this year, and qualifications run throughout June. Feel free to take a look a LMK if you have any questions - I bet a wizard like you could go pretty far, and it'd be cool to see F360 win it this year (An Onshape user won last year, Inventor 2 years ago, and a SW user the year before that).

I got fusion 360 recently. I somehow missed the new component button and made this one toy I wanted to try and model in various pieces among various projects. Is there a way to try and assemble them together. I'm glad I found out about components before trying to give it moving parts but I also worry that I should dont understand the limits of 3d printers.

10/10

Nicely done. I might reach for form before surface, but maybe I should re-think that 😉

"the past informs the future, the future informs the past" brilliant

Great tutorial! So much useful information. Great Job! I'm curious about the CNC router model at about 8:30. Is this available somewhere?

@Austin Shaner I’m new-ish to fusion but really respect your approach. I’m looking to design things like exhaust manifold and intake pipes, so your comment on NOT using 3d sketches interests me. I’m too new to even know what to look for as an alternative, any tutorials or terms I should be looking for?

I would also say, "Somwtimes you will be better off re-making a design simply to make things cleaner and more organized." During product design, i often have to design iteratively in such a way that creates a great final product, but is messy as hell. In those circumstances, i remake the model knowing what i now know. It helps especially when working with a customer or in a team.

Subscribed, but also what setting for that nice blue background

Hello, thanks, this was helpful. I often use Fusion 360 to create, but this has serious issues. For example, I sometimes want to go back to a sketch early in the timeline and make a change based on a feature or sketch later in the timeline. I wish there were a way to go back on the timeline and be able to project from future sketches for reference. At some point, a design will become to unwieldly and impossible to align because of this and I sometimes have to go back to square one and recreate the design from the beginning, which is a huge waste of time. Do you know of any way to reference or show sketches later in the timeline when editing an earlier sketch or feature? Cheers!

I am a complete beginner in 3D. My goal is to learn modeling mainly focused on 3D printing. Small parts and toys right now and all just as a hobby but I do have already a few ideas what I could focus on later to make some money. I started researching different software and Fusion 360 is something that I think would be a good start. Your video caught my eye and that is why I want to ask you a couple things. Hopefully you would not mind helping me. #1 Is Fusion 360 the best way to start? and #2 How should I start learning it on my own without paying somebody else for tutoring? Thank you.

How did you change the colors of the fully constrained lines and dimensions to white and green, respectively?

I'm not really sure what I want to get out of this, but I have an itch to scratch and designing products that can actually be manufactured would help scratch it

I'm really interested in your model shown at 5:49 - the mechanical iris. I have a project in mind that could use something similar but probably at a different scale. Would you be willing to share your model for this, or even a step file of it ? Thanks !

How do you get those colored boxes above the timeline? Are they some kind of organization feature?

im getting better at sketching. new to the program. but man do i feel WAY more comfortable working in 3D vs trying to sus out wtf im trying to do to warp some 2D lines into a 3D object. i wish i had a VR environment where i could mold with clay or something. but i also come from metal and wood working so i really like.. NEED that 3D space to prototype and just feel out what im doing. im not as good in the software space as i am with even just a welder and plasma cutter or router table - much less some bridgeports

I watched this 5 months ago and realised that I had given a thumbs down then. Now that I rewatch it today I have no idea why I did that and to be honest I think I 100% agree with you. Sorry for this!

When I time travel on a large timeline, I set my position in the timeline just past the feature I'm about to change. Many times I can advance through the features catching the little errors and fix them before the whole timeline eats itself.

Bro, can you please help me with something? Using fusion 360 to create a metal sign for my daughter, from the band Korn. Created a rectangle to place the canvas, I imported on, traced out the four letters using the spline tool. But when I go to create a cut path, it only sees either the outer edge of the rectangle or one of the letters not all of them. What have I missed?

I'm really conflicted on using 3d sketch vs intersection curve for some things because of the complexity of some intersection workflows. It seems to be the general consensus that experts use 3D sketch as a special use case only.

How are you getting colors in your timeline? It seems like that references the components, but I’ve never seen how to toggle that on

Quality. Thank you for no "hey guys, blah, blah, blah."

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