Looking to create some mock ups for various projects and figured learning the basics of fusion will be more helpful than continuing to hand draw things.

Besides youtube videos and random articles, are there any legit resources for getting a hang of this program?

Reps for help. TY men and women

Just get some seat time and start making things. Youtube will be good for hits/tricks to get the program to do what you want but ultimately if you dont have the seat time no amount of YT will help. Ive been modeling for 8+ years now in solidworks, taught a bunch of junior engineers along the way. Its going to be a slow learning curve at first but its worth the effort. You doing just 2d prints or will you be doing 3d models as well?

The ultimate goal is 3d models but that is a few months out so 2d for the time being.

Forget Fusion 360. Invest the learning curve time in Blender. It's amazing what you can do in Blender now. It's several different applications all in one. 3D Modeling, sculpting, 2D drawing, animation, video editing, VFX, etc.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbvTS1pmN0s


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX4vJm9BuF8

What is your end goal for this project? Getting something manufactured? Concept model to sell someone something?

[QUOTE=MiscInformed post_id=1630519073]Forget Fusion 360. Invest the learning curve time in Blender. It's amazing what you can do in Blender now. It's several different applications all in one. 3D Modeling, sculpting, 2D drawing, animation, video editing, VFX, etc.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZbvTS1pmN0s[/youtube]
[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbvTS1pmN0s[/rl]

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/embed/iX4vJm9BuF8[/youtube]
[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX4vJm9BuF8[/rl][/QUOTE]Really appreciate the suggestion, ill check this out. Thanks brah

[QUOTE=Steveyblack post_id=1630519783]What is your end goal for this project? Getting something manufactured? Concept model to sell someone something?[/QUOTE]It's just for personal projects. Started researching and planning to build a tube chassis and will need to mock that up before any cutting takes place plus ill need to mock up all sorts of mounts. Before I tackle that I wanted to draw up an outdoor bench I started building recently. I hand drew it but wanted to try and recreate that as practice for more difficult projects like the chassis.

Ill recommend solidworks but I am biased, any of these modeling software will suit you though. Methods of modeling will impact how well the model runs and also how easy it is to make a change. How are you with geometry? Its probably going to make your life super easy if you brush up on it, I constrain most of my models using things like parallel, perpendicularity, concentricity, coincidence, ect. You want to fully constrain (Fully defined) your models, it will make your assemblies run 1000 times better if you do. It takes any guess work out of the calculations and can drastically change performance. I am always available for fellow aware brahs for **** like this, dont be afraid to reach out if you need help boyo.

The thing that drew me towards fusion besides recommendations from others was that low cost of entry compared to other programs, especially solidworks.

Great advice to brush up on geometry, it has been a few years so that would definitely help. Thank you so much for all your help, I really do appreciate it. If I run into any snags along the way ill be sure to reach out.