Fusion 360 Tutorial - How to Model an Assembly Drawer with Dovetails from Start to Finish Part 4

[@TylerBeckofTECHESPRESSO]

Great video Lars! Thanks for showing off that symmetry constraint...

[@createinspain]

Lars, for those who really don't get on with 'drawing' sketches where they need anything other than straight lines, Concepts is a great iPad app to use. Items can then be exported as an SVG and imported to revolve in this case. Great video!

[@MikeOchtman]

I watched the whole series, and really enjoyed it. Your style of presentation is very good, and one of the best is saying out loud every keypress or mouse click. That makes a huge difference for those following along.

[@cadcamstuff]

Thank you Mike! Have an awesome weekend!

[@waterhead37]

Lars, Thank you for this series (your absolute beginner and these drawer videos). You are a great presenter and make everything very clear. It is great to have the explanations of why you are doing something in a particular way as many times I see the upcoming operation and think something like , "Ok, now he's going to mirror that across to the other side", only to find out, no, Lars is projecting the geometry. Having a lot of prior experience with Solidworks - in the dim and distant, version 2 or 3 if I recall and latterly Sketchup, both of which I used in my woodworking shop, I also find the repetition very useful - "Activate the component", "Turn on history" as otherwise the ingrained habits developed using other software tend to lead me astray.

[@cadcamstuff]

Thank you for taking the time to watch the videos! Really happy you found them helpful! Have an awesome day! Best, Lars

[@DanHertzka]

Hi Lars - I'm surprised nobody else has commented on this (that I've seen), but I had to explicitly enable the preview functionality to color sketch geometry based on constraint status. I don't think you called this out explicitly in this series or the Absolute Beginner series. Really appreciate the tutorials, especially these two most recent series. Really hoping to see more furniture/woodworking inspired videos as we delve deeper into more advanced topics. SketchUp is the king on the block when it comes to designing woodworking plans, but Fusion has so much more to offer imho. Judging from the several woodworkers who've already commented on this video, I get the feeling I'm not alone.

[@cadcamstuff]

Hi Dan, Thank you for taking the time to watch the videos! Yes, you are right. I did not realize that I had the preview box checked for feedback on fully constrained sketches. I need to push development to just get that in the standard version :-) I love the idea of doing more woodwork. I might need to take a night class or something :-) I have some tricks to learn when it comes to woodworking. Have an awesome day!

[@davidlevick]

Very well explained. So many so called KZbin “tutorials” are about what the presenter knows. This one is by a real teacher!

[@newalla344]

This is one of the best videos I have seen on Fusion 360. I like the short break up to let everything sink in, Really helps to understand getting ready for motion and groups.

[@camarillojohn]

this is an excellent tutorial / road map on how to navigate and edit drawings. the best explanation of " how to " so far. thank you Lars. john

[@cadcamstuff]

Thank you so much John! Really appreciate you taking the time to watch the videos. Have a great weekend!

[@peterandrade4313]

Awesome Lars! I can't wait to really start using Fusion 360 on my yet to be purchased mill. I'm still bouncing around on your videos and need to go back to your beginners series. You're a great spokes person for this software and Autodesk. Pete

[@cadcamstuff]

Thank you, Pete! Have an awesome weekend! Best, Lars

[@SteveRaynerMakes]

Your tutorials run at the perfect place for beginners, even slightly more advanced ones like this. I really like how you explain why things should be done a certain way. Teaching us to build quality models.

[@kamencic]

I actually watched all four videos without taking a break. Hope for more similar series :) And one more thing... metric system rules!

[@cadcamstuff]

Thank you so much for taking the time watch all the videos :-)...Next video series has to be in metric :-)

[@marvinassaff]

Lars, great series of vídeos, cheers from Bolivia

[@michaelandmaryzehr6143]

Awesome series! Very insightful in helping me organize and tie together the components. Another suggestion for the wood is showing how the grain direction can be changed, especially important for the panels.

[@cadcamstuff]

Thank you Michael! Yes, you are right. I would like to make a video on the appearances and rendering in Fusion 360. Have a great weekend!

[@donghylin8314]

Great tutorial...always learn some new functions when watching your videos...

[@cadcamstuff]

Thank you, Don!

[@claudebelanger94]

Merci pour ce tutorial. Je l'ai réussi. Je commence à débloquer avec Fusion 360. Tu es un très bon professeur.

[@cadcamstuff]

Thank you Claude Bélanger

[@JasonCanning]

Excellent videos, keep up the good work!

[@wellphoto3d]

Thanks Lars! Great perfect didactic class, a true Autodesk instructor, with objective and short explanations, very effective! An English native, criticized your English, which for me is perfect, I speak Portuguese, and I'm also learning English with you. About the American's criticism... You're not going to broadcast horse races, nor are you going to be an fm disk jockey. Your English in this series "Fusion for Begginers" was excellent. I keep learning with you, Fusion and English. Because intelligence has no expiration date when it is shared! Because talent recognition is always up to date! Thanks!

[@johnagorman]

+Lars Well done. you packed so much information in this series, but esp this last episode. In the time of a sitcom, you showed parameterics, offests, joints, Splines, Splines with constraints, importing components from files, from McMaster, joint assembly, appearance changes, and lots of practice with constraints & Q. I hadn't even seen the Equal and Symmetric contrainsts. Thank you!

[@cadcamstuff]

Hi John, Thank you for taking the time to watch the video and comment. Really happy you like the video :-) Have an awesome day! Best, Lars

[@johnagorman]

Lars Christensen I do. I do. now to finish watching another video of yours. cheers

[@brenwyattm0rij909]

Well done Lars, I had a couple of problems with the sketching of the knob but got there in the end. I'm making the most of my lockdown time at home learning Fusion 360. Keep up the good work !

[@thomasrybczyk7008]

Lars, Thank you for another great series... I have learned a lot in just two days watching your videos... Keep up the great work... This series was perfect for me as I am a cabinet maker by trade and intend to use Fusion 360 for building custom cabinets on our CNC machine.

[@cadcamstuff]

Thank you, Thomas, Really glad you found the videos helpful! Have an awesome day! Best, Lars

[@robertkofoed9118]

Great Series Lars, this has been very helpful. I see where I have been making some mistakes with not fully constraining my drawings. Thanks again!!!

[@cadcamstuff]

Thank you Robert! Thank you for watching and taking the time to comment.

[@anlpereira]

This is an absolute insane software. Awesome.

[@pakman422]

Another awesome tutorial Lars! I'm glad I now know that I'm not the only one who sometimes has trouble with the tangent constraint! Also, I think it would be neat to see you implement "Parameters" in Fusion into one of these tutorials. It can come especially handy when doing a wood working project like this. Keep up the great work (P.S. The "deleted scenes" at the end are hilarious! Keep em' coming!), - Jacob S.

[@cadcamstuff]

Thank you, Jacob! lol, it is funny, I was thinking about re-recording the "tangent constraint" segment and make it all polished. Then I thought, why?!? You are right, I have added "Woodworking using parameters" to my video list. Have an awesome weekend!

[@mdsalahuddin1]

Thanks, step by step video is very helpful for beginner like me.

[@AlanThomas1]

modelling parametrically is what i've been trying to figure out for a while but didn't know what to search for. This was a very helpful series, thanks

[@patw999]

Lars, you are the best. I am starting to understand it a little better. Thank you

[@cadcamstuff]

Glad to hear that :-) Have an awesome day!

[@richardnix2046]

Hello Lars, I love the way you do your videos. I always learn "Stuff"...... I think I could have drawn the drawer but after watching I definitely will be using more constraints and the "project command"....Thanks so much

[@cadcamstuff]

Thank you Richard! Appreciate your kind words. Glad you found it helpful. Have an awesome day!

[@rlz007]

this is the single most useful series I've seen on fusion 360. I've learned a lot, thank you so much!

[@garywolfe434]

Love all your presentations. I wish others could do as good of job as you do. You explain everything very well. Thanks so much !!!!!!

[@cadcamstuff]

Thank you so much, Gary!

[@jackberlien8916]

Lars - just finished my drawer! Wonderful tutorial - best I've found so far! You have a great skill for delivering just the right amount of information in an entertaining way. I have only two minor suggestions: 1) It might be helpful, although you do this most of the time, to always point out what keys and / or mouse buttons you are holding down, since it is not obvious (or I have seen videos that somehow indicate this visually). 2) A nit-pick on the drawer finish - I know the wood grain is just for show, but for someone actually making the drawer, if they didn't know better, might use that as an indication for cutting the pieces. Of course the grain should go with the length of the piece, not the width. Odd that Fusion doesn't always automatically orient the grain to go with the longest side of the piece (like it did with the drawer bottom)! One more little thing - I noticed when placing that last dimension on the knob that you (and I) got an error - it would not let you keep the dimension you typed in, but rather corrected it for you - it would have been interesting to hear why that happened! Thanks again - looking forward to choosing my next video of yours!

[@cadcamstuff]

Thank you so much for sticking all the way through the videos. Really appreciate your feedback! Have an awesome day!

[@funafter5081]

I noticed the same point about the last dimension on the knob where you made a construction line on the center of the big radius of the knob and tried to dimension the radius to the revolve axis. You typed 0.75 and the program came up 0.73527. Same thing happened to me...lol. In any case, it still worked...

[@billmoseley4042]

Thank you Lars Good job.

[@cadcamstuff]

Thank you!

[@remlo5357]

Another great video Lars. I would like if you could make a sculpting workspace tutorial next. Thank you.

[@cadcamstuff]

Thank you! It is on the list! :-) Best, Lars

[@michaelhoffmann2949]

Hy Lars - great series - and I learned that the "combine tool" can also be used as cut - this save time. I understand you just try to explain us some "Fusion - How to". But as a woodworker let me mention some best practices for wooden drawers: (they are almost common sense in the woodworking world - and make the difference between drawing and constructing) - dovetails typical have a fixed angle (depending if soft or hard wood) 1/6 or 1/8 if done by hand or e.g. 10° if done with a dovetail router. So your dovetail sketch should have this angle - normally the backside dovetails are not "half blind" they are cut thru - also typical the bottom is "push in" from the back, and the backside part is therefore a bit smaller in hight and just reaches to the top of the cut grooves. (This is makes much easier to build it, and also helps with typical Wood Shrinkage ) - the wood grain should be along the log side (can be done in render settings) its not so critical for the pins - but the tails will otherwise easily break see www.startwoodworking.com/sites/default/files/uploads/taunton/images/w157coIMG_1837.jpg Grüße aus Heidelberg Germany - Michael

[@cadcamstuff]

Hi Michael, Thank you! That is awesome! Yes, I knew someone like you were going to look right through and pretty quickly realize that I know very little about woodworking :-) Thank you for taking the time to watch the video and comment. Have an awesome day!

[@PrimalOutdoors]

Awesome thank you so much. You do a great job of keeping it simple and straight forward. Jason

[@RagoFam]

Magnificent video series. Thank you for making these! I now feel I can go ahead and try creating something useful with Fusion 360. Thank you for also putting in enough "oops" and "here's where you can go wrong". Those answer many real-world use questions.

[@nclemmons]

Well done! I learned a lot. Your videos are easy to follow and definitely help on the learning curve for Fusion!

[@cadcamstuff]

Thank you!!

[@viveksiddarthkalyanasundar4701]

You are a great tutor... I'm watching most of your videos, and the exciting part in this video is "Combine" and "Revolve" function.. Thanks for this..

[@cadcamstuff]

That is awesome to hear Vivek Siddarth Kalyanasundaram .Thank you for watching the videos

[@johnpipe362]

Nice one, Lars. I have been trying to make something very similar and failed. This a great help. Thanks.

[@szimmer1974]

Hey Lars, very well explained video. I can understand everything very well and it makes me great fun to follow your channel. Keep it up !!

[@cadcamstuff]

Thank you Sascha!

[@shoremaster1491]

Excellent video series, thank you!

[@SmokeGSU]

You, sir, are a wizard, Lars! Great series!

[@cadcamstuff]

Thank you 👍😊

[@vascodahlen]

As always clear, concise and entertaining

[@cadcamstuff]

Hi vascodahlen Thank you for watching!

[@munishgowda7840]

thanks Lars... off to the next model

[@CadmonShum]

Really enjoy following these videos steps by steps, I struggled on the knob for a while but I finally made it! Thanks Lars!

[@johnwebb592]

Lars, these are excellent Fusion 360 tutorials. You really have a gift.Thanks so much!

[@cadcamstuff]

You are so very welcome :-) Thank you for watching!

[@crawler1965]

Lars Great set of videos thanks

[@rjlatheart]

this was great! BUT when are you going to finish this with the cut list?

[@cadcamstuff]

It is like cleaning my attic. The plan is to get to on it any day now. 😁

[@topgundk]

First of all, thanks for your many Fusion360 videoes, been a huge part of me switching from Sketchup to Fusion. Very well explained, not just this series. I am using Sketchup and now starting on Fusion360 for Woodworking. So i am very glad that you decided to make this series, as 99% of the Fusion360 videos are related to CAM, Metal work or 3D print. I have a request / suggestion. The last step missing are plans. To share with others and/or to take out in the workshop to build the drawer, in this example. Is this something you have on your list to do ? What i am missing in the other tutorials i have seen on youtube in relation to plans are best practices to make multiple page plans. To make cut diagrams on sheet good. To make cur diagrams on wood and to make a bill of materials with dimensions.

[@cadcamstuff]

Hi Michael, Thank you for watching the videos and taking the time to comment! Yes, It is on my list. I need to find some extra hours in the day, because you are right those videos are needed. Thank you!!

[@johnagorman]

Yes +Lars. Thank you.

[@laronleake8299]

This was a very informative series of videos.. I will be referencing these multiple times I'm sure.. Lots of helpful information for a multitude of different models. Thank you!

[@joseph071109]

Lars, thank you. You did a fantastic job with this series. I learned a ton!

[@JT-ei7jf]

YEAH, my drawer is also finished. :D Thanks for your lesson. This helped me

[@cadcamstuff]

Awesome work JT!!

[@000gjb]

I have watched your first 3 beginners videos and this series on the drawer. New to Fusion 360. Its surprising how many of Autocad commands can be used in this program. Many thanks for the video's.

[@septemous]

Hi Lars - love the videos ! Question - do you have a video on how to now take the dove tail and get it ready for a CNC machine? I'm looking to create a piece of furniture at a local maker space and am not sure how to have it ready ?

[@JerromKJ]

I learn a lot from your well paced tutorials - great work! One minor correction (it might help others): In the last steps of creating the knob, you set a construction line and using it set a dimension of 0.75. As happened to me and can be seen also in the video, the value CANNOT be set (it conflicts with other constraints) and the software shows a small error window and keeps the value at 0.73 . The form is fully constrained once you add the construction line at the middle point.

[@Sadge23]

Thank you. Was working my way through the video and couldn't figure out why it wouldn't fully constrain. No problem after making sure to add the line at the middle point.

[@joseclemente9240]

Really good videos.

[@cadcamstuff]

Thank you so much Jose Clemente !

[@akquicksilver]

Excellent series! From my noob perspective I am truly humbled, but also inspired.

[@cadcamstuff]

Thank you JB Marker. I will be rooting for you!

[@PaweSzpiler]

Świetnie tłumaczysz. Bardzo dużo się dzięki tym filmom nauczyłem. Czasami trochę za dużo blabla ale gałuła jesteś. Dziękuję bardzo!

[@Krisfr23]

Super great job Lars, Tell us about the special mouse you use to do your work. Look forward to learning more with your great Presentation and Expertise.

[@cadcamstuff]

Thank you! I am using the CAD mouse from 3D connexion, I could use any mouse for that matter, but what you might have picked up is the rotation of the model on the screen. I am using a space pilot from the same company. Think I might try to do a review soon here on the channel.

[@darrellgardner3667]

Hi Lars, This was a great help. Is there a way to add tolerances to the dove tails? Do you have a video on that already?

[@lobitojavi]

Thank you sir, I appreciate your videos

[@KhaledQweder]

More Than Excellent. Thank You Lars.

[@cadcamstuff]

Thank you Khaled Qweder

[@plasticbuzzardmodelshop9715]

Great series. Very helpful.

[@cadcamstuff]

Thank you!

[@joydeepmohanto780]

what if we want to confirm the random dimension as in 11:10. How can we do that?

[@jklgc21]

Best Teacher , I learned a lot and was easy to understand and apply. Thank you for your time.

[@cadcamstuff]

You are so very welcome :-) Thank you for watching! and for making the comment that made my day

[@maxvandertol1747]

Hi Lars, how do you envision camming these gorgeous dovetails ;-) ? Awesome video again!! Greetings, Max van der Tol

[@cadcamstuff]

Hi Max, Have to admit that I know very little about wood, and a few people have pointed out that this would not work with CAM :-)

[@waterhead37]

Maybe like this? d.pr/6siwo:

[@WoodnMetalShoppe]

I was thinking of someway to extend the y axis over the edge of the cnc table to cut dovetails.

[@cymbaldeals]

Can you make a video showing how to makes plans (with title blocks, etc)? Thanks! I am really enjoying your videos so far!

[@cadcamstuff]

Thank you! Yes, I do have drawings on my list of videos :-) Have an awesome day!

[@ShirinDelsooz]

I hope you make a tutorial like this that includes rolling slides! : )

[@michaelardoin4260]

you the man Lars!

[@cadcamstuff]

Thank you so much Michael Ardoin ! I'll have to show my wife you comment :-)

[@hashimalqattan9789]

You made it look easy .. I hope you make more woodworking staff. Thanks for sharing this.

[@azymabdulin2002]

Just enjoyed following this step by step. Thank you for your hard work

[@giro2504]

I really have to say that your videos are excellent! I already learned a lot and already designed an easy fan cover for my 3d printer. Thank you for your help and all the different informations and tips!

[@cadcamstuff]

You are so very welcome :-) Thank you for watching!

[@sjdorst]

Actually, there are two ways that Lars can "take this to the next level"! The first has already been suggested: Do a video or two on using the model to produce plans. The second? Do a video or two on preparing this for a CAM machine! As another poster pointed out, this would also - as a byproduct - reveal that some things can't be done entirely in CAM - some finish work (like squaring rounded inside corners with a chisel) can't be CAMmed.

[@danl.4743]

Yes!

[@Christoffer-HansenDahl]

Hi Lars, great video😊 Can you make a video from this session and preparing the drawer for CNC machining? Best regards from Christoffer

[@eghterafi]

Love the video, thank you for all the help :)

[@cadcamstuff]

Thank you for taking the time to watch and comment!! Have a great day!

[@bissellwoodworking]

Great series Lars! Your videos are always so helpful. As a custom furniture maker I really appreciate the specificity of this series in particular. One question about the parametric feature of the drawer: When the height of the drawer is increased or decreased what happens to the dovetails? How can the drawing be set up so that if the dovetail spacing is 2" a dovetail is added if the drawer height is increased by 2?

[@cadcamstuff]

Hi Richard, Thank you for taking the time to watch the video. Yes, that is a flaw in my design. The solution is using parameters found under the modify tab. I do have parameters on my video list, but I think it is a little more advanced level. Check out this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/l6HOhoSBg9x7f9E Have an awesome day!

[@danswanson1043]

Fantastic

[@marcellemay7721]

Combine...That's the command that I need to to finish up a 2 component project that I'm working on. I have a question that maybe you can bring up in a future video. How do we create tolerances between mating parts so that the fit can be built with some slack to allow for proper real world fit?

[@cadcamstuff]

Thank you, got the topic on the list! Have an awesome day! Best, Lars

[@rickmccaskill7888]

Learned a lot from this series. Do you have a video how I would CAM the dovetails? Thank you.

[@cadcamstuff]

I have not done that video, but search Fusion 360 CAM and you will find a lot of content

[@MartonMedia]

@@cadcamstuff Would be interesting to see how you machine one part of the dovetail that does not go all the way through.. That will leave a air-pocket if you use a rotating dovetail mill.

[@septemous]

@@MartonMedia LOL _ that is exactly what I asked - early in the AM - need to read first !!!

[@eddyfontaineyoutu100]

Very good tutorial ! Thank you Lars !

[@cadcamstuff]

You are so very welcome :-) Thank you for watching!

[@matthewcarpenter4716]

Man I went through all 4 videos and didn't add my like to the first 3!!! I will have to go back!

[@madisonmysticjourney]

would be a nice additional video to this to show how to tool path this for cnc

[@cadcamstuff]

Yes, you are right. I should add that to the list

[@paulmunro3050]

Very good Lars thank you

[@cadcamstuff]

You are so very welcome :-) Thank you for watching!

[@spikekent]

Yet another awesome tutorial Lars, thank you so much. Love the outtakes at the end too :-) I have just one question; I don't see any clearances in the dovetail joints. So as I understand it, they wouldn't actually fit together. Or have I missed something?

[@cadcamstuff]

Hi Spike. Thank you so much! Well...so I have to admit that I know very little about woodworking, lol. I thought you pretty much made them to size and smacked them together with a hammer. If you needed clearances, I think I would project the sketch and then use the offset command. Have an awesome day!

[@spikekent]

My past experience of woodworking suggests that you're probably right. In this case I'm referring to 3D printing ... I should have mentioned that :-) I watch all your videos and learn a ton from them. The actual project doesn't matter, it's more about how to use different features of Fusion 360. These are skills that can be used in all designs. The offset command is what I thought would be the solution, but I wanted to ask in case there was a particular feature geared to it. Thanks for your reply. Keep up the fantastic work, have a great day.

[@NicoH1978]

Hi Lars, thank you very much for your valuable tutorials. I love those. Very interesting !

[@premiergraphics]

Hi Lars. This series covers a lot of great information. I am learning so much from you. I see this mentioned many times in the comments, but could you please continue this series with actually preparing this project to be cut on a cnc machine? How would you go about bringing these pieces in and laying them out on a sheet of wood? How would you do the cam setup? I've watched some of your cam videos, but seeing a project like this all the way through is really the best way to learn, well for me at least. Thank you for all you do!!

[@cadcamstuff]

Hi Jason Larkin Thank you for watching! Yes, great topic, thank you! Did you see these two videos? kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZmHCZ6hnf5WroaM kzbin.info/www/bejne/gJqZanZ9dq6Np7M

[@sawdustwoodchips]

This is fabulous - certainly one of the best tutorials. us there any way to orientate the grain of the wood to be horizontal?

[@rbyt2010]

Thanks for another great tutorial Lars! Is there a way to change the grain direction in appearance? For a woodworker, having the grain running the wrong way on a piece is almost worse than no grain at all

[@cadcamstuff]

Thank you for watching, Ron. Yes, if you right click on the material in the appearance dialog box, you can edit the rotation. Have a great day!

[@johnjohnson7538]

Awesome tutorial, thanks. I follow along and try to replicate every detail. At 15:30, when you add the construction line to set the width of the knob to 0.75, it looks like the geometry already is fully defined. The value, i.e. the width of the knob, does not change, but stays fix at 0.73527. Or did I miss something?

[@cadcamstuff]

Hi John Johnson Thank you for watching! The internal radius was not fully defined.

[@calaban9]

Thank you. Would love to see you go from this to a set of drawings for using this in the shop. Get some best practices. Also a way to tie that into a cut list?

[@cadcamstuff]

Thank you Peter! I will put that on my list. I should make a video on the drawings options in Fusion 360 and this would be a good model. Have an awesome day!

[@KevinKarney]

Brilliant Series. I've modelled my drawer - but used parameters for all the sizes & used finger joints rather than dovetails (since the drawer[s] will be laser cut). The only problem I have encountered is that in the rectangular pattern feature does not seem to allow the number of repeats to be parameterised. I like to be able to set the number of finger joints as a parameter. Any ideas. But what a great series for the beginner! Very well done.

[@cadcamstuff]

Hi Kevin, Thank you for taking the time to watch the videos. I think you are looking for the "Change Parameters" in the modify drop-down. :-)

[@davedufour5278]

Lars, Thanks for the great videos. One problem I am having with the dovetails in my drawer - I made them as you did, however, when I change the drawer size I get an error because the number of dovetails or the spacing doesn't adjust. any thoughts?

[@cmcnulty7]

Great video! I be very interested in hearing how and when you address joint clearances when milling wood. Is it easier to set this in the modeling environment or in the CAM environment. I have yet to find a tutorial that addresses issue with any wood joints. It seems to me that, as designed, those dovetails are going to be too tight and will not go together, especially with glue on them. Thank you!

[@cadcamstuff]

Hi Christopher McNulty Thank you for taking the time to watch the videos! There are no rules, but most common would be to make the adjustments on the CAM side of things.

[@cmcnulty7]

Thanks, Lars!

[@johnlytle6633]

really a great video series! Lots of new techniques that I can try to apply on my own designs. You mentioned early in the first part that you are creating all the pieces that are needed to create this assembly. an you take it one step further to generate a materials list? I am having a hard time catching up to you with all your videos so I apologize if you have already covered this. Keep up the good work.

[@cadcamstuff]

Hi John Lytle Thank you for watching! Take a look at this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qaWqY5qcmLGeoM0 Best, Lars

[@peteredwards2371]

Great, thank you. A minor point, how do you orientate the wood grain by 90 degrees so it looks like real lengths are used in construction?

[@cadcamstuff]

Hi Peter, Open up the appearances and right click on the material. Then you can click edit and do a bunch of things, including rotating. Best, Lars

[@funafter5081]

Hi Lars, Lots of fun on that one. Some really cool new features, like Combine, Rectangular Pattern. Revolve and Project...very interesting. Thanks again for another great lesson! :) I'm trying to build a rim and it uses revolve as well but I'm having a bit of a time sketching thin walls. I need 4 of these for my tractor project. Do you know of any "Rim" tutorials in Fusion360? TIA, John

[@cadcamstuff]

Hi John, Really happy you like the videos! Thank you so much for watching. There is this video kzbin.info/www/bejne/hJyTZoiLpq5gfJI But I don't think I would do it that way. I would draw a cross section of the rim like this www.google.com/search?q=cross+section+of+a+car+rim&tbm=isch&imgil=7515ho4pNCEtEM%253A%253Bv_JS-PEe1RjIDM%253Bhttp%25253A%25252F%25252Fwww.oponeo.co.uk%25252Ftyre-article%25252Fhow-to-read-the-wheel-markings&source=iu&pf=m&fir=7515ho4pNCEtEM%253A%252Cv_JS-PEe1RjIDM%252C_&usg=__Du2SuHU0Q4mm-_azj1TvdPBmI3k%3D&biw=1536&bih=775&ved=0ahUKEwjHgOWLoYzUAhWB24MKHbUBCgoQyjcINQ&ei=1XAnWYfCLIG3jwS1g6hQ#imgrc=7515ho4pNCEtEM:

[@funafter5081]

Thanks for the links Lars!... no need to reply, I know you're busy ;)

[@Ukat09]

Hi Lars ... just wanted to ask - when you added the knobs and screws ... would you still need to create constraints or relations between the knobs and the panels??? incase you change dimensions of the panels that the holes end up in the right positions ...???? GREAT video btw - thank you.

[@gregmorse2437]

Well done tutorials. Since the front-back and right-left pieces are exact copies, is it possible to model 2 and then make inverted copies to shorten modeling time? Is it possible to make the dovetails themselves parametric as well?

[@gregmorse2437]

Answered the first part. It is easy to copy the component and also easy to rotate it with a suitable construction line to use as a rotation axis. Struggling with the second question though.

[@cadcamstuff]

Hi Greg, Not sure I totally mean by parametric....The way the dovetails are done here are parametric in my opinion.

[@homerhomer3618]

Great series. All your videos are really helpful. I have been exploring Fusion 360 for about 2 weeks, trying to learn. In an earlier video on the drawer design/modeling you mention how the entire model can be resized parametrically. I implemented "user parameters". I did one dovetail and cut, then used pattern. I created a parameter for 'count' so the number of dovetails adjusts to the height of the drawer. I am having trouble with another area, that is in 'joining" component faces. I've spent hours looking at many tutorials. I've searched the internet. I know Fusion does not have that feature... to constrain component faces. Is there a tutorial that shows the workaround? I would like to see a video of "it doesn't work." and then the fix. Thanks.

[@cadcamstuff]

HOMER HOMER Thank you for watching the video! Check out this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gYKxmHycn7KlbpY Best, Lars

[@ErdemErduvan]

it was a nice video... and I laughed out loud in the end...

[@cadcamstuff]

Hi Erdem Erduvan Thank you for watching!

[@punanejope]

Great series once again, but seems to me Autodesk have to work on Move/Copy command. I get crashes while doing that, especially while working offline . Side panels background turns black (as seen in this video as well while placing screws) and there it goes. Once you get to understand timelines and relationships between components, great tool for getting everything ready for manufacturing. Seems to me as woodworker (cabinet maker) right way to approach would be - build your basic sketch (front view), set up your main (user)parameters and relations in 2D sketch, create components and then start drilling or project holes between related parts (components) etc.... Thanks again, Keep up great work. Hopefully got something to share in near future.