Fusion 360 - The Logo Sketch Trick You Must Know - Ask LarsLive

[@Arcticfoxadaptive]

Lars you arer great mate, I learnt all my Fusion skills from scratch by watching your vids

[@cadcamstuff]

Happy you find the content helpful. Thank you for watching 👍😊

[@EnuffsEnuff318]

Damn you're good. You make it look easy. I watch for weeks, go into F360 to start something simple, and I blank out and can't find or do squat.

[@cadcamstuff]

Thank you 😊 Practice Practice Practice

[@danl.4743]

Did you do his "Beginners" videos? I had zero experience when I started. They give you a solid foundation. Then from there it's practicing and watching his other videos. And it becomes easy very quickly after that!

[@EnuffsEnuff318]

@@danl.4743 I started the tutorials on the F360 website. But then I decided to just watch Lars as those are incredibly time consuming. I'll try looking at his beginner vids like you said...thanks.

[@danl.4743]

@@EnuffsEnuff318 The tutorials on the F360 website are very cumbersome, and they don't "flow" in a natural way to learn from scratch. I looked, and run away. Very confusing. If I may suggest from my experience. ( I am pretty good and quick now) In this order: 1. kzbin.info/aero/PL40d7srwyc_Ow4aaOGXlP2idPGwD7ruKg 2. kzbin.info/aero/PL40d7srwyc_N7Dke-ATtowRml7wAHNFrK 3. Go to his channel. Click on "Playlists". And look for any playlist that says "Beginners" on it, and do them. Do one a day, and you will be running in a couple of weeks. Promise! I know how you feel, I've been there. that's why I'm trying to help. :)

[@EnuffsEnuff318]

@@danl.4743 No hey...I appreciate any help I can get. I just built 2 Prusa machines and yeah, I can print other people's work. But I want to get to the next level and feel stuck. Thanks again.

[@BlaiseBarrette]

You also could insert it as a derived component so if you make a change to the logos in the futur, it would reflect on all of your projects!

[@doningram3978]

Derive is immensely powerful and as yet there has been very little said about it in tutorials. The area of master sketches flies to mind ;-)

[@BlaiseBarrette]

I couldn’t agree more! Derived components, bodies and parameters are a big part of my projects workflows and it seems many are missing out!

[@DennisLovelady]

Great job. I had a similar question, now answered. Thanks! Love your work!

[@alexantonov4129]

If you right click on the logo file and choose "Insert into current design", your inserted logo will update when you edit the original file. But you cannot scale the inserted sketch (or I don't know how)

[@danl.4743]

Good tip.

[@cadcamstuff]

Yes +1000

[@mohddanish3216]

Your video is really good

[@twistedmanufacturing7867]

Wow, this is just what ive been looking for. Thanks Lars

[@ryanoconnor1442]

How do you keep the scaling correct? Fusion 360 makes SVG files smaller than originally designed when imported.

[@onecarwood]

Love your content and learning a lot! Newb: Can you go over the process to go from Fusion to Easel and then cut on the X-Carve? I see articles but they are old and seem very involved for something seemingly simple. Thanks.

[@gligorijevicpolo759]

Hello Lars! I need your help again! So far; you always find me the right solution to my problems, so here's a another one: I will use this video as a reference; the look of my current job is similar to what you see at 3:34. Let say I want to make a 2D coutour of a extruded Fusion 360 logo. I'm using a 8 mm diameter to do so. But some areas are unreachable with this router of 8 mm diameter. So I need to use then a smaller one, like a 4 mm diameter, to finish the job. I don't want to redo all the initial path I just made with the 8 mm diameter. It would be stupid and a waste of time. I just want to take care of unfinished business in some tiny corners. Is there a magical way to ask (Basic) Fusion 360 to remember what he just did with a 8 mm router, and then ask to finish the details with a another 2D contour of 4 mm router? You're my only hope... Well... At least the only one I trust.

[@QuinnHale]

Thanks for the video Lars. I am looking forward to a greatly updated and improved handling of text in Fusion360. Soon right? Also, when importing vector artwork from a client, I haven't found a way to simplify the amount of nodes used in curves. This has been a massive problem for me as it slows Fusion360 down to a crawl when working in sketches. Every click or movement of my 3D mouse results in minutes of waiting for the software to figure out what's going on. Turns a 15m job into well over an hour, if not more. How to simplify vector points of imported artwork?

[@cadcamstuff]

Not totally sure. I think the vector artwork always are difficult with mechanical CAD. Hopefully the development team has some stuff in the works

[@aldringiler2690]

Wanted to start by saying... "Your Awesome"! I need to create a bunch of name tags but want to simplify the process by having different names every time on a base of 14mm by 150mm but the base of 150mm will grow larger smaller depending on the letters used for the name using restrictions. Is it possible for this to happen?

[@4funrc11]

Thanks! Would like to see sweep, loft, etc. with svg's to get even more 3D modeling.

[@ronalderisleyjr4610]

hi lars enjoying class thinking about building Experimental plane soon around 2000 hour power engine

[@johngillis1604]

Hi Lars I am the person you kindly emailed on end November re Buttons I have found your tube channel to be very informative,and I think this one has solved my problems.Can not wait to run it over on my pc and see if I can print the text on top of the button.Many Thanks john

[@cadcamstuff]

You are so very welcome. Thank you for watching!

[@johngillis1604]

@@cadcamstuff Hi Lars thanks for reply I did get a chance to follow you vid rewind about 50 times you make it look so easy my buttons pressed never seem to do the same as yours but I think I got their please see pic of the first sample I managed to print.My theory is if I master this I can then stick it on top of shaft in fusion Sorry can’t attach pic on here will email it later Thank you again for all your vids

[@gtechninja]

Lars, thank you for your great help. am from Ethiopia and we have our own alphabet, unfortunately, fusion doesn't support it, so my question is how do I insert text written in any other language?. also is there an add-in ?. please help me with all possible options you have. "thank you = አመሰግናለሁ. in our language".

[@spiderspace8249]

Hi Lars. Love the videos. I got stuck on a problem with some hinges that I designed. I am building a glass case and designed some hinges to connect the door with. I am able to join them and get them to move as they should. Then I use a rigid joint to assemble them on the one glass panel. I then attach the other side to the door. This works fine. Then the second hinge becomes a problem. I can not attach it to the door without breaking the first join on the first hinge. Secondly. If I add other components the movement on the hinge stops and i can not move it again. I hope this makes sense.

[@cadcamstuff]

I might need more coffee or maybe a beer. If the hinges works individually, they should work as a set. Maybe try and post on the forum or in the Fusion Facebook group. Someone there are smarter than me.

[@mnrobards]

So simple and never tried it. Thanks

[@cadcamstuff]

You are so very welcome 👍😊

[@mohddanish3216]

Please make a video on propeller mold

[@manojj5039]

WOW, I didn't know this, thanks

[@avejst]

Nice trick Thanks for sharing this👍😀

[@cadcamstuff]

You are so very welcome 👍😊

[@droneforfun5384]

Thank you Lars!

[@cadcamstuff]

You are so very welcome!! Thank you for watching

[@davidbunch7431]

I noticed your copy/paste does the same odd behavior as it does for me in not keeping the copy oriented the same way when pasting it even though your x/y/z orientations seem to be the same in both sketches. Is there a way to paste a sketch using the same orientation & location so it would not be necessary to move or rotate it when pasting into a different sketch?

[@cadcamstuff]

Not that I’m aware, sorry

[@davidbunch7431]

@@cadcamstuff Looks like the latest version they rolled out fixed that problem as I have used the copy/paste a dozen times today without any problems.

[@johnlytle6633]

I tried to copy a sketch from another design and that did not work. It has to be a sketch ONLY to work.

[@marcellemay7721]

Ahh, but wait. What if you want to resize that sketch? Let's say that logo might be 50mm across for one design, but the next time you only have room for a logo that's 20mm across...how would you import it and resize it before extruding it?

[@cadcamstuff]

There are a sketch scale function. So you could paste it in and then scale it down.

[@mohddanish3216]

Hi lars

[@johnlytle6633]

I tried this. It did not work. Did this feature get removed?

[@rudyduponcheel]

I'm no new designing, and any method I try it just puts my logo on the bottom, so under my part in stead of on the top surface...I know its something stupid I'm doing wrong but I can't figure out what lol

[@rudyduponcheel]

found it...was working on a badly converted mesh......facepalm....

[@supergonzo4]

Is it possible to create 3D logo from flat .jpg file ?

[@PterPmntaM]

Hi, you need to use SVG file

[@joaocunha2540]

Just use a online image converter to go from .jpg to .svg and you are ready to go.

[@Brownstone31]

I would have done that in some other overly complicate way.

[@cadcamstuff]

👍😊Thank you for watching

[@willierants5880]

I wished the text tools in Fusion were better implemented. Left, Center, Right justify. Better alignment. Better resize and flip. Some of these capabilities exist, but they are buggy and not well implemented.

[@cadcamstuff]

I think generally text has always gotten low attention in mechanical CAD programs.

[@BrianLeeWho]

@@cadcamstuff Personally, I prefer using an illustrator program (Inkscape or Adobe) to create logos. It would be nice if Fusion had the ability to link external SVG files.

[@dmbworks8094]

​@@BrianLeeWho ive saved illustrator files as dxf and imported them for sketch geometry

[@HosonZes]

Lars, are you still using the 3D Mouse?

[@cadcamstuff]

Yes. 3DConnexion

[@danl.4743]

OK. Now CAM it. We learned a lot about sketching, but not enough about Manufacturing.

[@cadcamstuff]

😁👍 Two videos are waiting for CAM Friday

[@danl.4743]

@@cadcamstuff Thanks Lars! 👍🙄

[@danl.4743]

Sorry about that smiley face I posted from my cell phone. It is a blissfully looking smile on my cell phone, but it looks like I am rolling my eyes on my laptop. I am not! OMG.

[@charliedidio7421]

Thanks again Lars

[@cadcamstuff]

You are so very welcome 👍