Designing Furniture with Fusion 360 for Absolute Beginners!

One of the most important tools in my shop...isn't in my shop. Fusion360 has become my go-to 3D modeling software anytime I'm starting a new project and want to nail down how it is going to look and go together before I make my first cut. In this tutorial, we build a coffee table from start to finish!
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[@makeorbreakshop]

What should I make for the next tutorial?

[@TheSwedishMaker]

I would love to learn more about Fusion. What about getting a cut list from what you just drew?

[@julianmuller9567]

Thanks for the help already, just got into woodworking as a hobby and as a software guy this is great. Would love some content on how your workflow from model to finished project looks like!

[@thiagotiberio838]

On top of other project designs, would love to see a whole workflow including cut list, sourcing wood, making the cuts, etc. all the way to finish!

[@BreakRebuildRepeat]

I would love to see if there is a way to easily make a cut list, or plans with measurements on them from this point.

[@moderntouchfurniture]

Would be great to see you create some closet shelves in Fusion, starting with drawing the walls, then the shelves. Or maybe some simple french cleat tool holders using Fusion.

[@TheRockabillyArts]

This was one of the best tutorials I've seen on Fusion! It was some wonderful combination of 'if you're here you're probably not an idiot' and 'this is complicated, let me explain'. I wouldn't change a thing about the pace at which you do these. This isn't a live course and you do have the option of rewinding and watching a part you're stuck at repeatedly to get it just right.

[@arianewell6252]

Absolutely stellar. You moved fast for an absolute beginning. I am some what familiar with sketchup. I see the value in switching over to fusion, and that is why I’m here. Cheers.

[@fabio.s.barbosa]

Amazing tutorial! Using parameters make the proccess much better and easier. Thanks a lot!

[@jdyzy]

That was a great tutorial man. Good job.

[@ibealion1]

As others have said, there were a lot of skipped details for true beginners. Not necessarily a bad thing, but it was a little frustrating. I still watched it and appreciated it. Thanks!

[@makeorbreakshop]

Noted! I'm planning on putting out more step by step versions in the future.

[@rocknthehawk]

I found this video when looking at how to model furniture specifically- I loved the pace and glossing over some of the basics; the Lars Christensen videos were excellent to find my feet with using Fusion 360. I think this was a great next step. I've found too many tutorials that are more about making a very specific part, this video sets an excellent groundwork/skillset for modelling any type of furniture. Thanks so much!

[@makeorbreakshop]

Glad it was helpful!

[@osgeld]

been using 360 for a couple years and still learned a trick or two, thank you!

[@makeorbreakshop]

Good to know! What was new for you?

[@MrJimbul]

It is not for absolute beginners - but it is EXCELLENT, well done - exactly what I needed, bridged a stack of stuff i learned years ago and had forgotten - the parallel/coincident thing foxed me for half an hour with a constraints error but once i read the comments here no issues.

[@Queesinbean]

I'm typically not one to comment on KZbin, but thought I might add here - I watched this because I like your videos and you tend to recommend Fusion 360 (and I've seen others do it too!) but I wanted to add - I'm pretty sharp and used to CAD programs, but I feel like you zipped through some things so fast I had to go look them up outside of your video to figure out how you did what you showed. For example, your bit on mirroring the table legs, I was following along and found mine wouldn't work - I got "Compute failed" and "One or more patterns could not be intersected..." etc. I googled it and found it's because you've got to change Pattern Type from "Faces" to "Components" in the mirror window. You have it selected (likely by default) but didn't mention it to us absolute beginners :P.

[@nvgvup84]

I was hoping I'd find the answer in the comments, this drove me nuts, thank you so much! I will agree that some things are entirely glossed over, there's a lot of "click this here" I was trying to follow along exactly and just ended up removing the hole from the bottom plane of the table in my own way. the thing is the video is 40 minutes long even at the fast pace so I think this is probably the best way it can be done.

[@bradyryan1797]

Ahhh thank you!

[@CraigLafferty]

This is for Intermediates; not for Absolute Beginners. Saying "you could create it this way (and then draw it), but I'm going to show you another way", tells us that Fusion is very flexible. But it confuses many people. Just show one way and stay committed to that way; don't change in the middle and say "or we can do it this way". This is a very helpful video, but it will be one I have to watch about 4-5 times in order to get certain points down.

[@cendraboska1454]

thankyou for the great tutorial for beginner!

[@courtneyfaas1266]

Thank you so much for this!!!! I’ve used sketchup for years for all my projects but I wanted to learn fusion to take my projects to another level!!

[@makeorbreakshop]

You got it!

[@IanJackes]

Seriously great tutorial. The way you explained everything had me anticipating how you were going to do things as the tutorial progressed. Thanks so much for this.

[@makeorbreakshop]

Glad it was helpful!

[@jameshui7817]

Thanks so much. it was a very good video and I learnt a lots.

[@AmandaBourbois]

You do go quite fast for beginners - I had to pause and rewind several times - BUT the information is very good, I was able to follow along (with a little extra effort), and I appreciate you putting this together :-) I especially appreciate you including parameters from the start; that's a very handy feature I'd not seen in other beginner tutorials, probably one I will use in every single project.

[@chadparker5614]

This is the best video I've seen so far trying to switch from SketchUp to Fusion. The only problem is it's really hard to follow because it goes so fast, but I found changing the playback speed to .75 solves that problem. This video has really helped me understand how the software works. Great job, and thanks for sharing your knowledge. Your videos on laser cutters are awesome too!

[@_dontlookup_4774]

This tutorial is amazing!

[@haroon3ddesigningacademy]

Great Working

[@elfincredible9002]

This is dope. Thanks.

[@I_Do_Not_Know_What_I_am_Doing]

Thank you! I was trying to remember how to get to Change Parameters and you reminded me at 3:07

[@friendlywoodworks441]

Thank you for the vids...I've been using AcadLT and V-carve Pro but I am in need of other aspects for design, like a new shop. I am going for Fusion 360.

[@wizzarin424]

WOW, Great video, Please make more Fusion 360 videos.

[@sintactic]

Wow this was legendary. I’ve watched a lot of Fusion 360 training material, and this clears up a ton of things that had been confusing before. Well done! This is going to make a huge difference in how productive I am with this tool. Thank you!

[@santiago1966]

Finally I watched the whole video. Great! Thanks for sharing. It would be great if you could keep on the side the menus or keys that you press a bit longer, so we have time to see what you pressed. Everything goes very fast ... Thank you! again

[@hectoraguilar141]

Hi great video!!! Can you go a little bit slowly in your next project. Thanks

[@MrBean12233]

This was my first attempt at fusion 360 Thank you soo much for making this tutorial Your skill level shows I probably rewatched parts of this video 100 times But after 2 days and 8 hours total time on the program it's rendering now as we speak I wish you had a video of making this table on a cnc for those of us who just got a cnc as well 😅

[@makeorbreakshop]

I’ve actually got a full course on the CNC side if your interested

[@rdholb]

Thank you for your amazing videos! If you could have only one 3d design software, what would it be?

[@robecarb1300]

Great built! If you could show rendering that would be great, thank you!

[@habah]

This is quite advanced stuff, and the pace is quick and a lot of the steps are simply skipped. Great stuff, but this is not for "absolute beginners", don't get frustrated if this is too hard to follow.

[@wetcheetofart]

21:08 is Collinear not Parallel. I just redid the tutorial 2x and setup a separate instance of 2 rectangles trying to figure out why I kept getting constraint errors! LMAO. It didn't occur to me to actually watch which option you clicked on. Thank you for the tutorial, I learned a lot.

[@julkios.5872]

Hi, nice tutorial, greetings from colombia...enjoying your videos (do you have a render tutorial video?)

[@brentnora8128]

I love this. One question though, how did you get your projects to be displayed on the side?

[@michaelhoffman7276]

Thank you so much for this, it's a great to see a project from start to finish. It might help to pre-plan these "tutorials", you jump around so much, it's difficult to follow along. This would be for someone that has some experience with Fusion 360. Constraints are great, but not really beginner friendly, it would be useful to set dimensions at design time.

[@brendanclark2223]

Table looks cool. Gave up repeatedly trying to see what you did that I missed . Moving way to quick and clicking on stuff without saying you are. Still as I’m brand new I still learnt some things. Any lesson is still a good lesson I guess

[@codebrker24]

So are you working on a quick stretch and working off that to create on Fusion 360 to check correct measurements?

[@micahokeiley]

Been using Fusion for a while, and still learned some things! Thank you! Question: Why not use 0,0,0 as your center and mirror off that instead of making construction planes? I feel like you can skip a bunch of a extra steps that way.

[@alcarp2896]

Good question, but in learning and teaching fusion, one finds that there are at least 5 different ways to do anything in fusion. One would still have to choose a plane to mirror over, but instead of a midplane, your midplane would be the original vertical plane. 6 of one, half dozen of the other. He chose to do a one way extrude--could have constructed on origin and done a two-way.

[@lucieciepka1031]

Nom: LegHight Unité : mm Expression : OverAllHight/2 Valeur : 203.20 Me : 😍🥰😍 Thank you so much I didn’t know this existed

[@lostwithdan4331]

Does anyone have any advice on how to judge what size specific to use for specific parts? When I try to design any woodworking projects I always get stuck on how big certain parts should be without looking weird in IRL.

[@romainlorek3293]

Hello! This video was very helpful to me. I've learned a lot of tips and tricks by being able to follow along. Thank you so much

[@makeorbreakshop]

You got it!

[@stevedefazio3140]

So you set the parameters in your base project, and then they were available in all the subcomponents? That's not the case for me - what did you do to make them inherit the params? Btw the other Beginners videos I watched didn't highlight parameters like your video does - seems like a major feature, so good job with that.

[@kingswag876]

Y'all off the goop fr

[@alcarp2896]

A suggestion--if I were to use this model for construction, I would want to see a set of views with dimensions. Perhaps include a quickie on how to get dimensioned 2D drawings along with the nice model? Its a pretty simple thing to do, and would be critical for anyone needing this to construct the table. For my class, I have every student submit a set of pdf's along with the f3d model that show top, front and side views with all important dimensions labeled, or I take points off their projects...this one should also include an exploded view of the joints you made. Good video though!

[@ggmoneylol]

More fusion videos!!!!

[@peterfreedom]

Can Fusion 360 creates drawings to cut the materials from that 3D drawings? I mean all the parts that I need to cut with skill saw, saw table etc.

[@santiago1966]

I have been using TurboCad Mac Pro for a long time and there are some things in Fusion a bit difficult to do understand. Question: every time you make models, the sketches should be with the components? Let's say you making a wardrobe. You need to have individual components for: Sides, Shelves, stretchers, doors, etc.? I do cabinets using a Festool domino. and every of those components have their own sketch? I got the sketch padlock many times ...

[@bonzaii1zal]

I am stuck at 25:08. I have mirrored the top from the bottom and now I am getting holes I just made for legs on top too! How did you overcome this? I thought you have mirrored that component too, but seems you actually haven't?

[@user-xs3db6ox3q]

Isn't that divider is the same dimensions as the side walls?

[@mmcl1312]

Excellent video! ...But I agree with the others that you move a little too fast for an absolute beginner, I'd recommend anyone getting started to check out DN Handcrafted Pencil Box series, BUT then come back and rewatch this video after because this video is packed with loads of great tips. Highly recommend.

[@gregbean8478]

I didn`t intend to use this woodworking book, t.co/z6o0f8z2H4 but instead curious about it. I had been truly amazed after trying it. It never dissatisfied me in my desire to have more information about the art of wood working. I discovered several topics such as wood types as well as designing your workshop..

[@m-a-d-mike]

What about the tilting of the legs? You didn’t do that, but how would you?

[@mysticvalleywoodworks2777]

where do you down load the appearance items?

[@avismith9386]

What if I want the legs Angled?

[@Mr0neShotAway]

More of these please

[@makeorbreakshop]

You got it!

[@Mr0neShotAway]

@@makeorbreakshop Oh, and teach us how to render in Fusion:)

[@DesAcetek]

I have a table leg with a square at one end and a circle on the other. I have tried extruding and tapering with a plane in the middle but it just extrude the square to the circle and doesn't morph the shapes.

[@makeorbreakshop]

Try using the Loft tool!

[@DesAcetek]

@@makeorbreakshop thank you for your help

[@DesAcetek]

I'm really sorry to bother you again but I have another quick question. Having drawn my component with the corner of the component exactly on the axis y0 x0 so I can set it up on my router at x0 y0 z0, why does fusion360 decide the tool needs to be position somewhere in the middle of the component. I have no idea where the router will place the component on a sheet of ABS that I am cutting. I must be missing something please help. Regards Des

[@SoakedPeanut]

rendering video would be good

[@mikeneron]

While I like the use of the mirror command, if you use a drawing to say produce a parts list you will have each component separate. So parts that are the same won't get combined in the parts list table. Because of this I am stuck with using the move command and making copies. Only problem with this is if I change parameters for sizing, the parts don't get moved to the correct location. Is there a way around this?

[@ProductDesignOnline]

In many cases, you can use the Mirror command followed by the Combine command to join the two bodies (original and mirrored). That makes it work with your parameters and parts list.

[@russellcarter6451]

I was going to buy your fusion 360 course, but after watching this I don’t know...you were kind of all over the place and really fast.

[@aglamon]

Hard to follow with the changes to Fusion 360. Got lost at 12:40

[@eekboom]

One specific suggestion: Stop saying "here" and shortly wiggle the mouse cursor somewhere. That's very hard to follow because the mouse cursor is small and while you move over other stuff, Fusion highlights irrelevant things. There are a couple of occassions where you say "click here and here" within maybe half a ssecond and I am left wondering what just happened. How about "click here *on the front pane of the bottom component* [stop for half a second and only move the mouse very slightly] and then click here *on the back pane of the bottom component [stop again for a short while]" Thanks a lot!

[@brianjohnson3581]

You overshot "Absolute Beginners". I'm looking to make the move from Sketchup to Fusion and learned Sketchup watching videos like Jay Bates, etc. I was trying to watch your video and work along but you move too quick through the small things. How do I get to the parameters window? I had to rewind and go through, watch again, and then do it. If you're going to focus on beginners, slow down and explain the small stuff. Your default units were inches, mine were mm. How do I change that? Point being, this isn't a video being for "absolute" beginners.

[@naughtypine]

I'ma sketchup user wanting to switch to fusion. You move way too fast for beginners.

[@eekboom]

Yes, please make a version with more details and step descriptions! I really am an "Absolute Beginner" and I got to about 15 minutes with setting the speed in KZbin to 0.75 plus a lot of pausing and rewinding. Then I did something wrong and by trying to fix it I botched the whole design :-( And then there is stuff like this: Now and then the "Sketch" ribbon goes AWOL and I fiddle a bit and then it somehow appears again. What even are the differences between component/drawing/sketch/body? Some explaining of concepts before you dive in would be great!

[@ChickenDinnerz]

21.18 - he says he presses parallel but he actually clicks colinear

[@makeorbreakshop]

Busted 😉. Thanks for pointing it out though, my brain and my mouse sometimes do different things...

[@ChickenDinnerz]

@@makeorbreakshop thanks for the v useful vid. Just pointing it out to save others some frustration. You are very fast on your computer!

[@davidmosna4022]

This video is not for beginners at all. If I haven't worked with similar tools, I wouldn't have solved a lot issues with the model. For instance, when mirroring, you have to explicitly click to mirror bodies, not faces. Not mentioned anywhere during the video etc... otherwise, thumbs up for the parameters section, makes whole model a lot more flexible.

[@santiago1966]

I find your video a bit difficult to follow, specially with the pointer moving so fast on the screen.

[@tiptoad46]

This isn't a tutorial, it's a demonstration that you can do things on your computer too fast to actually see.

[@ZachParr]

Way too fast for beginners.

[@jfjf-yn6wj]

slow it down buddy. we are absolute beginners right

[@sunny753]

This is super confusing and I'm 100% lost..

[@rolandtanguylannuzel5160]

Content is great but really hard to follow because too many zooms in and out and mouse mouvements. Then you talk really fast. Just remind youtube can be watched all over the world… I don't speak english but french, so please try to be a bit more calm, this would make things way more easier to understand for everyone. Thanks anyway.

[@zyxstix3057]

moving way too fast not explaining clearly all over the place sorry.

[@tedfriesen9466]

You are moving around the drawing way too much with your mouse and NOT explaining how you do all of the things you do.

[@robmali6972]

Ended this video cuz of INCHES

[@makeorbreakshop]

It’s pretty easy to switch to metric

[@Lincos321]

Please, never use inches in design.