Reverse Engineer a part with Fusion 360 and Playdoh

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Using Fusion 360, play-doh, and 3D printing to recreate a part.
Link to picture if anyone wants to follow along:
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My approach on reverse engineering a part using playdoh. I recreate the part by rolling it on playdoh to get an impression that I then bring into Fusion 360 and trace over. The process involves using the sheet metal environment to create a cylinder and unfold it to sketch my features, extrude them, and then refold my cylinder.
Enjoy!

[@agent007421]

I'm new to fusion 360 and your break-down was easy to understand and extremely helpful. Thanks!

[@darranedmundson1505]

Excellent video Vladimir. I learned a handful of new things about Fusion.

[@geoper2]

Very interesting technique

[@DesktopMakes]

Thanks. I'm actually very proud of this one! An oldie but goodie.

[@HariWiguna]

Vladimir.... WOW! Ingenious! Love it!

[@DesktopMakes]

Thanks Hari! I like that word "ingenious" :)

[@MrJefferson105]

Very useful

[@foxpup]

very resourceful - bravo!!

[@ashwin6970]

hello bro how are you . loved the video ...

[@markustube]

Wow...what a clever solution to a challenging little problem! Thanks as always for sharing your techniques with us. Play-Doh + Fusion 360... who knew?! :)

[@alexbezdicek]

Man, you´re great. Thanks for sharing

[@CarlosDelcristo]

Great video Sr.

[@nosmokingnl]

Good idea. I did a few of your courses on udemy. I always like your way of explaining your steps. Just discovered you also have a KZbin channel and this video is no different. Good tutorial. Glad I found you on here as well.

[@DesktopMakes]

Thanks Ido. Happy to hear you are enjoying the videos as well as my courses. Plenty more on the way!

[@trialnterror]

Your amazing

[@spikekent]

Genius solution Vlad. Who'd have thought there might be a use for Playdoh at my age lol

[@DesktopMakes]

Haha! Thanks spike. Better load up on the playdoh.

[@neilgower2558]

Nice tip Cheers

[@ProfessorM]

yea i use blutack for this. not sure if you guys have that in the states.

[@19rocket64]

very creative way to avoid a whole lot of math/measuring!

[@DesktopMakes]

Thanks Rocket

[@ant1DP]

Any advice you can give me to find more tutorials like yours? I need to learn how to measure real parts to build models in Fusion 360. Thanks

[@ajithlal5737]

Please give some idea about to measure, if the length and diameter is very high, how can measure?

[@hacklabdesign]

Nice , I bought your course on udemy,

[@ashwin6970]

can u help me out with a stl file in fusion . wanted to edit in some ways but dont know how to do it

[@assandas9998]

Please attached link of picture you use in canvas so its easy for us to use

[@DesktopMakes]

Good idea. I just added the link to the video description.

[@aDarkSeoul]

In Steel Metal Rules - what is the K factor?

[@spikekent]

@crazyquark Here's a video by Lars Christensen that explains it kzbin.info/www/bejne/nGSndGOtrrF5rJI

k factor refers distance of neutral axis for bending from inside to outside as percent fraction..

[@kumada84]

1:59 c = pi • d 🤩 (not "2πr")

Have you ever heard of the masking tape? It has been used for decades for reverse engineering.

[@DesktopMakes]

Never heard of the stuff.