Modeling a Table and Generating PLANS AND A CUTLIST! Autodesk Fusion 360 for Woodworkers 3

[@TheFusionEssentials]

Hi everyone! Let me know if you have any questions about creating cutlists or plans from Fusion 360 in the comments below!

[@jasonventura2053]

I am creating a curved storage bench with a multi-hinged seat, for an alcove. Do you know how to draw that out creating a curve based on the foreward most plane, essentially a flat line at the front of the piece of furniture. I have the distance from that plane at 1 ft increments along the width to create the curve of the seat but am not sure if there's a way to have the actual curve created based on the points. The piece I'm creating is something like this only boxed in and with a hinged seat. www.goldenteak.com/westminster-teak-circular-curved-backless-bench-83-in-w.html

[@ukaszkoc6530]

Hey. Could you please make video with similar example but made from metal tube squares?

[@matthewdoering3493]

Great stuff. Might be a topic for a different video but I would have loved to have you made the legs tapered. Seeing how to do that would have been really helpful.

[@Tatechow]

Is there a way to calculate board feet from fusion so that I roughly know how much wood I’ll need to go purchase? There is a sketch plugin that can do this

[@hadjimagic]

@@Tatechow I second this question. That would be really useful.

[@HopWorksET]

I realize this is an old video, but I wanted to say that your videos have been a REAL BIG help for me, and today I just discovered that you covered this subject (woodworking, parts and cuts list) with Fusion 360 and it is one of the main reasons I wanted to use this software. This, and creating models for 3d printing. Your videos are absolutely AWESOME, covering shortcut keys, the basics just briefly, and there is so much anyone can learn from a single video. Regardless of the reason for the episode. Nicely done! Great pace, audio, laid out nicely. I cannot thank you enough! WELL DONE! {thumbs-upped;saved;subscribed}

[@jimlang5864]

Really clever use of the pattern command (around a central axis). Everything is square and perpendicular in the table design and so I would have never thought of using a circular pattern. Thanks for the cool technique!

[@grumpywiseguy5992]

This is great because as a new modeler, this feature really sets Fusion 360 apart. Making a parts list is built in and very easy to set up. Thanks.

[@koputai]

Thanks for doing these videos Justin, you explain and demonstrate Fusion 360 in a way that makes it much less intimidating.

[@orange9807]

Wow as a student learning fusion for the first time you really have brought me up to speed to the basics. This should really be a paid tutorial!

[@jdyzy]

been watching tutorials for days trying to figure out how to make a cut list. All the tutorials I watched only addressed the views and dimensioning. Thanks for showing the table option. That is exactly what I was looking for. Nice job on the tutorials.

[@TheFusionEssentials]

Great to hear! Thanks!

[@DSegal1122]

Dude, I can't believe I watched you do that so easily! I've been hacking my way with Fusion, but this simple video taught me a bunch. You're an awesome instructor!!! Thank you!

[@kurtswearingen497]

Great videos and thanks for not including any antics or fluff - it shows a rather considerate level of professionalism. I've learned alot from your videos and have already made a toolbox and set of drawers, though I am struggling to make a workshop table cleanly. I keep having to start new sketches to add extra elements I did not think of (i.e. extra joists, extra legs, segmenting apron into components, etc.) and now want to mirror one side to the other, but "it" won't let me in Sketch mode, which points to the need for some Fusion 360 Troubleshooting videos; you'd be the first to do that as nobody else has done this. Sure, everyone presents the videos as if all is smooth sailing, but there maybe rougher waters you could help us overcome? Keep up the great work! Thanks, Kurt

[@diversify210]

Dude thank you so much. I build custom cabinetry and fine furniture pieces for a living. I have been using sketchup to design all of my work for years now, but sketchup is just so limited. As I get into designing more intricate furniture. The limitations of sketchup become so clear. So I have been taking some time every day to learn Fusion 360 which is much more involved, but watching your videos along with others have helped me take giant leaps over the past week learning this software and how to use it, so I really appreciate it.

[@johnagorman]

great stuff! you covered so much. Really pulled together some topics i knew a little bit about, like patterns are instances. You simplified Drawings a lot as well. thanks!

[@ben_3256]

You can start a million dollar business just from this channel.

[@creditkevin]

Another great video and I feel like I have no place giving criticism because I'm so new, but I think its good practice to define the line you used for the circle pattern as a "construction line" in the sketch palette or hitting the "x" key. It has saved me some confusion on a couple projects. Thanks for the cut list video it'll surely save me some money on my next project!

[@livingleffertinthepnw7135]

Excellent tutorial. This series has really helped learn Fusion. Thank you.

[@PhilPKay]

Just started using Fusion 360 and these videos are a great help. Many thanks.

[@chefmadewoodwork]

Wow, what an incredible helpful videos. Clear, concise, and easy to digest. I’m almost a complete noob with CAD (completely new to Fusion360) and I’m hoping to use it for the specific purpose of laying out plans to use for projects and to present to customers. I had no idea how simple it was to translate your design directly into printable plans. Thank you for sharing this!

[@PeterKrantz]

Thank you for this video! It was one of the fastest to the point videos I have found and managed to get me starting a project. Keep it up!

[@TheFusionEssentials]

Glad it helped!

[@moderntouchfurniture]

Excellent video, easy to follow along, thanks again Justin.

[@pheroztengra2821]

From the beginning, as a woodworker, I want to know how to print my drawing plans. This video was wonderful in describing how to do it - thanks.

[@InDoe420]

thanks for this video, i was afraid of making a simple table for my 3D printing set up, i guess i will give it a try!

[@Ronnysunshine]

Just wanted to echo what most other people are saying- many thanks! I’ve struggled for years with sketchup but I can see F360 as a viable option for the future, with a good deal of practice and more great tutorials like this. Cheers.

[@TheFusionEssentials]

Glad it helped!

[@a.k.5423]

Great video and straight to the point! Thanks a lot!

[@ComandanteJ]

Picked more than one tip from this vid! Great video.

[@gsaarchitecturalmechanical5872]

Good afternoon I just subscribed to your channel, your video is so easy to follow. I did not know that Fusion 360 had so many functions. God bless, keep up the good work

[@jasoncook4375]

Great Video. Very informative and made learning fusion a little bit easier!

[@ChuckBe]

This was very useful; I learned and practiced a lot! This is an older video...some of the interface dialogs are slightly different. In particular, I couldn't get your "midplane" technique to work (long description omitted). Further research indicated that I should create the table top as a Centered Rectangle, centered on the origin. I was then able to create the patterns as taught. That said, I could see needing to find a center point of an object that ISN'T centered on the origin...future skill learning. I also named the components for what they are, e.g. "Leg," and used the component's Description Property for the dimensions, which gave me a more understandable Parts List (wish I could attach a screen snip...).

[@petermartucci6534]

Very helpful and you do a great job explaining. Thanks

[@frankrowland63]

This was very helpful getting to the cut list thanks

[@alessandrozoppi8597]

Very veeeery good lessons! Thank You Justin!

[@kovacsjanos2653]

i've been looking for a video on how to extract out the plans. Very helpful

[@gsaarchitecturalmechanical5872]

My friend. Thank you very much for sharing this information. I am familiar with Invento from Autodesk but it’s too expensive, I want to try out Fusion

[@Tatechow]

This was great and easy to follow!

[@robingrant8082]

Excellent teaching and very useful content, thank you.

[@MuthuKumar-qi2um]

Awesome videos Justin your content is very unique and easy to digest at the same time.

[@martinserre2280]

Great! This has helped me quite a bit ... some things I haven't quite understood why (like the midplane), but the majority was enlightening. Naming the components is good practice and helps with the parts list at the end. I'm also using Mapboard Pro. Another angle of learning and a more rounded understanding of component design. I'm now a newbie minus 1 day :)

[@GeorgiosPolydorou-yo3gl]

Im just starting out with f360 and have been using sketchup for modeling and cutlists do you recommend 360 over sketchup for woodworking projects

[@gadgetnate]

Awesome! Just what I was looking for.

[@ΔημήτριοςΜάστορης]

Very helpful video. Thank you!!!

[@mannyfilmsinc]

awesome video! very concise and right into business! thank you so much

[@j2mccoy]

Thanks again Justin. You have just convinced me that Fusion 360 is the direction I'm going...keep them coming!. Liked and Subscibed

[@TheFusionEssentials]

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[@geronimoreyes1836]

This video was awesome learning so much. Thank you.

[@TheFusionEssentials]

You're very welcome!

[@sunandprabhakaran2875]

Thank you so much for the tutorials sir. I have been practising a lot by looking at your work. Just one doubt though, why do you keep reducing the measurements by .5 of an inch...!?

[@mat431]

2x4s and 4x4s aren't 2"x4" and 4"x4". They're actually 1.5"x3.5" and 3.5"x3.5".

[@josiahpitman]

Thank you for this! Great video, short and informative.

[@christopherrucker3559]

Thank you for this video! It was very helpful!

[@waderahtz6928]

I have been watching your tutorials and they are very helpful for the process. Thank you for posting. Will you be creating joinery in any upcoming videos?

[@TheFusionEssentials]

Thanks very much! I can definitely do that - any joints in particular you want me to focus on, or more of a general overview?

[@waderahtz6928]

@@TheFusionEssentials Dados , mortise and tenon type of stuff would be great, I think that the concepts could be applied to others such as rabbets and the like. Another thing that would be helpful if it is possible would be to be able to layout the components of a project onto a sketch of a plywood sheet to be able to get the least waste. Thanks for responding. Most of the other video on this sw is either very basic, or way too advanced and assume a background in cad cam sw. So this is great.

[@ingGS]

Another great video. Thank you!

[@jasonburt5047]

Very cool! Thanks a lot. I found this very informative!

[@photonmoon]

These are extremely helpful, good job!

[@dariobeggiao1033]

Great video, thanks! I've just start use Fusion but your video is very good! 🇮🇹

[@road2raceway356]

Thanks for the video. This really helps

[@rodophotos]

Great video, thanks for sharing

[@xrv750rd04]

Fantastic... excelente step by step...!! Thanks!!

[@adamcope6890]

Awesome video. I learned a lot.

[@IkeMann100]

Many thanks! Excellent!

[@dustinwiget8088]

Awesome video brother. Thank you!

[@AndrewARitz]

Great content, thanks for making these videos!

[@simonparatte-guy96]

Thank you so much, this video was super helpful!

[@danburrell8473]

Love the videos. Very much appreciated! Question: can you create a Cut Sheet using Fusion automagically or do you have to figure it out yourself? Thank you in advance.

[@Acidrain77]

Nice Video! Thanks for this

[@noahnipperus7320]

I watched this wondering how to make an all steel welding table (please tell me if I'm wrong or please make this exact video but for all steel plate and tubing) What I think I'm realizing, is that; it doesn't matter what the material is because: if I know the finished dimensions of my stock the "sketching" process would be exactly the same? Another awesome video either way, Thank you!

[@adrianmeyer2157]

I learned a hell of a lot then, nice one.

[@MichaelMunyaka]

Great stuff! Much appreciated.

[@kevinleemedlin385]

Helpful! Thanks!

[@terryk3118]

Very helpful video, thanks for your effort in producing it. I notice the Description column in your table is blank. Curious whether you can add something in there manually - or does Fusion populate that column from somewhere else in the design? What if you control the leg length with a parameter so you can't put in the length of the part in the component description? Have you already covered that in another video?

[@SuperBulegila]

Thank you that was informative

[@CharlesBreaud]

This is great, the cut list will help me a lot.

[@TheFusionEssentials]

Awesome - glad you liked it!

[@tagrove]

I'm watching this, and have a question on basic F360 setup. When you draw your rectangle for the top, you type in the dimensions, and after hitting enter on the second one, your drawing still shows the dimensions. Mine does not, and I would like to turn that on! I do see that they go away when you click finish sketch, which is fine. I may have other questions as I watch the rest of the video, but wanted to ask this before I forgot.

[@leighgray8537]

Why is there an inch gap between the mitered corners after using the circle pattern tool to create 3 more components ? Did I miss something?

[@venturinaround]

Man you have helped me so much with just this video. Definitely subed and am going to watch more vids.

[@jhirn2957]

Hi Justin. is there a way to automatically label/name a component based on the size so they are easier to manage, especially for resizing. i realize curves or anything with more than 4 sides/6b faces would be tough but doing this manually is a pain and error prone

[@Purgetheworld]

So I used this video to learn and am designing a small tool stand, when I use the circular pattern tool to duplicate the four legs they aren’t aligning how I need them, how do I change their orientation? Thanks, amazing video!!

[@eulogiogarcia8689]

Awesomeness dude!

[@Fancyrat1013]

I was wondering, is there a way to update the component name for the cut list based on actual dimensions so if you edit the size of the table, cutlass could update as well.

[@georgelza]

Maybe Advance version introducing Dado's ? Making it look very easy, thanks.

[@pavolholes]

Hi Justin, thanks a lot for all woodworking videos, you helped me a lot. How can I add dimensions of the components to the parts list? Thanks!

[@lespaul8787]

I'm missing how there was a cutlist in this? I definitely appreciate the parts list but I expected a cutlist diagram.

[@cherylchristensen3515]

Great job!

[@georgelza]

any chance you can do video of a 2x4 based couch.

[@skazariants]

For some reason my table isn't updating itself, after I apply a material and click "update" icon in the drawing window. Any thoughts?

[@MrBrewzr]

You’re awesome, great teacher

[@TheFusionEssentials]

I appreciate that!

[@syntaxmaciah4585]

i know this is an old video but this is where I'm at in the design stage. This table works only because the table is simple and symmetrical. if you are making something irregular the cut list is useless. say you need 5 legs 1 in each corner and 1 in the middle that 1 in the middle cant be a copy so your cut list will show 4"x4"38" quantity 4 and 4"x4"38" quantity 1. The only way i found to get around it is if i generate a custom table and add all the information manually. I genuinely don't know if I'm missing something or dose anyone have any suggestions? Also want to say your videos are well done and easy to fallow.

[@poultonprojects]

Thanks !!!!!!!!!!!!! This is so coool

[@zw1264]

Fantastic. Is this software free to download for learning purposes ?

[@CustomGraphixWoodworx]

Great content

[@lutzpetru8985]

Awsome videos! Thank you for all the stuff we are learning from you. I'm trying to make a coffee table with X legs and i'm having trouble with the X design, specifically with how to join the 2 parts of the X. Can you make a video about how to draw something like this? Thank you!

[@robertpfohler363]

Great video,

[@erikcramer]

Aren't there any variable you could use in the description for the dimentions ?

[@diversify210]

I like to keep all of my plans for the times when someone sees what I have built for myself or someone else and decide they want one too and are willing to pay for it. Though I am still new at Fusion 360. I like to edit the properties of each component with a name and in the description I put the measurement of that component. Takes a little more time and for large builds it can be a bit tedious, but you thank yourself later.

[@salmanyounis]

is there any way to scale the table (plywoods) without changing the thickness of plywood?

[@JeffKreska]

Nice tips on creating the parts list. Fusion 360 sure does seem primitive when it comes to parts list. IDK why it can't figure out which pieces have identical sizes regardless of the component name. I would have thought someone created a plugin to turn a design into a parts list if the tool really doesn't support it.

[@SymbiosisDenizen]

Great channel

[@zeal514]

1 Thing I love about sketchup, is that I get a picture of my plywood. So if I were to build something out of plywood, I could simply say my sheet is 4x8, and then it automatically places the pieces on the 4x8 sheet, making it a lot easier to see the best way to cut the full sheet for the most material. Is that doable in fusion?

[@dachluhr]

Really useful

[@mikethered14]

Ok how do you get the description to show the dimensions of the object? I don't want to go back in there and inspect every part again lol

[@shaheerqureshi5729]

So I'm doing this project where you have to make your own room and even if your tutorial is amazing and easy to understand i can't figure out how to lift the table from under the plan to the floor

[@erics7801]

Thank You!

[@martingard494]

Hi Justin. Brilliant video, I based a table I was drawing on your video, (I'm new to any drawing package) and is it possible with the free version to have more than one drawing output as there wasn't enough room for my cutting list and I would like to produce a separate sheet?

[@mohammedalsamin2299]

Thank you 👏

[@Sean-qk5mv]

Great video Justin... Really enjoy your style. Have recently switched to Fusion, so looking forward to more tutorials, with greater in-depth techniques aimed at woodworking.

[@TheFusionEssentials]

Thanks very much Sean - more videos to come! :)

[@BP2UTV]

There are no measurements in the table I generate in drawing view. Any tips?