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We understand it’s not always easy to make time in your busy schedule to travel to Saunders Machine Works and take classes. No worries! With our online Fusion 360 course you can take our classes on your own schedule, at home, at your own rate! See below for our Fusion 360 CAD Course outline.

This course is designed to get you started with Fusion 360, and by the end of the course become comfortable and proficient with CAD modeling techniques in Fusion 360!

Coursework includes:

Section 1 – Introduction to Fusion 360

• Fusion 360 User Interface tour
• Data Panel walkthrough
  • Projects & importing files

Section 2 – Getting Started with Sketches

• Sketching
  • Differences between parametric & traditional CAD
  • Sketch constraints & dimensioning
  • Duplicating and creating patterns in sketches
  • Good sketching practices

Section 3 – Core Modeling Tools

• Part Views
• Core Modeling Tools
  • Extrude Command
  • Press Pull command
  • Sweep Command
  • Revolve Command
  • Hole Command
  • Thread Command
  • Loft Command

Section 4 – Placed Features

• Placed Features
  • Fillets
  • Chamfers

Section 5 – Joints & Assemblies

• Bodies and Components
  • Grounding a component
• Joints
  • Understanding the joint origin symbol
  • Assemble designs using joints
  • As-built joints
  • Creating custom joint origins

Section 6 – Getting Started with Drawings

• Drawings
  • Create a parent view
  • Adding dimensions
  • Create a projected view
  • Create a section view
  • Create a detail view
  • Adding text and leaders