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Prompted by Diddums post earlier I thought it might be beneficial if we could get a thread of 3d modelling resources running.

It's been many many years since I did much of it, last computer I used for 3d modelling was my Amiga and Cinema 4D so I am very out of touch and with me having added a 3d printer at home I really would like to spend some effort in updating my skills.

Currently I've just been messing around in Fusion 360 and attempting to work out the functionality I know should exist and have done a reasonable job, but this evening I had a quick look on youtube and found the following set of tutorials, have done the first two successfully without too much issue though there are a few minor differences to what is shown in the video they seem pretty good to me and have already improved my understanding of the program a fair bit.

Fusion 360 for personal use: https://www.autodesk.com/products/fusion-360/personal

Learn Autodesk Fusion 360 in 30 days youtube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrZ2zKOtC_-C4rWfapgngoe9o2-ng8ZBr

If anybody has better suggestions or alternatives please leave them here for myself and others to find, hopefully this is a good plan? :)
 
I got an A1 mini last week and think it’s fantastic. Was planning on messing with Fusion so will check this out. Like the idea of the thread!

Tried Shapr3D on my iPad for about 15 mins and was enjoying the tutorial, but i see fusion recommend everywhere. Just like the idea of being able to sit on my ipad at night messing about with it, which i don't think I can do with Fusion
 
Up to day 8 on the tutorials, the doorstop which fails, there is an embossing step at the end that refuses to work, not overly impressed with the tutorials to be completely honest, he assumes far too much and skips over small but important steps that you will entirely miss if you do not watch the mouse cursor like a hawk, further aggravated by his insistence on using keyboard shortcuts which do not show on the video. There are also a fair few differences between the version of Fusion 360 I have and what he has which only adds to the issues. Up until this point I've managed to work around them but it is obvious that it is becoming a major problem in trying to follow the tutorials.
 
I was looking for Fusion tutorials and initially found the ones linked above. But you are right, he is not teaching the real basics and just goes way too fast.
Instead, I did found this guy and find him way better. He actually assumes you know nothing and takes it really slow. First 3 lessons are more about buying and setting up a printer, but are still quite interesting:


Link to the Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGs0VKk2DiYwxUjGRWEgotTY8ipVvFsIp
 
Sorry to hear anyoe is having issue with the tutorials suggested. It mayh ave helped that I was learning Fusion in 2020 so the videos I used were more recent, though I don't recall anything being overlooked to the degree mentioned here.
 
DBT85 said:
Sorry to hear anyoe is having issue with the tutorials suggested. It mayh ave helped that I was learning Fusion in 2020 so the videos I used were more recent, though I don't recall anything being overlooked to the degree mentioned here.
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Nothing wrong with the tutorials, just felt they were a little too advanced for my level (ie zero knowledge). I did enjoy making the Lego brick in lesson 1 and will return to the rest once I have learnt a bit more of the absolute basics of Fusion (and my printer arrives - got an A1 and AMS Lite arriving in a few days).
 
ThePainBarrier said:
Nothing wrong with the tutorials, just felt they were a little too advanced for my level (ie zero knowledge). I did enjoy making the Lego brick in lesson 1 and will return to the rest once I have learnt a bit more of the absolute basics of Fusion (and my printer arrives - got an A1 and AMS Lite arriving in a few days).
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Have you any 3D experience at all? Sketchup or anything like that?

I should also add that the r/fusion360 is a great place to see how others are solving problems.
 
DBT85 said:
Sorry to hear anyoe is having issue with the tutorials suggested. It mayh ave helped that I was learning Fusion in 2020 so the videos I used were more recent, though I don't recall anything being overlooked to the degree mentioned here.
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There's a few issues going on with the tutorial videos, first is that Fusion 360 is a live product that gets updated and even the updated videos for 2023 are now out of date for certain aspects, there are usually comments that point it out and how to solve it but when you're trying to follow a video it's not always the first thing you think of, secondly the guy making the videos has obviously condensed them down to be as short as possible and this results in him using shortcuts mentioned once maybe in a previous video, unless you have a brain that is able to retain that sort of information immediately it simply looks like the program has responded to his speech lol, it's not exactly a failing but considering who the tutorials are aimed at it would be far better in my opinion if he repeated the shortcut and added a small amount of time to the video instead of simply assuming people would remember it from a previous video that they completed an unspecified amount of time in the past.

Don't let me come across as having a go at him, they're free content and massively appreciated but my frustration is showing, that is my issue and certainly not his.
 
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