
Fusion 360 vs sketchup 3d printing. I was going to try using itbut think it may be way too over the top for what i need. 5 tips for getting started in fusion 360 duration. Hell i tried it last weekcould not even figure out how to draw a solid cube. 3d printing nerd 58964.
3dconnexion it makes the design process a joy. Learn how i model in fusion 360 with my free course. Connect your entire product development process in a single cloud based platform with tools for 3d cad cam and cae. Discussion in design and modeling started by rayzhou may 3 2016.
Once you learn how to use fusion 360 you can do so much more with fusion 360 taking results all the way to a cnc 3d printer or a simple paper printer as well as being able to easily change dimensions via parameters making tweaking final results much easier. Have had a 3d printer for a week and used tinkercad for a few thingsthen moved on to su. I uses sketchup for all my design work. Fusion 360 is a very simple program so once you begin to draw more complex 3d models the software gets sluggish and loses its fluidity.
When mated with a 3d mouse eg. So far ive been using sketchup for small easy designs. And that was a heel of a jump. I use to use sketchup to model all of my furniture.
Fusion 360 to me is very hard to learn very unfriendly. Check out my other fusion 360. Has anyone tried fusion 360 instead. Did only try for 2 3 minutes though.
Getting started with fusion 360 for 3d printing 1. Get an education license for fusion 360. It would be really nice if fusion 360 could output a model as a solidworks file so i can begin to draw something out in fusion 360 and then pick it up in solidworks when i need to do some more advanced functions. It looks like it might not have some of the idiosyncrasies of sketchup but it really is a cad tool not a design tool.
I suspect id get bogged down in the cad requirements that sketchup ignores. For those who find sketchup lacking i highly recommend giving fusion 360 a try. Home forums design 3d printing design and modeling search forums. Im far from an expert but i can build a reasonable model.