How to Make 3d models in fusion 360 free - the basics - 3d printer calibration cube

Welcome one and all I am Technivorous here to remind you make sure you reduce your Z offset on that subscribe button down there Give the notification bell a good first layer squish that way you can get notified every time we put up a new 3d printing and Tech video that being said today's video is brought to you by Webull check the description down below for a link that will help you get 12 free stocks when you sign up and fund your account with Webull today And without any further ado we are here in fusion 360 today We are gonna be showing you how to make your own 3d model that you can print now as we do with the blender series We're gonna be doing a whole series on these so make sure if you're interested in learning fusion 360 for making 3d models that you stick around This is my preferred program for making models because it's very accurate and easy to work with so We're gonna go ahead and jump right into this today's model is gonna be super simple I'm going to show you how to do a few things and give you a couple of recommendations And all you really need to know is at the end of this you'll be able to print a simple test calibration cube That is a defined height on all three axis which means you can test if your printer is printing accurately Using this cube so if you're not familiar with a calibration cube It is exactly what it sounds like and in order to make ours We are gonna need to make a sketch, and I will show you how to do that in just a minute But before I start sketching up any of my models I do like to add some parameters because they're very very helpful for altering your model later So what we're gonna do is click on modify here, and we're gonna go down to change parameters now if you look in here you have user parameters and Model parameters, so we're gonna add a user parameter, and we're gonna call this one width We're not gonna use an expression And we don't need to enter a value. Well. I just think we are just gonna do I Guess we can't enter the values, so we'll enter an expression So we'll just do 20 which gives us a value of 20 you can perform maths in here say I want to do 20 times 3 Okay, and then once you have one parameter. I'll show you in a second how you can use it to alter other ones Let's take that and we are gonna go ahead and add another user parameter called height this one again is going to be 20 millimeters and In fact we're gonna go in and we're gonna add our third one here This one is going to be we have width we have height and now we need depth so let's grab depth We'll type that in and we can actually set it equal To one of the other parameters we've already established okay, so this one equals whatever this one is and let's go ahead and See if we can let's see expression This will equal width to All right, so now they're all set to 20 so watch this This is set to 20 if I go to 25 and hit enter it changes all of them to be 25 That's why this is very very handy because some dimensions are gonna rely on others now Don't need to worry about this too much let's go in here change this back to 20 because that's pretty standard for a calibration cube and Actually if we're being serious about it since the cube is the same in all three dimensions We really only need the one value we could put the width value in for all three dimensions And it would work just fine so in order to let you know exactly what I'm acting on here I did this separately so you could kind of see how the parameters interact so now that you have your dimensions Which you don't strictly need keep in mind you can do this all without those parameters, so I can go to create create sketch and I'm gonna pick the bottom surface here, and we're gonna go up in here And these are our sketching items here for drawing different shapes. We're gonna go ahead and do a super simple Rectangle and we're gonna click center rectangle that way it starts in the middle of our sketch plane here so we're gonna type in 20 and 20 now this is how you do it if you don't have parameters we do however have our parameters, so we're just gonna type in width And we're gonna type in depth then Should have this side over here that says sketch palette you click finish sketch here And it leaves the sketch open, but we are not able to edit it anymore what we can do though is hit extrude here and select this face and what we're gonna. Do there is we're gonna type in height and We're gonna select it okay, so now we have the simple shape of our cube now you can Export this and print it, but first. I think maybe we should put the axis on it for Identifying which side is which so we're gonna go up to this face here. We're gonna click create We're gonna click create sketch And this is our top so this will be Z so all we need to do is go to create and then text Put our box about here And then we're gonna type in our text and on this axis. It's gonna be Z Size is about right Go ahead and close that out. We're gonna move it to the middle of the cube here as close as we can get it and We're gonna do the same thing we did before we're gonna open this make sure the sketch palettes open and hit finish sketch Now we're gonna extrude in the other direction, so let's grab this face hit the extrude button and We're gonna say negative one You'll see that it cuts into the object and that's denoted by the red that you see and it's saying Operation cut now we can go and we can do operation join You're not gonna see anything because it's at that level and everything that it's adding is Basically already built out as models. We're gonna go to cut we hit ok You can see it's now added that in now looking at the front of our model the front face here is going to be the The y-direction excuse me so we need to do the same thing here so create create sketch And Create text It's already set to the same size because we didn't alter our size, so it's set at 10 millimeters We're gonna change the text to say why? We're gonna hit ok and we're gonna get that centered up as good as we can and We're gonna do the same things open the sketch palette finish sketch We're gonna extrude this negative one There you go Next we're gonna do the X and you can place it on either side here. We're gonna go with the left side And it's important to remember when you place this cube on the build plate you're gonna want the Y facing out or facing the front of the printer and Then measuring this side to the opposing side will give you any variation from the bed or the y-axis So here we're gonna do our X. We're gonna go ahead click create sketch one more time we're almost done with this simple little model, and I will show you how to export it and You can make sure you hit that subscribe button because in the next video we're gonna be doing something a little bit more complicated learning a couple more tricks and Eventually we're gonna get up to doing moving parts and really complicated Mechanisms we just need to work our way up there, so we don't overwhelm you so alright, so we have our X finish sketch Extrude minus one and There we go. Here's our cube so pretty decent Cool thing about fusion 360 is it lets you go into render mode. You can check it out in there right now. There's nothing Appearance wise put on the cube, so I'm getting a very very simple material But we'll get into materials more a little bit later. You can actually go in here and Select one and then change the appearance there are a bunch of pre-made materials already that you can Well I locked it up there. We go. There's some pre-made materials in here already right now. It's using this metallic, but we can go and Let's get plastic since that's what we usually print with we'll try this Okay, so now you see it rendered in beige and when we actually go back to the design You can see it's changed color as well. This is a good way of keeping track of different parts right now It's not necessary, but will be later so make sure you keep that tip in mind so right now We're gonna right-click on this body, and we are gonna click save mesh This is how you get your STL exported. Okay, so the selection this one item and We are gonna put out a binary STL our units are in millimeters We don't need to preview the mesh, so we are just gonna go ahead and hit okay, you can actually send it directly to a 3d print utility here and Open it in Kira, so let's do that. I have Kira set up. Let's hit ok It's gonna export the file, and it's gonna open Kira up and open the file in Kira for me And I see I need to go in and update which version of Kira. I'm using it is loading the arachne beta Which is an older version? However it will work to display the model you might not have the option to open it directly in Kira if you haven't added Kira to your external programs in Fusion 360 that's a whole nother video but just so you know you can then save that file to anywhere just as I did and Then open it up in Kira normally, so don't worry if you don't have that option it is still saving to whatever location you happen to choose and Here we are now don't worry about the fact that this is in a odd place on the build plate That's simply this version of Kira like I said. It's a little bit dated. I need to update that We can drag it in the middle of the build plate and make sure like I said So the y-axis is actually this way Because it is measured by the bed the x-axis is your gantry measured this way Then the z-axis is your height and the lead screw for that is usually on the back of your printer And it's gonna measure this way so your vertical accuracy so what you want to do is Get this guy printed out in the orientation it's in now the Y to the front of the bed the X to the side and the Z up and You can use whatever filament or settings you want and then you're gonna go ahead and get some calipers and measure Your model now if your model is off. There are things you can do in order to Make your printer more accurate however that is not a model making video So I highly encourage you to print this check it out see if there's a difference between the 20 millimeters It should be and what your printers giving you and look into some calibration of the printer to get your settings dialed in because we're gonna be using fusion 360 to make as I said some pretty Complicated and intricate models and in order to do that you need to have your tolerances that define to a specific point so basically It doesn't have to be perfect But anything within about 0.3 or 0.2 will be accurate enough to do what we need to do So let's go ahead and wrap this up guys as I said check out my we bill one week Check out my weeble link down below you can get yourself up to 12 free stocks that deal is almost over it ends this month So definitely sign up you don't actually have to deposit any money to get free stock So it is a great deal for both of us and when you sign up I get some free stock, too so that's gonna be it for this one guys make sure that you have hit that notification bell because there's lots more how to make A model with fusion 360 videos coming and they're coming from the tech neighbors channel