About this course: The manufacturing industry is making a digital transformation, allowing companies to customize production through advances in machine learning, sustainable design, generative design, and collaboration, with integrated design and manufacturing processes. This course introduces innovations in CAD and digital manufacturing, speaking to the rapid changes taking place that are forever transforming the future of making. This course will also explore foundational concepts behind Autodesk® Fusion 360™ CAD/CAM. Fusion 360 is a cloud-based CAD/CAM tool for collaborative product development that combines industrial design, mechanical engineering, and machine tool programming into one software solution. Through a series of lectures and hands-on exercises, this course provides the core philosophy behind the software. By understanding how designs are both made and assembled, you'll learn to create better designs from the start. After completing this course, you will be able to: • Summarize an understanding of digital manufacturing, principles of sustainable design, and manufacturing processes. • Explain and discuss how trends such as generative design and machine learning are influencing innovation, and how things are made. • Demonstrate knowledge and skills in foundational concepts of Fusion 360 CAD/CAM software. • Practice design collaboration and file management best practices using Fusion 360 cloud-based features
Created by: Autodesk
Taught by: Autodesk Education
| Basic Info | Course 1 of 5 in the CAD and Digital Manufacturing Specialization |
| Level | Beginner |
| Commitment | 4 weeks of study |
| Language | English |
| Hardware Req | You'll need to download Autodesk Fusion 360 onto a laptop or desktop computer. |
| How To Pass | Pass all graded assignments to complete the course. |
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Syllabus
WEEK 1
The future of manufacturing and innovation
The manufacturing industry is changing rapidly with the development of new manufacturing processes and the use of computer algorithms to drive innovation. This week explores trends such as generative design, machine learning and additive manufacturing. Industry experts introduce these trends and provide you with insight and enterprise examples of how they are being used today.
7 videos, 3 readings, 1 practice quiz
- Video: Get the software
- Reading: Future of manufacturing and innovation resources
- Practice Quiz: Pre-course questions
- Reading: About the discussion forum
- Reading: Online learning communities and social media
- Discussion Prompt: Getting to know your classmates
- Video: Week overview
- Video: Trends in manufacturing lecture
- Discussion Prompt: Trends in manufacturing discussion prompt
- Video: Introduction to digital manufacturing
- Video: CAD/CAM overview lecture
- Video: Manufacturing processes
Graded: Week 1 quiz
WEEK 2
Design Innovation Practices
Whether you are looking to improve an existing design or preparing for a sustainable design challenge for the first time, this course prepares product designers and engineers to take a quick step forward to integrating the principles of sustainability into their design process.
If you are new to design or an experienced designer, this week prepares you with knowledge of sustainable design practices and how they can be applied across the digital manufacturing process help you look at things in a new way.
6 videos, 2 readings
- Reading: Sustainability Workshop resources
- Discussion Prompt: Sustainable design discussion prompt
- Video: Sustainable design overview
- Video: Whole Systems Lifecycle
- Video: Lightweighting
- Video: Green Materials
- Video: Product Lifetime
- Reading: Sustainability Workshop challenge assignment
Graded: Week 2 quiz
WEEK 3
Foundational Concepts
Build a foundational understanding of how Autodesk® Fusion 360™ can be used to design differently before starting your first model. This week introduces foundational concepts behind Fusion 360 and offers insight into how it compares with other technologies. You will also be guided on how to install the software and develop new software skills so you get started with a solid understanding of how designs are made and assembled in Fusion 360.
25 videos, 4 readings
- Reading: Foundational concepts resources
- Discussion Prompt: Fusion 360 foundational concepts discussion prompt
- Video: What is Fusion 360?
- Video: Explain key differences in design workflow to Fusion 360 from Tinkercad
- Video: Explain key differences in design workflow to Fusion 360 from Solidworks
- Video: Where's my data? Understand how Fusion 360 stores your data.
- Video: Learn how to open, close, and save a file.
- Video: Create a new project and create a folder in a project.
- Video: Create versions of a design
- Video: Use Fusion Team for design sharing
- Video: Import and export project files
- Video: Manage your user preferences
- Video: Review the User Interface
- Video: Customize the Toolbar
- Video: Access the marking menu
- Video: Access and customize the toolbox
- Video: Adjust display settings
- Video: Navigate through Workspaces
- Video: Modeling workflow overview
- Video: Understanding rule #1: Bodies and components
- Video: Understanding rule #1: Bodies and components (continued)
- Video: Capture design history
- Video: Apply direct editing
- Video: Review the Live Review Session collaboration tool
- Video: Review the Fusion Team collaboration tool
- Video: Invite and remove collaborators from a project
- Reading: Challenge assignment 1
- Reading: Challenge assignment 2
- Reading: Challenge assignment 3
Graded: Week 3 quiz
WEEK 4
CAD Admininstration
Cloud collaboration has made working together simultaneous and immediate. With Autodesk® Fusion 360™, you can take advantage of the cloud features make project sharing and review easier than ever before regardless of where you are or your role in the design process. This course guides you through how to manage personal and team hubs, calendars and more to best manage your project’s design process and assets.
17 videos, 6 readings
- Discussion Prompt: CAD administration discussion prompt
- Video: Personal hub
- Video: Team hub
- Video: Migrate files from a Personal Hub to a Team Hub
- Video: View Admin settings and set a default hub
- Video: Deactivate a team member
- Video: Change a team member role
- Video: Review calendar events and starting project discussions
- Video: Creating a meeting
- Video: Start a project discussion
- Video: Download, archive and restore a Fusion 360 project file
- Video: Share and manage design links
- Video: Copy a design from one folder to another
- Video: Move a design from one folder to another
- Reading: Practice exercise 1 instructions
- Video: Practice exercise 1 solution
- Reading: Practice exercise 2 instructions
- Video: Practice exercise 2 solution
- Reading: Practice exercise 3 instructions
- Video: Practice exercise 3 solution
- Reading: Challenge assignment 1
- Reading: Challenge assignment 2
- Reading: Challenge assignment 3
- Peer Review: Manufacturing processes and design styles
Graded: Week 4 quiz
Graded: Introduction to Digital Manufacturing course assessment
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Ratings and Reviews
This course is very helpful and I understood so many things about fusion 360. All my concepts are clear and I can use fusion 360 software without any doubt.
A good introductory course to digital manufacturing and Fusion 360 software.
I especially like the sessions introducing the ideas of sustainable design. I think its far more important than to mastering CAD skills for designers and engineers these days.
A very good and informative course about the fusion 360 and also about the digital manufacturing .
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Too basic for what I was expecting, but good content