In this lesson we take a tour 1
of the Autodesk Fusion user interface 2
and don't mind the 3D printed computer fan grill project you see in the middle. 3
The purpose is just to have something there, 4
so you have something to look at when we take the tour. 5
The tour will be like going around window shopping in a new city without entering 6
any of the stores, museums, restaurants, or 7
if you're old enough, bars. 8
It can be frustrating, but we are just learning 9
to find our way around in this lesson. 10
Let's start with the data panel. 11
There is an application bar in the top of your screen. 12
The first button will show or hide the data panel. 13
It's hidden by default. 14
You can access your own projects, teams, designs, design data and collaborate. 15
Collaborate with others from here. 16
Next you have the file menu. 17
You create new designs, new drawings, open save and export projects, and more, 18
from here. 19
The save button will allow you to save an untitled design 20
or save a new version of your design. 21
The icon is a floppy disk. 22
Some people in the modern workplace have never seen one. Too young. 23
Undo and redo will undo or redo your actions. 24
The x will close to your design, and the plus sign will create a new design. 25
Yes, you recognize a lot of standardized 26
functionality from other computer programs. 27
Extensions are a set of advanced 3D design and modeling tools. 28
Find out more under each extension. 29
Job status allows you to see things like Fusion 30
update status and online or offline status, 31
and relevant notifications are shown here 32
if there are any. 33
Help gives you access to areas 34
like documentation, the community and support. 35
And finally, you have your profile where you access 36
Your Autodesk account. 37
You can adjust your Autodesk preferences, which for example can be useful 38
if you migrate from another program 39
from another CAD program that is. 40
Let's look at the toolbar. 41
First you have the workspace picker and different workspaces. 42
What you see in the toolbar depends on the workspace you currently work in. 43
We will spend most our time, but not all our time, in the design workspace 44
in this course. 45
Each workspace is organized in tabs. 46
The tabs contain groupings of related tools and commands. 47
You recognize this structure from many computer programs, 48
including different CAD software. 49
Some commands will activate contextual tabs. 50
For example, when I activate create sketch, 51
a contextual tab with a tool set of 52
contextual commandos appears to the right of the regular toolbar. 53
The contextual tab goes away when you exit 54
the contextual environment. 55
The browser lists objects in your assembly. 56
You find document settings and objects such 57
as joints, components, sketches, and bodies. 58
Some, but not all of them, visible in this design. 59
We'll cover them later. 60
You can control the visibility of your objects from here. 61
Right click on the browser to display additional options. 62
You can left click 63
in the browser or directly on the objects in the canvas 64
when you want to select them. 65
The view cube is a great aid 66
when you want to look at your design from different perspectives. 67
Press the home button to return safely to a preset perspective 68
that includes your entire design. 69
Right click on the canvas to access the marking menu. 70
Sometimes called the right click menu, you can expect to find frequently 71
used commandos in the wheel and additional commands 72
in the menu below. 73
You find commands 74
used to orbit, look at, pan zoom, 75
fit on screen, display settings, grid and snap settings and viewports 76
in the navigation bar. 77
The timeline 78
list commands performed in your design. 79
Remember what we said earlier about components? 80
Each component has its own timeline. 81
Use the buttons to go backwards and forwards 82
in your design history. 83
You can right 84
click operations in the timeline when you want to make changes. 85
Make a change and later actions in the timeline will be affected. 86
Parametric modeling allows you to change the order 87
in which your operations are calculated, simply by rearranging the order. 88
This was a 89
quick tour of the Autodesk Fusion user interface. 90
Don't worry if there is a lot of new information. 91
And don't be mad at me for not going more in depth yet. 92
We're building a framework and the big picture here, 93
and we will go more in depth on different sections later in the course.