My passion has always been around computer-aided design (CAD) for the manufacturing industry. It may be an old acronym, but I still like to call it MCAD. To be honest, the last 5 or so years, things have gotten a bit stale. Sure, desktop 3D…
AUTODESK FUSION 360 GOES SHEET METAL (BETA)
I got access to the Fusion 360 Sheet Metal beta recently. If you don’t already know, yes, Fusion 360 will be getting sheet metal! It has, after all, been one of the number one requested features on the IdeaStation. As usual for many new features in…
USE FUSION 360'S SHAPE OPTIMIZATION FOR STRONG, LIGHTWEIGHT PARTS
Weight. It’s always a consideration. How heavy is my product? How will that affect shipping costs? Can I reduce the amount of material that I’m using? Can we design better blanks for faster machining? These questions constitute just a small number…
