Design Processes - I
Today I thought to share with you how I go about coming up with ideas from 3D printing. Here, I will share with you a video about what I do when I generate ideas, and how I test them out with Fusion 360 - a sneak peek into my design processes.
What happened prior to this video is that I began by taking and generating an idea from somewhere. I might go to https://www.shapeways.com/ or https://www.thingiverse.com/ to get ideas, for example. In this video, I thought about this idea by looking through Thingiverse and figured that it would be nice to create a fidget spinner that might fly if you spin it fast enough.
Might.
Then I go straight to the design process using Fusion 360. I generally know how it looks like, but as I am sketching and designing, things may change, and so I adjust accordingly. At points in the video, you will notice that there is a notable period of time where nothing is happening. I am simply using a ruler to try to visualise how things would look. For example, when there is a pause while creating the dimensions between the two circles, I was basically looking at my ruler to decide how big they should be.
Jumping straight into Fusion 360 also means that I would tend to make a lot of design mistakes at times, and so I edit them straight away. One may say that it would be better for me to start by sketching, and then progressing from then on out. That may be so, but I like the challenge of trying to transfer from mind to program. Furthermore, there is a process required to transfer the design from paper to program. If I already have the design more or less finalised in my mind, it would save me time by just heading straight to the program.
Hopefully I will be able to get this out soon, as well as the other designs.
Fusion 360 is a excellent program to design. Good work!
Thanks! I used to work with Solidworks, but I thought to work with Fusion 360 since you get to renew the license every year as a enthusiast or start-up. Since then, no turning back! It's more intuitive to learn than Solidworks, in my personal opinion.
I use Solidworks in my office, but for my personals designs i use Fusion 360.
Yes is much more intuitive that SW and more interactive.
Yes indeed! And Solidworks doesn't come free either, so Fusion 360 is better in terms of cost and interactivity. My course uses both Solidwork and Fusion 360 - we are free to choose between either one of them while working on our designs. Though, as a group it's better to agree to use either - it's hard to navigate between the two software.