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Wrap Text Around a Cylinder In Fusion 360

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Vladimir
30 August, 2017
Extruding text around a cylinder use to be a tedious process with Fusion 360. After experimenting with the new Sheet Metal environment I found a much simpler way of accomplishing this task. It basically involves creating a cylinder, flattening it, writing and extruding our text, and then...

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Design Custom Brackets in Fusion 360

author
Vladimir
18 August, 2017
An area where 3D printing shines is when you need a custom part that has to perfectly interact with another part. In this case I had a soundbar with a unique shape and needed to design brackets to mount it on the wall. I used Fusion 360 to design my brackets and approached it in a way...

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Modify an STL file in Fusion 360

author
Vladimir
16 August, 2017
One of my most popular videos is the above one teaching how to modify an STL file in Fusion 360. There seems to be a high demand of wanting to edit downloaded stl files from Thingiverse or any other file sharing site. Most of you can probably relate. You download a file and need to simply...

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Design & 3D Print Peppa Pig in Fusion 360

author
Vladimir
14 August, 2017
Here's a video where I go into the Sculpting environment in Fusion 360 to model Peppa Pig. I began by bringing an image of Peppa as an attached canvas and used the image to sculpt around. This is really the best way to starting using the Sculpting environment. ...

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Dancing Springs

author
Vladimir
20 July, 2017
I may not be the best dancer but at least I can make a robot that can groove. This project is a mashup between the Make Your Own Gears and Make Your Own Slinky projects. We will use the Circuit Playground board from Adafruit, a servo motor, and a Neopixel Ring to create a beautifully...

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Twist Vase Useless Machine

author
Vladimir
24 May, 2017
This is not one of those ideas that's going to make me millions but it sure was a lot of fun to make. The inspiration came from the Make Anything Channel where Devin Montes did a video titled "Super Satisfying Twist Containers". I took this idea and ran with it. As with most ideas, the end...

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Fixing Reversed Text in Fusion 360

author
Vladimir
21 May, 2017
Working with text in Fusion 360 can sometimes be frustrating. The text can come out reversed, upside down, or backwards and sometimes all three. The onscreen widget that pops up when creating a sketch can work to rotate the sketch if it's upside down but does nothing to fix it if it's...

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The Easy Way to Design Gears in Fusion 360

author
Vladimir
05 May, 2017
One of the first things I ever made from a 3D printer was a gear. But it wasn't just any old gear. The beauty behind this gear was that it was a replacement part for the very printer that was making it. This still blows my mind to this day. I love printing gears and still get excited about...

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It's the Perfect Time to Learn 3D Design

author
Vladimir
03 May, 2017
It’s the perfect time to learn 3D Design. We are living in an age where the lanes of hardware, software, and education are colliding beautifully into an intersection of tremendous opportunity for makers. 3D printers are becoming more and more accessible to the general public as they become...

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ABOUT

You will find posts on our blog with videos, text and detailed visuals for the 3D projects. Follow our free tutorials to learn not only to design with Fusion 360 but also learn to design for 3D printing.

About the Instructor: Vladimir Mariano is the instructor of the bestselling course 3D Designing for 3D Printing with Fusion 360. He is co-founder and president of the Fairfield County Makers’ Guild, an independent makerspace in Norwalk, CT, and founder of CT Robotics Academy. He teaches 3D printing and design at the makerspace as well as electronics and programming classes. Many of his classes and projects combine the worlds of art and tech.