Here's a CAD/Fusion 360 Crash Course by Jarod Todd

David Mary

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@JTknives I noticed that your great tutorial hasn't been posted to the forum, so I have taken the liberty.

For anyone about to watch this, Jarod's tutorial covers the basics of making a 2D sketch and saving it as a .dxf file for use by Jarod's plasma cutter, but it will also work in waterjet. After I watched it a few times, I posted a comment on the YouTube video with a table of contents and timestamps to help break the video up into sections for individual tasks to make it easier to learn for first time watchers.

Also you will notice a few instances where Jarod will mention clicking something on the side bar, but for some reason his screen capture program did not actually capture the side bar, making this confusing for me the first couple of times I watched the video.

So here are two screenshots to show what is missing from the video:

"Canvasses", per the "Calibration" step in the video at 4:50
Canvases.jpg


"Sketch", per the "Save as .dxf" step at 24:42
Fusion 360 Sketches.jpg


The video

I hope this helps you to quickly make your .dxf files, and Jarod I hope this helps drive more business into your shop.
 
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