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Autodesk Fusion 360 Integrated CAD/CAM/CAE

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Autodesk

Autodesk Fusion 360 Integrated CAD/CAM/CAE

177 ratings

Course 2 of 5 in the Specialization CAD and Digital Manufacturing

Design, engineering, and manufacturing are undergoing a digital transformation, and the need for a collaborative product development environment is becoming an ever-growing requirement. Autodesk® Fusion 360™ meets this need by connecting CAD, CAM, and CAE in a single cloud-based platform unlike any other tool of its kind. This course builds upon digital manufacturing trends and foundational CAD concepts discussed in Course 1 of this series by introducing Fusion 360 as a problem-solving tool. In this course, we take the next step in connecting CAD, CAM, and CAE through a series of short exercises on 3D modeling, rendering, simulation, and computer aided manufacturing. After completing this course series, you will be able to: • Demonstrate knowledge of and apply job entry level skills in computer aided design, computer aided engineering (CAE) and computer aided manufacturing (CAM) using Fusion 360 software. • Describe and apply design based workflows for design, engineering and manufacturing using Fusion 360 software. • Utilize Fusion 360 cloud based collaboration features for project sharing and design review.

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Render, animation, and drawing

Being able to communicate your design ideas visually is an essential part of the design process. Design ideas need to be conveyed in different ways for different audiences. From aesthetic photo-realisitic renders to assembly animations showing how a design works to technical drawings for manufacturing, this lesson will get you ready to showcase your design.

Render scene setup3:39

Change appearances2:46

In-canvas render4:10

Cloud processed render2:19

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In this lesson, we will take a look the first rendering option

by continuing to use the FSAE steering wheel render file.

With the scene settings prepared,

we just need to set up our view point to begin to create an in-canvas rendering.

I'll start off by looking at some of the default views such as

the home view then the top view or perhaps something in between.

For the first rendering, we'll use the home view.

Under the in-canvas render pull-down,

let's first take a look at the options.

In-canvas render tool will start to play or

start to generate a rendering live on the screen.

There are also options available for capturing the image on the screen.

For now, I'll just start in-canvas rendering.

In the lower right, you'll see a set of options.

This is where you will set the quality level of

the rendering along the bar between excellent,

final, or infinite to allow the rendering to generate until you stop it.

Beneath the slide bar, you'll see the elapsed time as well as the number of iterations.

An in-canvas rendering will improve

the quality displayed on the screen with each iteration.

The limits on the bar simply establish how many iterations will be processed.

Notice that while rendering is happening,

a red square appears over the icon that started the in-canvas rendering.

This will allow us to stop the process by selecting it.

However, what we want to do right now is to allow

a rendered image to develop until we're satisfied with

the final product or to help us understand

what the current scene settings do for the developing image.

The more iterations that we allow to develop,

the higher quality the image will be.

The speed that the iterations are developed at can be effected

by the materials you use or even the performance of your computer.

A fine grain of a carbon fiber material takes a lot of calculations to try to develop

the highlights and lowlights of the bump map that

simulate a real texture on an otherwise flat model.

An important consideration for choosing to do an in-canvas rendering

is that all of the calculations are done on your local computer.

So the speed of the rendering will be based on your system performance.

And if your system is limited,

rendering can affect the overall performance of the system.

Other rendering options can take advantage of

cloud computing and alleviate any strain on the computer.

Another important consideration for in-canvas rendering is that,

unless you change the default,

any movement in the position of the model or

the zoom factor will start the rendering process

over because it would need to recalculate the ray trace of

the light based on the new position.

Now that the images are getting close to excellent,

we'll pause it and select capture image.

I can choose whether or not I want to use the current document size which is

presently controlled by the 16:9 ratio that we find in the settings.

When we click OK, it will ask us where we want to save

the file or format to save the file in.

We can choose between JPEG, PNG, or TIFF.

We can also choose to save it to the cloud project or to the local computer.

When we click save, you'll notice the image is not saved to the rendering gallery.

The gallery is reserved for cloud renderings.

As I mentioned previously,

this rendering is done on our machine.

If I go to the data panel, and go to the project,

and refresh, I can see the image is saved to the project.

If I double click the image,

it will open it through the web viewer.

Now, let's pause the ray tracing and stop the in-canvas render.

I can close out of the render work space without

saving because we haven't made any changes to

the file other than our view of the model since

opening because all of the scene settings were previously saved.

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