What is the course about?
Industrial Designers commonly need to design objects that can be quickly tested and prototyped in real life. Prototyping can come with its own set of constraints and parameters depending on how you’re planning on making something.
This course will explore 3 common prototyping methods: 3D printing, CNC milling and laser cutting. We will design objects specifically for these 3 approaches and discuss some of the constraints that we will need to embed into our designs.
What will you learn in each video?
- 5 tutorials
- 1hr
- Fusion
This lesson will explore 3 different fabrication methods: 3D printing, CNC machining, and laser cutting. Each fabrication method has its own design requirements and modelling constraints, which need to be considered early in the process. These constraints help improve the reliability, quality, and success of your final outputs—and help you design smarter from the start.
This lesson will explore 3D printing as a fabrication method, through the 3D modelling of a cup in Fusion designed to typical 3D print parameters and constraints.
This lesson will explore CNC milling as a fabrication method, through the 3D modelling of a timber base for our cup in Fusion, designed to typical CNC milling parameters and constraints.
This lesson will explore laser cutting as a fabrication method, through the 3D modelling of a metal coaster for our cup in Fusion, designed to typical laser cutting parameters and constraints.
Rendering is a powerful tool for communicating your design clearly and professionally. It helps clients, collaborators, and even yourself visualise important choices like materials, colours, and lighting before moving to fabrication. This lesson will explain how to setup renders inside Autodesk Fusion.
What are the learning objectives for the course?
- Understand fabrication constraints associated with 3D printing, CNC milling and laser cutting
- Demonstrate the ability to design for 3D printing fabrication constraints
- Demonstrate the ability to design for CNC milling fabrication constraints
- Demonstrate the ability to design for laser cutting fabrication constraints
- Understand how to create renders and visualisations of objects in Fusion