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Improving CAD Designs with Autodesk Fusion 360

You're reading from   Improving CAD Designs with Autodesk Fusion 360 A project-based guide to modelling effective parametric designs

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800564497
Length 596 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Kevin Michael Land Kevin Michael Land
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Table of Contents (22) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Simple, Fun Projects for Around the Home
2. Chapter 1: Working within the Design Workspace FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Planes, Sketches, Constraints, and Parametric Dimensions 4. Chapter 3: Project Building Basics 5. Chapter 4: Creating a Customizable S-Hook 6. Chapter 5: Designing Decorative Doorknobs 7. Part 2: Bicycle Water Bottle Holder Project
8. Chapter 6: Designing a Simple Bottle Holder 9. Chapter 7: Creating a Bike Reference Model 10. Chapter 8: Creating the Bottle Reference Model 11. Chapter 9: Building the Bottle Holder 12. Chapter 10: Improving the Bottle Holder Design 13. Part 3: FORM Modeling Techniques
14. Chapter 11: The FORM Environment 15. Chapter 12: Modeling a Scary Tealight Ghost 16. Chapter 13: Using Form and Solid Modeling to Create a Cushioned Chair 17. Part 4: Working with 2D and 3D Scanned Images
18. Chapter 14: Using a Scanned Image to Create a 3D Model 19. Chapter 15: Modeling a Bottle Topper 20. Index 21. Other Books You May Enjoy

Modeling a Bottle Topper

You’ve made it to the final chapter of this Fusion 360 book. I hope you have been enjoying all the projects so far. For our final chapter, we will take a scanned 3D model and import the mesh into Fusion 360. We will fix any holes within the scanned mesh and then create a bottle topper out of the mesh body. Scanning objects such as mechanical or organic parts has started to become part of the normal workday as it’s much easier to pull information from the existing geometry rather than recreate it. There are a variety of free and paid products online to help get you into the scanning business for yourself. Here is a link to all3dp.com that provides a brief overview of some free and paid scanning applications: https://all3dp.com/2/best-3d-scanner-app-iphone-android-photogrammetry/.

In this chapter, we’re going to cover the following main topics:

  • Importing a mesh model to Fusion 360
  • Fixing the mesh body
  • Getting ready for...
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