Creating a Bike Reference Model

Now that we have created the pencil and paper notes for where we would like to place the bicycle water bottle holder, it’s time to take those notes into Fusion and create a reference model of the bicycle frame. The reference model will be used not only as a general 3D model visual guide but also as a projected model that will be used as a reference for our 2D design sketches. For this chapter, we will only need the handlebars (top horizontal bicycle bar), the handlepost (vertical support bar), and the handlepost clamp, but if you would like to place your bottle holder elsewhere, such as under the seat, be sure that you have captured the necessary heights, widths, and thicknesses of the part as we did in Chapter 6.

By the end of this chapter, you will have learned how to take the dimensions from Chapter 6 and create the bicycle parts that we will use as a reference model for the bottle holder. This bicycle reference model is important as we...