Fusion Tutorial 1a: Design of a 3D Printed Electronic Box

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Introduction

Autodesk Fusion is a popular and widely-used CAD application, formerly known as Fusion360. Like SolidWorks, it is closed-source and available by subscription. A free version is available.

This tutorial is an analog to the SolidWorks series that begins with SW Tut 1a. We will design an electronic box (E-Box) following the sequence there as closely as possible. It assumes no previous experience with CAD, though you may want to review another page that discusses the tools for navigating the design space.

To get started, please visit the Fusion download site if you haven't already done so. You will be taken to a page that allows you to choose between a commercial and a noncommercial (free) version of the application.

For this tutorial we use the noncommercial version that is available so long as the user agrees not to earn more than $1000 in its use. If revenue exceeds this limit, then users must subscribe to the commercial version.