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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

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...

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