I have always used Plasticity as my modeling program for rc mechanical and body parts but I feel limited as I dont have mechanical animations and cant model gears as well.

I have the full version of solidworks given by a friend and Free version of Fusion 360

Am hesitant to fully commit and switch because I've tried to bear the steep learning curve of either one of these programs but I feel so slow and frustrated by how everything is overly complicated.

Is it actually worth spending all the time learning and how much difficulty should I expect in the first week? when will it get easier?

And Which and what should I learn? Fusion seems vastly easier by other people accounts but I have the full disposal of Solidworks in which I would have more capabilities like stress simulations that I wish to do in the future.

This is the most recent example of irregular or curved corners that i want to fillet, and i cant figure out how to get it to work without running into crossing body problems and whatnot. Additionally, you can see a sketch for the approximate shape I want to have on the inner corner. I've tried Sweep as well and run into the same issue. Why am I stupid and how do I not be?

I am working on updating the motor mounts on this drone to something a bit more robust for 3D printing. the new motor mounts also include a landing feature so the motor pods wont contact the ground. I needed to make an animation to help describe the changes. Let's see if you can spot the old ones and the new ones :). Also, here is a study of the new motor mount modeling: https://youtu.be/GTxPWL-vqb4

P.S. All animation was created in Autodesk Fusion :)

machining starts tomorrow! these will be machined on 3” pink extruded polystyrene. the dimensions of each panel will be 5’2” x 6’9”! now to get it cut and then painted for an art commission for display on the the executive floor at the company headquarters!

i taught myself how to put this all together, definitely ran into a couple bumps but figured it out through some tutorials and replies on this sub!

thanks for all the help!

Can these 2 shapes be combined to leave the right hand part subtracted from the left hand part? In other words making the right hand part retain it's shape whilst adding the square part to the shape?

Can some soul help me renewing my license for personal use or tell me if s/he had the same problems and how to solve it?

It’s my second renewal (already renewed a year ago) so I know it can only be done 30 days before expiration earliest and only via the specific page for personal use, but it’s not working. Fusion still says “license will expire in 10 days”, my account in the web browser says the same and even a complete new installation on different machines (Mac and Windows) doesn’t help. Any ideas?

Say I have a Shapeoko CNC router, and want to cut a 1" diameter circular hole out of a piece of polycarb with a 1/4" bit.

What's the best practice here? Should I utilize a Bore operation or a 2D Contour operation?

When even trying to create a 2 point rectangle I cant seem to be able to switch between the two length and width dimension boxes. The tab key isnt doing anything and when I try to use the mouse it just moves the other one and I cant ever click on it. Once I click out of the sketch I cant adjust any part of it? All the tutorials just say to use tab, but it does nothing for me. Am I missing something?

I am trying to figure out what the correct workflow of a piece like this would be. Coming from non-parametric modelling programs, my solution would have been to draw it from above and extrude it upwards, and then translate the top face to create the slope. However, on fusion the workflow doesn't make sense. I also tried copying the shape on an offset plane, and then translating it and then using loft to attach the top and bottom, but that created a disaster in the parametric timeline.

I'm totally stumped on this one. All of the sub components are showing up as transparent.

I've tried changing and overriding appearance settings, but no luck.

Any ideas what im overlooking?

I've tried the loft function with both the perpendicular faces, but it fails saying the loft would intersect itself.

By the "vertical curved face being shortened", I am referring to the difference between pictures 1 & 2.

Thanks!