Fusion 360 Tutorial – Easy Snap Fit Cases!

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Published 2018-01-14
Learn how to design enclosures with snap fit covers! Use autodesk Fusion 360 to create a parametrically driven project case for electronics.

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All Comments (21)
  • I came here to see how you designed snap covers, and ended up learning everything I wish I had known about Fusion360 instead! You are by far one of the best teachers I've seen!
  • @rickh6963
    Six years later and still easy to follow and straight to the point. Thanks!
  • @pacowang283
    For me personally, this was the best Fusion tutorial I have ever watched. Thank you!
  • @thetxpopulist
    Even five years later, this is the perfect tutorial for fusion and modeling objects in general. Depth, breadth, concise. The concepts you cover bleed over to all projects. Bravo!
  • Best case design video for Fusion 360 on the internet even 5+ years later. Mandatory learning for any enclosure design.
  • @skizzlemane1
    10:01 just thought I’d let ya know “heighth” is not a word, nor has it ever been one. However, this helped me immensely 😉 thanks for a wonderful tutorial
  • @poundkake13
    Just got a 3d printer. Your video just thought me SO MUCH MORE. This just changed my Cabinetry, CNC routing game. Thank you so much.
  • @WistrelChianti
    Great! didn't know about named parameters and there were a number of other things here that I'd seen before but hadn't quite understood first time round. A few other things were nicely re-enforced here too. Thanks!
  • @smeeegheeeed1
    By a long way, this is the best tutorial I have ever watched - excellently demonstrated, well communicated, and extremely useful content - I wish all tutorials were this well presented - good job my friend!
  • @kbruin79
    5 years later and this is still the best Fusion Tutorial I have seen. Awesome job, keep up the great work and don’t forget to save your project ;)
  • @aboarder08
    I am 4 months into Fusion from using Sketchup as my N00b starting point on 3D printing and this video has just put me over the top. Thank you! Perfect the way you run through and describe the techniques your are using. Thank you again, I just knew I should be able to mirror a feature somehow! (of course before I knew it as "mirror that").
  • @JackReitano
    For the first nub sketch you can actually just use the midpoint constraint along the top edge of the inside of the enclosure and the top of the rectangle. It's not super obvious but the midpoint constraint can make lines share their midpoints. The only real trick to it is that it's easier to do when the lines aren't on top of each other since fusion handles stacked lines really poorly, but that's easy to work around by just moving the rectangle before you apply the constraint (or not making it on top of the line in the first place.) It also means you don't need the initial coincident/collinear constraint.
  • @windrago
    hands down the most useful and well explained on making enclosures of this type. Bravo! Note for others: when you make the inner bevel for the lid you want do this: -(shell+gap) (that's a minus sign before everything else) otherwise the offset is going to be outside of the rim
  • @Leif_YT
    Wonderful tutorial. I've just started with Fusion and watched so many tutorials, but until yet I didn't even know that we can work with variables. It makes some projects so much easier.
  • @kyndig2
    This tutorial has been exceptionally helpful! Not just the actual topic, but the way to go about building things more efficiently has given me a huge plate of food for thought! Thank you so much.
  • @grasmussenNC
    This is awesome. 25 years ago I was using Autocad 12 and 3D Studio for structural drafting. I've been out of it for the last 20 years. Just now getting in to Fusion 360. Your tutorial will save me a lot of time and really increase my learning curve. Great Job!! Thanks for taking the time to do these vids
  • @jumbleblue
    Wow! That was incredibly helpful! One of the reasons for it being so is that, opposed to other tutorials, you went out of your way and explained all the little fusion360 details pro-users just forgot they even adhere to but beginners struggle with. Like the constrainted line you made there, I finally understood those details I struggled so much with, when I followed other tutorials but it simply didn't work. Thank you!
  • @HariWiguna
    Noe, fantastic tutorial! Clever way to create those nubs! Thanks for sharing!
  • I have watched this a couple of times and am still learning, This method is so efficient and easy to adapt to other projects, Thanks for a great job.
  • @shophacks
    This is the best Fusion360 tutorial I've seen so far. Thank you!