

What are Components in Fusion 360?įusion 360 components is an organizational tool used for grouping bodies together into logical collections. I’d recommend not skipping over this bit of housekeeping, you'll be happy that you did. To save us time and headaches down the road, we will start creating components and moving our existing bodies into those. In this tutorial we will be creating a lot of new parts and our browser will quickly get unwieldy and slow down the design process. First, Organizing Our Fusion 360 Workspaceīefore we begin, now is a good time to start structuring and organizing our model.

3D printing involves other steps which are not covered here, however, many of the design concepts are the same. The work that we will be doing in this tutorial is geared towards modelers who will be building their airplane out of word or foam board, then cutting the pieces out with a CNC machine, laser cutter, or hand cutting from printed diagrams.
