3-4 month ago i didn't know anything about fusion, right now i can almost make any model I can think of, this is all thanks to this guy who began it all for me. Thanks Paul

Finally! An instructor who actually pedagogically breaks down why things behave the way they do, not just run along like everybody else here on youtube! Subscribed and with Mr. McWhorter skills in my toolbelt, I can repay that by educating others in my area...thanks once again and glad to be onboard of this Fusion 360 train!

The fact you are still replying to comments after SIX years is insane I whish ther were more people like you Paul you make me feel on the top of the world

Paul, your a brilliant teacher. Even my 66 year old brain cells can understand what you are teaching. I keep forgetting what you have said so I have to keep pausing and going back to remind myself but I'm getting there, bit by bit. ( need a sledge hammer to get things to stay in my head ). Other tutorials just leave my brain a mush so gave up on them, but yours are great and I'm not dead yet so your doing OK.

You are one of the very few posters whose videos I can watch and not have Captions on. Excellent tutorial.

Thank you Paul for these excellent videos on Fusion 360. I am on my 7th complete view-thru of Lesson 1. I follow along completing the exercises over and over. It is becoming automatic with me. I have done Lesson 2 and 3 the same way and am clumsily learning the dance. Today I am back to Lesson 1 to make sure I haven't missed anything. Your lessons are priceless to me as I learn this amazing program. I have used Rhino for years and am trying to migrate to Fusion 360. Finally, I am making real progress as I follow your lessons.

You're an amazing instructor. I wish there were more folks like you in the public education system.

watched this series first time round, and had some time away from fusion360 - so came back for a refresher - just excellent teaching and presentation skills...thank you Paul McWhorter.

So often the best teachers are the ones that had to work at it. thanks mate!

Absolutely brilliant video for a complete beginner to fusion 360 who hasn't used any sort of CAD in over a decade, thank you!!

Paul , I cannot keep thanking you enough for all your videos. You are excellent at what you do and the best teacher I've come across in my life. I hope you inspire more people to be like you.

Fantastic! I’ve struggled with other “beginner” tutorials on F360, but I’ve just finished my 9x9 grid and am now going to carry on with the series. Thanks so much 👍

Whew!! This was a close one! I was searching for a decent tutorial on fusion 360 and was getting more and more frustrated. From your arduino tutorials I saw this course. The relief you have given me is immense. I appreciate your efforts to create these lessons. From my earlier searches I am amazed at how many lousy instructors there are. There is a special place in heaven for you, Paul!

Fantastic I'm a complete beginner so you sir are a godsend.

I really like that you starts from the very basic traditional way, when I look other videos, I had no clue why this and that. This is the best way to teach, that means treat us like know zero, not trying to show how fancy tricks you know. Thanks.

I d/l a 30 day trial of fusion 360. I followed your tutorial to the tee and i was impressed. Great tutorial

Greetings Paul. Just wanted to write a quick note to thank you for putting this series together. It was an absolute pleasure to work through each video, and your thoughtful and methodical approach to teaching made learning the basics of Fusion 360 possible, and fun! I learned enough from your series that I've been able to model fairly complex replacement parts for my car, and they fit and work perfectly. Thank you!

Thanks Paul, I was ready to give up on learning Fusion 360 until I discovered your tutorials. Now I am sure I can make it work for me. Well done!

Excellent teaching techniques Paul. I've watched other ones that claim 'beginner' status...this is the best I've found so far at actually going right back to true beginner stage. Thank you. I'll use your lessons with my students at school. Great job!

Paul thanks I'm your age and I love that I can keep learning as long as there are guys out there like you.

I started playing with Fusion 360 about 9 months ago and "built" a few thing with my kids. Now my 10 year old wants to "build" things in Fusion 360, so he is starting to go through your tutorials. I appreciate your simple straightforward approach along with an explanation for everything with no assumptions on the part of the user and what they may or may not know.

just a little tip paul, since I use AutoCAD/Civil 3d at work, you can click in the wheel on your mouse to pan around instead of selecting it at the bottom or using zoom to move/pan the screen

I’m in my 3rd year in product design and I was very frustrated in learning fusion this whole time. Thank you so much! Best lecturer!

Your videos are great I have taken AutoCAD 2D and 3D and several fusion classes and my understanding has blossomed through your teaching style. Thank you!

Great tutorial! I have tried so many that rapidly skip around and I spend more time being confused than learning. Paul's approach of emphasising the basic building blocks in a structured fashion with repetition has already helped me properly understand so much. Thanks!

Paul McWhorter I learned Arduino programming, with absolute zero knowledge about it, from your video series and your instructions were so clear and helpful. I am so glad that you’ve got a series on Fusion 360 because I am about to start playing around with it and I know that you’re gonna be the perfect instructor.

Thank you so much for this video. It really got me excited about Fusion 360. Too many videos show you how Fusion 360 works and they just jump right in with showing the basics. Can't wait to go through all the tutorials you have. Again, thanks for taking the time to do this series of videos.

Thank you for posting this. This helped immensely!! Look forward to you other videos on this topic.

Man am I glad I kept searching! Your lessons for beginners come highly recommended by many people. I am as beginner as they get and the slow and deliberate teaching is EXACTLY what I needed and have been looking for so I can learn 2D sketching for my CNC plasma table. There are so many great tutorials out there but so many just race through without giving the very basics first. Thank you for lesson 1, I will be following for more content. Thank you again!!!

This is how learning 101 should be. Subscribed.

You are so far the best that I have come across that explains what needs to be done in simple terms that I personally understand. You start at the very beginning, unlike some they start in the middle which is very hard to follow. Keep up the great tutorials.

Yes: first lessen done. Great.

This is one of the best tutorial videos I have come across so far. Thank you so much for not only producing it but also for being such a great instructor

It's important that we still have good engineers and instructors who share their knowledge for free. I always appreciate such great people like Paul McWhorter for their efforts in helping young enthusiastic learners. Thanks a lot, Paul.

I've given up for years....watching your series now!!

This lesson has given me the confidence to apply myself to the task of learning Fusion 360. I am an absolute beginner but I can sense the rich possibilities that might lie ahead. Thanks for your careful explanations and your awareness of how terribly perplexing and frustrating it is to attempt to teach oneself without adequate introductory lessons. I am much obliged and hope to progress to further lessons.

You are a fantastic tutor. Starting with the basics like this is so unusual that it like a breath of fresh air. Plus I love how you repeat things to make sure we get it firmly fixed in our mind. Thank you.

Even after 2 years.. Paul, you're the best professor ever! I'm coming back here to review a few concepts! Thanks

Thank you so much Paul. You are a talented educator. That's how it's done :)

I'm up to lesson 8, thanks! this is the right learning platform for me, right speed, great content, and skill development pattern.

Compared to other tutorials, your teaching method sticks better because of your explanation of "why" and and best practices. Love having you as a teacher, excited to finish another binge watch for me on this series after finishing your excellent Arduino series.

I saw a 20 minute video on Fusion 360 and I was planning on skimming the whole thing. Thank god I didn't LOL Thank you for posting this, I can't wait to learn even more.

Thank you for this series of lessons, I'm up to lesson 4 and learning a lot! Keep them coming....

Thanks for creating these amazing tutorials. You're an excellent teacher

Dear respected sir, I'm really great full to you for your awesome tutorials. I've followed your instructions but after completing my design, I wanna see a design without any Shadow or reflection from the sketching. I've remove sketch but still it is not removing the dot dot(..........) Shadow or reflection from each sketching. Please could you help me?

This is just lesson 1 and it already have my eyes open on many things that could be done with fusion 360! It feels like I am beginning to get to know the app like the back of my own hand. Your method of teaching Mr. McWhorter is truly A class and you're able to make the complexities boil to reasonable simplicities. I have watched all your most excellent Arduino lessons and now it seems you have created yet another set of lessons of the same class. (Your lessons from "The Bible Boy" ARE THE BEST!)

Wonderful. Just the right amount of repetition to anchor concepts. Well organized and explained. Autocad site tutorials just have one do things without explaining the "why" very well at all, which makes it much harder to assimilate.

You got me started with fusion 360 (I know max well) and now I use it for things to 3d print often or now tend to goto it often. I started with the box that has the hinges, that one teaches everything well with the constraint parts of this and I feel decently confident to do simple things in it now. The box with the hinges would be the one to watch if youre only going to watch one.

You are a life saver . Thank you so much for the help.I always had these uncomfortable questions like "where sould I put it" "why it's not copying itself" etc. You really gave me a zero point to start learning .Thank you!

After about 30 years of 2D cad work on various platforms and failing miserably to do much of anything worthwhile in 3D. I have tried a few different platforms and followed you on the Sketchup series so will surrender and see if we can make fusion 360 work. Already found there is a big difference in trying to make things if I try to do it the way I did before. So I am looking forward your series.

Hey there, Paul. I've tried right-clicking on the 75.00 mm line in order to select the nominal line feature, but it doesn't pop up in the sketch menu. Is there any other way to do it?

Paul, I'm with Peter on this, I only 75% through the first tutorial and already I have learned more than the last two years looking at other youtube videos on this subject, great presentation

great video I know the basics keep the videos coming can wait to learn the harder parts of fusion 360 thanks for all the videos.

Great job Paul. I'm just getting into it. Just realized in the preferences, I can change my orientation to make Z up to match yours. Reason is my cnc machine likes it when Z axis goes up and down.

Hey Paul, just wanted to take a minute to thank you so much for your videos. You got me going with my raspie, and now I'm learning fusion360. Don't know how to contact you directly but I'm wondering as a fusion360 beginner would you be interested in any detailed feedback from me as I go through your tutorials. Gary

Boom...Great video thank you :)

Thanks Paul. Just recently decided to try Fusion 360 again after giving up a few times. Your tutorial makes all the difference. I am actually "getting it" this time!

Another 66-year-old brain here. I ran three software companies back in the 80s and 90s and was involved when the GUI on the Mac and PC (GEM and Windows) first came out. The design mantra back then (and ever since) was "selection precedes command" which meant that you always FIRST selected something by clicking with the mouse and THEN did something to it with the mouse or by clicking on something in a dialog box. Your tutorial is absolutely wonderful for clearly describing some of the ways this program breaks with all those conventions that have built up for the 40 years that the conventional GUI has been used (if you go back to the late 1970s and Xerox Parc and then the Apple Lisa). You very accurately described the journey I took prior to arriving at your channel: my son gave me a Ender 3D printer for Christmas; I built it and learned how to make Thingiverse objects (both activities, including using Cura, were a piece of cake); I decided I needed to learn how to make my own parts because 3D scanners just aren't good enough to create replacement/repair parts; I looked at all the CAD and modeling software and realized that I'd be able to do more if I could figure out Fusion 360 rather than learn a kiddie toy; I installed the software, I followed a few other tutorials, but then realized that even after hours of learning I couldn't even create and print a cube. So, thanks for an A+ first tutorial, and I now have some hope that I might actually learn this program before I die (at 66, "die trying" takes on a different meaning). John Meyer P.S. This thing still might be the death of me. Why? Because the designers seemed to have gone out of their way to do things differently, but without any reason. Case in point: center mouse wheel zoom. It works backwards from every other program in the universe. Why??? F1 doesn't bring up help, unlike every Windows program I've ever used or built. Why???

wow so amazing, iv been through many youtube tutorials some of them so slow and offtopic and some of them fast pace with no explaining the fundamentals, I think I have hit the jackpot with you,,you are a great teacher and lecturer thanks

You one of the best teachers I’ve seen, thanks!

Paul thank you for making your tutorials a pleasure to watch and most informative

I learned so many things from you and applied in my projects as well. You inspires me a lot. Your dedication towards these engineering field gives me motivation to work more and more. 💞💞💞

This tutorial is one of the best Fusion 360 tutorials I have seen. thank you very much. subscribed and thumbs up

You are a freaking genius, sir! Why didn't I discover this channel before? Thanks for explaining in a simple way something that took me weeks to understand!

thank you for the clear tutorial. great job 👍

What a legend! I just finished your arduino lessons and now university is teaching me Fusion 360 and I can't believe you teach that as well. Happy days for me

Paul, thank you. I have used AutoCad for over 20 years and started Fusion a year ago but gave up because it did not make sense. You break it down where other KZfaqrs make jumps that are sometimes difficult to follow. I will now breakout my 3D printer and really start using it.

I like how you emphasis on helping us understand how the user interface differs from what has become the norm nowadays. I too have been stuck in not understanding where I were in the process.

Excellent explanation on Fusion 360! Finally, it was done plainly and in a simple way to clearly understand. Thanks and keep it up!

Very good work with all of your video.

Best one I've watched yet. Coming from 2D Turbocad, I tried to get ahead of myself...unsucessfully. This breaks it down nicely. Thanks Paul.

good opening overview... I was following the bouncing ball... drew some construction lines both to confirm the diameter of my baseplate and to locate some holes... I insert one hole at the end of one of the construction lines and POOF the hole is there but all of the construction lines are gone... Is there another grade of construction lines which last longer than one-time-use ?

Hello, I am wondering if you know why my models in Fusion 360 come out 2/3 shorter in height when I print on my 3D printer? I create the model in Fusion 360, export to Cura slicer, and then export as g-code to print. All other dimensions are ok except height... prints out shorter.

Paul I hate to bother you and first want to thank you so much for your videos. I recently purchased an enterprise seat with Fusion 360 in large part because I was confident I could master the program sufficiently after going through many of your lessons. I had tried CAD before and gave up because it was an illogical confused random mess. Not so with Fusion there seems to be an understandable congruent logic behind it. So I was feeling very blessed when I was awoken by my neighbors shooting a shotgun in the valley next to my home. See it made me remember I had seen an email about 1/2 price subscription so I pulled it up called and got a seat for under $250.00 with an hour to spare. I wanted an enterprise seat because I am seriously pursuing development of a commercial product that will have several patents involving a firearm. Hence my amusement that I was awoken by someone shooting in the nick of time, for the first time in the 15 years I have lived here. All good but to test my ability to learn my son opened a student account and that is what I practiced on to prove myself capable. Now I can't sign to do anything on my enterprise account and Autodesk help has not been. They said they were going to expire my sons account so it wouldn't auto log in and last night it didn't but this morning it did again. If I die trying just to sign into the account I paid for that would be a shame indeed. I have called emailed and did everything possible to remedy this clearing cashe uninstalling and everything else. As good as the program is Autodesk's login subscription and everything related is an unmitigated quagmire of a mess. They have help chat that really is a series of automated responses called Ava that isn't a real person. They have a picture of a person and give texts back like a person so how would you know? What a shame a company of this size can't even have a live chat person. Anyway if a reader or follower can possibly give some advice I would be very thankful.

This is a great video that describes the basics of how to use Fusion360. Other videos just dive into making something and hope you'll learn along the way, but this video describes the fundamentals of how to use the software. This is what I refer to as "teaching", a concept lost in most KZfaq videos these days in exchange for flashy click bait presentations, titles, and graphics. Thank you Paul!

You're unarguably an amazing instructor!!! Your way of instructing is so engaging. If possible, please make one more series of instruction on getting to master AutoCAD.

Mr McWhorter, HELP!! Can you please tell us how to navigate the sketch? eg; if I click the 3d square to make it look like yours my "flat grid" page goes so small my drawing is about 1 inch big on the screen and I can't figure out how to change that.

When sketching an object there are dialogue boxes where you can enter the dimensions, is this different to dimensioning after placing the object. Sometimes using the first method, with lines, it stays blue instead of changing to black?

Excellent teacher. Very clear and repeatedly comments on the way to do things as he goes along. This helps me take on board the way to go about things. If things are only mentioned once I for one am likely to be searching for what was said. Thank you Paul

This is awesome! I was just thinking that it was gonna be harder to learn Fusion 360 than it was to build my CNC Router. BOOM! I have rectangles. I love your style. Can’t wait to jump into lesson 2.

I'm at a point for my business I need to learn Fusion360. Your videos are the right amount of specific without overloading the viewer, thank you!

Paul thanks for taking the time to do these informative videos, I'm learning quite a bit watching them.

Hello Paul, I am thinking of buying a prusa printer for this series, will I be able to do this series with the Prusa mini or will I have to buy the original one? Thanks.

Thank you so much for this video. You are an amazing teacher. I really appreciate this. Bravo!

Another GREAT series, Thank you!

As a hobbyist Audodesk is limiting my free access to Fusion 360 to 30 days. Hopefully I can make the most of those 30 days. Thanks for your most excellent tutorials. Great first lesson.

How do I get the Sketch tool bar? I have CREATE, MODIFY, ASSEMBLE, CONSTRUCT, INSPECT, INSERT & SELECT. And, where yours says MODEL (Upper Left) Mine says DESIGN. Ans SKETCH isn't available in the drop down.

hey paul , just a fast question , when i choose the xy plane , it does not take the 2 dimensional view of the x and y axis , it stays on the 3d view for some reason . how can i set it like you ?

Holy cow. I learned more in the first video than anything else on KZfaq. Most don’t start at the VERY BASICS. thank you

hi Paul, may i know what is the 3D printer you are using? brand and price

great tutorial, thank you!! ... even coming from a good understanding of 3DS Max, I was very frustrated with Fusion,, this really helps to clarify. This is a GREAT example of how to make a proper beginners tutorial... explaining the concepts.

this is going to be a great series! thank you!

Excellent tutorial, thanks for sharing!!

thank you! this is the first tutorial where i actually understood what the heck was going on! This is so useful, thank you for making these!

Thank you Paul i think your a great teacher ! you making it easy understanding fusion 360 i will gladly follow your training cause you have the right stuff!!!!

Thank you, thank you, thank you! Finally, someone that understands teaching!

Hi Paul, I found your instructions on Tinkercad most helpful after my recent 3D printer purchase. I have downloaded the free student version of Fusion 360 and intend working through your 13 lessons. However, I have found that after selecting 'new design', my version of the ribbon is different to yours, so it is not straight forward to follow. Is there a solution to this, have I missed a trick somewhere? Thanks

how come when i right click on the line at around 15:28, i do not see the option he clicks to make that line a dashed line?

Thanks for sharing this tutorial Paul. However, I found that on my Autodesk 360 (personal version) there is no nominal/construction option when I right click. I'm having to press x instead which then converts the line. Do you know whether the menu option has been removed in the latest version or do I need to change something in the settings? Many thanks

Everytime im trying to learn any engineering-related topic I inmediately look up if you have any video on the subject. Thanks for sharing your wisdom!