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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nAfter exploring the introductory files, I found that I still had no idea what was going on and decided to consult YouTube where I found a series of videos from a channel called “The Fusion Essentials” (links below). I basically watched each of these videos and made a few designs (shown below). I think this was a perfect practice exercise because creating the dowel of the toolbox is going to be a similar process to making pegs for my models. I was a few hours into doing this post and realized that this software needs to support the .STL files created by PDB (Protein Data Base) where I will be obtaining most of the molecular structures. Good thing Autodesk Fusion supports these file types as I would have had to restart and choose another program. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Well, that’s that for this week. UMW just bought a multi-extruder printer over the summer so next time I hope to include a picture of a test print using soluble support material. Also, should I make a google doc showing off some of the key skills I learn in Autodesk Fusion? Did I blog properly? Also, I’m starting to really get a good idea of what my end project will look like and wow I think it’ll come out good. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Good morning everyone, this is my first of many posts in which I will be learning how to utilize CAD software in order to edit 3D molecular structures for 3D-printing. My first step was to find a good CAD software that was both cheap (or free) and had enough processing power to edit extremely complex […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dkc.umw.edu\/fellows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dkc.umw.edu\/fellows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dkc.umw.edu\/fellows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dkc.umw.edu\/fellows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dkc.umw.edu\/fellows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dkc.umw.edu\/fellows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dkc.umw.edu\/fellows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dkc.umw.edu\/fellows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dkc.umw.edu\/fellows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Note: I haven’t made it to part 4 of the video series yet..
(156) Getting Started with Fusion 360 Part 1 – BEGINNERS START HERE! – YouTube<\/a>
Getting Started with Fusion 360 Part 3 – Modeling with SOLID TOOLS! (youtube.com)<\/a>
Getting Started with Fusion 360 Part 4 – Modeling Tools, Cutting Holes, and Removing Material! (youtube.com)<\/a><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/dkc.umw.edu\/fellows\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/09\/2024-09-12-24-1024x429.png\")
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