Lastly, there are honestly a lot of good tutorials on YouTube that you can follow along with. Also, Autodesk's website has some additional course modules ( ) that you can log in to take and save progress.
Depending on your current level of skill, Fusion's tutorials (under the help button > Learning & Help > Start Here (or) Learning & Tutorials) is a great place to start. I hope that helps some, and if you have any more specific questions or want some direction on a tips with learning Fusion, just let me know and I'd be happy to help.įor mechanical engineering, I would definitely start in the regular solid design model environment and then move on to surfacing, patches, sheet metal, forms, etc.
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Even though it is free, you still have a huge group of tools to learn that would translate over to other packages and even some that the more professional packages don't have yet. And Fusion 360 is a fantastic CAD package to learn and then be able to swap to one of the bigger name packages later. It is orders of magnitude easier to swap from one CAD package to another (tools are generally the same - they just change name and some dialog boxes look different) than to learn a professional CAD package from scratch. The good news though, is that if you want to get to a career where you work with CAD as a mechanical engineer, getting proficient with ANY CAD package is often more important than WHICH CAD package.
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SolidWorks, NX, Inventor, CATIA, and Creo are the big ones, but not all of them have free versions of the license or cheap/free student editions.
As far as free CAD packages go, of the many I have tested, Fusion 360 is by far my favorite and is certainly a great tool to learn.Īfter graduating, do you know what industry you would like to work with ideally or what role you would like to play in your career? I ask because different industries tend to utilize different CAD packages. I graduated ME and have been working professionally with CAD for several years now (and I began using different CAD packages looong before graduating), so I think I have a good position to answer questions you might have.