Design a Kinetic Sculpture using Fusion 360

About Design a Kinetic Sculpture using Fusion 360

_Student's Testimonial for Create a Kinetic Sculpture in Fusion 360 - Vol.1_

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"This is a great course for anyone looking to explore creating a kinetic sculpture using free software and new to 3D CAD. Mahmoud does a great job of showing step by step instructions on how to create animations using four-bar linkages.

The detailed explanations break down the visualization of Coupler curves, how to create a 3D design based off a 2D image and how to fine tune the animation of your sculpture. The only thing I wish it went into is how to motorize sculptures like this and how to gear the linkages together but I'm guessing thats what volume 2 is about!

I'm very pleased with this course and give it a 5 out of 5!" -- Rob Burke

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"

Sisyphus

, the king of

Ephyra

, is punished by being

forced to roll and immense boulder up a hill

only for it to roll away when near the top

repeating his this action for eternity."

Or so the legend say... This course is inspired by the word done first by

Dave Johnson

and later

Disney Research

group to put t

he mythical story of Sisyphus into a Kinetic Sculpture

that describes the

agony of his punishment.

This course will teach

you the methodology that you can follow to create this Kinetic Sculpture

and

ANY

kinetic concept that you can imagine in

Fusion 360.

The course uses the work o

f Disney Research group as a reference

from which to study the motion of Sisyphus and to duplicate it in

Fusion 360 while also using GIM software.

In Section one you will learn about

Fourbar Linkages,

Coupler

Curves

and

GIM software.

This course will teach you how to use the f

unctionality of GIM software

with

Fusion 360

to design

any crazy motion

that you could think of.

This methodology will be the main focus of Section two.

Each stop of the methodology will be outlined and

demonstrated later in Fusion 360.

The methodology makes use of th

e flexible Top-Down design approach in Fusion 360

. Each Mechanism is driven by

two Sketches in Fusion 360

. This makes the changes later to the

mechanism and the output motion VERY simple.

The power of Fusion 360 used with the power of Coupler Curves design in GIM software will open up a whole new possibilities for your designs.

In Section three, the previously outlined

design methodology is applied to the walking mechanism in the sculpture.

I will walk you step by step explaining each tool as I use it with my "

floating" walking head videos

. This course will teach you s

o much about advanced ways to extrude bodies in Fusion 360

and how to structure a

very complex assembly

in

Fusion 360

so that

later changes can be easily done and traced.

In Section four the same methodology is applied to

design the body mechanism.

This time the body Mechanism is done using the same

two sketches technique and illustrated

in step by step guide with floating talking head. I

n Section five the timing between the mechanisms

is of essential importance. The focus is on getting the final motion right and true to the first imagined

"Struggling" Sisyphus.