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Aluminum T 6061-T6 is your desired material. Your goal is to make the case as lightweight as possible and to tool a functional and artistic surface effect.
As a second challenge, you can design a personal cell-phone case cut from aluminum with added features and functionality. You then compete in a design challenge with your class using the provided criteria.
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| Autodesk Fusion 360 CAD/CAM/CNC: Create a cell phone case |
As a second challenge, you can design a personal cell-phone case cut from aluminum with added features and functionality. You then compete in a design challenge with your class using the provided criteria.
After completing this course, students will:
- Create a T-Spline primitive.
- Experiment with editing a T-Spline body.
- Generate a rendered image locally and in the project.
- Place 2D projected views into a drawing.
- Create a section view.
- Simulate the programmed toolpaths for each set-up.
- Explain metrology.
- Conduct a first article inspection.
Contents and Overview
This course consists of 10 sections that include lectures and hands-on exercises using Fusion 360. Each lesson includes comprehensive lecture presentations and project exercises that include step-by-step video instruction, project resources and datasets, and a final course assessment.
At the beginning of the course, we’ll apply design for manufacturing principles to design a cell phone case. Step-by step video tutorials guide you through the process from sketch to documentation. We’ll then use Fusion 360 CAM to set up and program the cell phone case CAD model for successful manufacture.
Once we’ve reviewed manufacturing best practices, we’ll overview of the CNC setup and machining for a cell phone case. We’ll then step through the inspection process to ensure accuracy in our design.
At the end of the course, you’ll take a course assessment that demonstrates your expertise and shows you where you might need more practice. The skills in this course will help you apply design and engineering concepts and practice real-world scenarios that you may encounter in the design process.
At the beginning of the course, we’ll apply design for manufacturing principles to design a cell phone case. Step-by step video tutorials guide you through the process from sketch to documentation. We’ll then use Fusion 360 CAM to set up and program the cell phone case CAD model for successful manufacture.
Once we’ve reviewed manufacturing best practices, we’ll overview of the CNC setup and machining for a cell phone case. We’ll then step through the inspection process to ensure accuracy in our design.
At the end of the course, you’ll take a course assessment that demonstrates your expertise and shows you where you might need more practice. The skills in this course will help you apply design and engineering concepts and practice real-world scenarios that you may encounter in the design process.
Who is the target audience?
- Anyone interested in the design-for-manufacturing processes: Computer-aided design (CAD), computer-aided manufacturing (CAM), and computer numeric controls (CNC).
- Beginning students interested in machining, milling, as well as additive and subtractive manufacturing.
- Students looking for a project to practice their CAD, CAM, and CNC production skills.
- Get the course
