Autodesk Fusion 360: A Power Guide for Beginners and Intermediate Users (2nd Edition) Paperback – May 5, 2019

I have zero background in CAD/CAM software. I tried to watch some Youtube videos but they are scattered all over the place and while you can pick up a technique here or there...what I really needed was a book that started from the start. I also signed up for some udemy classes on CAD/CAM figuring a video would be easier than a book. I was wrong. But I will also say this..."This book isn't easy." I mean sometimes I would spend 3 to 4 hours trying to figure out how to do two problems at the back of one chapter. I have what I would call "average brains" so perhaps a lot of people could whizz right through these exercises at the back of the book. But I stuck with it and although I am only half way through the book, I feel I have went through enough of it to be able to give an honest review. The book follows the same theme throughout. So far it has basically gone through each feature in fusion 360. (ie. The line tool, how to use the sweep tool, how to off set a plane). I feel I am slowly learning it. Am I good at it yet? No, not at all but this is some seriously complicated software and you will not under any circumstances master it after reading one book. What I have been doing is reading the book every day. Taking my time and opening up each tool and trying to do the things he is talking about. If you just read right though it...you will never get it. If he shows you how to do an offset plane on one page...stop...make a sketch of a square....extrude it...then make an offset plane and see what it looks like..how it works so you can actually physically do it. Those are my suggestions from a 48 year old man with average brains. This is a great book that will teach you a great deal. It won't teach you ever last thing you ever needed to know about Fusion 360 but it's an very very good place to start.

This is a very thorough tutorial on every aspect of getting started from setting up a directory system, making sketches, and simple 3-D models. Then it moves into some pretty exotic concepts of more advanced modeling, but your hand is held through the whole process. The only negative is that Fusion 360 has had a couple of revisions since the book was published and some of the directions do not work as expected. You can always find your way around this problem in my experience,

I found this book to be extremely useful in my learning of fusion 360.In general it was easy to follow and took me through each chapter in a way that I could understand. It also looks like it will be a good reference book.

I'm pretty new to CAD in general, and new to Fusion 360 in the particular. Basics of software installation and setup were fine for a newbie, so too basics of fundamental tools like line, rectangle, and functions like extrude and cut. Very good tutorial exercises. Text is a bit redundant however, they will describe how to do something, then repeat much of the lesson in a tutorial. Some might like the circle back, I thought it wasted space. The quality of the printing was so-so, screen shots were low resolution making viewing a bit hard. Overall looks like a good review of basic drawing with two flaws that prompted this review, so as to get the authors to address in future editions. First there is almost no coverage of the "form" tools (previously known as sculpt). If you want to do any free-form sculpting, there just isn't any real guidance here. Second there is almost no discussion of parametrics.

Well thought out and explained. Teaches methodically with what I call "left and right brain" approaches. I even learned a few tricks on basic things I had overlooked or changed on updates and I hadn't noticed.

Everyone learns different. This was perfect for me. Very detailed.

Unfortunately, this book is now obsolete, as Fusion 360 is an online software program, and they have completely revamped the software, so the menus and screen shots shown in this book are no longer like the software. I am returning this book. Better off just sticking to the free Fusion 360 videos.

I like the tutorials and hands-on exercises.