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Autodesk Fusion 360 and why I enjoy designing 3D projects!

My love for woodworking and design that involves working drawings go way back to high school. I took shop class and enjoyed that plus having been educated in 3 years of drafting classes before graduating.  In my early thirties I attended and graduated from a community college where I earned an Associate of Applied Science Degree in Design Technology and also where I learned to draw on the computer with AutoCAD. That was quite different to learn than the old days when I got started drawing on a drafting table with manual drafting tools. That meant I had to finally learn how to turn on and use a computer! I really got interested in woodworking from watching Norm Abram for several years on the New Yankee Workshop.  I love that program and still watch those episodes whenever I can. Take a look at some of my 3D models that I created with Autodesk Fusion 360. Viewers of the New Yankee Workshop will most likely recognize them. I modeled them from Norm's actual dimensions as if I built them myself!  Now I have discovered Autodesk Fusion 360 and that has opened up a whole new world for me. I am learning more about that powerful drawing software all of the time and hope to earn a little income while helping woodworkers earn more profit from making fewer mistakes. Autodesk Fusion 360 has given me the opportunity to completely build complicated woodworking projects in a 3D model that includes all of the joinery and details with hardware that would be included in a real project!  Almost as much fun as being in the woodworking shop!  From a 3D model I have the ability in Autodesk Fusion 360 to create a complete working set of dimensioned plans with a material cut list.  I would be happy to use my design skills to assist any woodworker on projects of all sizes.

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