Autodesk Fusion 360: A Power Guide for Beginners and Intermediate Users (5th Edition)

I needed this book for a college course and it was in excellent condition

Gain valuable knowledge of fusion 360 with this book.

I have just bought the book and just flipped through it without sitting down and taking the time yet. Right out of the gate 2 things stroke me: 1) although the cover of the book is printed in colors, the inside of the book is black & white, which is off putting to say the least, because it is misleading and because they should have used colors in the first place to help readers distinguish between all sorts of small icons and signs and small prints, etc. It is just common practice when you have to cover such an intrinsic and great number of details within a book. Secondly, the Simulation module is missing entirely, so if you want to learn the Finite Element Analysis / Thermal analysis/etc, you cannot. I would have appreciated to know that before I bought the book, because FEA was one of the things I was after. Other than these 2 cons, I haven't had the time to see how it reads, how user friendly it may be (without the use of colors !), how easy or difficult it comes across, etc. It may seem unfair to judge a book through the lenses of either something that is missing or by its cover ( !) , because it doesn't say anything about the ''quantity'' that there is in there, but I will write more when I have sat and chewed enough of the book to see how it unveils.

Really love it

Not easy to navigate all the information, index has gapes.

Great learning aid for fusion 360. Has tutorials at end of each chapter for you to practice what you learned.

I have used Fusion 360 for 3 years. There are areas where I wanted to expand my knowledge, joints and drawings. This is an excellent book to work on areas you are not familiar with and the part files are easily downloaded and work with the book tutorials. Having a book for this provides an great alternative, an additional channel of learning to YouTube. I have the Tutorial Books series by Kishore and find this book a better reference in terms of its detail of each subject and a more comprehensive book for Fusion 360 in general. If you are looking for one book, this is the one.

A technical book of almost 1,000page s completely useless without an index.

I started to learn Fusion 360, as a complete novice, by working through instructional YouTube videos but quickly found this a slow and limited way to learn so sifted through the numerous guide books that were available. After a long search I eventually settled on this book as at the time of writing it was compatible with the current Fusion 360 software version and provides instruction from beginner to intermediate levels. The book is very well laid out in twelve chapters complete with a table of contents and index for referencing. Each chapter is broken down into sections to focus on each and every aspect of the software and towards the end of each section there are guided tutorials and unguided challenges. Where there has been an update from the previous version of the software this is also identified at the relevant points within the book. Reviewers of the previous version of this book have commented about the example figure drawings being faint and poor quality. I didn’t feel that this was a problem and wondered if it could be to prevent pages from being photocopied and pirated. I have really enjoyed working through this book and some of the exercises can be challenging but it really is worth persevering. The trickiest part I’ve found so far is associated with “constraints” and getting the blue sketch lines to turn black. But once you understand what the software is looking for the process becomes easier. Overall I feel that the book is worth the money and I would strongly recommend it to a novice looking to learn and use Fusion 360.

Autodesk Fusion 360 - A Power Guide for Beginners and Intermediate Users (5th Edition) Initial flick through does not indicate covering anything on Manufacture. Will go through some of the content so this review may change. There are 700+ pages in this book so covering manufacture might of been a bit too much anyway but it would of been nice to know this.

I’m a newbie to Fusion360 but have experience of other CAD packages. I picked up the basics from YouTube courses. But needed a reference book and more details. This book delivers it in spades. Well written. Useful pictures. Useful worked examples. I’m so glad I bought this. Book.