The Mild Mannered Brad Tallis
G’day aspiring engineers
I’ve almost worked through my list of favourite Fusion 360 resources. Most of them are Youtubers with channels about Fusion 360 but some are the official Autodesk resources. The last few issues have pointed you to the best ways to get help in the Help menu up there in the upper right corner of the Fusion360 window, right next to your pic if you have uploaded a picture of yourself. Today I want to point you to Brad Tallis, an Autodesk employee who is working on Fusion 360. He has a Youtube channel named after him but everything he does is as an employee of Autodesk, clearly they know that this is really good marketing for their product, when their employees interact with customers on social media.
Brad is my favourite Fusion 360 employee, and if I need to know about some feature of Fusion 360 in depth and the way that it has been designed to work, I always look for a video on Brad’s channel. His videos are mostly an hour long, he covers his material in depth and he takes his time. The format of the videos are live stream, there is minimal editing but Brad is able to express himself well on the fly and he knows the product from the inside out. More than once I’ve heard him talking about the intentions of the programmers who wrote the Fusion 360 code.
When listening to an hour long spiel about software you really need someone easy to listen to, Brad is quite a laid back guy and softly spoken.
Other Channel Reviews
3D Printing – Maker’s Muse
Since I surveyed the readers of this newsletter a couple of months ago, I know that 60% of you intend to use Fusion 360 for 3D printing. I’ll be sharing my adventures in 3D printing with you eventually but first I need to complete the revisions to the 16 Basic Tutorials. I’m really only a beginner with 3D printing, however, I do have ‘a card up my sleeve’ which I believe is pretty unique and should be very interesting. Enough of that, I also have some favourite Youtubers who cover 3D printing and so I’d like to share some of them with you beginning today with Angus at Makers Muse.
Angus is approaching a million subscribers. That’s not always a reliable indicator of quality but if you watch some of his videos (you very likely already know Angus) I’m sure you’ll agree that he is consistently interesting and informative.
One of the first things I look for in a 3D printing channel is some guidance about printing parts for assembly and the tolerances you should have between mating parts. This one is fantastic: Designing for Assembly in Fusion 360 (Advanced CAD Tutorial)
He discusses this from a few angles, he even talks about printing screw threads which work.
Look through his published videos page, there are lots of them, Angus has been going for quite a few years now. Some of them are reviews of various 3D printers, Angus has some settled opinions about crowdfunded 3D printers, he often shares some cool models for you to print and he covers software; different slicer software, he does Fusion 360 tutorials and technical trials.
If you’re not already one of his million subscribers go fix that now