From the course: Fusion 360: Design for Mechatronics
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Adding holes to Link1 - Fusion 360 Tutorial
From the course: Fusion 360: Design for Mechatronics
Adding holes to Link1
- [Instructor] Now that we have the general design for link one of my robot, let's add some mounting holes for the motors. Let's say we wanted to mount a motor maybe to this face here as well as to this face here. So we're going to start on this top face here. I'll create a new sketch. And I could just use sketch points like I did earlier to create my holes. Or I can also make use of Rectangle and use Center Rectangle here. And I can use any points on any sketch. So the corner points of a rectangle, for example, and create this center rectangle. And these dimensions are of course, very important because they must match exactly with the motor you're using. So for example, if I'm using a NEMA motor I can look at the dimensions of the motor and say make sure that the mounting holes of that motor are maybe 47.244 millimeters apart. So I'm going to make sure my dimensions here is exactly 47.244 millimeters apart. And, again,…
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