How to best learn the basic drawing and CAM side of Fusion?

[Garwood]

I am a Mastercam X holdout. I have several failed attempts at learning F360.

The Fusion tutorials are frustrating. I will spend hours trying to figure out how to do some stupidly basic thing, watch a bunch of tutorials showing an obsolete screen layout with functions in different places.

Fusion has information overload. So many people trying to show how to do things. So many features not at all related to machining.

I tell myself the next project I am going to do in fusion and then I get into it and get too frustrated trying to do something that takes a mouseclick in Mastercam. So I give up and get it done the old way.

Any recommendations for wholesome machining related tutorials for the current Fusion version?

 

[Doug]

Please give an example of what your trying to doo.

 

[LOTT]

Would you pay an experienced user to walk you through it?

I'm with you on the changes being frustrating, there's tutorials from 2020 that are already outdated. I posted a question on where the template creation button went, it up and left and nobody knows where...

But Fusion isn't hard overall, I bet an experienced user could get you up and running in a a couple hours, at least to the point of learning on your own without feeling like you're beating you head against the wall.

 

[Mud]

The videos from Autodesk have been the most helpful for me. I got going in CAM by watching a couple videos from Lars Christensen, all of his are good if they are recent.
Here's one I learned a lot from from a different instructor -

Here's one about soft jaws, I learned a couple things including about combining from this one, I 'm not used to Boolean ops.

So many terms are different in fusion from what I'm used to. For example Pocketing covers more territory than just pockets. Engraving is for clearing out areas, tracing is for milling a single line path. I'm doing better in CAM than in drawing so far, because I'm mostly importing SE solids to put toolpath onto and just using Design to draw fixture parts like jaws and sketching when the toolpath needs a line drawn.

Interested to hear your findings, it's really overwhelming.