{"id":332,"date":"2013-12-17T00:19:13","date_gmt":"2013-12-17T00:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fusion360.wpengine.com\/holiday-design-challenge-diy-ornament\/"},"modified":"2016-03-15T10:16:10","modified_gmt":"2016-03-15T10:16:10","slug":"holiday-design-challenge-diy-ornament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/holiday-design-challenge-diy-ornament\/","title":{"rendered":"Holiday design challenge: DIY Ornament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P><IMG border=\"0\" alt=\"Banner_Eyes.png\" align=\"middle\" src=\"http:\/\/autodesk.i.lithium.com\/t5\/image\/serverpage\/image-id\/74635i5A3FBCE5EFDF0B17\/image-size\/original?v=mpbl-1&amp;px=-1\" title=\"Banner_Eyes.png\" \/><\/P><P>Hey, folks! &nbsp;The Fusion team is celebrating the holidays, and we want you to share in the fun! For those of you I haven\u2019t met yet, my name is Tanner, and I\u2019m the new East-Coast Tech Evangelist on the Fusion 360 team. I\u2019m excited to get to work with you on your projects in the near future, but for now, we need your help on this holiday project.<\/P><P>For me, the BEST part of Christmas is the breakfast casserole.&nbsp; At my house, once a year, we bake a glorious concoction of sausage, cheese, bacon, butter, egg, and flaky-layer biscuit that is the PINNACLE of human achievement \u2013 and that\u2019s no exaggeration.&nbsp; Did I mention the butter?&nbsp; <EM>Ohhhhh<\/EM>, the BUTTER.<\/P><P>But I digress.<\/P><P>The SECOND best part of Christmas is making your own ornaments and putting them on the tree with the family.&nbsp; That\u2019s what we\u2019re doing with Fusion 360.&nbsp; We\u2019re going to make a stunning, funny, awesome, gorgeous, crazy, and GLORIOUS Christmas tree, and put it up on the gallery.<\/P><P>We need ornaments!&nbsp; Just hashtag #DIYornament, post your models to our gallery and throw them on GrabCAD.&nbsp; We\u2019ll add the best to the Fusion 360 community tree!<\/P><P>As always, feel free to inspire others by sharing your work in other places like our <A href=\"http:\/\/fusion360.autodesk.com\/gallery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Fusion Gallery<\/A>, <A href=\"http:\/\/http\/\/www.instructables.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Instructables<\/A> and\/or <A href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Youtube.<\/A>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/P><P><IMG border=\"0\" alt=\"tree+ornaments.png\" width=\"657\" height=\"229\" align=\"middle\" src=\"http:\/\/autodesk.i.lithium.com\/t5\/image\/serverpage\/image-id\/74657i0FB95A8E3B4A2E04\/image-size\/medium?v=mpbl-1&amp;px=-1\" title=\"tree+ornaments.png\" \/><\/P><P>I\u2019ve added a few glass ball ornaments (below) to the <A href=\"http:\/\/fusion360.autodesk.com\/projects\/ornament-starters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">gallery<\/A>, as well as <A href=\"https:\/\/grabcad.com\/library\/fusion-360-ornament-challenge-starters-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">GrabCAD<\/A> to help get the juices flowing \u2013 just fill with anything you\u2019d like, like a train set, nut cracker scene, etc.\u2013 or start from scratch!&nbsp; Taylor, for instance, used Fusion 360 to make these crazy-cool Mockingjay ornaments above, which you can check out on the <A href=\"http:\/\/fusion360.autodesk.com\/projects\/mockingjay-ornament\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">gallery<\/A> or <A href=\"https:\/\/grabcad.com\/library\/mockingjay-holiday-ornament-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">GrabCAD<\/A>.&nbsp; I\u2019ll be making my ornament this week as well, and am excited to see what y\u2019all come up with! Let\u2019s deck this tree out!<\/P><P><IMG border=\"0\" alt=\"ornaments.tiff\" width=\"448\" height=\"200\" align=\"middle\" src=\"http:\/\/autodesk.i.lithium.com\/t5\/image\/serverpage\/image-id\/74661iF44756E2B9D92F49\/image-size\/medium?v=mpbl-1&amp;px=-1\" title=\"ornaments.tiff\" \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;<IMG border=\"0\" alt=\"treesorn.PNG\" width=\"202\" height=\"201\" align=\"middle\" src=\"http:\/\/autodesk.i.lithium.com\/t5\/image\/serverpage\/image-id\/74857i16860AE0F66ED4F6\/image-size\/small?v=mpbl-1&amp;px=-1\" title=\"treesorn.PNG\" \/><\/P><P>For a little more inspiration, check out a few of the Instructables ideas <A href=\"http:\/\/www.instructables.com\/tag\/type-id\/?sort=none&amp;q=ornament\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">here.<\/A><\/P><P>Happy CADing, and I look forward to getting to know y\u2019all better soon!<\/P><P><SPAN style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><IMG border=\"0\" alt=\"maker_smallest.png\" width=\"404\" height=\"269\" align=\"middle\" src=\"http:\/\/autodesk.i.lithium.com\/t5\/image\/serverpage\/image-id\/74641i8B73414008375078\/image-size\/original?v=mpbl-1&amp;px=-1\" title=\"maker_smallest.png\" \/><BR \/><FONT color=\"#808080\"><EM>I&#8217;ve been a hard-core maker since 1995.<\/EM><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/P><P>&nbsp;<\/P><P>&nbsp;<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><P>&nbsp;<IMG border=\"0\" alt=\"Banner_Eyes.png\" align=\"middle\" src=\"http:\/\/autodesk.i.lithium.com\/t5\/image\/serverpage\/image-id\/74635i5A3FBCE5EFDF0B17\/image-size\/original?v=mpbl-1&amp;px=-1\" title=\"Banner_Eyes.png\" \/><\/P><P>&nbsp;<\/P><P>We need your help on a fun project!&nbsp; Join the Fusion family as we CAD our own ornaments in Fusion and hang our favorites on the community tree.&nbsp;<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":213,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fusion","dhig-theme--light"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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