{"id":64488,"date":"2023-12-22T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-22T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/?p=64488"},"modified":"2024-04-22T02:37:26","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T09:37:26","slug":"shop-talk-podcast-james-bruton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/shop-talk-podcast-james-bruton\/","title":{"rendered":"Shop Talk Podcast Episode 6: James Bruton on the Magic of Inventing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Welcome to <em>Shop Talk,<\/em> a podcast where we catch up with designers and makers live from their workshops. In this episode, designer and Autodesker Jonathan Odom speaks with James Bruton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCUbDcUPed50Y_7KmfCXKohA\">James Bruton<\/a> is a former toy designer, current YouTube maker, and general robotics, electrical and mechanical engineer. He&#8217;s a fan of DIY and innovating through trial and error. He believes 3D printing can solve most issues and we spend this episode learning more about him and his inventions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Below is a short excerpt from the conversation to give you a taste of what to expect. You can listen to the full episode below:<\/p>\n\n\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Shop Talk with James Bruton | Autodesk Fusion\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2tLFNC_YaYw?start=18&amp;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen style=\"aspect-ratio:500 \/ 281;width:100%;height:auto;\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>This excerpt is edited for brevity and clarity.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>So, tell us a little bit about how Fusion fits into your workflow.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So everything&#8217;s designed in Fusion to start with\u2014the whole assembly is in Fusion. So there&#8217;s a CAD file with this assembly in the plywood bike, with the wheels on and everything else. The parts are 3D printed so I&#8217;ll export as STL files and put them into the slicer and go off and print them. For the other parts of the CNC then I&#8217;ll just export a sketch. And then I use a different CAM software to go and turn that into toolpaths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>You don&#8217;t you don&#8217;t use CAM in Fusion 360? Can you can you tell us why?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I never got into it really. So I use Vectric Aspire at the moment, which they give to creators for free. They\u2019re based in the UK and I run into them at a lot of shows. It\u2019s very easy to use ad I&#8217;m not really doing anything very challenging at all. I just find it very simple for doing whatever I need to do, which is typically cutting out a square with a hole in or something.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>I did exactly the same thing. Back before I was at Autodesk, I worked at a maker space. The equipment there was set up with another app where you would just export a DXF and cut it out. It was very convenient. What I noticed when I transitioned to Fusion was that the parametric aspect made a huge difference. As you know, when you get a different batch of plywood, even from the same company, it can be off by like a millimeter or two. And that thickness has downstream effects on anything that interfaces with the plywood. What you can do in Fusion is set a parameter for the thickness of the plywood. If that changes, all you do is update the parameter and then all of your tool paths update too, so you don&#8217;t have to go through that extra step of exporting a DXF and redoing toolpaths in another app.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em><strong><em><strong>Stay tuned for the next episode of <em>Shop Talk<\/em>. 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