This week's Shop Smarts focuses on a single feature of Fusion 360 that I recently found quite useful - Derive. Biotech asked us to make letters that can hold a liquid. They needed several of these letters, so we decided to make 3D printed cubes that could have the shape of the letter extruded, or …
25-26 Week of 3/16-3/20
While there was a lot of great work happening in the shop this week, we decided to give the students a break from writing blog posts and let them focus on their work. Student blog posts will start again next week. A couple of highlights from the week were Junior Tim Hunt's work on the …
Mr. L Shop Smarts #009
I hope everybody had a relaxing weekend. Here are a few brief items to hopefully help you be more successful in the shop. In a previous post I mentioned the latest update to Autodesk Fusion regarding the new workflows for Part, Assembly, and Hybrid designs. I discovered a new video that breaks the general ideas …
25-26 Week of 3/9-3/13
Students were hard at work this week with some amazing projects continuing. Hard to believe we are already in the middle of March, and still our students continue to power through so many incredible projects. Here are a few highlights. Senior Euan Rees is making more progress on the 6 wheeled rover: This week I …
Mr. L Shop Smarts #008
Only a few more weeks until our April break! Until then, lets enjoy our next round of insight. Hopefully you find these helpful - especially those looking for some work this summer. For those of you who utilize AI in your daily work tasks, Fusion has introduced Autodesk Assistant. You can find it at the …


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