 Hey guys, Vladimir here with desktop mix. I looked at the calendar today and it is December 11th And there's no way I can let the month go by without giving you a few Christmas designs So today I decided to kick it off with a quick five-minute snowflake tutorial now. This is one I actually went through in my fusion 360 live class, which is my weekly online class And I've got the link below if you want to check it out. Although it may look like there are several geometric shapes going on here I'm gonna show you how we can quickly make this design with just one tool and that's our line tool All we need is our line tool and a few constraints and we can quickly make this design All right Let's jump right in we'll begin by creating a sketch on the XY plane and I'm gonna start with a line So L4 line and we'll begin right at the origin go straight up the dimension here is really not important But let's go about 50 millimeters and we're gonna take this line and click X to make it a construction line What is important here is that you get this vertical constraint So if you don't see it there go ahead and add it in in your constraints toolbar right here All right hit escape and then L4 line again we're gonna start with another line right on our origin and this time we're gonna go up at an angle and We will dimension this line so D for dimension origin here is our first click and in our second click at this point And the top left and then we're gonna click again and enter 50 millimeters as our height now We're gonna come in with an angle between our angle line and our vertical line So D for dimension there and when we're gonna select both lines and then click the middle and then write 30 degrees as our angle there Okay, and the next part of this is really just creating a few more lines So L4 line I'm gonna create an angled line coming across not so much worried about the Angle for now. Just make sure you don't get you see how it wants to snap into a perpendicular constraint there try to avoid that if you do Accidentally get those or this midpoint constraints you can delete them But we're gonna try to avoid those and then we're gonna go ahead and select both of these lines I'll hold shift and select both of them now. I'm gonna come and make them parallel by clicking on our parallel constraint here So now they are both parallel and then so therefore if I come in and dimension one of them here make that 45 degrees They will both be 45. All right next. We're gonna enter dimension from the origin here So we'll click on both of these points the origin and the point on our line I'm gonna make this first line 10 millimeters and we're gonna make the second line here to that point at 20 millimeters All right, we've got those lines. We're gonna create a couple more lines up here again I'll just create a few lines here avoiding any constraints here one constraint actually you can go ahead and Put in right away if you reference this line here and then start drawing it notice You'll get that parallel constraint. So then we don't have to grab it up here. It's already set And to do that, you just kind of referencing then go back and then it tells fusion that that's what you're trying to do We will add one more constraint and that's our equal constraint So I'll select both of these lines and grab my equal and be careful It's easy to mix up both of these the parallel and the equal constraint because they look similar All right before dimension and now that they are both equal and parallel We can simply enter an angle here and both will update so that kind of made a small little bit I'm just gonna move them up a little bit here and then d4 dimension and I'm gonna make this say 15 millimeters All right now. We've got our angle and our length there We can go ahead and set a dimension from the origin here for each of those for this first one I'm gonna go out till I get a up-down dimension there I'm gonna enter 30 millimeters and then I'm gonna do the same thing for the second one here Except this one will make 40 All right now we're gonna take and apply a mirror to Our lines that we've made so we'll go to create mirror We'll mirror both of these the first ones we made the mirror line is going to be the center line here And then we're gonna right-click Repeat that with these other two lines here with the mirror line being the angled line click okay That's basically all we need for our sketch here and the rest of the magic will be done with our thin extrude tool So we'll go ahead and click finish sketch if we're extrude grab our thin extrude And I'm gonna go ahead and select each of these lines. I love the thin extrude tool. It really saves us time And not having to make profiles for everything. So it allows me just to extrude sketch lines I'm gonna go ahead and change the wall thickness to three and the distance. I'll also make that three You'll see how it looks here. I'm gonna change the wall location from side one to center there we have it click okay and Now I'm just gonna take this again. This doesn't look like much, but Check out what happens when we create a circular pattern. So I'll go to create pattern down to a circular pattern Select my body and then my axis is going to be the Z axis here I'm gonna go ahead and make six of these you can go ahead and type that right in Click okay, and then finally we can do a combine. So we go to modify combine I'll just select each one of these arms here and operation is join and click okay and There is my snowflake go ahead and give this design a try on your own and feel free to play around with different shapes and patterns You can really have a lot of fun with just simply using the line tools and combine that with your sketch constraints And you can create some very complex designs very quickly. And speaking of sketch constraints I've got a cheat sheet below. It's a downloadable PDF that explains all the different sketch constraints I definitely recommend checking it out and just keeping it by your side when you're designing It's really gonna make your workflow super efficient. Alright guys I will be back in a few huge thanks to all my patreon supporters If you enjoy my content and would like to support me the link is below as well. Take care and I'll see you in a few