10/5/22 Altering the design to be cut by local laser cutting shop

 Colin Szeto

Lengthened the drone top plate so holes are not so close to the edge


Motor mount exporting in inches


Side wall exporting in inches


front plate exporting in inches


The below plates were laid out by hand 

12 motor plates

2 side walls

1 front wall

1 mid plate

1 top plate

1 bottom plate

8 leg mounting plates



Auto Layout Arrange (Fusion 360 Feature)

Utilizing this tutorial to auto layout the parts with the correct spacing and edges


Basic steps


Preferences > Preview features > manufacturing workspace > 3D arrange

Enable Nesting trial


  1. Import components into file

  2. Create manufacturing workspace (blue means within manufacturing workspace)

  3. Right click create manufacturing model 

  4. Right click edit manufacturing model to enter into the workspace

  5. Create new component with the workspace as the parent

    1. Under each component create a sketch 

  6. Arrange, select all parts and select the sketch

  7. For the parts left over select and arrange on second sketch

  8. Create sketch, project all needed geometries into sketch (different that the intal component sketch)

  9. Export sketch

20230508 Tuning In the O-Ring Size

  Parker handbook  4.3 Face Type Seals “Face type seals are sometimes rectangular. In designing such a seal to receive a standard O-ring, th...