描くBlog #4 #ZoneOneWinter
Aim: 15mins/800words
1/14/26: Wednesday
10:45AM-10:58AM: #13mins
700words
[[Hopper Drawing]]
[[Plate Drawing]]
[[Angle Drawing]]
[[Steel Drawing]]
[[Fabrication Drawing]]
Hello RaihanFabricates Audience,
Today I am going to be talking about a project that I did back in 2023. This is a drawing of a Hopper, that we made in Logan Steel. I was in charge with replicating a drawing that the customer had, and we were in charge of cutting the materials for the project. For me, this was a cool project, because it was dealing with tolerance, and being able to put all the pieces together appropriately, to make the steel hopper. A hopper is a steel enclosure that acts as a transitory space for machines to have their materials go through. A lot of the times these are customized to fit exact machines.
The material needs to be tough, and it needs to connect directly to different types of machines. I had a lot of fun doing this, as I knew how to use Autodesk Inventor, and I just had to showcase all the materials properly, that were needed to be cut for us to be able to fabricate. I also used this project on MrMoeRohan.com, summer of 2025, and I really liked how it came out. I feel like this is one of those projects, it looks simple enough, but it requires a lot of nuance knowledge, and the fact that this was cut and sent to customer, and it fit perfectly, it made a lasting impression on me.
This is a project that I am currently trying to replicate in Autodesk Fusion. Although Fusion has a lot of similarities to Autodesk Inventor, it’s still a new program for me. Though because of my experience, of using mates and constraints, in Solidworks and Inventor, I have familiarities here as well. In Autodesk Fusion, instead of mates/constraints, they use something called joints, which is interesting in itself as well. Though, Fusion is slightly different, because in Inventor, you would have a bunch of constraints together, in order to have the pieces fit together. Though in Fusion, you only have one joint, that pretty much locks the layers in place. This is the main difference.
It has taken me some time to figure how all this works, but overall, I am getting used to it. And I hope this project illustrates some of the capacity that Fusion has in its arsenal. One of the main reasons I have chosen Fusion as one of my primary programs, it’s because it’s a program that Autodesk is focusing on, as a primary hybrid remote tool. Fusion is more portable, and it’s also directly MacBook compatible, which I use as well. For me, I think learning Fusion properly will help me advance in a direction that I want to go, in regards to 3D designing, and it’s portability aspect, as I also want to be able to work from different countries.
I genuinely have more fondness for the MacBook, because I’m also a designer, as well as a writer, which for me is crucial, and the MacBook lightens and organizes the load. To me, being able to replicate this project in Autodesk Fusion, it’s a first step, so I can get more experience with working and translating different projects in Fusion, and being able to incorporate it with the fabrication process that I am used to. I genuinely think Fusion is super portable, and it can run anywhere, and it will be super easy for collaboration. As a result, I am determined to keep this program on the sideline, and use it as needed to make any project fabrication ready. And the aesthetics are pretty good as well. So I am pretty excited to see what directions Autodesk will take this program in.
I wish to show more advanced projects as I move forward, with my unique demonstration of the fabrication process, for these kinds of products. A Hopper is really useful for transitory spaces, for when machines need to connect, and have products go in-between. So I genuinely am super grateful, that I am having some exposure to all this. I hope to continue this trajectory, as I demonstrate more nuanced understanding of these machines. And at the same time, I am exposing myself to Autodesk Fusion, which I think will definitely become a lot more popular, as these programs become more developed, and with more advanced AI integration.
