This is a quick speed through modeling for how I make twisted cables in Fusion. The key ingredient is a sweep surface with a twist great there 360 degrees. (I usually go 600 degrees). When the sleep is modeled, just connect the sweep to the cable terminations points with a 3D spline and use the tangent constrains to the sweep. Done! :)

machining starts tomorrow! these will be machined on 3” pink extruded polystyrene. the dimensions of each panel will be 5’2” x 6’9”! now to get it cut and then painted for an art commission for display on the the executive floor at the company headquarters!

i taught myself how to put this all together, definitely ran into a couple bumps but figured it out through some tutorials and replies on this sub!

thanks for all the help!

I've tried the loft function with both the perpendicular faces, but it fails saying the loft would intersect itself.

By the "vertical curved face being shortened", I am referring to the difference between pictures 1 & 2.

Thanks!

Can some soul help me renewing my license for personal use or tell me if s/he had the same problems and how to solve it?

It’s my second renewal (already renewed a year ago) so I know it can only be done 30 days before expiration earliest and only via the specific page for personal use, but it’s not working. Fusion still says “license will expire in 10 days”, my account in the web browser says the same and even a complete new installation on different machines (Mac and Windows) doesn’t help. Any ideas?

This is the most recent example of irregular or curved corners that i want to fillet, and i cant figure out how to get it to work without running into crossing body problems and whatnot. Additionally, you can see a sketch for the approximate shape I want to have on the inner corner. I've tried Sweep as well and run into the same issue. Why am I stupid and how do I not be?

When even trying to create a 2 point rectangle I cant seem to be able to switch between the two length and width dimension boxes. The tab key isnt doing anything and when I try to use the mouse it just moves the other one and I cant ever click on it. Once I click out of the sketch I cant adjust any part of it? All the tutorials just say to use tab, but it does nothing for me. Am I missing something?

Say I have a Shapeoko CNC router, and want to cut a 1" diameter circular hole out of a piece of polycarb with a 1/4" bit.

What's the best practice here? Should I utilize a Bore operation or a 2D Contour operation?

I am working on updating the motor mounts on this drone to something a bit more robust for 3D printing. the new motor mounts also include a landing feature so the motor pods wont contact the ground. I needed to make an animation to help describe the changes. Let's see if you can spot the old ones and the new ones :). Also, here is a study of the new motor mount modeling: https://youtu.be/GTxPWL-vqb4

P.S. All animation was created in Autodesk Fusion :)

Can these 2 shapes be combined to leave the right hand part subtracted from the left hand part? In other words making the right hand part retain it's shape whilst adding the square part to the shape?

I have always used Plasticity as my modeling program for rc mechanical and body parts but I feel limited as I dont have mechanical animations and cant model gears as well.

I have the full version of solidworks given by a friend and Free version of Fusion 360

Am hesitant to fully commit and switch because I've tried to bear the steep learning curve of either one of these programs but I feel so slow and frustrated by how everything is overly complicated.

Is it actually worth spending all the time learning and how much difficulty should I expect in the first week? when will it get easier?

And Which and what should I learn? Fusion seems vastly easier by other people accounts but I have the full disposal of Solidworks in which I would have more capabilities like stress simulations that I wish to do in the future.

I'm totally stumped on this one. All of the sub components are showing up as transparent.

I've tried changing and overriding appearance settings, but no luck.

Any ideas what im overlooking?

I am trying to figure out what the correct workflow of a piece like this would be. Coming from non-parametric modelling programs, my solution would have been to draw it from above and extrude it upwards, and then translate the top face to create the slope. However, on fusion the workflow doesn't make sense. I also tried copying the shape on an offset plane, and then translating it and then using loft to attach the top and bottom, but that created a disaster in the parametric timeline.

Sorry if this is incredibly basic. I have a 3d scan of a brake lever. I’d like to modify it so that the angle of the blade is different as well as shorten in.

I’ve watched a ton of videos and learned a couple techniques that get me halfway there, but ultimately struggling with joining the two pieces together.

One method is using mesh section sketch throughout the blade of the lever and then lofting between them all. This works incredibly well for the blade of the lever, but does not produce good results for the mounting portion of the lever. If I manually build and extrude the the mounting portion, I can’t figure out of to take the really nice contoured section of the blade and get that contour to follow through into the mounting portion.

Another method I tried is in the forms tab, creating a cylinder, cover the blade portion and then use pull. It gets a nice result as well, but run into the same issue with the mounting portion.

If I used splines and extrude from the top and side profiles I can’t figure get one body, but missing all contours of the lever and using fillets isn’t as nice as the other methods.

Any help would be appreciated

Came across this image and wanted to see if I could make this in Fusion (no, I don't want to use Blender). I managed to create the handle part with Forms, but I struggle with the transition from the handle to to the flat plane.

I sometimes just want to change the height of tapered shapes but it messes with the base topology, is this just another case of "fusion cant do fillets" or am i using the wrong tool?

I want to adjust the back side of this volume to take the shape of the mesh for a custom part I want to make. Is there any way to do it without going through 50 mesh section sketches and manually fitting curves on every plane?

I already tried converting the mesh and cutting the solid but fusion wont let me.

I often add a chamfer to the end of a thread to make it easier to screw something in. So far I add a triangle and then revolve it. Is there an easier way to do this? It seems pretty standard.

That was not happening before, not sure if I turned on a setting or it just came with an update, but now each project I create assigns a color automatically for the object. You see it up there next to (Unsaved) as well, also down there on the timeline. I am fine with that, but I am wondering how can I change that color? I am not talking about assigning a material to the object through the Appearance menu.

Any ideas?

I make a lot of panels with holes and text on it for work.
usually is not that bad cause the amount of text is manageable but recently I had to make a huge panel with a grid of 9x6 texts to repeat but change the value. I know it is very hard for fusion to handle the amount of surfaces generated by embossing that amount of text, so I am looking for ideas to handle this cases in order not to crash the program every time I open the panel.
Is it worth to split the embossing in more functions? I can't use linear pattern cause every text is different. should I make more sketches?
I'd also like to keep everything as parametric as possible cause I have to make little adjustments or change some texts.

Ok so I picked the option to make one single component, however I forgot about that and I designed multiple of them in a single project, so now I need to split these parts into different projects in order to assemble them in the proper project type, because for now in the assembly section all of the parts act as one so I can't do anything.