Hi, you are absolutely right. By "combine curve", I assume you mean the intersect command where you project 2 curves onto each other. Also, with the pipe command, there is no need to draw a profile. This would be the much faster method. At the time when I made this video, I was unaware of these 2 features. Thank you for pointing this out.
@@Fusion360School I love this community interaction, I appreciate the work you put out, I'd love to give you a piece of the pie for teaching such amazing techniques and working with your community!
@@ETechn0 I would not have persisted with the channel for as long as I have without constant encouragement from the community. This is my way of giving back. Sounds like you are involved in teaching Fusion 360 too?
@@Fusion360School Unfortunately I'm not, my main channel is just really bad memes, I'm in the process of developing parts for the performance sector of MZR / Ecoboost motors and I come from a programming background, all of this is new to me, and I really appreciate content creators who give so much, I've always been interested in material science, and learning how to create mechanical components is a huge part of that, and I think you're teaching wonderful tools that have already helped me out a lot.
I have watched a few tutorials on this and I cannot get the project to surface command to work. It says "Not supporting projecting sketch geometry into same sketch. Please change the target sketch or geometry". But the surface I am projecting to was created with one sketch, and the geometry I am projecting was created in another. Any ideas what is causing this?
As far as I know, the sweep command has always been controlled by proportion. Maybe you can send this suggestion to Autodesk! If it gets enough votes, it might get implemented.
are you able to make a video showing how you can create a hollow fan duct that has a unique shape (i.e not a circle or well defined surface) essentially I am trying to make a fan duct for my 3d printer and have been struggling to get the hollowing and consistent thickness shell working. Imagine having an slot type output then the other end the input to the fan is 90 degree and maybe a rectangle with all the custom comples curved shape and having to do this at an angle to meet the fan output. Thanks!
For loop length, you can simply click on the projected curve and lookout for a length readout at the bottom right corner of the screen. Or you can go to inspect, measure and click on the curve. If you need to measure angles of certain segments of the pipe, I would suggest creating a sketch on a plane and try to draw tangent lines to the curve. From there, you can use the dimension tool to determine the angle.
@@Fusion360School It's a bit tricky when it's 3D splite. I read somewhere that fusion does not have tools for measuring angles and radius in complex curves. I will try to measure that with your suggestion, thank you. I need to enter those angles into the bender. I hope I wont have to change the software
Hi, I am not sure that there is a good way of measuring an actual object with such curves. The typical way of doing this would be to take pictures of the actual object in the primary planes, import them into Fusion 360, scale them according to an easy to measure dimension (e.g. overall length) and then trace out the curves in sketch.
