Tessellation in Fusion 360 (Requested Video) 

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Thank you :) It's all about the mistakes ;)

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Thank you. I don't know SW but from what I have seen there should be similar features 👍

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I'm terrible sorry to disappoint your high expectations on my video 👍😀. Fusion crashes only solving the surfaces, so I'm hesitated to wrap that surface around anything 😎

@@KristianLaholm Thx ッ Yep, too much math and Fusion 360 =̷(̷+̷-̷)̷ uoᴉsnᖵ Ɛ90 ッ

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I missed your question. But tools like replace face or make the pattern on another body and combine. The machining parts is not my side as I have not played around with CNC.

I have not tried it, but Sheet Metal can be used to bend things. But I don't think Fusion will not handles this in a good way.

Oh I found it just now, its under "Sketch" > "Create" > "Circular Pattern"

@@ShirinDelsooz I have a video on how I "speed up" my workflow in Fusion 360 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-nsOM5Hrc7No.html The most importen one is hitting the "s" key on the keyboard to pull "Design Shortcuts" and type in the command I'm looking for. Some command exist in different version for sketch/solid/surface.

I have previous answer to this and I would use and I'd use a very different workflow. And with to many odd faces Fusion will slow down.

Thank you. Fusion can be tricky sometimes, I tested the workflow and it worked for me. Try saving the design and restarting Fusion to clean the memory.

@@KristianLaholm I managed to sort it in the end, I had some sharp corners that didn't stay in their shapes when patching so I changed the design slightly and it worked great!

There are some older good surface tutorials on YT for Fusions, but they use the old UI (all the functions are the same but have moved around a bit). You can set up keyboard short cuts for some of the features used or use the Search function in Fusion (S on the keyboard)

Fusion is not the best tool for "organic" shapes like this, there are solutions to it but I think it's easier done in other software (not my strong side)

Putting a patten on a sphere is a problem by itself, you can't flatten a sphere is what it comes down to. And squares like in the video is "impossible" to put on a sphere. The pattern has to be based on something like a geodesic sphere to work. And for now Fusion will hate geometry like this.

I haven't tried to wrap a pattern like this around a cylinder but my workflow in this video ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-cSbyHOt5JP0.html would be my referens to start with. There is a possibility that Fusion will not be able to solve the surface geometry when refolding the tessellation.

@@KristianLaholm Ok yeah I figured I'd have to try and combine the two methods. Will give it a go tomorrow, I hope Fusion can handle it. The square pattern worked out perfectly today, thanks!

@@AnthonyPetrone did it work out?

@@ShirinDelsooz Ah, no not really, but I didn't try that hard. It was definitely stressful on my computer I remember though.

The typ of geometry you are describing is hard in mechanical CAD. I would export the design and use a mesh modeler like Blender for that (I'm a beginner at blender, have no good workflow)

Thank you so much! Now I can stop trying crazuy things in fusion =) @@KristianLaholm

Fusion is not the best tool if you want a "random" hammer pattern.

This is something that mechanical CAD will fail with, you have to look at mesh modeling for this.

Thank you that helps me a lot! @@KristianLaholm

I haven't tried bending it using the "sheet metal" trick, but I suspect Fusion will slow down and crash. If the surface is more complicated then a cylinder Fusion is not the best tool for this.

@@KristianLaholm I think I will try to chain a 3D design along some rails that follow the surface and intervals up the surface(stack them) and then join them. then subtract from the surface. so I can follow up and down a variable wavy surface? eh? work ya? lol. I am thinking about making a sort of square chain that looks similar to Celtic designs and try that. That way I can create a more detailed material that will give the Nylon or other plastic surfaces some more hard surface-looking features. As far as crashing goes I mainly find that fusion 360 like many programs is still strongly controlled by the GPU/CPU combo. (obviously) I bought a Ryzone 5 6 core and coupled it with a Radeon Pro WX 3100 and it does wonder. however the WX 3100 is under what the CPU can actually handle, So I may upgrade to a WX 4200 or higher in the coming months when I replace my motherboard. Hope that helps. The only few times it crashed, is when I deleted something in the timeline and then push pulled something and it deleted some of its surfaces into oblivion lol. Then boom, Fusion does not like that. But I have seen fusion throw fits for a few seconds, mostly because of my naive abilities in 3D modeling.

@@joemickelssilva1347 Software like Dynamo (autodesk, there are other) have make repetitive patterns. I haven't played with them myself but seen the result from them.

Try some other designs and play around with Fusion, then come back and give the workflow a new try :) 3D modeling can make your brain spin :)

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There are (expensive) software like Dynamo that makes this "easy" but Fusion will most probably never be good at things like this. I should add that some functions in Fusion has been changed that makes it possible to speed up part of my workflow. A different approach would be to create this shape in software like Blender and then import to Fusion.

@@KristianLaholm thanks im gonna take a look at that :)