topic Re: (easy) Maintain wall thickness when extruding pipe geometry in Fusion Design, Validate & Document Forum

(easy) Maintain wall thickness when extruding pipe geometry

Anonymous — Tue, 04 Aug 2020 17:38:43 GMT

I would like to taper this object while maintaining its wall thickness. Recommendations?

This is so elementary, thank you for the time & space.

Re: (easy) Maintain wall thickness when extruding pipe geometry

jeff_strater — Tue, 04 Aug 2020 17:49:22 GMT

do this in two steps: Extrude the pipe as solid, with taper, then add a Shell feature to make it hollow. Extrude with taper of the hollow profile will not produce uniform wall thickness

Re: (easy) Maintain wall thickness when extruding pipe geometry

g-andresen — Tue, 04 Aug 2020 17:54:26 GMT

Hi,

1. Extrude outside D with taper

2. "Shell" with wall thickness

günther

Re: (easy) Maintain wall thickness when extruding pipe geometry

jhackney1972 — Tue, 04 Aug 2020 17:53:39 GMT

A little more involved. Extrude inside and outside diameters as tapered surfaces. Then patch each end and stitch all together.

Re: (easy) Maintain wall thickness when extruding pipe geometry

jeff_strater — Tue, 04 Aug 2020 17:59:21 GMT

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Re: (easy) Maintain wall thickness when extruding pipe geometry

Anonymous — Tue, 04 Aug 2020 18:17:46 GMT

Thanks, I knew extruding a shell wouldn't work.

This is workable advice.

Something you can do in Blender is make a curve and some shape to extrude along it (along with yet another curve to determine diameter over its length), could I do similar in Fusion?

Thanks. Just trying to learn so I can play with my 3D printer and make cool kinetic art.