topic Re: Shell Command in Fusion Design, Validate & Document Forum

Shell Command

magnum164 — Thu, 23 Jan 2020 18:51:08 GMT

I haven't used F360 in a while but starting to do some basic design/drawings.

A while back I found a tutorial on how to do tubes. At first I was drawing the sq tube, then offsetting the thickness and extruding. This tutorial suggested using the Shell command instead.

I started using the shell command and it does save time. However, with this command it is leaving the end opposite the shell capped. I have looked through the forum and sites but have not found a solution yet to keep it from creating the cap.

For those doing design with standard sq or round tubes how are you creating the wall thickness easily with F360? Am I stuck with going back to offsets or sweeps?

Re: Shell Command

davebYYPCU — Thu, 23 Jan 2020 18:56:38 GMT

Pipe Tool, is limited to square and round cross sections, with specified wall thickness.

Shell both faces to be removed, will make a pipe, of odd cross sections.

Might help...

Re: Shell Command

g-andresen — Thu, 23 Jan 2020 19:12:47 GMT

Hi,

1. here comes the pipe

2. Shell allows to mark several areas for openings.
If you also mark the opposite cap it should work.

günther

Re: Shell Command

TheCADWhisperer — Thu, 23 Jan 2020 20:09:54 GMT

@magnum164 wrote:
...not found a solution yet to keep it from creating the cap.

If you want to use Shell rather than Pipe, simply select BOTH ends when doing the Shell feature, not just one end.

Then both ends will be removed.

Note: You can edit the Shell after the fact to include the other end if you have already created this feature.

Re: Shell Command

magnum164 — Thu, 23 Jan 2020 21:24:21 GMT

Thank you for all of the hints. I bet I missed the last part of the tutorial on selecting multiple faces, not sure why I didn't think of that.

But for now, for what I need this will work and makes life a LOT easier:).. Thanks all.