topic Re: creating a ruled surface in Fusion Design, Validate & Document Forum

creating a ruled surface

Anonymous — Sun, 03 Feb 2019 00:33:29 GMT

I apologize for how messy this is. I am switching from mastercam and trying to figure out how to take these guide sketches and create a surface with them. In mastercam I use ruled lofted surface. I am including the file I am working on. Interested in how this is done in fusion, dont need somebody to do it for me as I will need to do this alot in the future. Thanks!

Re: creating a ruled surface

TrippyLighting — Sun, 03 Feb 2019 00:51:34 GMT

My recommendation would be to re-design this completely from scratch in Fusions 360.

The imported geometry is pretty broken.

Re: creating a ruled surface

jhackney1972 — Sun, 03 Feb 2019 01:04:22 GMT

There are sketch segments mixed up in different sketches. What you have to do is project the sketch segments you desire onto a new sketch making sure you have a closed profile. Then you can use the Surface "Patch" tool to create a surface in your new sketch. Take a look at the screencast. If I missed the boat and I am not doing what you desire, please post an updated description of what you want as a resulting surface. What are you going to use the surface for?

Re: creating a ruled surface

Anonymous — Sun, 03 Feb 2019 01:15:57 GMT

Hey there!

Missed the boat a bit but I really appreciate it! I was unclear with what I am looking for. I am aware things are on different sketches as this was exported from mastercam, I didnt design it that way. New file attached. Example file for reference

Re: creating a ruled surface

Anonymous — Sun, 03 Feb 2019 01:17:01 GMT

Please see the new file and example. I am looking for a very specific complex surface that would be very hard to simply re design. Can you provide some examples of technique?

Re: creating a ruled surface

jhackney1972 — Sun, 03 Feb 2019 01:34:10 GMT

It looks to me you have already made your surface in the example file so I cannot add anything. If you want to make it a solid, just use the "Thicken" command, or close it in on the other side with surfaces and it will become a solid automatically. If you have multiple surfaces and wish to joint them together use the "Stitch" command under the Surface commands.

Re: creating a ruled surface

Anonymous — Sun, 03 Feb 2019 01:41:46 GMT

The example file is a different surface. I need to do what I did to the example in mastercam with the new file in fusion 360.