topic Re: How to close this surface in Fusion Design, Validate & Document Forum

How to close this surface

Anonymous — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 18:24:12 GMT

Hi All,

How can I close the surface where you have the blue lines, it to give me a better CAM output.

Re: How to close this surface

whittakerdw — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 19:01:19 GMT

You may could try going to the sculpt environment and using fill hole or even edit form and drag one of the faces over to fill the gap.

Re: How to close this surface

davebYYPCU — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 19:19:26 GMT

I would suppress the cut out, but without the detail in the file it is a guess.

Might help...

Re: How to close this surface

lichtzeichenanlage — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 19:28:31 GMT

Can you File -> Export the design?

Re: How to close this surface

Anonymous — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 19:30:20 GMT

It is a import step file, so I haven't the history

Re: How to close this surface

lichtzeichenanlage — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 19:33:03 GMT

That's okay. But having the design helps to find solution.

Re: How to close this surface

Anonymous — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 19:34:38 GMT

Hi @davebYYPCU

Here you go.

https://a360.co/2Ow6YOE

Re: How to close this surface

davebYYPCU — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 19:47:48 GMT

Delete the slot faces, Fusion will repair the model, Save as new version for CAM purposes.

Might help...

Re: How to close this surface

lichtzeichenanlage — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 19:52:54 GMT

I've tested to solutions

Delete a surface
Extrude to object

Screencast is uploading.

Re: How to close this surface

lichtzeichenanlage — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 19:57:02 GMT

Here is the screencast:

Re: How to close this surface

mavigogun — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 20:48:35 GMT

@davebYYPCU wrote:
Delete the slot faces, Fusion will repair the model, Save as new version for CAM purposes.

This is one area where Fusion really kicks ass- here, taking an imported STEP file and confronting the geometry with intelligence. I'm inclined to tear stuff apart just to see how Fusion will handle it.

Re: How to close this surface

cekuhnen — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 23:57:59 GMT

@mavigogun

That my friend is the power of solid direct modeling !!!

Re: How to close this surface

Haider_of_Sweden — Sat, 12 Mar 2022 20:03:43 GMT

Hello all

I got a follow-up question, for learning purposes

This one, I wanted to clean up

I erased one stripe at a time and recreated it with loft (please suggest other ways, if there are any)

it did however leave edges like this - how come and how can I clean it up?

Re: How to close this surface

davebYYPCU — Sat, 12 Mar 2022 20:28:24 GMT

Bottom Menu, in the window,

find Display Settings > Visual Style, Select Shaded.

Might help....

Re: How to close this surface

Haider_of_Sweden — Sat, 12 Mar 2022 20:44:20 GMT

@davebYYPCU wrote:
Bottom Menu, in the window,
find Display Settings > Visual Style, Select Shaded.

No, I didn't mean the visual style. See these splines seem to be split.

If we take a look at the other curve, it is one single that goes all the way around.

My question is, how do I fix these broken lines. Can I join them? Should I rebuild the surface?

Keep in mind, the model is just fine, but I am asking so to learn Fusion better.

Re: How to close this surface

davebYYPCU — Sat, 12 Mar 2022 21:01:02 GMT

Without the file, the pictures are not telling me the problem,

so maybe.....

the middle picture with nothing highlighted, has a problem?

the highlighted edge, is an ingredient of the model, they should chain, and there is a complete loop in one pic, so not sure there is a problem.

Re: How to close this surface

Haider_of_Sweden — Sat, 12 Mar 2022 22:53:57 GMT

Here you go

https://a360.co/3I7RmJ1

It's the same model that was published earlier, and I did this cleaning up.

So look at the bottom side and look for this edge that isn't a perfect loop.

Even though it isn't a problem, my question is how I can fix it so that the line is a perfect loop, like the other lines/edges.

Re: How to close this surface

davebYYPCU — Sun, 13 Mar 2022 00:18:26 GMT

I can't explain it, other than it is an imported stp file, there is no history.

If you were to Pipe or Sweep along those edges the full loop is recognised, as 2 sections, so I am thinking the loop is not tangent / colinear across those end points.

Selecting one end is normal, highlight is black, double clicking does not chain, unusual.

I suspect that the fill in process at the beginning of the thread, is a contributor. Zooming into the end points does not look straight, and other loops are 1 piece. Can be fixed (fiddly) by deleting and replacing the dish, if need be.

Might help....