topic Sculpting an air vent in Fusion Design, Validate & Document Forum

Sculpting an air vent

JarnoM25 — Fri, 23 Mar 2018 20:27:25 GMT

Hello,

First of all love Fusion allthough its a steep learning curve to get where I want to be.

I'm working with composites and especially for motorcycles, and now I'm trying out a new idea.

Imagine I would get an .STL or STEP model of a motorcycle, and I would want to make an air vent somewhere in a bodypanel, which features or drawing environment would be best to use?

I have watched lots of videos on fusion 360 but could not find a similar shape or subject see how its done, if anyome could tell or show me, or has a tutorial video where I could see how its done it would be of great help.

See the attachment for a similar shape (the red encircled air vent).

Thanks a lot!

Re: Sculpting an air vent

laughingcreek — Fri, 23 Mar 2018 20:39:28 GMT

Making the vent won't be hard. A number of different ways you could approach it. If your new to fusion then you might try more of a negative cutout approach in model space, where you would create the negative space of the vent and cut it out of the door panel. As you gain experience you would get good results using lofts in the patch space. The sculpt space is an option, but has it's own learning curve involved.

My biggest suggestion would be to get the step file. You will struggle to use a stl file, as fusion isn't very good with mesh files.

Re: Sculpting an air vent

PhilProcarioJr — Sat, 24 Mar 2018 17:02:09 GMT

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This might help.

Re: Sculpting an air vent

JarnoM25 — Sat, 24 Mar 2018 21:01:14 GMT

Brilliant! Thanks a lot!

Re: Sculpting an air vent

agpereirav — Wed, 26 Apr 2023 08:37:14 GMT

Fantastic job!