topic Re: Fill Surface in Fusion Design, Validate & Document Forum

Fill Surface

zakariadze1 — Thu, 17 Aug 2017 15:34:03 GMT

Hello, is it possible to do this in fusion 360? (This is solidworks.)

Re: Fill Surface

SaeedHamza — Thu, 17 Aug 2017 15:37:30 GMT

Hi,

Of course, this is simply a Patch ...

Go to the patch environment and select patch in the create menu, and you will be able to create a patch by selecting a closed profile

Regards

Saeed

Re: Fill Surface

zakariadze1 — Thu, 17 Aug 2017 16:13:48 GMT

I tried, but it does nothing.I'm getting different kind of errors.

Re: Fill Surface

SaeedHamza — Thu, 17 Aug 2017 16:23:44 GMT

Here is an example

Re: Fill Surface

zakariadze1 — Thu, 17 Aug 2017 17:22:24 GMT

That really helped a lot and thanks, but you are missing one little thing ( a curve which is inside)

Re: Fill Surface

SaeedHamza — Thu, 17 Aug 2017 17:50:15 GMT

Oh I see, sorry didn't see that 😛

This effect is actually easy in Fusion but in a different approach, different tools you can say

But mostly if you want to model such a thing, it's a loft, and it will be between 3 lines ( 2 lofts )

It will be helpful if you can share a better picture of the part you are trying to achieve so that I can create a screencast

Regards

Saeed

Re: Fill Surface

TrippyLighting — Thu, 17 Aug 2017 17:53:16 GMT

In that case, perhaps you should have provided the model with your first post so we don't have to make assumptions based on your stamp sized animated gif.

Re: Fill Surface

zakariadze1 — Thu, 17 Aug 2017 20:22:24 GMT

Re: Fill Surface

SaeedHamza — Thu, 17 Aug 2017 23:56:37 GMT

Thanks for sharing the picture, Here is a screencast on how to make it, and as mentioned in the screencast, the wheel place is last thing to make

Regards

Saeed

Re: Fill Surface

TrippyLighting — Fri, 18 Aug 2017 00:07:35 GMT

At 1:10 when you select the rail, instead of selecting the sketch segment, hide the sketch and select an edge of the existing surface. That should then allow you to set the curvature condition to G2. This was a much needed improvement in the last update. It would have been even better if weight for these conditions would have been introduced. Ohh well....one day 😉

Otherwise you'll have a visible discontinuity in the surface.

You could also inspect such blends with the zebra stripe tool and the curvature map.

Re: Fill Surface

zakariadze1 — Fri, 18 Aug 2017 00:18:03 GMT

Thank you very much for your big help! So would I be able to create surface out of this with this technique? or any other advices. Thank you again.

Re: Fill Surface

SaeedHamza — Fri, 18 Aug 2017 01:18:08 GMT

You're right @TrippyLighting

Thanks for the tip

Re: Fill Surface

SaeedHamza — Fri, 18 Aug 2017 01:22:54 GMT

Yes sure, you can use same method, just pay attention to what the profiles and the rails will be and you should be good to go

and as Peter said above, the middle line is used to create both pieces ( 2 lofts ) so when creating the second piece, make sure to select the edge of the first piece created instead of the middle line that was used to create it so that both pieces are connected ( by using the smooth option for the profiles )

Anyway, if you couldn't figure something out, please feel free to share

Regards

Saeed

Re: Fill Surface

SaeedHamza — Fri, 18 Aug 2017 01:25:47 GMT

One more thing

If you want to model a whole car, I recommend you do it in the sculpt environment, it would be much better sometimes

Not that modeling it in the patch environment is wrong, but more tricky I guess