topic Re: Tube notching feature in Fusion Design, Validate & Document Forum

Tube notching feature

Anonymous — Fri, 19 May 2017 09:24:34 GMT

Hi all,

I am currently designing a "kind of a" bike frame. Which means there are several tubes (rectangle, circular, oval shape) which need to be welded together. I have no issue with designing the frame and getting the "intersections" right. So far so good. Now I ended up with having each tube where their ends form, depending on the intersection, different "intersection curves". In Solid, it is pretty easy now to unroll the tube and print out the intersection line. Tape it around the tube and cut it off with a bandsaw or similar. Does anybody have a tip how to "unroll" the outer face of tubes so they become flat such I can print them out ?

Re: Tube notching feature

TrippyLighting — Fri, 19 May 2017 10:18:36 GMT

E is not native function in Fusion 360 that does this, but you could check out the ExactFlat plugin for Fusion 360. Other than that I believe if these are geometric primitive shapes with a little manual work, that can be done as well.

Re: Tube notching feature

Anonymous — Fri, 19 May 2017 13:08:53 GMT

Correct, those are typically straight tube. Quite easy hands on if rectangular shaped. But I got lost when it comes to rolling off the surface of a round or oval tube with some manual work. I know ExactFlat, but this a very pricy option. My idea is to make a very straight cut through the length of the tube. then create a surface. then flatten the thing....but this is where I get stuck.

Re: Tube notching feature

TheCADWhisperer — Fri, 19 May 2017 15:06:35 GMT

Are you a student?

Can you File>Export your *.f3d file to your local drive and then Attach it here to a Reply?

Re: Tube notching feature

Anonymous — Sat, 20 May 2017 07:14:47 GMT

No, I am not. Are you ? Seems somehow worthless to upload a tube. Draw two concentric circles and extrude 🙂

Re: Tube notching feature

Anonymous — Thu, 25 May 2017 08:54:15 GMT

nobody on weldments / building frames ? 🙂