topic Re: Separator with card slot in Fusion Design, Validate & Document Forum

Separator with card slot

mbarbone — Sun, 17 Mar 2024 19:27:24 GMT

Hello,

I created a box and made separator / dividers, instead of putting text on each, I have a 3 sided slot to slide the card in. I created 3 different sketches for the different layers.

I was watching something similar that was created in TinkerCAD, but it was done completely different. The main body and then 2 "cut" objects. Moved / centered into place, item complete.

I have tried different with the objects all in the same sketch but can't get with the cut objects. "Target not selected...", I did get similar with creating different sketches for each item.

Is there a "proper way" to do this ?I'd like to learn the correct way and not just "as long as it looks like I want it to"...

Re: Separator with card slot

jhackney1972 — Sun, 17 Mar 2024 19:44:14 GMT

Please attach your model and explain further what you want to achieve. Do you want to have slide in cards?

If you do not know how to attach your Fusion 360 model follow these easy steps. Open the model in Fusion 360, select the File menu, then Export and save as a F3D or F3Z file to your hard drive. Then use the Attachments section, of a forum post, to attach it.

Re: Separator with card slot

SaeedHamza — Sun, 17 Mar 2024 21:42:02 GMT

The propor approach of creating such a shape is to always analyis where to start from (top, side or front).

Sometimes you use alot of tools in order to create a body that could be created by a simple revolve for example, so analysing the object you're trying to create is always a good habit to have before commencing work.

As for this one, you can create both the body and the cut in the same sketch, which should look something like this :

Using this sketch, I was able to creatething body using 3 different extrusions (the main body, the cut for the card to go inside and the cut that shows the card) :

See attached the f3d file and check the timeline so that you get exactly what I'm talking about.

Re: Separator with card slot

mbarbone — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 14:43:31 GMT

Perfect. I did not think I could just extrude lines to create the shapes. I was using rectangles. This was the answer I was looking for. Thank you so much.