topic Re: HELP! Don't know how to model this Design in Fusion Design, Validate & Document Forum

HELP! Don't know how to model this Design

Anonymous — Tue, 08 Nov 2016 19:40:59 GMT

Hello community!

I'm working on a project as an industrial designer, making the housing of an electronic smart product, but I had always modeled on 3ds Max, so I'm new in Fusion 360. I already know the basics, and have made some tutorials and seeing a lot of tips on YouTube's Fusion 360 Channel (I use AutoCad too, and used to know something about Inventor, but that was a lot of years behind and I don't remember it very well).

Anyway, the thing is that I want to start doing the project's design in parametric software to give it professionalism and have engineering feedback, but i don't have any idea how to make it. I already tried some things but without the results that I expected.

Please, can someone help me out solving this? I'll really appreciate it! The geometry is very simple and intuitive, but I don't know how to transfer it to the model in Fusion 360 starting in a sketch.

I attached some renders of the product and a few schematic views with dimensions on it.

Re: HELP! Don't know how to model this Design

TrippyLighting — Tue, 08 Nov 2016 20:49:59 GMT

A geodaesic dome is anything but simple. The fact that it looks simple is very deceptive.

Re: HELP! Don't know how to model this Design

Anonymous — Tue, 08 Nov 2016 21:16:37 GMT

Yeah, I know, I was meaning that it's easy to catch what the model is and how it's done geometricaly. But from saying to doing, it's a lot of difference, especially when you don't know how to use the software very well.

Re: HELP! Don't know how to model this Design

TrippyLighting — Tue, 08 Nov 2016 21:36:59 GMT

If it would be me I'd use Blender to create an Icosphere and then export he .obj.

Import into Fusion 360 and convert to BRep.

Took me less than 5 minutes.

I wonder if 3DSMax has a primitive similar to the Icosphere in Blender.

Re: HELP! Don't know how to model this Design

Anonymous — Tue, 08 Nov 2016 21:59:35 GMT

Yes it does, I know how to do that, but i can't have the form that I want with the pre-defined segments that the softwatre gives in GeoSphere models. Actually, this geodesic dome was made in Sketch Up by drawing the profile, and then rotating it by 30° of the center axis for each edge until close the complete 360°.

What I want to do is completely make the model in Fusion 360 to have everything under parametric sketches. I don't really know if an imported model from 3ds Max or SketchUp or whatever can be "parameterised" in Fusion 360. It's possible?

Re: HELP! Don't know how to model this Design

TrippyLighting — Tue, 08 Nov 2016 22:08:11 GMT

That depends on what you want to parametrize. If you share more details we can discuss.

Re: HELP! Don't know how to model this Design

Anonymous — Thu, 10 Nov 2016 17:55:17 GMT

I finally made it. After a long process and a lot of commands, I got to the wanted model. Thanks anyway for your answers and for be the only one to actually noticed my request. Now I proceed to shell and extrude for final things.

Best Regards.
Cristián.

Re: HELP! Don't know how to model this Design

Anonymous — Tue, 05 Feb 2019 02:45:59 GMT

Can you tell us how you made it? Thanks!

Re: HELP! Don't know how to model this Design

_noe — Thu, 20 Feb 2020 00:48:09 GMT

Yes please tell us, how you solved this.

Thanks