topic Re: Project to Surface with a coil in Fusion Design, Validate & Document Forum

Project to Surface with a coil

Anonymous — Sat, 19 Mar 2016 22:15:34 GMT

I am trying to project a sketch of a coil to the surface of a revolved feature. When I try it with a perfect cylandar the coil profile projects as expected but when the surface has a curved profile it only projects a small section of the curve.

The first picture shows the coil profile scetch and a the cylinder.

The second show the result of using project to surface to project the coil sketch to the cylinder's surface.

The third shows the result of projecting the same coil sketch profile to a revolve feature. You can see it only prjects a small section of the curve.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Re: Project to Surface with a coil

donsmac — Sun, 20 Mar 2016 06:10:54 GMT

You don't have an option to project the curve radially inward, only project using closest point gets the curve to the surface but it's not what you want.

A workaround: make a coil that can be used to split the surface. Below is a screencast showing how I made the coil.

Re: Project to Surface with a coil

Anonymous — Sun, 20 Mar 2016 16:41:06 GMT

That's a very clever work around. Thanks a lot for taking the time to post that I really appreciate it. Hopefully someday that feature will be added.

Re: Project to Surface with a coil

TrippyLighting — Sun, 20 Mar 2016 18:12:57 GMT

Ingenious use of available tools. Yet again!

Re: Project to Surface with a coil

wilkhui — Mon, 21 Mar 2016 09:33:15 GMT

Hi Joe - thanks for reporting this, I'll take a look at what's going on.

Indy

Re: Project to Surface with a coil

donsmac — Mon, 21 Mar 2016 13:50:53 GMT

Revision: There's a simplier way to make the helicoid surface. I realized the inner coil was not required for the loft. A straight line is all thats needed.

Re: Project to Surface with a coil

Anonymous — Fri, 29 Jul 2016 22:37:27 GMT

Is this reported because the cast, and the image is missing?

If anyone one know the link to the screen-cast I would appreciate getting it so I could take a look.

Re: Project to Surface with a coil

TrippyLighting — Fri, 29 Jul 2016 23:01:44 GMT

Link to what screencast ?

There are two in this thread, are not able to watch these ?