topic Re: How to make a fender? in Fusion Design, Validate & Document Forum

topic Re: How to make a fender? in Fusion Design, Validate & Document Forum https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-design-validate-document/how-to-make-a-fender/m-p/5473264#M306556 without knowing exactly what you want to end up with, it's a bit hard to say for sure.  So, I just took a guess that you want something like this:   <IMG src="https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/149455i4A334329C3B079E4/image-size/original?v=mpbl-1&px=-1" border="0" alt="trailer fender.jpg" title="trailer fender.jpg" />   See the attached video.  Start with an arc: <IMG src="https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/149456i14C0F61B9F127B40/image-size/original?v=mpbl-1&px=-1" border="0" alt="fender 1.png" title="fender 1.png" />   Then use TSpline Extrude, with "Symmetric" and "embed symmetry" set to extrude it: <IMG src="https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/149457i5FDB36047DCCDA00/image-size/original?v=mpbl-1&px=-1" border="0" alt="fender 2.png" title="fender 2.png" />   Then, use Edit Form.  Double click on the curved edge to select the entire chain of edges.  Then, hold down the Alt key and drag the arrow manipulator towards you - this adds a new row of faces to both sides of the fender: <IMG src="https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/149458i53CBC4409A748C9F/image-size/original?v=mpbl-1&px=-1" border="0" alt="fender 3.png" title="fender 3.png" />   <IMG src="https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/149459i13F72A5824C48194/image-size/original?v=mpbl-1&px=-1" border="0" alt="fender 4.png" title="fender 4.png" />   Then, keeping that same chain of edges selected, use the Scale manipulator shown below to scale that set of edges inward, to get the curves edges of the fender: <IMG src="https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/149460i86F55BE33174D2BA/image-size/original?v=mpbl-1&px=-1" border="0" alt="fender 5.png" title="fender 5.png" />   You can tweak the shape from there, but that should get you the basic shape that you're after (I hope!).   Jeff Strater (Fusion developer)     Sat, 17 Jan 2015 16:34:15 GMT jeff_strater 2015-01-17T16:34:15Z