topic Re: Design Concept Problem in Fusion Design, Validate & Document Forum

Design Concept Problem

dagrace2 — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 13:23:25 GMT

Newbie here, quite addicted. Started with Tinkercad and now trying to learn Fusion.

I have a conceptual question. The tools are the next step, but I can't even get past the design concept.

If I wanted to make an "ice cream cone", the concept is to merge a cone and a sphere. I also understand (mostly) the use of holes.

What I'd like to do is take a random line drawing, and "fill it in", not unlike the use of the "paint bucket" tool in Photoshop.

So I have a line drawing, like this:

I want to make a "base plate" for something else to sit on. Conceptually, I think an "extrude" function might work if one could constrain it to stay inside the lines. I could also approximate it with enough cylinders and cubes.

In the "sketch" tool in Tinkercad, I just successfully filled in a shape.

Is there a similar tool in Fusion?

Thanks for any help.

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g-andresen — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 14:05:54 GMT

Hi,

This is what solid extrusion is for.

It requires that the contour be closed to produce an extrudable profile (blue color).

Günther

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dagrace2 — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 15:40:22 GMT

Thank you. I knew it would be embarrassingly easy. I have used the extrude tool, but not the right parameters. Danke!

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TheCADWhisperer — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 16:24:27 GMT

@dagrace2

For future reference you should always Attach you *.f3d attempt with your question.

Re: Design Concept Problem

dagrace2 — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 21:44:25 GMT

Another problem/challenge with holes.

What I think I did:

1) imported the 1 mm extrude of a snowflake design (from tinkercad).

2) hand-drew the star around the outside as a sketch.

3) extruded the star.

Anything else you see in the timeline is wasted energy/learning curve, etc.

Because the bits of the snowflake don't actually connect, I can't just print that. So I was going to deboss/engrave the snowflake into the star base.

2 problems:

1) because of the order I did things in, the snowflake is 231 bodies, hanging under the project. I created a Component, but now I can't figure out how to "move" the bodies to under the component.

2) I tried to group the bodies, and/or make a sub-assembly, so that I could deal with them as 1 unit (what I think would have happened if I had put them under the Component), and I think I succeeded, but I don't know how to reference or manage it. The end result I want is 231 holes that look like the snowflake.

f3d is attached.

Thanks

Re: Design Concept Problem

TheCADWhisperer — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 00:10:20 GMT

@dagrace2

I dragged and dropped the bodies into the new Component.

Then I did a Combine - Subtract.

See Attached file.

Re: Design Concept Problem

dagrace2 — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 15:12:00 GMT

Perfect again. I am watching the Learn Fusion in 30 Days Youtubes. Perhaps I should wait until day 31 to ask more questions.

Thank you.