topic Re: How to complete outer-border in Fusion Design, Validate & Document Forum

How to complete outer-border

Anonymous — Thu, 11 Nov 2021 12:19:15 GMT

Hi,
I'm pretty new to Fusion 360 and I have no experience with CAD software so let's say I'm a newby 😉

I have a letter (from a svg-file) that has no closed outer-border but I would like to fix the outer-border so I can use the offset tool to make it a hollow letter.
I guess this is not really the idea for using Fusion 360 but I guess it should be possible with it.
Can someone give me a tip/hint or workflow to do this.
so i want the outer-border to be fully closed (and then to remove all items inside that outer-border)

Re: How to complete outer-border

TheCADWhisperer — Thu, 11 Nov 2021 12:24:38 GMT

Can you File>Export your *.f3d file to your local drive and then Attach it here to a Reply?

Re: How to complete outer-border

TrippyLighting — Thu, 11 Nov 2021 12:28:27 GMT

I would open that .svg in a vector graphics application such as Inkscape and complete the 2D and offset stuff there, then import the resulting .svg into Fusion 360.

The sketch engine in Fusion 360 is not made for sketches with a lot of unconstrained sketch objects, and trying to offset such geometry in Fusion 360 is likely going to fail.

Re: How to complete outer-border

Anonymous — Thu, 11 Nov 2021 12:40:21 GMT

I could try to do that but this is only 1 letter and I have multiple.
So that is why i would like to know myself how I can do this.
But thanks for trying to help me with this.

Re: How to complete outer-border

Anonymous — Thu, 11 Nov 2021 12:41:14 GMT

I was afraid that this answer would come.
Ok thanks then I will have to try it this way ..

Re: How to complete outer-border

TrippyLighting — Thu, 11 Nov 2021 13:13:31 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
I was afraid that this answer would come.

And rightfully so 😉

Imported 2D geometry very often does not adhere to the tolerances required by CAD software (not just Fusion 360!). That's the reason closed regions are not recognized, or when they are recognized and then extruded, subsequent modeling operations fail.

90% of the problems with imported 2D geometry can be attributed to just those 2 things above.

Easiest way to avoid these problems is to use the native tools in Fusion 360 and design from scratch.