topic Re: Cut a body with another body? in Fusion Support Forum

Cut a body with another body?

2herds — Tue, 20 Feb 2018 15:28:47 GMT

New to this and trying to self-teach myself, so if answered please be detailed.

I made a simple cylinder. Then on an axis to the cylinder's face but separated from it made a triangle in the Line Mode. Rotated it 360 degrees to make a body out of it. So now I have 2 bodies, cylinder and cone shaped wedge. I want to drive the cone into the cylinder, say 1/2 way and have it cut out the cylinder. How?

Extrude on the cone shape won't take. Combine lets me select the cylinder as the target and cone as the tool for cutting, but no way to move the cone into the cylinder to cut. If it move the cone into the cylinder it just adds it as a fused part.

I expect it is some simple thing, but what?

PS: I tried to upload a picture but that kept on saying invalid file type, just not my day!

Re: Cut a body with another body?

jhackney1972 — Tue, 20 Feb 2018 15:49:50 GMT

Take a look at the screencast. The first method is to model the cone at the relationship to the cylinder you want and simple cut the cylinder with the revolve. The second method is the make a solid body of the cone and move it to the position you desire and then combine/cut. The advantage to the second method is you can later edit the move and have the combine update. I think this is what you were asking for in the first place.

It sounds like you need to take a closer look at the tutorials, they are great and it will not take long to master Fusion 360 if you use them.

Re: Cut a body with another body?

2herds — Tue, 20 Feb 2018 22:51:15 GMT

Ended up using the 2nd method after some trial and lots of errors. I need the Fusion for Dummies, does Amazon have it?

Re: Cut a body with another body?

piratfpv — Sat, 05 Oct 2024 10:52:21 GMT

After 6 Years, this is still the easiest to understand explanation. By using 2nd method, I been able to add thread on this object.
Thanks a lot

Re: Cut a body with another body?

jordoglover — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 18:41:18 GMT

came to this thread to figure it out. The actual answer is to make a copy of the object that you want to use as a cutter, then use that new copy to be a cut.