topic Re: Adding flowers to my plant pot in Fusion Support Forum

Adding flowers to my plant pot

bobw1966 — Thu, 04 Feb 2021 01:07:20 GMT

I have begun to make an orchid planter. I would like to add some leaves to the design and then extrude them thru the sides of the pot for aeration and drainage. I know about using svg files but some of the files I get are too big and will not extrude.

Can anyone help me with this process?

Thanks

Bob

Re: Adding flowers to my plant pot

jhackney1972 — Thu, 04 Feb 2021 01:10:09 GMT

Please attach your model and also zip up and attach a typical SVG file so the forum users can help you. If you do not know how to attach your model, open it in Fusion360, select the File menu and then choose Export and save the .F3D file to your hard drive. Then use the Attachments section of a reply forum post to attach it.

Re: Adding flowers to my plant pot

bobw1966 — Fri, 05 Feb 2021 00:46:39 GMT

https://a360.co/3oNIf6A

Here is the link to my file and a copy of the image I would like to use.

I did attach these yesterday I don't know why they didn't appear?

Thank you for helping

Bob

Re: Adding flowers to my plant pot

jhackney1972 — Fri, 05 Feb 2021 00:54:26 GMT

Got your file but not the SVG file. You attached an image (PNG) but it cannot be imported into Fusion 360 except as an canvas overlay. This would require the tracing over of the image which is not something I can take the time to do. Please zip up and attach the SVG file.

Re: Adding flowers to my plant pot

bobw1966 — Fri, 05 Feb 2021 00:56:59 GMT

Thank you for noticing this. I have attached an SVG file. It is not a large file so I am hoping that I won't need to zip it up.

Re: Adding flowers to my plant pot

jhackney1972 — Fri, 05 Feb 2021 01:06:42 GMT

Attached is the model with one side cut with the SVG design. When you import the design, you can scale it larger or smaller, I used 1.25 as my scale factor. You can see how to do it from the timeline but if you need further explanation let me know and I will create a Screencast.

Re: Adding flowers to my plant pot

jhackney1972 — Fri, 05 Feb 2021 01:13:26 GMT

I went ahead and did a pot with the same cut on all six sides. Model is attached.

Re: Adding flowers to my plant pot

jhackney1972 — Fri, 05 Feb 2021 01:18:36 GMT

Turns off all of your pot sides are varying thicknesses so the previous model pattern did not cut through all sides. The attached model corrects this error.

Re: Adding flowers to my plant pot

bobw1966 — Sun, 07 Feb 2021 19:50:18 GMT

Thank you for the lesson. I do not know how I made different thicknesses on my pot sides? Can you see how I may have done that?

Re: Adding flowers to my plant pot

jhackney1972 — Sun, 07 Feb 2021 20:42:58 GMT

After I posted my comment and second model, I realized why I have to use a different method to account for the walls varying thicknesses. They are twisted and I am projecting my extrusion from a flat plane so I have to use Extrude to a Distance that will clear the varying distances. Your walls are not varying thicknesses at any given point on them, but they vary across their surface due to the twist.

Re: Adding flowers to my plant pot

bobw1966 — Wed, 10 Feb 2021 01:29:43 GMT

Thank you again for helping me.. I will keep the extruding to a distance thing in mind.

Bob

Re: Adding flowers to my plant pot

robinharper — Sun, 02 May 2021 07:58:55 GMT

Hi.

Is it Possible to add SVG to a conical shaped flower pot

Re: Adding flowers to my plant pot

robinharper — Sun, 02 May 2021 08:00:34 GMT

Is it possible to add SVG files to a conical shaped pot

Re: Adding flowers to my plant pot

g-andresen — Sun, 02 May 2021 08:58:49 GMT

Hi,

@robinharper wrote:

Is it possible to add SVG files to a conical shaped pot

Yes!

1. Create a tangent plane on a cone surface

2. " text in sketch

3. CREATE > "Emboss"

günther

Screencast

Re: Adding flowers to my plant pot

robinharper — Tue, 04 May 2021 10:59:16 GMT

Hi

All very helpful, eventually. I probably miss understood, but could not see how to get an SVG file into the text box. So played around with putting words on the flower pot.

Eventually found insert SVG file and using your other instruction, I have been very productive

Re: Adding flowers to my plant pot

g-andresen — Tue, 04 May 2021 11:58:28 GMT

Hi,

@robinharper wrote:

Eventually found insert SVG file and using your other instruction, I have been very productive

That sounds good to me.
Ultimately, you need sketch elements for both extrusions and embossing.
Thereby imported SVG can be combined with other elements in a sketch.

günther