[OPEN] Integrated Analysis for Certain Modeling Features

[JamieGilchrist]

To help speed up your modeling and shape description within the context of the geometry you create, we recently have introduced integrated analysis tools within some of the Fusion modeling features; most recently on Loft for both surface and solid creation.  

We've integrated: Curvature, Iso Curve, and Zebra analysis types as a seperate tab within some of the modeling features, most notably: Loft and Sweep for both solid and surface creation, as well as Ruled and Extend surface tools.

We’d be delighted to hear your feedback, thoughts, and insights on these expanded capabilities.

Specifically, we’d like to know more about:

How do you use this new capability?

How valuable to your workflows are these integrated analysis tools?

What do you feel we missed or can improve upon with the integrated analysis tools?

Please let us know your thoughts; good, bad or indifferent to these enhanced capabilities

Either myself or @harv.saund will be happy to hear your comments.

[matthewrjacobs]

I think its a really handy feature,  but it just appeared one day,  I think it needs a PR consultant!

I made a post in the design section about a glitch with the patch boundary dropdown,  which Jeff has addressed.  Other than that I would like to see an option for the UV curves you get through the texture map controls

Thanks

[JamieGilchrist]

Thanks @matthewrjacobs That's for the feedback.  We will look into aligning the texture map uv controls with the surface analysis ones.

[nicolas.beaudoin_MI]

Hello. I believe a thickness analysis based on a largest sphere model would be very useful for designing products destined for injection molding. This would allow prediction of sink marks and voids.

[mattwnugent]

Correct me if not the proper thread.

Would be useful to have an analysis that calculated circumference and area of a cross sectional slice.  

Our workflow often uses Forms, which have irregular artistic shapes rather than precise geometry. Being able to measure the cross sectional area and circumference (perimeter) of a slice of the form would be extremely useful.

[aeroBXHT3]

For surfacing I find the iso-curve feature useful, but for me, what would make it far more powerful would be being able to use those iso-curves as construction or trimming elements. For instance, if I wanted to split a face along an iso-curve 75% of the way along the face. The maths to calculate those iso-curves is clearly within the software, but there is no current way to bring those iso-curves into a sketch or use them in modelling or construction.