Emboss, Soft Select & Painted Displacement

[Anonymous]

I'd love to see an EMBOSS function in Fusion 360.

Something fully featured, and not limited to planar or cylindrical forms ( I'm looking at you Inventor! 😉 )

As a workaround I extrude a cut into a surface but on non-planar it's impossible to get something that reads correctly in a visual sense.

Secondly, a SOFT SELECT function with the ability to use a WACOM stylus (c/w pressure sensitivity) to paint surface and form displacements would be the perfect addition to my workflow.

True enough, I could use Maya; but Fusion 360 has the potential to be my one-stop-shop.

[keqingsong]

Thanks for the suggestion TRACERfire! We are definitely planning an implementing these features in our future updates. 

[Anonymous]

Great to hear! 🙂

Thanks for the fast reply btw.

-JP

[deyop]

I want to make sure I understand your request better.  In Maya there is a soft modification that applies a falloff value to a set of selected vertices.  But it sounds like you want to make selections based on a paint like interface, especially with a WACOM input device.

We are actually working on both but if you can give me any more detail on your workflow it will help ensure we don't miss something important.

[Anonymous]

I guess my original post is actually requesting 3 separate features.

I was silly enough to mash them all into one post! 🙂

Overall I think your post indicates that we're on the same page.

1. embossing (I often import 2D data into a sketch and use the geometry to cut or raise features from a surface)
2. soft modication w/ falloff (just like Maya would be perfect for my workflow, ie mirroring across a plane and/or major axis plane)
3. displacement painting with a Wacom stylus (working this way on a quadball in sculpt mode would be a dream)

[schneik-adsk]

The team is working hard on this for an update after our upcoming 1st release. We are looking at 6 week updates so the wait won't be too long :). I'll post a video showing progress...

[Anonymous]

Sounds great!

This is really going to help me out with some work projects.

I work in toy design and a sketch of anything can come down the pipeline at a moments notice.

It keeps me on my toes as I have to be able to simply realise hard and organic models as (mainly) parametric surfaces without jumping around into too many other software packages.

Fusion has really helped me stay in one place.

[Anonymous]

I would like to add for embossing that it should also work in patch mode, lets say you want to emboss product name or logo and then add thicken after that. Also booleans work only in solids as i see, not patches or sculpt but it would be nice if they work in all modes too, also some kind of shrink wrapping would be useful, meaning that i could take another surface/object and push the target surface, like sinking your hand into clay, kind of emboss effect  too then. Also conform? surface or body to another non-planar surface/body would be very nice.

And some deformers, coming from polygon modelling world bend, lattice, taper, twist etc common deformers would be cool, propably more useful in finding overall form and design then precise production modeling but still.

[Anonymous]

I often solidify a patch, apply Booleans with cutting tools and then simply delete the geometry I don't require.

The resultant geometry is then thickened.

A couple of extra steps but I've found it works well enough for my current project.

[schneik-adsk]

It's looking like text is going to take longer than expected. As an alternative we are proposing to add import of SVG into a sketch.

This would allow you to create text outlines and/or logos and bring them in.  What do you think? Will this help in the near term?

[Anonymous]

I don't really have use for text really but I do like the option of an SVG import. Sometimes I do create geometry in Illustrator, Flash and also coded geometry in Processing.

So this would be far, far more useful than just importing text.

[Anonymous]

Importing SVG and being able to place and work with it would be a perfect solution for me.

TRACERfire's use is very interesting. I use Illustrator (not flash, shudder) and now I'm going to have to look at processing..

but loading SVG as a body would be a huge problem solver.

Select the face, pick the file, it appears on the face and can be resized and moved. Project done!

[Anonymous]

Hi it will be nice for us who design Life Style Products. Many times we have to increased the thickness of some graphics on a ring band but ended up redoing the whole band. This will really help!

[schneik-adsk]

SVG import and the falloff editing were part of October 2013 update.

[Anonymous]

Was emboss and engrave enabled in the application yet?

[Anonymous]

Hello,

is the Emboss tool really implemented in Fusion? If it is, where can I find it? I was looking for the Emboss tool in Fusion 360, but I can't find it anywhere. If the tool is not implemented yet, in my opinion, this request shouldn't be tagged as "Implemented".

Best regards,

CA

[donsmac]

I would also like to know where the embose tool is. I don't believe there is one. Implemented? Don't think so.

Would be nice to have though.

Don't say 'Implemented' then, the request will lose votes. The request was not for SVG import (which is implemented), but for Emboss functionality, so take off the Implemented status from this idea reguest.

[Anonymous]

If there is no emboss tool to wrap 2D geometry around curved surfaces, which was the whole point of the original request, then please schneik, remove the implemented tag! I'm desperate to see this feature and if it's marked as implemented when it's not....

[Anonymous]

Hello Frootadelic, since Autodesk tagged this request as "Implemented", I created a new request for this feature.

If you want this feature as much as I do, I suggest that you follow this link and give a "kudo" to support the request:

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-360-ideastation-request-a/emboss-feature/idi-p/5786374

There is a lot of users out there creating similar requests... and we only have 21 kudos on this one.

Maybe it would be better for all of us if we joined forces and vote in the same request.

Regards,

CA