Thin wall Extrude.

[HughesTooling]

I'd like to see a feature like web but without the need to extrude to a body. Just draw a single line shape and extrude with options for thickening, one side, two side or symmetrical.

Here's the feature in Geomagic.

Thanks Mark

Just a Note. Should be an option for Sweep, Loft and Revolve. You can do something similar using the patch workspace and thicken but it doesn't work well with T and Y joints.

[madengineer13]

I think it would be nice if you could extrude a non-closed profile.  basically,   sketching a line or series of connected lines, but not closing the ends together.   When you select the extrude body option, and select an open profile, I would like to see an additional menu item that would add thickness in either direction, or centered on the line.  Then this thickness could be extruded using the standard settings.

I use this in SWx all the time for thin profiles  it saves a lot of time just having to sketch the surface I want and be able to extrude and thicken it all in one operation.

Right now in Fusion I have to extrude a surface and then thickent it.  Its not a huge deal, but it would eliminate a step and a feature tree item if it were combined.

[HughesTooling]

Have you tried the patch workspace I think both of you requests are there already. Below extruded open curve made into a surface.

Mark

[HughesTooling]

Here's a screencast I did for someone else, you might want to skip the first minute.

Mark

[HughesTooling]

Sorry think I misunderstood the first read of your request. I see now you want the extrude and thicken in one command.

Mark

[brownst]

I wish for this nearly every time I'm in Fusion.  Great enhancement not only for extrude but revolve as well.

[Anonymous]

This seems like its solved with the sheet metal options that were just released

[Anonymous]

+1 On this one. Thin features are a huge time saver in SW. Odd this only has 7 votes, is there a similar request posted elsewhere?

[HughesTooling]

@Anonymous No The sheetmetal can't do this at all.

Here's a screencast I made to demonstrate a couple of bugs in Web. The actual extrusion is a good example of what this request is about though.

Mark