Adding Tolerance to Combine/Cut Operation?

[jasonFUGEG]

The plan is to make a paper-embossing stamp in Fusion360 to be 3D printed.  I've seen folks do this sort of thing before and wanted to try it out.

I'm able to create a an extruded rectangle, extrude some text from it, the extrude another body on top of it (intersecting the text) and combine->cut (keep tools) so I end up with a positive and negative form of the stamp text.

The issue is that I need to add in some tolerance to account for the thickness of the paper and the 3D printer tolerances.  I can't find a good way to go about this.  I tried exploding the text into outlines and offsetting but Fusion didn't like that.

It's possible this isn't the best program for this sort of thing, but it feels like something that Fusion360 ought to be capable of.

Any ideas?  thanks in advance!

-Jason

[jhackney1972 · Accepted solution]

On the negative or positive model, your chose, use the "Offset Face" command, select all with a Window and add or subtract material, as needed, to give the clearance you desire.  Attached is a quick model to show you what I mean.  There is a 0.01" clearance between the letters and the negative body.

[jasonFUGEG]

Thanks! Is there a quick way to select all of the faces parallel to the XY plane while ignoring the faces on the Z plane? Or do you have to go in manually and unselect those?

[g-andresen]

Hi,

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@jasonFUGEG wrote:
 Or do you have to go in manually and unselect those?

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try this

günther