Advanced Loft question

[jtylerwaller]

Hello,

I first must tell you that I am a self taught beginner with Fusion 360 and 3D design in general. I am a High School technology teacher that is starting a STEM guitar building program at my school this year. I have been chugging along and learning the Fusion work space very well, but I have ran into a a problem that is causing me some trouble. I have created a general design of a guitar neck and have successfully completed the project using a CNC router. However, I wanted to create a more well sculpted neck to aid with finishing and that would require less sanding after coming off of the Shopbot. I have created the basic shape but can't for the life of me get the neck profile on the back to loft to where it meets the head stock. I am fully aware that this is a copyrighted headstock design from Fender and I will not be using it as our final design, but simply using it as a building block to secure the knowledge required to finish the design.

any help would be greatly appreciated.  

[SaeedHamza]

It's not just the sculpt, you can use also the patch and model environments

But mostly you'll be using sculpt and patch, especially the patch environment

I'll make you a screencast on my process shortly

Regards

[SaeedHamza]

Here is the screencast

[laughingcreek]

so lots of ways to skin that cat.  this is a similar approach.  Addresses the connection to the head differently.  Lots more refinement can be done with this approach, but i was done with my morning coffee, so I'm off to work.  file attached for your enjoyment

FYI-the thing Saeed did with the t-splines is a nice thing to have in your bag of tricks.  He used the t-spline environment to rebuild the imported geometry so things would be clean.  This is a work around to not having a proper "fit curve" tool in fusion (well, except for mesh cross sections, but lets not get into that).