can you scale a body at a cross section?

[Anonymous]

So I started with trying my hand at vases and have come upon an issue I'm hoping someone here can help me with.  I have made two vases that a complex cylindrical shapes.  I would like to be able to scale them at a cross section to make the whole vase swell out or shrink in at a few heights.  Is there a way to do that?  I know most of the vases are made with lofts, sweeps, or revolves. From my basic understanding of the program, since I already have these complex cylindrical shapes, those tools will not work on an existing body.

Edited to attach a file.

[jhackney1972]

Please attach your model so the forum users can use it to help you.  If you do not know how to attach your model, open it in Fusion360, select the File menu and then choose Export and save the .F3D file to your hard drive. Then use the Attachments section of a reply forum post to attach it.

[jeff_strater]

Yes, your understanding is correct.  You cannot apply tools such as loft to an existing body.  You can, however, use the existing body to generate sections and create a new body using loft that can then be modified to get the results I think you are after.

[Anonymous]

so I uploaded one example to show why I can't just use a loft of a few sections.  I more need a distortion tool that can shrink or grow a section.

In the example one I have 6 ellipses that have been swept up to create an interesting shape.  I want to keep that shape and I don't think a loft would keep that

[laughingcreek]

all in how you model it I guess.  we can't do much with a stl file around here, so you would need to use a different software to do anything with what you attached.  maybe mesh mixer.

if you were to attach a fusion file (export as a .f3d file) someone might can show you how to model it differently in fusion to get what you want.

[Anonymous]

ok now attaching the right type of file.  Sorry for the confusion I was just attaching the files I was working with once I was attempting prints.  I forget that this software is obviously more broad than that.  hopefully this makes my issue clearer.

[laughingcreek]

can you break the links so you can export as .f3d instead?  most of us here don't like opening .f3z files.

[jhackney1972]

This is a cross section scaled up by a factor of 1.5 and then lofted to each end.  Is this what you are looking for?

[Anonymous]

I was trying to keep the twists in the columns.  I may have to make untwisted pieces and then use a coil to cut materiel back out and then fillet the sharp edge left after the cut.  Well thanks for trying to help