Fusion
So..... Newer to Fusion 360, even newer to posting on the board. Hopefully, I chose the right board.
I'm designing a part based on a Part D Female x Female camlock/NPT coupler. We get some proprietary parts made for some of our products.
The problem I'm having is when designing them I embossed rectangles on the cylindrical surface. Sides A & C are the same dimensions and Sides B &D are the same dimensions. All embossed rectangles are the same depth at .135".
After all the embossed parts I chamfered the bars separating the embossed cut outs, followed by fillet the bars for a rounded top.
The problem: even though I used guidelines; 4-sided polygons (construction lines) on planes, that are parallel; for the sketched rectangles I used to do the embossments, when I do Chamfer and Fillet and zoom in it clearly shows the top and bottom lines are clearly not on the same plane.
any suggestions?
your sketches are generally not fully constrained, which isn't doing you any favors. Good practice is to fully constrain unless you have a particular reason not to.
fillets, chamfer, and emboss are all considered finishing tools. meaning they are usually the last thing to be done. they can induce geometry imperfections and shouldn't be relied on for further modeling. exception to every rule of course, but a good thing to keep in mind.
for instance looking at the corners at the emboss feature we can see a slight variance in the z direction-
not much, but way more than enough to screw with future function.
so rule of thumb, avoid layering these operations on top of each other.
attached is a possible way to achieve this geometry. note the only 2 sketches needed for this are fully defined, making tweaks to the geometry rather easy by editing the dimensions in the sketches.
