converting a t-spline to solid body

[itchytoes]

Hi --

I've been going through the tutorials on the web site, and I'm trying to do the things shown in the tutorial about converting a T-spline body to a solid body.    In the tutorial, you get two bodies after the convert function -- you get the new solid body, and you also get the original t-spline body which you can still manipulate.

When I try this, I just get a solid body, and I don't see the two bodies on navigation-thingie on the top left.   Is the tutorial outdated as far as the latest software goes, or am I doing someting wrong?

Thanks

Betty

[karyeka]

Hi Betty,

Are you in Direct Modeling or Parametric (timeline) environment? The tutorial must be in Direct Modeling.

More about Design History - http://help.autodesk.com/cloudhelp/ENU/Fusion-Form/files/GUID-856A6ECE-D4D9-4FBA-B8C6-3F1151C973B2.h...

Direct Modeling:

The original T-Spline body is invisible and the converted Brep body is visible. You can turn the visibility of the T-Spline body on in the browser by clicking on the bulb.

Timeline Modeling:

As soon as you convert T-Spline body you are out of "Create Form" or Sculpt workspace and into Parametric environment. What you see is just the converted B-rep body and not T-Spline body. The idea is you can continue to do downstream parametric modeling on your converted form. You can always go back in timeline and Edit the Form feature to get back your T-Spline body and make changes.

I will create a screencast  video for this.

Regards,

Anand

Fusion360 Development

[karyeka · Accepted solution]

Here is the screencast I was referring to above

http://autode.sk/1CLPz5Q

I hope this helps, please let me know if you have any questions.

Regards,

Anand

Fusion360 Development

[itchytoes]

Thanks!  the video you posted helped a lot