copying a set of dado's two two different height parts

[hawleyw]

I'm new to Fusion360 but trying to use best practices, so advice would be appreciated.

I am designing a set of shelves where the shelves ride in dado's and the uprights are two different lengths. I had modeled the shorter side and created it's dado's using the pattern/mesh feature. Am I going to have recreate the steps for making the dado's in the long side component? Or, is there a way to copy/group/paste them over into the long component... they are spaced the same when measured from the floor plane, but not from the top plane. 

[davebYYPCU]

A few ways to do this, being new it would not make much difference which way you do it, but might be better to use bodies at this stage, and components from them later.

Make the long side with all details, mirror it, and chop the top off the short side.  

Might help....

[TheCADWhisperer]

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@hawleyw wrote:

… trying to use best practices, so advice would be appreciated.

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Can you File>Export your *.f3d file of what you have done so far to your local drive and then Attach it here to a Reply?

[hawleyw]

Here's the file as it stands.

the "Complete Desk" component was where I started, because I'd seen that best practices were to immediately create a component to hold your stuff.

There are 4 different types of pieces (components?): back, desktop, inner uprights(2), outer uprights (2).

At first I created new components for each of these within the complete desk component and then created sketches for the outline of each part inside their respective components, but along the way that seemed like overkill and I moved the desktop and back sketches up into the "complete desk".

I kept the inner wall in a separate component in an effort to keep my messing around with adding the dado's segregated from other timelines.... plus I knew I'd want to mirror them (as well as the outer walls) and I'm not clear on whether you mirror bodies, or components, or if there are ramifications to choosing one over the other.

I used all of the sketches to try to capture the dimensional requirements for the parts but didn't know how to capture the shelf height requirement... they must be min 140mm high.  I'd be happier if I knew how to capture that requirement in a sketch or parameter but I don't so I simply made the inner wall sheet rectangle and a dado sized rectangle in the same sketch and then extruded them,  placed the top shelf 140 below the top of the inner wall sheet and then did a rectangular pattern to figure out how many of them I could put in while leaving some room for a toe-kick at the bottom.

Along the way I've managed to place parts off in outer space numerous times and to fail at getting parts to align with each other / snap align.... but the model seems to be OK right now.   The project is an exercise for me to get better at fusion 360.  The pieces are already cut from sheets of plywood but I am hoping to use the fusion file to cut the shelf dado's in the inner and outer upright pieces. 

Thanks for any tips or help.

Sincerely,

Hawley

[davebYYPCU]

I have no clue where you want to get to.

Origin is centred?.

No Moves,

Extrude is to finished size,

Component for each individual body, if they are the same pattern them,

If not the same but close to it, Copy, Paste New and then Joint, before making the changes.

Might help....