Cut cylinder rotated around circle from cylinder

[yanick.salzmannNCRMX]

Hello all

I am still having very low exposure to fusion360 and I was having some issues finding a good title for my question, but I am trying to achieve the following shape:

To me it feels like I should be cutting a horizontal cylinder from the vertical cylinder in an upwards screwed path, but I dont really know how this could be done.

I have tried a couple of things but I realized I dont even know where to start here, cause I could not even get remotely near anything like the desired shape.

What should I be looking into to get something like this done?

Thank you very much in advance and best regards
Yanick

[laughingcreek · Accepted solution]

I'm assuming your looking for a cam slot type geometry.  fusion doesn't have a direct tool for creating cam slots like inventor does, so you have to do a bit of modeling.  either the newish emboss command or the sheetmetal tools provide a workaround for getting a surface in the right spot/shape that is then thickened.  see attached-

[jhackney1972]

Here is another way to create the slot.  You can change the Sweep Twist Angle to change the incline, the Thickness and the Pipe diameter to change the width of the slot.

[yanick.salzmannNCRMX]

Wow yea, apparently I am looking for a cam slot, your attachment is exactly what I was looking for. I am going to analyze your attachment to match my specs 🙂

[matthewrjacobs]

Also, @TheCADWhisperer has a rather detailed YT video on modeling cam slots