(easy) Maintain wall thickness when extruding pipe geometry

[Anonymous]

I would like to taper this object while maintaining its wall thickness. Recommendations?

This is so elementary, thank you for the time & space.

[jeff_strater · Accepted solution]

do this in two steps:  Extrude the pipe as solid, with taper, then add a Shell feature to make it hollow.  Extrude with taper of the hollow profile will not produce uniform wall thickness

[g-andresen]

Hi,

1. Extrude outside D with taper

2. "Shell"  with wall thickness

günther

[jhackney1972]

A little more involved.  Extrude inside and outside diameters as tapered surfaces.  Then patch each end and stitch all together.

[jeff_strater · Accepted solution]

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[Anonymous]

Thanks, I knew extruding a shell wouldn't work.

This is workable advice.

Something you can do in Blender is make a curve and some shape to extrude along it (along with yet another curve to determine diameter over its length), could I do similar in Fusion?

Thanks. Just trying to learn so I can play with my 3D printer and make cool kinetic art.