Extrude direction problem

[Anonymous]

G'day Everyone,

I'm new to Autodesk and was dragged over due to experimenting with Speedform. I really like the possibilities of fast surface modelling and found that Fusion 360 seems to have the best of both worlds. However I am confused by subtle differences which have me searching for different answers to the same questions. Why in Fusion can I not specify the direction of extrusion, when in Speedform you can select any plane for the extrusion direction? These tools seem to be exactly the same yet in Fusion there is no option to select any direction other than that of the plane the sketch was originally drawn on. Being that this is how I taught myself to work in Speedform I am having a hard time now linking sketches sideways to form a face. Any info would be appreciated thanks.

[HughesTooling · Accepted solution]

The workaround is to create a sketch and use sweep.

Select the face and the sketch line for the path.

After clicking OK you can turn the sketch back on and drag the end point of the line and the sweep will update. This will only work if the sketch is unconstrained, if the sketch is constrained with dimensions changing a dimension will update the sweep.

Mark

[jeff_strater]

Thanks, @HughesTooling.  You are correct - Sweep is one way to get this behavior (and then some).

Regarding Speedform and Fusion:  You are correct that the two products share a common code base.  But, each product has its own priorities and target users.  The Speedform team has decided to put this feature into Extrude, while the Fusion team hasn't yet put this feature high on the priority list.  If this is something that you'd like to see in Fusion, you should feel free to put an idea in the Fusion 360 Idea Station.  If enough other users feel that this is a good idea, then it will make its way into Fusion.

Thanks for the valuable input!

Jeff Strater (Fusion development)

[Anonymous]

Thanks very much for the solution and suggestions. I will pop that idea in.

[Anonymous]

Cheers Mark, thanks a lot!