Help with Guitar Design

[TOwens777]

I am trying to model a cutaway for the back of an electric guitar (see attached pic.)  The body is a solid model.

Would it be best to try to do this with in solid modeling or with a t-spline body?  Any suggestions on how to accomplish this?

I'm a fairly new user so a break down would be greatly appreciated.

[Anonymous]

Hi, I would highly recommend first watching the two screencasts by michallach81 for lofting similar type objects:

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/post-your-tips-and-tutorials/archtop-guitar-modeling/m-p/5676549/highl...

and

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/design-and-documentation/best-fusion-method-for-handling-compound-surf...

Good luck!

Jesse

[jeff_strater]

We seem to be attracting quite a few that want to model/design guitars.  That's a market that I would love for Fusion to be known for!

Just looking at that image, I would be tempted to design the body without the cutout, then use a TSpline surface body to define the cutout shape, and use Split Body to remove the cutout.  Similar to what I recommended here, (which was for the archtop part of a guitar).  It's a little less mathematically precise, but the ability to shape the result, to me, more than makes up for that.

Good luck, and be sure to post images of your result!

Jeff Strater (Fusion development)

[TOwens777]

Thanks guys! Up til now I've been making my instruments by hand.  Recently I purchased a really nice CNC router.  I'm hoping it with Fusion will transform my business.

I'm really impressed with the software but struggling with the learning curve.  I'm determined to make it work for me!

That link looks like exactly what I am looking for.  I might need help with the split body portion.  I have never attempted that before.

Also,  I am having a new problem after the update.  I'm not sure if it's due to the update or I accidentally changed a setting.

Before when I extruded a profile in solid modeling I got a solid 3D object.  Now the object is only black outlines.  Like a wire frame with no surface. 

See attached.  Any ideas why?

[Anonymous]

That's really cool to hear, how you're combining awesome technologies for your business, and are dedicated to learning them.  In your picture it looks like you might have wireframe turned on.  To try changing that, click on the little computer monitor icon on the bottom of the screen, choose Visual Style, then Shaded with visual edges only, and see if that helps.

Jesse

[TOwens777]

Thanks Jesse!  I looked at my visual style settings and it is already set to Shaded with Visible Edges Only.  It appears to be displaying wireframe however. 

It only started doing that recently.  It might have been after the update.  It's really bugging me.

[Anonymous]

Huh, that's strange.  One other possibility that I know of is trying to go to File > View > Reset to default layout

Hope we can figure this out.

Jesse

[Anonymous]

Also I guess to be sure not some graphics problem, can do what is described here:

http://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/fusion-360/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/How-...

This is the graphic settings I have that I read in the past were good:

[TOwens777 · Accepted solution]

I found it Jesse.  I had changed my default material and that material was not available in the new update I guess.

I changed it to something else and it works now.   Thanks for your help!!!