How do you cut one object from another?

[Anonymous]

I created a football type shape by drawing a 3 point arc, closing the shape with a single line, then using the form -> revolve tool to make it a body. When I finish the form, I can create a box around half of it, which will allow me to cut half the football away, but it won't allow me to do it inversely and leave the box with a football shape cut out of it.

I'm pretty new to fusion360 and there are tons of tutorials. If I knew what this process was called I'd just look up the tutorial but I don't know where to begin here.

I'll gladly give more details if I can provide them. Anyone know how to do this?

PS, back in the 3dsmax days like 15 years ago you would use the boolean tool and "select operand B" to choose which object you are using as the cutting shape. My searches for fusion360 boolean didn't look like it was what I was talking about. Maybe I was just impatient and would rather ask those who may just know and spare myself 4 hours of googling and messing around.

[carl_bass · Accepted solution]

My guess is that you're trying to do the boolean while making the box. Instead make the box as a separate body and then use the modify>combine tool to subtract either one from the other. Here's a video showing it http://autode.sk/1Cff5nk

[Anonymous]

Perfect! exactly what I was looking for. The missing step was clicking the tool bodies button. Without doing so it was using the box as the body. Thank you!

[markendaneennummer]

It took me ages to find this, I was not looking in a menu called combine... Perhaps the name could be improved.

[mikes10259P8UW]

THANKS

[Anonymous]

Agreed.

Any reason we can't rename it 'Subtract' like every other CAD program?  

Did Dassault actually copyright commands?  Wouldn't surprise me.

[chrisplyler]

An alternative, of course, is to make the box first, and Revolve/cut the football half out of it.