making a channel

[Anonymous]

I wish to make a channel which goes around a circle with the channel being a semicircle. I already have the circle on a box.

please tell me the steps I need to take.

Thanks

[jeff_strater]

Welcome to Fusion!

This is relatively straightforward, I hope.

I assume that this is pretty much what you are starting with:

the first step is to use the Plane Along Path to create a workplane along your circle:

then, sketch on this plane:

and use the Project Intersect to create a point in this sketch which is at the intersection of your circle and the new sketch:

Then, create the circle for your channel, with its center at this point:

And use Sweep, choose the small circle as a profile, and the larger one as the path:

and, voila:

I hope that this is what you were trying to achieve

Jeff Strater (Fusion development)

[JamieGilchrist · Accepted solution]

Hi stewartryrie,

Jeff's solution is a fine way to do it. Another way is once you have the box and circle sketch as Jeff has shown you can use the Pipe tool under the Create to get the same result.

Result:

Like any modeling application Fusion offers more than one approach to accomplishing your design intent.  As you get more fluent in using Fusion these different approaches will be clearer as to what is appropriate for you.

hope this helps

let us know if you have any other questions.