Making Molds...

[Anonymous]

Solidworks has very nice tools for very easily making molds from a solid model of the part to be molded.  Is there an easy way to do that in Fusion?  I only need the "plug" side of the mold (for vacuum forming).  I can, of course, export the part into Solidworks, make the plug, then export it back to Fusion, but that would seem like "cheating"...

Regards,

Ray L.

[JDMather]

You should be able to use the Split with surface or Combine-Cut.

Can you attach your *.f3d file here?

How is using the right tool for the job - "cheating"?

Autodesk Inventor has some very nice mold tools too!

Here is a (very) old Fusion example -

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/post-your-tips-and-tutorials/toy-car-core-cavity-mold-tutorial/m-p/51...

[paul.clauss · Accepted solution]

Hi @Anonymous

Thanks for posting! I would start by checking out this forum thread, which contains some great tips from @HughesTooling on splitting geometry for molds in Fusion!

Feel free to let me know if you have any questions - I'm happy to help!

[Anonymous]

Thanks, guys!  That's actually very simple, at least for the simple parts I need to do.  Seems much more straight-forward and intuitive than the process in Solidworks.

Regards,

Ray L.