Problem splitting body and deleting excess

[Anonymous]

I'm trying to model some solid rods using the methods outlined in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNVSiTv4_c0

Specifically at 30:00 he fishmouths a tube by splitting the body and deleting the excess.

When I split my rod it visually splits, and I can even select the excess as I have in the picture below. I can delete the portion inside of the splitting body but both portions external to the splitting body (same exact size of rod for what it is worth) remain one body. I'm sure I'm missing something simple but I'm lost as to what it is.

[jeff_strater]

Hi @Anonymous,

This is a good question.  I have to admit that this is an area of Fusion that I am not happy with.  The short answer is:  Use "Remove" instead of "Delete" to get rid of the body you don't want.  The explanation of why is discussed here:  what-is-the-difference-between-delete-and-remove-a-component-or-body.

Jeff

[Anonymous]

That still doesn't quite solve my issue. I can right click on a body in my browser and select remove but as I mentioned above that single body is both the piece I want to keep and the excess on the far side. If I click on the part in my window it does select separately but I can't find a remove command when I do that.

[jeff_strater]

Can you share your design here?  That way I can take a look at it and see what might be going on.  Thanks

[Anonymous]

http://a360.co/2mVHDhX

Still new to this whole share thing, hope this link works. Please let me know if it doesn't. I've named items to make the issue clearer.

[jeff_strater]

Thanks for sharing the design, @Anonymous.  First, apologies for sending you in the wrong direction.  I did not realize that the design was a direct modeling design, not a parametric design.  So, all that stuff about Remove vs Delete is not applicable here.

The problem is that the tubes in question are the same diameter.  So, the split ends up with a body that touches in exactly two points:

Which is why it is left with a single body.  Unfortunately, there is no easy way to split this up.  The only way I've come up with is very brute-force:  Just draw a rectangle around the part you want to get rid of and do an Extrude Cut to delete that geometry, or select the faces from one side and delete those.

Here is a screencast explaining some of this:

[jeff_strater · Accepted solution]

Here's another screencast showing how to make this work by selecting and deleting faces:

[Anonymous]

Please disregard, all good, thanks!