Projected Area

[AMERGEN]

I am new at Fusion 360. It looks great. Performance is also very good. 

It is really perfect to have a full CAD-CAM software functioning natively on MAC.

I am an mechanical engineer running my own company. 

By designing the dies and other tools, projected area calculation is one the must items.

It would be really helpfull if the projected area calculation of the part at parting direction can be seen in property diolog box.

[roambotics_scott]

Systematically handling drafting, identifying (and fixing) occlusions and regions of variable thickness would also go a long way to help with injection molding design.

[promm]

Using the Measure tool under inspect you can select a face and get the area.

Cheers,

Mike Prom

[promm]

[AMERGEN]

Thanks, but it is not the thing what I ment.

I need a projected Area  to a plane or surface of a whole body including complex shapes.

[promm]

AMERGEN,

Can you post some pictures of what your intended workflow and results would be?

Thank you,

Mike Prom

[AMERGEN]

Hi Mike,

Sorry for my very late feedback.

Please see the attached pdf file.

[allister_mcrae]

Any chance you figured this one out?

Thanks

[VisionMakerr]

There may be a better way to do this (and hopefully this is what you were asking for), but you can

1) Create a sketch on the plane intended to receive the projection

2) Inside the sketch, project the body(ies) onto this plane

3) Use the inspect tool to find the area of this projection.

Of course this would also work with intersections and whatnot as long as there is a closed profile

[TheCADWhisperer]

@VisionMakerr 

@AMERGEN has not posted here in 6 yrs.

[AMERGEN]

Hello,

I have been using the sketch method for several years. There has meen many many updates during these 6 years and was hoping to have the feature in property box,  instead of dealing with sketch trying to make it closed so fusion can calculate the area correctly, but it was newer added. It takes a lot of time to edit the contour by complex geometries to get a closed drawing after the project command,  so you can measure the area.