I would like to repeat some basic tasks (like copying, translating and rotating at the same time) for a couple of dozen times. I'm building organic forms and want to see how they evolve by using very simple moves. So is there a simple way in Fusion to repeat such basic commands over and over again? I have attached a real model and a Fusion File to show what i'm looking for.
Repeating Actions many times
I've been planning to make a plugin to do this but I haven't gotten around to it. I'm interested to know if there's something that already works (so I don't waste my time solving a non-problem).
Rob Duarte
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Hi,
If this picture is what you're trying to achieve, then you can simply use a sweep in the sculpt workspace and apply crease every fixed number of edges
If this is what you want, I'll make you a screencast to make things clearer
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The closest thing to what you're asking for is the pattern with the type set to feature, but still won't give you what you need
Here is the screencast of the picture
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What you're "really" are looking is a procedural way of modeling.
There is really no good way of doing thins with Fusion 360 straight out of the box. If you're proficient in Python, you could write a script that does this.
However, generally, procedurally generated geometry has often a large amount of geometry and this would have the potential to slow down Fusion 360 substantially. You'd have to turn off the time line!
I am fairly certain this can be done with Rhino and it's powerful Grasshoper plugin.
I personally would attempt this with with Blender and it's array modifiers. If that does not work Houdini would be my next choice.
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@TrippyLighting is right, procedural geometries isn't the type of thing fusion can do (for now?). But if your going to stay with fusion, one approach would be to use components with joints.
-make the component
-place a joint origin in the component
-make copies
-use joints to put them together.
once done, you just have to make one change to the joint origin, and the way it all goes to gether will change
here are 2 screen shoots of the design, from the same perspective (based on the screen shot of your original) the only difference is I went in and changed the rotation angle of the joint origin in the original component from 0 deg to 45 deg (just have to make the change in one place)
Give http://www.openscad.org/ a try. It has nowhere near the capabilities of Fusion 360, but it allows you to create geometry through its simple programming language. This is a perfect tool for what you're trying to do. It's pretty fun to use, too.
Rob Duarte
Associate Professor in Art, Florida State University
Co-Director FSU Facility for Arts Research
http://art.fsu.edu/rob-duarte/
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This work more or less. Thanks. It is still tiresome because there is no way to make multiple copies of component including the joint. So I really have to link every single component. But this works for the moment.
