Hey guys,
i'm coming around with a model question today. I'll try to do some vases and lamps during the next days to 3d print them later. I know how to do the basic modelling and also watched the fantastic lamp tutorial that Taylor Stein did (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PnKBSOulwo) but i wonder if it would be possible to something like a ripple/crumple stlye surface with fusion like the one in the picture below.
Any hints would be appreciated.
Hmm... Great design challenge. Offhand, I would suggest maybe using Crease in TSplines (Sculpt). But, I've never done much creasing, so I don't know what the side effects might be. I'm going to think about this for a while, and try some things. I'll get back to this thread later. Seems like a good way to spend a Sunday...
Jeff Strater (Fusion development).
It looks like TSpline creasing will get you close to this. Here is a very crude, and not-very-artistic attempt. I started with a TSpline cylinder, then creased all the edges (remember to select the back edges too - I had "select through" turned off on my first attempt...). Then, just use Edit Form to push and pull vertices around to get the shape you want. It's pretty laborious (I'm not sure I want to spend the rest of my Sunday pushing around TSpline points 
), but with patience, you should be able to get there.
It would be nice to do this programmatically, but last I heard, TSplines were not supported by the API. If (or when) they are, you could write a program to just push around the vertices by some random amount - that would save a lot of manual effort.
Let us know how this project progresses!
Jeff
TS and crease will work
while to be honest I would do this in a different app so you can be faster. You have to make many faces and extrude things in irregualr ways
and this is an area Ts is weaker at.
I would later bring the design back into Fusion but as a Base feature and do a Mesh to BREP.
This will give you a perfect polygonal like NURBS model.
Claas
Claas Kuhnen
Faculty Industrial Design – Wayne State Universit
Chair Interior Design – Wayne State University
Owner studioKuhnen – product : interface : design
Claas Kuhnen
Faculty Industrial Design – Wayne State Universit
Chair Interior Design – Wayne State University
Owner studioKuhnen – product : interface : design
Hi Frank, one goofy but very quick method is to first pull some surface geometry around in Sculpt to make a wavy surface
then just save as stl and import into a program like Meshmixer or Meshlab and see what effects you can get, especially with the reduction of triangles to just a few hundred, and import back to Fusion and convert back to a Brep.
In the past I remember Meshlab having quite a few options in how the mesh is reduced, probably would be difficult though to force it to favor longer narrow triangles like it looks in your example, unless perhaps you could control the triangle reduction factor of each axis somewhere in the process, not sure.
Funny/interesting that you're actually trying to get something to look like low face count!
Jesse
We might have some works of modern art going on here 😉 So decided to try a helical loft with deep groves
Then in Meshmixer did the CtrlA (in windows) to select all the faces, then went to Edit > Reduce and chose triangle budget, in which that field can try different values and hit enter to get previews before finalizing.
And for kicks combine the smooth with the polygonated
That could make one heck of a lamp!
Jesse
So I wanted to try something more interesting, so first revolved a surface and scaled alternating lines in sculpt
Then did the mesh reduction in Meshmixer, keeping about 450 faces. Imported back into fusion and Converted to Brep (for import and conversion done in Base Feature mode as Claas said).
I used the undeformed revolved surface to in Patch > Offset to make an inner surface just to the point where the polygonated outer surface did not pierce it.
Then used patch which actually surprisingly worked for the complicated edge of the polygonated model, although took a minute.
However the Boundary Fill was taking too long, so aborted and just added a flat patch plane to chop off the end "petals", and voila!
Ready for 3d printing (although I would probably have the inside follow the outside gently to reduce material).
I can't wait to try printing some polygonified stuff myself, should look pretty cool.
Jesse
It's also great to add spiral effects in Sculpt just by selecting circumferences and what not at differing elevations and rotate in Edit Form.
Definitely can get some cool effects with the polygons
Jesse
Wow I'm surprised how good the fillet works with the edge, bleeding over into the outer rough edge.
Jesse
Claas Kuhnen
Faculty Industrial Design – Wayne State Universit
Chair Interior Design – Wayne State University
Owner studioKuhnen – product : interface : design
