Shell Command

[magnum164]

I haven't used F360 in a while but starting to do some basic design/drawings.

A while back I found a tutorial on how to do tubes. At first I was drawing the sq tube, then offsetting the thickness and extruding. This tutorial suggested using the Shell command instead.

I started using the shell command and it does save time. However, with this command it is leaving the end opposite the shell capped. I have looked through the forum and sites but have not found a solution yet to keep it from creating the cap. 

For those doing design with standard sq or round tubes how are you creating the wall thickness easily with F360? Am I stuck with going back to offsets or sweeps?

[davebYYPCU]

Pipe Tool, is limited to square and round cross sections, with specified wall thickness.

Shell both faces to be removed, will make a pipe, of odd cross sections.

Might help...

[g-andresen]

Hi,

1. here comes the pipe

2. Shell allows to mark several areas for openings.
If you also mark the opposite cap it should work.

günther

[TheCADWhisperer · Accepted solution]

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@magnum164 wrote:

...not found a solution yet to keep it from creating the cap. 

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If you want to use Shell rather than Pipe, simply select BOTH ends when doing the Shell feature, not just one end.

Then both ends will be removed.

Note: You can edit the Shell after the fact to include the other end if you have already created this feature.

[magnum164]

Thank you for all of the hints. I bet I missed the last part of the tutorial on selecting multiple faces, not sure why I didn't think of that. 

But for now, for what I need this will work and makes life a LOT easier:).. Thanks all.