Slicing Tool

[Anonymous]

Is there a slicing tool in Fusion.  I am so used to the slicing tool in AutoCad solids

[joel.palioca · Accepted solution]

Hello,

It looks like you may be looking for the Split face, Split body or Silhoutte Split command.  You can find these under the modify dropdown in the Model environment.

With these split commands you can use sketches, construction geometry, origin planes, etc. as your cutting plane.  If you have any other questions please let us know.

Cheers,

[PhilProcarioJr · Accepted solution]

Joel beat me to it...lol

Here is a visual ref if you need it.

[Anonymous]

Thankyou.  I used a plane to cut my solid.

Is this a bit more cumbersome than slicing in AutoCad?

Say for example I wanted to slice the cylinder below at the base and go up at 45 deg.  In AutoCad I would pick the quadrant and then describe 2 more points using the '@' function.  i.e. @0,0,1 and @1,0,0 to give me a plane at 45 deg.  In Fusion I would have to construct the plane first?

[PhilProcarioJr · Accepted solution]

Hello Jim,

I wouldn't say its more cumbersome because you don't have to go the extra steps to create the plane.

In the pic I posted all I did was created a sketch with one line exited and used that line to cut the part. Honestly it was like 4 clicks and a couple of seconds to perform the cut and I basically did what you described your work flow would be in AutoCad.

Sometimes the simpler method works best, the software assumes you want to make a plane from your line in the sketch and does that step for you so there is no real need to create a plane unless it needs to be a weird angle. If the cut goes straight through the part just create a line at the angle you want and do the slicing.

I hope this makes sense.