Solid Body Sweep

[Sam.F.Sch]

I understand that this question may have been asked before but I thought I would try to bring it to attention once again by asking when we may see a "Solid Body Sweep" Feature similar to that in Autodesk Inventor. I work with helical cams quite a lot and accurately modeling them to conform to endmill geometry is extremely tedious or impossible without a dedicated feature in Fusion 360, especially if a helical feature is made on the inside diameter of a cylinder. Fusion 360 has no way of making accurate models in this way. I think such a feature would be useful to integrate into the sweep function that already exists in Fusion 360 in the same way Inventor does by simply allowing the user to select "Solid Body" for the profile and using a path and guide rail the same as a sketch may be used for a sweep. I would be happy to see such a feature implemented into fusion 360 sometime in the future or to see that the Fusion 360 team at least working on such a feature as it would expand the capabilities of Fusion 360 quite a lot.

Thank you for any info that can be provided!

[jhackney1972]

While you are waiting for the Solid Body Sweep to be added to Fusion 360, I would like to suggest a way of getting some of the benefits using Surface Body Sweep.  I agree it is not the same but I use it for a variety of jobs and it serves me very well.  Take a look at the video. 

By the way, I created my surface patch by selecting the three edges of the triangle, you could also create a sketch on the surface and use it to create the patch.