Splitting Surface

Splitting Surface

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Splitting Surface

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Can anyone explain to me why this cup body is not able to be split by one of the two seam bodies I've created?  Any help is greatly appreciated.  The cutting surface is suppose to create a step in the material so the two pieces lock into each other after milling (see attached illustrations). The two different seams are there to create a very small gap between the two pieces so they fit together for gluing.

 

Mike

 

http://a360.co/2izwGBV

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nstevelmans
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Hi Michaeljcobb,

 

 Made a little video, where I use the tool combine solids.

This seems to work

 

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The two splitting surfaces I created are controlled by a couple parameters.  The gap between the two parts ("gap") and the depth of the pocket between the pieces ("embed").  These two parameters are essentially the active ingredient in splitting the wall surface in half with a "gap" in the middle of tolerances and a projection of the sleeve depth.  Are you saying this can't be done or is somehow a flawed workflow?  Trying to figure out a way to flex the model and have this seam created automatically.  I suppose splitting the object and then creating a couple of extrudes is also possible.  Is there a reason you're doing this instead of a more robust use of the seam command?  Less buggy?

 

Thanks for the video.

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cekuhnen
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@nstevelmans @Anonymous

 

The solution is pretty simple and a UI usability issue in Fusion that can be quite annoying.

What you do when you select the split tool is select a face of the body and not all faces of the body.

 

to do what you want do this:

 

1. select the body in the browser Larger Diameter Seam has 12 faces!

2. click the any face of the Larger Diameter Seam in the 3D View and hold the left mouse button pressed

A selection UI will appear and in parent select the body.

 

 

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Claas Kuhnen

Faculty Industrial Design – Wayne State Universit

Chair Interior Design – Wayne State University

Owner studioKuhnen – product : interface : design

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Really helpful. Thank you so much.  A little clunky but its great to be able automate this with a parametric splitting surface.

 

Mike

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cekuhnen
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@Anonymous

 

Glad this helped you!

Claas Kuhnen

Faculty Industrial Design – Wayne State Universit

Chair Interior Design – Wayne State University

Owner studioKuhnen – product : interface : design

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