Sweep Shape on a Closed Spline

Sweep Shape on a Closed Spline

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Sweep Shape on a Closed Spline

john.greenMLB6V
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Greetings:

 

I'm relatively new to Fusion 360.  I'm using the sketch/spline tool to trace a logo that I've opened on the canvas.  The logo consists of many geometric shapes.  One shape, for instance is in the shape of a crescent (moon shape).  The spline closes and I could potentially extrude this shape (as well as the other logo geometry) to create the solid of the crescent.  However, how do I create only the outline of the crescent?  I've tried the sweep function on the closed spline to create the outline, however, errors are produced.  Any help is appreciated...John

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davebYYPCU
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Change to Patch / Surface. and extrude it for the paper thin wall.

 

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john.greenMLB6V
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Thanks for the response and solution.  Is there anyway to change the thickness of the line work for printing?  Maybe I'm going about this all wrong.  As mentioned in my original question, I've created the complex logo geometry (which includes the crescent) with spline/extrude and I intend to use it for different projects.  However, I like the idea of printing the line work, like 2D, only if there is a way to govern line width, shape, etc...that's why I tried the sweep function...but it didn't work.  Any suggestions/alternative methods is appreciated...thanks...John

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davebYYPCU
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The next step would be to Create > Thicken, 

dependant on the actual shape that could fail.

 

Or you could try. Create > Pipe, with a square section, 

 

Might help....

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john.greenMLB6V
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Thanks...I've had limited success on this while I've been traveling.

 

I'm hoping you could help with some general guidance with my objective.  Anything you can provide will help point me in the correct direction.  My objective is:

 

1. I've created half of the complex logo by sketching multiple closed 2D splines in the modeling environment.  I want to mirror/copy the half logo so it is geometrically exact.  I'm trying to mirror but it doesn't work unless I extrude and create bodies. Is there a different way to do this?  My ultimate goal (I think it should be) is to create a 2D sketch of the entire logo to complete item 2, below. 

 

2. Once I create the entire 2D logo sketch, I want to bring this sketch into other geometric object files so I can extrude the logo into the object.  A simple example would be to create a 3D box in a separate file then, somehow bring the logo sketch into the 3D box file and extrude the logo into the 3D box.  What would be best practice to accomplish this approach while preserving the original logo file?

 

Any general guidance you can provide to the above would really be helpful...thanks for all your help...John

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davebYYPCU
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Part 2 is easy enough, but let’s tackle part 1.

 

Fusion bogs down with heavy complicated sketches, every article added has to be treated for constraint and geometry errors, so how complicated is the logo, without seeing an example, too hard to advise.

 

As your sketch gets bigger you don’t want to then mirror the sketch, mirror the bodies much quicker response times.  So body mirror needs a face or plane as the divider.

 

So Using  the crescent object to help describe it, the line extrusion, for height, then Thicken that body, to suit.  When done, save the file.  There are a few different ways to transfer the logo between files, Derive would be one way, but until your done with an early example, go with insert.

 

The logo component can now be inserted to the file that the box resides.  It will be a new component in that file, place it straight away, you then Combine Cut the new component out of the box’s face, provided the placement resulted in an embedding by how much, etc.

 

if your data is sensitive, make a dummy example, describing how much bigger the true file would be.  File > Export and attach to another message.

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