Adding thickness to a line

[infoYYJRS]

I sketched a parttern that i want to make a cutout with. In order to do this i  would  need to add  thickness to the lines, any ideas how to do accomplish this? i  though about the  command offset for each shape but gets very  tidious...

[TheCADWhisperer · Accepted solution]

Where are the dimensions for your Sketch1?

Never mind - a glitch on my machine.

Oh wait a minute, you actually have wayyyy too many dimensions.  Why repeat work?

(And technically - you only need half of that sketch.)

[infoYYJRS · Accepted solution]

@TheCADWhisperer  i tried to remove some of them in the attached file. But i must admit i have some difficulty in constraining it without those measures...it turns blue when i remove more than this.

[infoYYJRS · Accepted solution]

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[infoYYJRS · Accepted solution]

@davebYYPCU, how do you think it looks?

[davebYYPCU · Accepted solution]

I don’t have access to Desktop for a few more days, the A360 viewer does not show sketches.

If that is all the walls to Thicken, then your sketch was too complicated.  If you have more walls to do, at different thickness then you seem to be on the right track.  You mentioned when you Pattern that you get double thickness, without knowing why you do what you have done it is hard to guide you, and in A360 I am not seeing the whole picture.

Can give you more ideas on Monday my time.

[infoYYJRS · Accepted solution]

Monday it is!

I have added the file and made a screenshot of the problem 🙂

[davebYYPCU · Accepted solution]

That's an easy fix, 

Sketch 2 was doing nothing, so I projected the cutting lines to it.

Split body and trim the outside of the long legs.

Circular pattern, works ok, and fixed your problem, but the Combine produces spurious surfaces that I wasn't able to remove, or fix.  (latest update just now)

@jeff_strater can you check out the combine artifacts?  Selecting tool bodies in a different order, just moves them around.

(Back early due to State Border restriction changes.) 

[infoYYJRS · Accepted solution]

@jeff_strater  did you have the time to take a look?

[jeff_strater · Accepted solution]

thanks, @infoYYJRS and @davebYYPCU .  This is a graphics faceting issue.  Thanks for the model, because we are collecting these to try for a big push to fix them.  The way to work around these is to change the detail control on the body:

[infoYYJRS]

Dear @jeff_strater @davebYYPCU  i updated my design a bit.

Fusion seriously doesn't like it. Mistakes are probably on my side. Maybe i can add thickness line by line and the make a rectangular pattern? Also constraint sems difficult when i dont make close circuits...its overdimensioned

[infoYYJRS]

@davebYYPCU  Im still stuck did you have  time to take a look?

[davebYYPCU · Accepted solution]

You are working too hard, this one has repeating patterns, 

simple sketch, surface extrude, thicken symmetric and then mirror / pattern as required.

Symmetric thicken, leaves areas to fix, but not sure how you want to do that.

[infoYYJRS]

I do agree that it does, the circular pattern is very precise but once thats done and you need to extend the pattern using the "rectangular pattern" function it just becomes very imprecise. When you use the move tool you can pick endpoints which makes end perfectly meet. This  function would be ideal to incorporate in the pattern tool...

[davebYYPCU]

What?

Reading my timeline will make it obvious the circular pattern was near last operation.

I don’t use the Move tool in this file, and rarely do.  The sketch is fully constrained, without it.

Fixing the anomalies was not that had to do.

Start again, put the origin, where I did, then copy my sketch.  let me know where you get to use the Move tool.

[infoYYJRS]

No i get that, but if you want to continue the  pattern to you right extending i you would  use rectangular pattern...and thats where it get complicated.

1. The red circles on the screenshots, is it my sketch thats off?

2. When the sketch is complete extruded and thickened i want to extend it for 158mm.

That where i think  it becomes very difficult to get it right. Does it make sense?

[davebYYPCU]

Last pic, why is there white space?, the spacing should touch?

Other two pics, geometry from the circle and the square, don’t have to match, and will not, based on your source dimension 0.82.  

You could change the polygon to make them align, but...  I don’t know what’s right or wrong.

I have copied those (mis)alignments because of your original Sketch.