Trying to rejoin a mesh body after splitting it

[antaholics]

Totally new to Fusion 360 so go easy on me please. 😅

I'm taking a mesh of a box and I want to resize the overall box but keep the dimensions of smaller features (latches) of the box the same size.

I may be approaching it wrong, but in my head the way I'm going about it is to split the mesh along the XYZ planes, move the pieces apart a certain distance, then take the edges of the pieces and re-joining them using extrude along the edge profile (see attached picture for more clarity).

When I use the extrude tool, I get a reference failure with the error "Cannot create toolbody as multiple wired body is not allowed". I've tried Sweep, Extend, and a few other tools, with all different errors.

What am I doing wrong? How should I be approaching this?

[TheCADWhisperer]

@antaholics 

If this were my design I would either - 

1. Convert the Mesh body to a Solid body first

or

2. Use the Mesh body only as reference in creating high quality geometry that I can trust to exhibit predictable behavior.  Simple geometry like this would make an excellent exercise for learning Fusion modeling techniques.

0.

Step through the Timeline in Attached...

To review:

With your technique you attempted to Convert after splitting which resulted in Surface bodies rather than Solid bodies. (If you zoom in and examine you will see that there is no "fill" between the faces.)  Also the symbol in the browser is for surface bodies.

With my technique I converted to Solid body before splitting.

Notice also that my Fillets are cylindrical rather than faceted...

[g-andresen]

Hi,

try this

günther

[antaholics · Accepted solution]

Thank you!! This was super helpful and I was able to get the modifications done quickly. Although I think the fillets being faceted is due to the Home version only having Parametric conversion and not Prismatic...

[antaholics]

Thank you Gunther! This was extremely helpful! I appreciate you putting a video together to explain!