From time to time you will accidentally place a sketched based feature on the wrong face or work plane. Sometimes the design changes and a sketch based feature needs to be moved to another face or work plane to allow the part to work correctly. Most of the time these changes will occur late in the design process and you worry that going back in the timeline and doing the necessary edits will cause a lot of rework time.
Autodesk Fusion 360 has a command that will usually make this task a breeze. In this short video I will demonstrate the "Redefine Sketch Plane" command and just how easy it can make the editing process. Once in awhile the use of this command will move a sketch constrain so make sure that you edit the redefined sketch to make sure you check and correct these issues. In the last model of the video, I will demonstrate this condition and how you can easily correct the misplaced constraint.
In this article I would like to continue using surface modeling in Autodesk Fusion 360 to make some parts which can be difficult to created in the modeling environment. I will also make some using surfaces which can be completely done in the modeling environment but where surface modeling just makes them a bit easier to create. The ability to capture the shape of any surface and transfer it to another modeling operation makes surface modeling very special to me. I hope you will enjoy some other uses of surface modeling in this video.
In my last post, I created a plastic packaging shell for a thumb drive using some surfacing commands in Autodesk Fusion 360. If you would like to review this video first, you can find it here. In this post I want to show how easy it is to create a mold for the plastic shell using Fusion 360. Last, I want to show how to create a new plastic shell from the mold. The short video of the process can be found here.
There are so many ways to model your parts in Autodesk Fusion 360, it is sometimes hard to choose. One of the most overlooked methods is creating your design with surfaces and then converting them into solids. Packaging design is one area where designing with surfaces should be your first choice.
In this short video I would like to illustrate the use of surface modeling in the design of a formed plastic cover that could be used to package a USB thumb drive.
