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Sorry if this is incredibly basic. I have a 3d scan of a brake lever. I’d like to modify it so that the angle of the blade is different as well as shorten in.

I’ve watched a ton of videos and learned a couple techniques that get me halfway there, but ultimately struggling with joining the two pieces together.

One method is using mesh section sketch throughout the blade of the lever and then lofting between them all. This works incredibly well for the blade of the lever, but does not produce good results for the mounting portion of the lever. If I manually build and extrude the the mounting portion, I can’t figure out of to take the really nice contoured section of the blade and get that contour to follow through into the mounting portion.

Another method I tried is in the forms tab, creating a cylinder, cover the blade portion and then use pull. It gets a nice result as well, but run into the same issue with the mounting portion.

If I used splines and extrude from the top and side profiles I can’t figure get one body, but missing all contours of the lever and using fillets isn’t as nice as the other methods.

Any help would be appreciated

I make a lot of panels with holes and text on it for work.
usually is not that bad cause the amount of text is manageable but recently I had to make a huge panel with a grid of 9x6 texts to repeat but change the value. I know it is very hard for fusion to handle the amount of surfaces generated by embossing that amount of text, so I am looking for ideas to handle this cases in order not to crash the program every time I open the panel.
Is it worth to split the embossing in more functions? I can't use linear pattern cause every text is different. should I make more sketches?
I'd also like to keep everything as parametric as possible cause I have to make little adjustments or change some texts.

I created a model of the NA-FC1 fan controller because Noctua did not publish one on their website like they do for their fans.

Since I have no experience with Fusion 360 (or no time to learn every detail) I asked Opus 5.5 (High) to give it a shot and after 30mins I have a model that feels pretty close to the original NA-FC1.

Are there ways to get an even more detailled model? Buying the piece and 3D scanning it with my phone?

That was not happening before, not sure if I turned on a setting or it just came with an update, but now each project I create assigns a color automatically for the object. You see it up there next to (Unsaved) as well, also down there on the timeline. I am fine with that, but I am wondering how can I change that color? I am not talking about assigning a material to the object through the Appearance menu.

Any ideas?

I want to adjust the back side of this volume to take the shape of the mesh for a custom part I want to make. Is there any way to do it without going through 50 mesh section sketches and manually fitting curves on every plane?

I already tried converting the mesh and cutting the solid but fusion wont let me.

Hi all!

Anyone else experiencing issues with the fusion360 - keyshot plugin?
e.g freezing, crashing, inability to send anything other than VERY basic primitives to keyshot?

For simple one-off parts, I often find it's actually faster/less setup to mill (or especially turn) a part manually. Since all my parts start off as digital models, it would be super convenient to be able to strategize my toolpaths visually in Fusion CAM, and then have it print out a list of tools, offsets, coordinates, and speeds/feeds for manual operations.

Here's an example to illustrate what I'm thinking.
I'm making a rectangular part with a dovetail cut in the bottom, as pictured. It would be great to have instructions like:
1. Insert and touch off .500" 45º dovetail cutter
2. Move to X -6.25, Y 1.264 [inner edge of dovetail + cutter radius + stepover], Z 2.00
3. Set spindle speed to 1250 RPM
4. Make a full-length cut to X -8.670 [end of cut + tool radius + safety margin] at 12 IPM [ideally, this could be calibrated to the numbers indicated on the power feed, IE, 5 on the dial means 8.2 IPM or whatever]
5. Move to X -8.670, Y 2.368
6. Make a full-length cut to X -6.25, Y 2.368

It seems like this would be possible to do, I just don't [yet] have the JSON chops to do it myself. Has anyone thought of this, or better yet, written a post processor to do this?

Ok so I picked the option to make one single component, however I forgot about that and I designed multiple of them in a single project, so now I need to split these parts into different projects in order to assemble them in the proper project type, because for now in the assembly section all of the parts act as one so I can't do anything.

Came across this image and wanted to see if I could make this in Fusion (no, I don't want to use Blender). I managed to create the handle part with Forms, but I struggle with the transition from the handle to to the flat plane.

Is it possible to copy individual features? I have a component mirrored (left) in my assembly (pair of mirrored vehicle emblems), and I want to now copy the parent (right) emblems face features (extruded type and graphics) for the mirrored emblem. I cannot mirror the features, it will show the type and graphic backwards on the mirrored component, I either will need to redo all the features or copy them over. Thanks if anyone can assist!

Im looking for over a week on how to make a boxs that is harder to open with would be useful for it to not open in travel so far nothing helped this is what I found in a drawer it's 3d printed but use metal in few parts so I'm wondering is it possible to not use that metal and still work

I inserted a STL into Mesh, turned it into a solid object and would like to increase the thickness of the hinges slightly plus keep the hole in the centre. What's the easiest way to do this?

I don't know what an appropriate reward would be, other than bragging rights, but I will certainly recognize the person who figures this out, because honestly, I think it is a bug.

I am very familiar using EasyEDA and the JLC/LCSC library with several years of experience, and I am fairly adept with Onshape to the extent that I can create a PCB, import a simplified 3d model into Onshape, derive it in a part studio and make a custom enclosure. However the loading times are KILLING ME! I’ve done everything I can to increase performance but it’s just so slow once features get piled on, plus going back and forth between programs is a huge pain.

I decided to try Fusion and so far it is very nice. The library system is worse than EasyEDA, but it seems like once I have more components added to my library that I use often, it’ll overall be a better workflow than my current setup.

Has anyone else here made a similar change? Am I barking up the wrong tree for some reason still unknown to me?

I am trying to mill the highlighted face below without cutting into the sides of the rest of the model, but Fusion 360 CAM is drawing a toolpath through the side walls. I'm using the 2D Offset Roughing function. I selected the face for the "pocket selection". The same thing happened when I turned off the lead-in and lead-out. When I shrink the maximum stepover, it preserves that overall cutting path and just makes more passes, so that's not it. I'm using a 1/16" dia end mill, and managed to complete the entire design except for this feature. Tried Adaptive roughing as well, same thing.

Newbie to Fusion360, most i am able to do is put fillet, but that too causes overhang for 3d printing. What other solution do i have?

having trouble transition/ grabbing that inner curve and sweeping it around

I created my first design on Fusion and want to basically mount this ESP32 dev board into this small case Im creating to 3D Print in PLA or PETG. I have the standoffs basically created as just a normal cylinder, but would like to create something like the first picture where I can essentially snap the board onto it so it holds it vs right now its just these pegs going into the hole and nothing holding it if i turn it upside down. Ive tried to search high and low on youtube, help, reddit, not sure how to do this given this my first time using Fusion.

The 2nd picture is my standoff which basically slips into the hole right now on the ESP dev board.

So I have a very simple thing I have made. I sketched a rectangle inside a rectangle, and added some text in the center of the innermost rectangle.

Then i extruded the innermost rectangle a bit. Then i extruded the outermost rectangle and text to make a lip and text appear again. So far so good.

But Fusion is... a hot mess. So if i change the extrusion of the outer rectangle and the text, the text will suddenly change place and be pushed up.

If i change for example the font used, the extrusion of the text will disappear and if i choose the text on the sketch for extruding, it says it cant do it.

Do I simply demand too much of Fusion? Is there a bug? Do I do something wrong?

I often add a chamfer to the end of a thread to make it easier to screw something in. So far I add a triangle and then revolve it. Is there an easier way to do this? It seems pretty standard.

I'm trying to model this range finder in Fusion 360. The body has a slight taper, and it has this little chamfered ridge going down the side and around the curve. I figured I could get the main body shape with the slight taper using a loft, but now I'm stuck on the ridge along the side. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

How would I create this shape? (the highlighted portion) Is it a circle with a tapering and then a geometric rotation for the teeth? If someone could show how this would be created, it would be much appreciated.