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Creating a solid from the T-spline

Creating a solid from the T-spline - Fusion 360 Tutorial

From the course: Fusion 360: Designing for Plastics

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Creating a solid from the T-spline

- With the free form shape nearly completed, it's time to revisit some of the needs of the manufacturing process. In this video, we will add the last touches to the overall shape, make sure that the shape is going to work for a molded object, and convert the body to a solid model. Right now, the shape is pretty close to what we need so let's go ahead and turn the Canvases off. Then just to check it to see if we need anything else, we'll go ahead and under the Solid tools, Create panel, grab the Thicken tool and select the model, making sure the thickness is to minus two millimeters. Right now, the operation doesn't work so we need to make some modifications. Let's take a closer look at the freeform body to see what might be going on. One thing I did was I creased this model all the way to the bottom. Probably shouldn't have done that because it can create some non-manifold conditions. I can use the UnCrease tool from…

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