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Forming a solid from surfaces

Forming a solid from surfaces - Fusion 360 Tutorial

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Forming a solid from surfaces

- [Instructor] The freeform modeling in Fusion 360 opens up tremendous flexibility and opportunities to create complex shapes in a very easy manner. There are other techniques for creating complex shapes in Fusion. Besides the traditional solid modeling, Fusion 360 can also leverage a series of surfaces to construct a solid. By taking the object that you want to end up with and breaking it down into a series of sub objects or sub surfaces you can start to see how you could build an object in a different way. For example, if you have a profile that you want you could create it as an extrusion, in this case with Draft. A thumb relief could be created as a sweep. The top of the surface could be created as a loft. And a recess in the back can be created as a revolve. All of these features were created as surfaces. Under the Create pull down we can use the boundary fill tool, select each one of these surfaces and a…

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