Getting Started with Fusion 360 Part 4 - Cut Holes, Remove Material from Objects and More!

whoo what's up guys Justin here with the fusion essentials comm back with another fusion essentials tutorial for you so in the last video we talked about 10 different tools beginners should know in order to get started creating 3d models inside of fusion 360 in today's video I wanted to talk a little bit about another function contained inside of fusion 360 that allows you to use those shapes to add or remove material from other shapes so let's go ahead and just jump into it alright so it's kind of a review thing you need to understand when you use tools inside a fusion 360 is they create objects in different ways and so we're specifically talking about the solid tools in this case so let's say for example that we were to create a sketch and we were to simply create a cylinder so we're just going to set our center point right here it doesn't really matter how wide it is for this example and we're just going to extrude it and so we've talked about how to do this before but in this particular situation I want to pay special attention to this option right here for operation so if you look at this option for operation and you click the drop down you can see how there's a number of different options in here that are really going to affect the way that things are created inside of your models so in this situation for example if we were to extrude this up which is what we want to do we'll extrude it up like a hundred millimeters and click OK what this did is this created this as a body so a body is basically a standalone 3d object inside of fusion 360 but in this particular situation I want to pay attention to one of those other operations called the cut operation so let's take a look at it this way let's say that we were to create another sketch and we'll just do it on the top axis or the straight up-and-down axis and we'll just draw a smaller circle so let's say that we had a 20 millimeter circle and then we clicked on finish sketch so you can see how this is right at the base of our cylinder well if we were to activate the extrude tool and then drag this up what you're gonna notice is almost immediately what this does is this changes from a blue shape to a red shape and so what the red shape is indicating is it's indicating the fusion 360 has looked at this and determined that because this is intersecting with another body instead of creating a new body which is the option right here we might want to cut the shape that this is intersected with so basically what it's doing is it's seeing that you have two objects that are interacting with each other and giving you the option to use one to modify the other and in this particular video I'm going to spoke focus on the cut function um I want to do another video on some things you can do with the intersect tool but let's focus on cut for this for this example so what we can do is if we select the option for cut and we click OK and then we look at our body you can see how this didn't actually create a second body over in our bodies section what it did instead is it modified this first body so that it has a hole wherever this intersected with this object and so this is one of the solid operations contained inside of fusion 360 in fusion 360 is really good at working with shapes that are completely enclosed so instead of them just being a flat face with no thickness these are all shapes that basically are completely closed in so if you were to fill them up with water nothing with leaked out so that's kind of what a solid is well fusion 360 has a toolset that can set the way that these solids interact with each other and not only does this work on straight up and down situations like this one but let's say we were to create another sketch on the vertical axis and we were to draw a circle we'll go with 20 millimeters again click finish sketch and we were to extrude that outward and for this particular situation in the direction I want to select symmetric because I want this to move in both directions when I drag this arrow but what you're gonna notice is you're gonna notice that this is still able to cut even though it's going through a curved surface so you can see how you can use this in order to cut different openings in objects and this is a really precise easy way to do that so for you to click OK for example and we were to look at you can see how now we have a pair of holes going through this object and you might be able to see this a little bit better if I turn on with hidden edges so you can see how with hidden edges you can also see that this is cut both this opening on the inside and this opening so you have a straight up-and-down as well as an opening across this object and so you can do some really interesting things with this so for example we could like move this up and down to create multiple different holes but we're gonna use this function a lot inside of fusion to basically create little notches and other things that we want inside of our inside of our 3d models and so not only does this work with tools like the extrude tool it also works with tools like the revolve tool or the sweep tool so let's say for example that we wanted this to have some ridges on it or some edges well what we can do is we could create a sketch we'll make it straight up-and-down and we were just rough out the size of those ridges using either the line tool or the rectangle tool so you could just draw a little rectangle in here if you wanted to whoops there we go we'll go ahead and click finish sketch well you can see how this sketch is intersecting with this object well in this situation if we were to activate the revolve tool and then we were to select this as our profile and we were to select our blue axis which you may need to turn this body off in order to get to it but we'll select our profile and you can see how what this will do is this will actually come in here and this will intersect your revolved shape with this object as well so if I was to click OK you can see how basically what this did is this notched out the edge of this object this is a little deeper than I want it to be so I'm just gonna right click and I'm gonna edit my sketch I'm just gonna move this edge over just a bit so I don't want this to be quite this deep and then we'll just do it again and so you can see how you could use this to notch out this object and then if you wanted to this is an interesting function as well you could use the rectangular pattern tool and under pattern type you see the option four features what features is going to do is this is going to allow you to select something like this knotch in your object and then you could give it a direction so again we use the blue axis but you can see how you can use this tool in order to copy that multiple different times so instead of drawing that profile a bunch of different times you can just select the feature associated with that and you can just move that down and so let's say that we wanted to move all of these down so I could just select these I could set a blue direction and I can move this down here and you could find adjust this however you wanted to do that we're gonna go ahead and click OK and you can see how I was able to notch out this cylinder on both sides and it probably looks a little bit better if we turn our visible edges only on here but you can see I was able to use this tool in order to do that really easily and so this also works for tools like the sweep tool so let's say that we had a rectangular shape like this one now we were to extrude that like this and then we were to create another sketch and draw a path and so let's say in this situation we were to use the fit point spline and draw a curve that runs across this objects face and we'll finish our sketch and then we were to draw a profile and we'll just make it a simple rectangle in this situation will turn this body off but we could use the sweep tool we could select our profile we could select our path then we can turn our body back on and you can see how what this is gonna allow you to do is this is gonna allow you to cut out the material along along this path and you can see how you can click and drag this in order to set how far along this path this goes and you can move this profile left or right or however you wanted to do that in this case it's going outside of this shape because I drew it to the left of my actual path but if we were to click OK and we were to look at this you can see how this allowed us to create this profile along this face and so we can do the same thing at the rectangular pattern tool if we really want to do but you can see how that cut function is a really powerful function inside of fusion 360 so in the future we'll get into some more details about how you can use the specific examples things like that but I wanted to give you kind of an overview of the way that this can work so that you knew kind of the power of the cut operation inside of your add new object creation tools inside of fusion 360 but leave a comment below let me know what you thought did you like this tutorial on what kind of applications would you like to see for this tool I just love having that conversation with you guys if you like this video please remember to click that like button down below if you're new around here remember to click that subscribe button for new fusion 360 content every week as always thank you so much for taking the time to watch this I really appreciate it and that we'll catch you in the next video thanks guys

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Length: 10min 18sec (618 seconds)

Published: Fri Dec 20 2019