Design an Icosahedron the Easy Way in Fusion 360 with 3D Sketch

[@JWH3]

I don't know how I've gone this long without understanding what 3D sketch was, it made the hair on the back of my neck stand up a bit when that sketch was fully constrained I gotta admit. There's just something satisfying about perfect geometry. I know this is an old video but thank you, I'm fiddling with some light projects 3D printed myself and this was a great tutorial to run across using an icosahedron as a frame for my project and the tools this made me understand will let me create whatever geometry is needed. Thanks!

[@seanforsythe78]

this is the single most helpful video on fusion 360 ive ever seen.

[@adambergendorff2702]

Vladimir, your videos for fusion 360 are so excellent, I don't understand why you dont have a half a million subscribers, I have many people come into my shop and ask how to design something and I always point them to fusion and your channel.

[@wizardy6267]

If there are 10 million fusion users I am pretty sure Vladimir will have the number of subscribers you expected :)

[@DesktopMakes]

Thanks Adam! I appreciate you pointing them my way. Maybe one day I'll get there, only 480K to go 🙂

[@autofctrl]

Thx a lot! This is by far the easiest and IMO best approach on doing an Icosahedron. Have already watched a few of you videos and have to say, they're better explained than most. Great job! 8)

[@spikekent]

Fantastic Vlad. All that with just one dimension, outstanding. 👍👍👍

[@DesktopMakes]

Thanks Spike!

[@sethmariscal3428]

There's about 3:00 of pre-amble, if like me you're too distracted to listen and struggle to find it.

[@Joshkashley1]

Your videos always make me immediately jump into fusion to try out these techniques. Looks like I'll be firing up the printers in the morning! Great content Looking forward to seeing the future related videos Keep up the great work! 👌👌

[@DesktopMakes]

Thanks JKA! Good luck with the print!

[@StonegateCreations]

Nicely explained, thank you for sharing. Looking forward to the next video.

[@DesktopMakes]

Thanks StonegateCreations! Cheers!

[@NubbzNerd]

Literally just started using fusion like a month ago cuz of school- and im making a dice set- this was soooooooo damn helpful- even though I had to like watch it 3 times cuz my dummy self kept doin it wrong but none the less it was really simple compared to other tutorials I found and COULDN'T follow- so thanks so much for this i wouldn't have been able to make my dice set without ya

[@DesktopMakes]

Thanks lilNubbean! So glad I was able to help with your school project! Wishing you much success with your studies!

[@hoffey_rc5142]

Awesome video! I was looking for a video where I could change one parameter and change the size of the object and this was the first method that wasn't excessively complicated.

[@DesktopMakes]

Thanks Hoffey. Glad you found it helpful!

[@jorix7]

Amazing tutorial!

[@DesktopMakes]

Thanks Eriks!

[@modernDEsignwithFusion360]

Hi Valdimir - great video! Being able to think "around a corner" is so important for CAD design - and so hard to train! This is an excellent video to show how to come up with complex shapes even though we basically deal only in lines, blocks and circles.....good work!

[@risaoram]

This is awesome. I'm going to try to draw this!

[@kavindumadushan8098]

Nice video loved yiur tutorial

[@Tom-xn9kx]

How do you get fusions to give you the area/length measurements in the bottom right hand corner? (2:32)

[@janhbrenna4264]

Great tutorial as always :)

[@DesktopMakes]

Thanks Jan!

[@mab4110]

That hanging pot over the resin printer makes me nervous lol Great tutorial!

[@DesktopMakes]

Ha! I only get nervous when I'm watering the plant.

[@Gatronic_24]

Could you share the file please, it’d be really helpful!

[@adrianscarlett]

8:00 you should see a padlock appear by the sketch name in the tree view when your sketch is fully constrained. Not tried the 3d sketch tool, looks interesting.

[@b0z0dcl0wn]

Padlock, or lines will change from blue to black to show they are fully defined.

[@steelstone]

Well, you should show the icon of the sketch in the browser: the sketch is not fully constrained, all lines are blue (at 6:47 constrained black lines turn blue). Actually, 3D sketching is not a good practice. It's better to work with several simple sketches than fewer and complex sketches. It's better to pattern or mirror features faces or bodies than sketch curves. At least for those who want to be parametric. Nevertheless, it's always nice to overview all the possibilities. Thanks for showing it 👍

[@sodahead0]

I have primitive CATIA, and I figured out how to make platonic solids with only 1 or 2 2D sketches. And the first sketch controls the size of the polyhedron using its edge length. This strategy would've saved me some time.

[@JD2jr.]

Ahhhhhhhhhhh... This is exactly what I always want to do, but I constantly forget about/where 3d sketch is. I wish they made a toggle for it in the top bar with all the other sketch tools (or just made it default... which now that I think about it, is likely already an option.)

[@RandomAccountHolder]

Thanks!

[@4funrc11]

Very nice! 👍 Thank-You! 😃 Edited: Too bad each face needs to be selected. I thought maybe selecting faces via Select settings would make it possible to get all 20 faces selected with one window sweep. ✌

[@DesktopMakes]

Great observation 4FunRC. I went back and tried it but unfortunately this method ends up finding a lot more faces. When I changed the selection filter to only Profiles and selected the entire model, I ended up getting 174 faces instead of 20. You get some really cool results when you start deleting faces but not the result I was looking for.

[@gavinsv]

Just a quick question. - Normally when your sketch geometry is fully constrained, the lines turn from blue to black. However I note this didn't occur with your sketches despite being fully constrained. I ask this question since I've encountered this myself whereby my sketch appears to constrained, yet the lines won't change colour. Great videos by the way. I always take home something from your work. -Cheers

[@steelstone]

Currently, 3D sketches can't be fully constrained. It's a Fusion 360 limitation, I don't know why. There has been some discussions on AD forums about this and the current advice is to avoid 3D sketches for serious parametric design.