Fusion 360 - Honeycomb Sphere (Full Narrated Tutorial)

Creating a honeycomb sphere in Fusion 360.
Thank you to Easy CAD Solutions for letting me reproduce this design on the channel. Please check out the original video here:
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0:00 Intro
0:30 Top plane sketch
2:19 Front plane sketch
3:35 Patch surface and rotate
4:26 Axis and spherical center
5:10 Sketch on hexagon
6:05 Series of lofts
7:16 Trimming and splitting of lofts
10:47 Shelling
13:45 Circular patterns

[@lukehaworth5789]

Hi. Did you ever overcome the problem in joining the two halves? This was very informative I have tried to create a similar shape before for a woodworking project but I struggled.

[@Fusion360School]

Hi, Globean did this on his/her channel and was able to combine the 2 halves at the end. I have yet to go through the whole video to see if anything was done differently. You can take a look. kzbin.info/www/bejne/r4jWYaiCpMd5fKM

[@lukehaworth5789]

@@Fusion360School thankyou for your response. I am binge watching your channel ATM I only found it this morning. Your surface tutorials are amazing

[@Fusion360School]

@@lukehaworth5789 Thank you for the kind words. Let me know if you managed to figure out the combine problem:)

[@ChrisCameronPhoto]

I think the problem occurs at the 05.15. The the two profiles on different planes do not create a hexagon. The horizontal hexagon edges are 22.98mm and the edges on the angled part are 25mm.

[@Fusion360School]

@@ChrisCameronPhoto Hi, I had suspected that for some time. So I went to download the file (done in SolidWorks) from GrabCAD done by Easy CAD Solutions. When I opened it in Fusion 360, I saw that the hexagon was not perfect also. In fact, when I compared my model with the SolidWorks model, I could not tell the difference. I also posted a question to Easy CAD Solutions regarding the imperfect hexagon but have yet to get a reply. I pretty much followed all dimensions to a tee. Globean, another channel, was able to follow my video and successfully combine the 2 halves.😅

[@joepasqua1751]

Very interesting and the length was well justified. I’m glad to see that you found a resolution with the help of viewers. I enjoy that in this video, like your others, you just jump right in rather than having a lengthy prelude.

[@vsp5682]

Awesome work on making the tutorial easy to understand even though it’s a bit long! The amount of explanation and work totally justifies the length.

[@Thatdavemarsh]

Great breakdown - I love how methodical this was to end up with a simple, yet complex geometry. Taught me how to tackle my project. Cheers.

[@rayjohnson9542]

Thank you for your amazing tutorials!

[@martinmarriott3607]

Excellent work. Thanks for sharing.

[@RyanKirk99]

Great video, thank you. I learned quite a few things with this one.

[@mowog74]

I've been binging all your videos and I think this is my favorite one yet! I really like the shorter ones too, they are concise and I've learned so much from them. Thank you for sharing them, long and short alike!

[@dennisdecoene]

Next level stuff!

[@ramiroheredia5847]

This is insane 😍

[@TobiPHartmann]

Wow great video i need to try this Thanks for sharing

[@JeffBradway]

Instead of the final mirror and move, what about creating a horizonal axis at the sphere center then performing a 180 deg circular pattern about that? The patterned bodies seemed to merge fine in other places.

[@Fusion360School]

Wow, I tried this and it works even at a precision of 1.123. I would have never thought of using a circular pattern that way. That's really good thinking on your part. It does seem strange that putting an axis at the centroid would be more accurate than placing a construction plane, though.

[@joepasqua1751]

That worked for me! Thank you.

[@pintojl]

Thanks for the video. I'ts very well explained. For me worked the last combine bodies operation and I got a single body at the end. Your method it's right !!!. ;)

[@RF__92]

Great exercise and excellent teaching, I overcome the problem of joining the 2 halves by simply continuing the process of move/copy rotating along the green axis the bodies and then doing a circ pattern along the blue axis. Basically you build the sphere layer by layer. It' not that difficult, maybe a little bit longer. But at the end the combine is perfect and you get a single body. If you need I can share you the file😉

[@jscoleman]

I'm having trouble with the combine. Would you be willing to send me your f3d file? I'd love to see how it works. Thank you!

[@mnieman8140]

the combine issue is simple. just move that mirror offset plane -.001"... the two halves will barely intersect, then you can combine

[@kavindumadushan8098]

Thanks for this you re my guru ❤ i done this

[@Cam2Art]

As this is one of your longer tutorials, I was a bit apprehensive, however, every minute was not only informative but very entertaining. Did you forward the combine problem to the 360 forum?

[@Fusion360School]

Thank you. I have never had anyone describing my tutorials as entertaining before! I was slightly worried that viewers might be turned off by the length, but I did try my best to be as concise as possible. There is just so much to cover in this case. I did not approach the forum. I was kind of hoping for some feedback from viewers who have tried to see if they faced the same issue.

[@norym90]

Yeah entertaining it is, since you are showing different Technics, that is where the fun came in for me. 👍🏻

[@LiviuLungu]

Great tutorial, thank you for sharing this method, it was exactly what I was looking for. I want to 3D print a large virus (larger than my print area) that can be split into small identical pieces and that will combine together in the end. I had no idea how to go about it. Now I do.

[@Fusion360School]

Sounds good. Credit has to go to Easy CAD Solutions. I am merely following the steps presented by the original video.

[@gregorychard]

This is a fascinating exercise of construction. How on earth did you come up with this brilliant exercise. Absolutely marvellous mate. Happy3dmodeling Greg

[@Fusion360School]

I would love to be able to say that I came up with this. But I have to credit Easy CAD Solutions for letting me reproduce their design on my channel.

[@jeronimojusto1276]

Hi! I recently discovered your tutorials and they are amazing!. How do you set the automatic coloring of bodies? I can only find it to different components.

[@Fusion360School]

Thank you. There is no color cycling option for bodies. I manually applied the appearances. You can right click on the bodies to get to the appearances option.

[@JakeMcIvor]

12:00 When you have the 'Select Body Priority' activated, is there an easy way to revert it to normal? Or do you just toggle it off again in the Select menu?

[@sodahead0]

That is a truncated pentakis dodecahedron. What you can do is create an icosahedron, make the divisions, project the vertices onto the sphere circumscribing the icosahedron, then you won't need to split the center and do all of that. It'll take some work, but the end result would be a perfect honey comb without those fillet errors.

[@Fusion360School]

Wow, that sounds like some serious geometry. It is probably way beyond my knowledge of these kinds of shapes. Will need to find out more. Thank you for the suggestion.

[@XerxesGustav]

IDK if this has been answered before in the comments, but I think what gets the last two pieces to not merge properly is the definition of the mirror plane. When you create an offset plane and select a point fusion will per default measure the distance an put the distance in the box, without any parametric link to the point you selected. Because the floating point precision in fusion is somewhat low you'll therefore get a plane that is not exactly at the centerpoint. If you go back and edit the plane and choose extent to object instead of distance you will get the definition of the plane as a parametric relationship, and it should work.

[@Fusion360School]

There a was lengthy discussion in the comment that I pinned. I think the conclusion was that it was a precision problem. When you click on the point, Fusion somehow rounds off the distance. Anyway, I went back to the model and tried both ways (choosing distance and clicking on the point/choosing to object and clicking on the point). Both ways worked this time round. One of the viewers had actually submitted a change request for this. So it seems like it has been resolved.

[@mattiasfagerlund]

Nice! I just realized I have a sphere like that, it's a rubber chew toy for our dog, huh!

[@Fusion360School]

😀

[@TeunSegers]

16:44 I think that took Fusion about 2 minutes to perform lol (I thought it had crashed but it pulled through as I was typing this comment) About the combine at the end: I combined before punching the holes through and it just worked. Took a few seconds for Fusion to think, but the result is 1 perfect body. Where you use 100mm(?) I used 10m, maybe the scale matters? I made that value parametric and had all other constraints derive from it, but I fear Fusion will explode if I change the param value.

[@ianadelman8380]

how are you moving around the part so smoothly? is it just practice or do you have a plugin of some kind?

[@Fusion360School]

I'm using a space mouse. 3dconnexion.com/sg/product/spacemouse-wireless/

[@ianadelman8380]

@@Fusion360School wow that's actually really cool. I didn't know a product like that existed, thanks.

[@Fusion360School]

@@ianadelman8380 It's a pity that regular mice cannot replicate this smooth motion. I don't understand the mechanics of it.

[@michaels3003]

@@ianadelman8380 , it takes a little bit to get used to it and you still need to use a regular mouse to straighten the view. I use both hands; ordinary mouse on the left, special "mouse" on the right. For me, it is impossible to move the model exactly up/down and left/right; it ends up rotated somewhat.

[@Fusion360School]

Hi Michael, I use it the same way as you. I'm a left hander too. It's great to be able to decouple model movement from the regular mouse. You are right that panning is an issue. I'm not sure if there is a shortcut on the space mouse to pan.

[@magicshon]

at 5:00 i wasnt able to select the two edges to create a point. I had to go all the way back to 2:30 where you used intersect and i pressed P because i was lazy. Even though it looks the exact same, somehow fusion didnt see the two axes meeting each other when i did it using project instead of intersect

[@perceneige761]

Hello, I followed the tutorial three times, I can't do it, yet I like this sphere, I would like to own it, can you put it in download if you like? Thank you in advance, I really tried, but nothing goes.

[@DarthMustaffar]

Thank you so much for this video !!! Could you show me how to do 100+ dice?

[@Fusion360School]

I'm afraid that I don't know how to do that. The original idea for this design came from Easy CAD Solutions. There might be something there that is close to what you want.

[@DarthMustaffar]

@@Fusion360School thanks

[@user-dr9ed3du5s]

Is there a way to place a hexagon in the center?

[@TobiasHoffmannWup]

When doing the revolve cut and revolve intersect.. Isn't the cut unnecessary?

[@Fusion360School]

Sorry for this late reply. I have to prioritise answering the comments on the more recent videos. I went back to review the model again. You are right! I should have simply done the intersect. On hindsight, this seems obvious. Thank you for the suggestion!

[@magicshon]

How do you make these smooth movements in the 3d space

[@O-RoD]

3d mouse

[@ekremtok1192]

Hi, I have combine two bodys, the result is two bodys turn in to one body and there was not any eror comand. While you are creating bodys each of them was different colours. Because the bodys were not compoinent but each of them was different colour. What is the adjustment to have colour bodys. Thank you. All the best.

[@Fusion360School]

Good to hear that you managed to combine the bodies. Unfortunately, there is no option to "body color cycle". I had to manually add appearances.

[@ekremtok1192]

@@Fusion360School Thank you for you reply, all the best.

[@danutviorelneagoe8891]

What is the hight or the angle when you start the third hexagon?

[@Fusion360School]

The midpoint constraint at 3:10 and the subsequent dimensioning of the hexagon dictates the angle. Is this what you are referring to?

[@danutviorelneagoe8891]

@@Fusion360School thank you

[@Globean]

Hello, thank you for your super useful video:) I've learned a lot from your YT channel. Mind if I upload my modeling process video on my YT channel? I just upload the video so speedy and I just wanna do that as a kind of memo. Plz let me know😲Thank you~

[@Fusion360School]

Hi, please go for it. I would just like to ask that you add links in your description to Easy CAD Solutions' video and my video. 🙂

[@Globean]

@@Fusion360School Of course, I will~! Thank you for your permission:)

[@NicksStuff]

Next F360 update: "spherical pattern"

[@Fusion360School]

That would be something!

[@Szabal16]

Maybe a bit slower explaining all the stuff next time, it was hard to follow!