Fusion 360 | Shell vs Thicken

[@tmdsparrow85]

Thanks for the video! At the end of the video with the solid body interesting it did not shell the fillet? But it did it with the surface thickenning

[@lukaszb1282]

10mm fillet - 10mm shell and you get edges without fillets 🙂

[@Fusion360School]

Thank you for pointing this out. I went back to do this again and realised that I had performed the thickening towards the top. This meant that the top fillet became 20 mm after thickening. For the shell, I had performed it on the inside, which meant that the 'thickening' was reversed. Since the shell thickness is the same size as the fillet, this resulted in a sharp edge at the bottom. I should have used a larger fillet. For a true comparison, I should have thickened downwards. Thickening downwards would also produce a non-flat bottom face. So this should not take away the main message of this video. Sorry for the confusion caused.

[@smorris12]

@@Fusion360School That's interesting. I assumed the choice was intentional and Fusion would moan if the fillet was fine earlier in the sequence

[@robpet198]

Truly underrated modelling software and even more underrated channel. I really appreciate the time and work you put into these videos :) I was studying mechanical engineering and had a whole semester was spent "learning" 3d modelling and simulating. Can confirm, the degree of professionalism shown in this video tops those 5 moths easily. Again, thanks for the effort you put into these videos, you mysteriously beautiful man!

[@stefanguiton]

Excellent! Shell is underrated

[@alejandroperez5368]

No, it's not

[@leeackerson2579]

Wow, like a semester of CAD design in a few moments, thanks much, you are a friggin genius.

[@gabrieladasilva8061]

Amazing video!

[@373346507]

What if you thicken to inside and then cut the extra? This way the measurements will be more similar to the shell way?

[@Fusion360School]

Yes, you can definitely perform an extruded cut the make the bottom face flat.

[@Spartacusse]

My thoughts exactly.

[@spydergs07]

@@Fusion360School That's how I've been making most of my flat bottoms, but I like this way a bit better. Going to try this method out.

[@bobreichel]

Don't know if you can help, but I'm tring to put a kind of S pattern hole in my model and want it to skew in opposite directions on each half. Sort of like a plane prop. Can't find any videos even remotely like this.

[@Fusion360School]

If you would like to, you can send me some details through [e-mail]

[@lukaszb1282]

After the firts workflow it's possible to replace face from top plane? IT should work 🙂 But of course, very useful video.

[@Fusion360School]

Yes, replace face should work. I often try to avoid using replace face as it is kind of a hacky way to do things:)

[@smorris12]

Excellent video as always (here's some extra words to keep the algorithm happy. I wonder if there's a perfect comment length it would like to see?)

[@alejandroperez5368]

You didn't even need to use the surface modeling space... I rarely use it

[@robpet198]

It's true, you do rarely need it. But the flexibility it offers is truly astonoshing, especially if you consider how well Fusion 360 tackles some of the features / commands. Great to know there are other ways, in case you need it.

[@mkay9565]

I agree. This particular case didn’t need surface modeling. It could have been easier with solid modeling.

[@kumada84]

The purpose of this video was to demonstrate the difference between thicken and shell, not to show how to create a particular object.