Fusion 360 Surface Modeling Tutorial - Core Concepts Explained

[@andybarnett4060]

Something I learned from this video? - That I've still got loads to learn...

[@banefsej]

me 2

[@kspokermike1629]

That’s exactly what I was going to say!

[@isaac4858]

I thought I was better at cad :0

[@benjaminmaher2989]

Likewise.

[@manleyg4907]

Yeeeeessss.... ;-(

[@cinemaseta]

Thank you so much! 5 spoons later I have been able to understand every concept and tool behind each step of this demo. Intersect and selecting one among coincident lines by holding and releasing the left mouse button were unknown to me until I saw your video. But it also helped me to consolidate and improve my knowledge about better practices like constraining, projecting and organizing sketches and views. I haven't been able to apply Fillet on it, but I will leave it for now and move to the next "lesson". Thank you again for these videos.

[@sblack48]

selecting one among coincident lines? wait what??? Can you give me a time stamp? That sounds important and I missed it.

[@samstreet101]

Really good tutorial. Brings me back to university days. I really appreciate the clear steps and the fact that you broke it into chapters

[@Topher1Lee]

Everything was new to me. Intersect tool is super useful. This is the kind of tutorial I need to really learn Fusion. Thanks!!

[@tomokee]

Well, I'm proud of myself for trying this and making it most of the way through. Oddly enough, I could not do the thicken operation at the end, so I'm not sure what happened. It's probably because I made mistakes along the away and had to tweak things to get the loft to work. The mistakes occurred because I could not get the first two sketches to be fully constrained. For the first sketch, I lost the constraint after cutting away the insides of the small handle circle and setting the radius dimension of the spoon curve did not restore constraint. I had many more issues with the second sketch -- for example, I had to specify perpendicular constraints on the vertical lines with the top line or everything moved when I tried to set dimensions. But it didn't matter, because this whole exercise really upped my sketching game! I was never great at sketches, but now I feel way better about constraints, project, intersect, and the arc sketching. In order to understand them, I had to follow the whole thing and try to complete it. Thanks for the lesson!

[@danballarin]

I learned that I really suck at modeling... time to binge on your videos!! Thank you

[@daymaker_trading]

Awesome video! I learned a lot )

[@brandonleirer4928]

Wow! Going into this tutorial I had no idea a spoon would be so complicated lol. This was fantastic. I don't think I have ever used the intersect tool before. Question: towards the end of the video when you use the trim tool, after you select the profile, you then select the pieces to trim away and they turn red to signify they are selected. Is this a preference that I can enable? When I pick those pieces nothing happens to indicate that a selection has been made. It will still trim, but it is a bit confusing to use when I can't see my selections.

[@ProductDesignOnline]

Hi Brandon. That's strange - I don't believe the trim tool can be changed in any way - especially the color. Are you able to share a link to a screenshot of the trim not showing as red?

[@ProductDesignOnline]

Beginner Surface Modeling ➞ bit.ly/surface-playlist Intermediate Surface Modeling ➞ bit.ly/surface-playlist-int - *TIMESTAMPS* 0:00 - Surface modeling a spoon in Fusion 360 0:45 - Creating the top profile sketch 4:00 - Making the top sketch fully-defined 5:26 - Intersecting the top profile points 5:38 - Creating the side profile template 6:42 - Sketching the side profile 8:53 - Projecting the spoon shape 10:00 - Finishing the sketches 11:27 - Patching the spoon shape 13:45 - Lofting the handle shape 14:44 - Trimming the handle 15:21 - Adjusting the spoon and handle shape

[@JuanAdam12]

Kevin, I have some feedback for you. I think this tutorial would be more effective if you started by telling us, in general terms, how you plan to accomplish this model: using sketches to delineate the form, then the patch command to create the concave part of the spoon, and a loft command to create the handle. That way, we’re not just following the steps like cats watching a laser pointer. I started to get fatigued at 14 mins because I was just passively watching, not thinking ahead and trying to predict your next move (and thus learning when my predictions were wrong). I see so many Fusion tutorials do this, when they could be so much better. I offer this critique in the hopes that it helps you make the best content. Thank you for all you do, Kevin.

[@ProductDesignOnline]

Hi, Adam. Thanks for this. I truly appreciate your feedback. In all honesty, I do this in some tutorials, and it's a constant battle of finding the right balance. One of the (several) challenges faced by using KZbin as a learning/tutorial platform is that you have to pick and choose the battles between what's best for the "algorithm" and what's best for the "learner". I almost always choose the learner, but this is one thing that has always been extra challenging. The videos where I've included more "discussion" and preparation upfront have had huge drop-offs, in the beginning two minutes of the video. Consequently, the videos perform very poorly and don't get shown to as many people, which makes it frustrating when so much effort goes into each one. To summarize, I hear you (and really appreciate this feedback) and I'll continue to look into more ways to improve in this realm. I'm also planning on making more tutorials specifically for my website (that won't be on YT) so that I can focus solely on the tutorial without worrying about pleasing the platform. Cheers, Kevin :)

[@ishanmamadapur6307]

@@ProductDesignOnline In that case, I suppose you could go through the major steps and learning outcomes in the description for all those interested to read and just give a plug to that info at the start of the video.

[@davidwilliams1097]

I personally loved this video and it's pace. There is an advisory that this video will not be a "point and click" video. And, I totally understand the algorithm not recommending the 1hr video of how to draw a box, I've sat through them. That being said "look and listen", the pause and rewind buttons are your friends. I'm new to F360 but not "CAD" and found this well worth while .

[@spyrosspyrou5809]

Hi Kevin. I totally agree with Adam's comments but I also understand your dilemma. May I suggest that you do 2 versions of, at least, some of your tutorials. I think this one is a good example of one where a second, long version, would have benefited people like me and Adam. I have watched quite a few Fusion tutorials on you tube and you are, by far, the best at explaining things in a way that I can understand. Please keep up the good work. Spyros

[@1312maria]

Great video! I finally understood how to use constraints and the surface tool. Now I can use this knowledge on one of my own projects. Thank you! I have one question though: For some reason I couldn't apply the fillet either. Any idea why this happens?

[@mcnultyfp]

The same principles probably will model the bottom surface of a piano soundboard, which is nowhere flat. I have measured thickness in fifty places, and these places are accurately located in a 2d drawing. Thanks. wish me luck

[@ProductDesignOnline]

Sounds like a fun challenge. Best of luck! :D

[@sunpeter8260]

This is certainly eye-opening! I need to watch this tutorial multiple times, as I am picking up many tricks you used in the tutorial, though I think it will take me a long while before I can even repeat what you did! Thanks again!

[@AL3X36000]

Yeah, I learnt that F360 is not the same think method than sketchUp! As I'm a beginner using f360 I'll try this tutorial several times

[@ProductDesignOnline]

Very true. SketchUp is a lot different :)

[@nevillecreativitymentor]

Surface modelling was a mystery to me .... 50% mystery solved. Thank you for the interesting project selection.

[@randywetzler5976]

The intersect and tangent arc tools, never really used those in the past. I also picked up on you using the "S" shortcut for the search toolbox, very handy as I hadn't used that in a while. Also gained a little more knowledge of surface modeling. As always your tutorials are very well presented along with you providing the project resources!

[@farukbasar4497]

I've never really used the arc tangent this way. and the parallel construction lines as guides are really doing the job. And the patch command with the interial rails...

[@diegoG21]

Love it, finally understanding how does this kinda weird shapes work on fusion360!

[@afajalaka]

Great to learn how you fully define your 3d geometry. Impressive!

[@samuellynn1470]

I want to print a full size 33 Ford roadster. I previously owned one with a fiberglass body. I want to 3D print a body this time which requires dividing the fusion 360 model to be divided into 500mm x 500mm x 500mm body panels that will be accurately printed, assembled and glued together. I will be creating the model from photographs. Should I create the model using surface or sculpt?

[@hysni]

For a simple Spoon -So much Work :D

[@AlexisCarrera]

you are the best youtuber ever, because i can learnt a lot about fusion 360, thanks!

[@mjkl9658]

Excellent tutorial, tutorials usually focus too much of mouse button clicks instead of explaining the modelling idea and talking too much off topic.

[@chrisnorthall8317]

Surface modelling is second nature to me, been at it since the late 80's when it was all typed commands, something like this would have been a good solid weeks work. Sign of a good CAD user is someone with a good understanding of surface modelling.

[@UndercoverFerret404]

I just learned that I know nothing about Fusion 360.

[@MuratIsikHome]

Great video. A humble spoon teaches us the thin line between hobbyist approach and industrial product design. Thanks very much.

[@brit735]

Master class vid! So many new topics and ideas. Angle planes, top and side reference sketching are new to me. I’m very interested in the surface modeling aspect of Fusion, but OMG. I’m so grateful that this content exists. Thank you for sharing your expertise

[@samuellynn1470]

I want to print a full size 33 Ford roadster. I previously owned one with a fiberglass body. I want to 3D print a body this time which requires dividing the fusion 360 model to be divided into 500mm x 500mm x 500mm body panels that will be accurately printed, assembled and glued together. I will be creating the model from photographs. Should I create the model using surface or sculpt?

[@soulkhaya]

I didn't know patch command can be used to create a curved surface as well! So I tried on my own first by using loft as the same method we used to create that shoe horn. The result seemed fine at first glance, but after comparing it with the spoon you created in this tutorial, that's actually not okay at all hahhah cuz I just realised the upper edge of my spoon lip is not even horizontal, so that really helps me to understand surface modelling better! Thank you so much for this great straightforward tutorial!!

[@PELBTOR]

The whole surface modeling technique is amazing. Excellent video

[@larrybud]

After playing with Fusion for a couple of months, is there any reason we couldn't have drawn a 3d sketch to do the outline and arcs, then patched it from there?

[@davidwilliams1097]

I loved the video and I modeled everything up to " you'll want to smooth things out with a fillet" . No matter what I do I keep getting the error: "Error: The fillet/chamfer could not be created at the requested size. Try adjusting the size, deselecting some of the edges (try disabling Tangent Chain), or using multiple separate operations. " even if i make the size .01 mm any help would be appreciated .

[@zhenya7992]

Fillet will not work for me either.

[@timp2433]

Kevin, it's been 3 years, but could please demonstrate how put the fillets on this spoon? I have tried several times with no success. I have also tried changing the dimensions of the spoon bowl, but I broke all the constraints and could not figure out what was not constrained.

[@CannonballCircuit]

Am I the only one having trouble selecting all the curves of the projected sketch for the patch command? I select one curve for the boundary and can't select additional curves.

[@mayinjabob9380]

learning never ends, but thanks love your videos. learnt patch tool

[@mccauleysm85]

That seems SO much more complicated than done of the other methods I've seen. Im guessing the added benefit from that complexity is the ease of editing later? Or maybe some added precision?

[@olivershattock2110]

I got stuck in the first surface patch. I could select the boundary edges. But after clicking the first interior rail it which I selected the mid one. It wouldn't let me select the other two???

[@ypehille]

Hello I'we drawn it for the second time now but get stuck at the patch part. I am only able to select one Rail en not both an die side prof part. don't no what I am missing :-(

[@RishiKasyap]

is there any better, simpler way to do these curved profiles using form tool? I think its possible but i am unable to do it.

[@victorkalbskopf]

The tangent arc im making to close off the lid is not intersecting with the line that will be the handle. Does this matter?

[@theblindspot985]

To be honest I got a little lost with all the projections. I was wondering also why not create a plane along the spoon handle and just project the geometry from our top view to that, rather than creating several planes and using the loft tool?

[@kstickak]

Wow. I Learned a ton on that one. Mainly intersect and how to create the planes with the construction lines. Looking for another at this level.

[@quattrobajeena6484]

has anyone else had an issue where the program gives the error: cutting tool does not intersect with any surface, when using the surface trim command? im not sure what my issue is here

[@iceman1st1]

hi, the first plane you did im trying to do at a 45 degree as im doing something else and was wondering if its still meant to line up with the sketch above it. when i do it its not the same size

[@hybriddude007]

Kevin, you are the man! I consider you a Fusion 360 God! You make everything super clear and concise, and you show the application of different tools in ways that I would have never known about or how to use. Thank you so much for your exhilarating videos!

[@ProductDesignOnline]

Thanks, Ed! I appreciate your support and kind words :)

[@sherryreese3576]

From this video I learned that I'm a noob. 14:54 just blew my mind.

[@TheTranq]

Cool, I’m new to surface modeling trying to understand it better. Good video

[@ProductDesignOnline]

Thanks! Check out my surface modeling playlists in the pinned comment 😎

[@zhenya7992]

Thanks for making these videos. This was a good exercise. The intersect and project tools are very handy to use. Also seeing that the Patch tool has internal rail selections is a game changer and helps reach that next level in modeling with f360. It seems to me that it's better to do the last loft in two parts. Loft the two identical profiles first, then connect that surface body with the edge of the spoon shape. This allows you to use the tangent feature on the second, shorter loft and get a cleaner final product. Using this method I was able to use the fillet command after thickening the spoon without any issues. I wasn't able to apply fillets to the thickened body properly with the method shown in the video, unless I did something wrong or missed something.

[@TomsBackyardWorkshop]

What did I learn? Where to begin? I learned a lot about using constraints. I learned how to select between overlapping lines. Its not something you covered but I figured it out.

[@EJTechandDIY]

The thing I learned from this one is that there still so much for me learn, thanks for tutorials I hoop you and your family are in good health in this hard times.

[@ProductDesignOnline]

Thanks! Never stop learning. I appreciate the kind words. Stay safe :)

[@antonygray4581]

This is the first one of your tutorials I have "failed". The loft doesn't work. I get the message: "The centreline does not intersect all profile planes". I've checked everything I can think of and even started again from scratch. Same problem. However, I've been incredibly impressed with my progress thanks to your other videos. Great work.

[@ProductDesignOnline]

Hi Antony, would be happy to take a look if you can upload/share the file, here: community.productdesignonline.com/

[@Mrddrichards]

That isn't really tutorial worthy. Hopefully you have more than that.

[@admugetsu]

I learned to always constrain stuff, I always left them hanging

[@3dconceptsofutah757]

Cheers mate! Very clean modeling here. Nothing for Fusion to blow up ;-D

[@PAULMALLDEL]

muy bueno, Pero tienes che hacerlo un poco mas despacio.

[@larrybud]

I'm not seeing what constraint was added at 3:30, to the 2nd tangent arc from the left. I see you made a coincident constraint from the first arc on the left to the center of the small circle on the left, then it's not clear what you clicked on after that? My arc center for the 2nd arc on the left is way below the model.

[@Wbmfishman1]

look at 4:26 were kevin added a radius constraint. I think it turning "constraint" earlier was just a blip in the sketch. He could have add the radius constraint earlier if it hadn't turn black with the constraints of the 3 other arcs at that time.

[@sblack48]

there was a lot of little details in here that I will have to absorb. Great project.

[@thecatholicwoodworker2648]

The Project feature is new for me. Thanks!

[@LUN5HTIME]

what's the point of fully constraining the sketch?

[@lethPointer]

Okay i finally got the hang on project/intersect. Thanks Fusionmaster :)

[@ProductDesignOnline]

Glad to hear that! Thanks for watching :)

[@AlexisCarrera]

F for Product Design Online

[@mtstek]

Nicely done. Intersect is definitely that I need to learn more. Thanks!

[@carters2]

Wow thats all I have to say. Very impressive.

[@umiturgutaswwsa]

How did you open the sketch shortcut browser?

[@gstrickland560]

I jumped into the deep end to see how the water is, now I need to doggy paddling back to the kiddie pool before coming back ;) I'm designing a snow globe. I have a cabin designed , but it needs to sit on a base that I would like to look like drifting snow... so I'm looking for videos where I can apply some "planned randomness" to a surface. Every day I get closer to my goal :) Thanks!

[@alexandergolubev6358]

Why not intersection curve command for the depth of the spoon?

[@_c_y_ko3150]

Never notice the patch tool also has the interior rails selection, that's awesome!

[@TheConceptAcademy]

I would be great if you sometimes say the keys you enter. This will gives us an insight of your customization on the fly

[@timp2433]

So much to learn! Next Level! I am just hoping I can remember half ow what you showed. The 3-d sketch visualization with the intersect tool was awesome

[@seyedaminkazemeini9797]

my workflow doesn't really use surface modeling but for some reason, I just keep watching your videos, keep up the excellent work

[@davelloyd8454]

I knew projection was useful but now how important projection is for complex shapes

[@ProductDesignOnline]

Very important for parametric models. Thanks for watching, Dave! :)

[@ScottMoyse]

I didn't realise you could use the intersect command on sketch curves. Thanks.

[@pixelrabbit261]

Tangent arc is a slippery bugger to start with....

[@camchennai5043]

your tutorial fusion360 videos is going to be develop my design knoledge.. thank you so much ....

[@mcnultyfp]

The secret is to hang on your every word - very encouraging to contemplate getting through this to a real project. Do you give out badges? Excellent instruction, and thanks!

[@javelinexile]

How would you approach a shape that the side profile was 90° angle? The idea I have is like more of an ice cream scoop shape with one high side but a more cupped hand shape instead of round. This is great and I learned a lot but I have trouble understanding how to apply this if there was one more plane of shape.

[@jaredjones6570]

I learned about intersecting sketches, the tangent arc tool, and the plane at angle tool. Prior to this video, I did not know that the dimension tool only asked for the radius of the tangent arc. I also had never intersected a sketch. I would always project the full geometry in the past and make sure I carefully kept track of what geometry was relevant in my own mind. I had no clue that you could construct a plane on a line. That's going to come in handy.

[@AllanHolden]

Very useful. I have watched it several times to pick up details. The importance of having things fully constrained.

[@aspendesign]

I am shifting from solidworks because I need a G3 modeler now. So you have helped me understand the workflow more and I thank you for this.

[@muchamadshofiudin9393]

why is the education channel always a little subscriber?

[@ProductDesignOnline]

Because YT likes to push out "entertainment" based content as it prolongs watch-time (people spending hours watching prank videos, etc) and then YT makes more money off ads :)

[@ikearumba66]

This is precisely what I needed to know in order to model a sink...THANKS!! Subscribed!

[@thebabe1184]

Very helpful thanks for the tutorial!

[@tkrgculinary5468]

I can't tell you how helpful your tutorial has been for me as a Fusion noob. Great job articulating the steps in a clear, concise fashion. Thank you!

[@ivanvladimirovic2972]

Thanks bro!After watching this tutorial,i am able to create a precise wireframe of sketches and get ultra precision with modeling anything.

[@pauldery7875]

Wow, awesome stuff, I learned so much from this, apparently simple spoon. Thank you!

[@JohnFrazier]

This was massively more difficult than previous tutorials.

[@adheeshverma5937]

why do we need to keep the sketch fully constrained ?

[@davidsalaverry9060]

Learned important basics, like turning on browser to keep an eye on the red fully constrained icon as you go. this has messed me up in my newbie drawings. thanks.

[@laurawerner]

In case you're still watching comments on this.... As a fairly new user, my first instinct would have been to use the surface sculpting tools (with mirror symmetry) to model the bowl part of the spoon. There must be good reasons why you didn't go that route. One I can think of is that it would be harder (or impossible?) to make the design parametric. Are there other reasons? Thanks for the videos! You, Lars Christiansen, and Fusion 360 School are my three go-to channels for learning Fusion 360.

[@ProductDesignOnline]

Hi Laura, yes, I still (try) to read comments on all videos. You're correct - the main downside to T-spline (sculpt) at this point is that they're not fully parametric. There are obvious advantages. If one were really experimenting with a spoon shape/contour, it would be a good way to iterate quickly. Cheers!

[@laurawerner]

@@ProductDesignOnline Thanks!

[@محمدعلى-ج1ي2ن]

🌹I learned a lot from this video thank you

[@mhattaran]

That was very enlightening. Thanks

[@salvinosjrmodels7984]

Thanks Kevin! I've been using Space Claim for the past 4 years and am thinking about making the jump to 360. Much of my work is with 3 D splines to develop surfaces for car body designs, does 360 use them?

[@Adrian-wd4rn]

Something I learned in this video, I can do whole ass headphones with minute details in rhino in the same time it takes to do spoon surfacing in fusion 360. lol

[@XRelabs]

informative way to sketch thank you alot i have learned , projection, constraints, surfacing.

[@Zn0rf]

Realllyyy interesting video! Unfortunately, I'm stuck at 11:25, the patching part. I can't click on all edges from the 'lip'. It will let me select all edges except the one that you, Kevin, select as second. It's named 'Curve 5' after you've selected all... I can either select 'curve 5' solely and not the rest OR select all curves, except Curve 5... I've tried a lot to figure this out: made sure to check whether I fully constrained everything, rebuilt some of the sketches, selected the lines in different order, played with the settings.. None of this seemed to work. Any ideas on how to solve this?

[@Zn0rf]

Couldn't let go of it... Tried another work around which actually worked! I double clicked on the Lip sketch to edit this sketch. I deleted the line which I couldn't select along with the others while in the patch command. Then, I mirrored the line, similar to what we did in the Top Profile sketch. Went back to the patch command, and I could select everything. Still pretty weird that it didn't work in the first place, but I finally can continue !

[@Zn0rf]

Well, this worked up untill a few steps later in the tutorial... Found the solution fortunately: Constrain. Exactly. Similar. To. Kevin. Top profile must be constrained EXACTLY similar to Kevin's approach. Mine was constrained perfectly fine as well, but used slightly different approach.

[@brajogopalchakraborty908]

not only one thing, i learn many things from this video

[@isaacroman9870]

Can I use Fusion 360 for make injections molds? Best Regards

[@LDam-pf6lx]

I learned I need to use tangent arc a lot more :)

[@gauravmathur4940]

Thanks a ton What I learned is surface tool use. I only use solid body , so this is a good step up for me thanks 👍

[@charlescooke5879]

I learned about tangent arc and a different way to surface a awkward shape great tutorial keep up the good work learn more each time I watch.

[@mofongo317]

This was a fantastic tutorial! Ive been having so many issues trying to make it make sense.;