Fusion 360 | Surrogate Emboss

The emboss command can only be performed on surfaces with curvature in one direction. Is there a way we can use it for surfaces with curvature in 2 directions? Take note that the method shown here does not produce a true geometrical wrap. It only creates an illusion of a wrap.
The file can be downloaded at the following link. It contains the parent and surrogate bodies as well as all the necessary sketches.
a360.co/3yZsoY2
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0:00 Intro
1:06 Parent and surrogate bodies
1:56 Splitting of pattern region
2:37 Sketch pattern
5:33 Emboss
6:22 Offset
7:04 Thicken cut

[@TotallyFred]

Hands down the most useful, practical, focused channel about Fusion. Each video is a gem. Thank you.

[@ianpendlebury3704]

The Thicken Cut is genius - I would never have thought that this existed, let alone find a way to use it! You really are very creative - thanks for sharing all your knowledge.

[@Fusion360School]

It is very counterintuitive, especially with the name "thicken".😀

[@Tonicwine999]

I love fusion 360 but have always felt fusion was a little bit limited and flat till I found this guy

[@rbyt2010]

Thicken/CUT - never occurred to me. Thanks!

[@gorgonbert]

Brilliant!

[@Tokolist]

yeah, cool trick! this is exactly why I absolutely love this channel!

[@dittilio]

Showing WHY you do things, especially with that emboss "failure" clip, is one of the best things about your channel. Really shows how rigorous you are.

[@medyk3D]

Thicken cut - this is why I watch your videos, not only I just learned how to use surrogate emboss I learned also this handy little trick. Thanks 👍

[@Ricky32908]

You’re a genius!!!! I’ve been battling this emboss trying to make a honeycomb pattern on some beautiful curved custom pens and couldn’t get it to work, you sir deserve credit for the surrogate emboss

[@joepasqua1751]

Another very instructive video. Thank you. Nice tip about using thicken-cut to avoid all the extraneous bodies.

[@Tonicwine999]

Really hope Autodesk are watching this to see the weird and wacky ways you have to go about doing an emboss like this. Although it is great the work they have done so far with their emboss feature it’s still so far in its infancy. Great tutorial as always.

[@Fusion360School]

I will cut Autodesk some slack here. Solidworks has the same problem with their wrap tool. I think the technical term is that this will only work on a developable surface. I am not sure whether this is a geometry limitation or a software limitation.

[@boonjabby]

That, my fine sir, in an incredible workaround for the limitation of the emboss command!

[@hazynpeterson4083]

ya, this guy is great,,,no dilly dallying ...and clear.good technique and fluid

[@The_Real_Chris]

I bet the guys at Autodesk are taking notes.

[@VinayVarsani]

I really hope so!

[@Energetic_Ballistic_Solutions]

I'll try this later

[@WMBayouLures]

Sweet! Thanks for doing this, I hope to put it to good use soon. Maybe one day emboss will be able to handle multiple curves and solve all our problems.

[@Ricky32908]

If only Emboss could easily wrap a complex plane, it would make my job SUPER EASY

[@Fusion360School]

This is apparently in the works. But Autodesk has been saying that for a while now, so.......😄

[@ianschutt6242]

Very clear, well explained and easy to follow thank you!

[@3dconceptsofutah757]

Thank you for your creative modeling videos! Very helpful for one who has feared surface modeling for most of my life ;-D

[@zencow]

That Thicken+Cut is clever. I think would have tried to do it with Combine:Intersect with a solid body, as I used similar techniques with OpenSCAD.

[@toinevanderwielen9508]

Great video and very well explained. Thanks!

[@JuanAdam12]

Genius content. Thank you, once again.

[@modernDEsignwithFusion360]

Really great video! Your skills are top-notch!

[@generalsirc2615]

this was exactly what i needed thank you sooooo much!

[@Daaell]

Amazing tutorial, thanks

[@WPGinfo]

That is a really clever solution, Thank You!

[@michaels3003]

The first comment today. Very impressive. A "MUST WATCH" video. 👍👍

[@PirateOnYoutube]

IQ 1000 !! Really thank you for sharing this 🚀🚀

[@WWalleYY]

Great stuff, thanks!

[@fouadelshafey502]

Great video . thanks alot

[@kspec2001]

this is a great video! thanks for sharing

[@Vanastarr]

Great video.

[@stefanguiton]

Very Clever!

[@brandonsummers6360]

so smart dude thank you

[@marcotronic]

Thanks a lot. I have probably never used anything in the Surface tab before 🙂

[@Fusion360School]

Once you use it, you can't imagine not having it.😀

[@Bianchi77]

Nice video, thanks :)

[@pistolao_vr]

Oh man you saved me! Thank you so much!

[@Fusion360School]

Do note that there is a recent update to allow for embossing on complex faces. Perhaps you can try that first. In some cases, it will still distort the profile. If that happens, this method can be an alternative.

[@smithwesson4010]

Круто. Лайк, подписка!

[@elektronstorm]

Hi, can you do an example of knurling on pistol handle?

[@Tarex_]

Any chance for a video on modeling from reference pictures? I have parts here with compound curves and complex curves, but setting up the references is a pain, even with a ruler in each photo, the sizes are all over the place even with the calibrate option

[@Fusion360School]

I did a video on this some time ago. Not sure if this helps you. kzbin.info/www/bejne/j6G4mKGfj5qEpdU

[@WWalleYY]

One question though, lets say I want it to cut into the bottle, what would I have to do then? Just this, but then in reverse?

[@Fusion360School]

When I saw your question, the first thought that came to my mind was to use the deboss option in emboss. But it quickly became apparent that it was not going to be that easy. I am in the middle of preparing a follow-up video to show this. Thank you for the question!

[@WWalleYY]

@@Fusion360School amazing! Thank you so much :)

[@PaulBHartzog]

So IS there a way in Fusion to have an actually accurate pattern on a surface that is non-planar in more than one direction? I have plenty of curved surfaces that I need to pattern components and/or features onto, and I don't know if Fusion can even do it. :-/

[@Fusion360School]

I have not tried this yet but it might be possible to use the sheet metal function for this. Of course, it would be a lot more involved. You can refer to this video to get a sense of how this can be done. kzbin.info/www/bejne/r5etc6xvrdWkf5o

[@Cicada-uv5se]

Your very good at modeling in fusion 360! Would you be able to help me model something?

[@chinchan9]

I keep getting Error: new ef_int outside edge on embossing :( anyone got a solution?

[@Fusion360School]

Hi, during my testing, I would sometimes get this error too. I would suggest that you try to slightly adjust the pattern. This can be done either by adjusting the size of the diamond or the spacing.

[@adriansue8955]

Ugh, Fusion 360 still full of glitches