Autodesk Fusion | Mind The Gap

Let's explore a few ways of bridging a gap.
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[@Fusion360School]

There are a few things that you can also try. Extend the loft into the sphere, combine and then select the faces of the excess to delete. Or even creating a split face on the sphere to loft to. There is also another angle to this problem which I did not mention. We could have started with a solid sphere, extended the loft into the sphere and then split out the sphere to shell. Happy experimenting!

[@rickseiden1]

I wonder if there is a feature request to add a "Join bodies" checkbox to the replace face dialog.

[@NeoQJ]

When bro post a new video, it’s like an upgrade on my Fusion 360 🫡

[@madebyjwillis]

Beautifully done!

[@koenvanduffel2084]

Replace face is one of those unused commands (at least in my arsenal) and can come in so handy. I often do this by extending the loft just into the face and then using the delete key. This mostly but not always works. Using replace face is way more elegant though.

[@bradnelson3595]

I wonder if a command such as this is under-used or unknown because "replace face" doesn't seem to describe what it does.

[@William3DP]

You are a gifted designer and teacher. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience. I have watched some of your videos over the last several months. Now I only need to watch the other 200-or-so of your videos that I haven't watched yet.

[@zS39SBT4fe5Zp8Q]

"Let's increase the difficulty of this problem...". Yeah, that's an instant sub from me. Thanks for the tips!

[@beonyou]

"Replace face" ... never think of such usage for this feature. Thanks.

[@makers_lab]

Brilliant! Would have solved an issue I had today, sweeping circles on the XY plane along arcs to meet the surface of a dome sitting on top. Sweeps wouldn't mate with the dome correctly, with half the face ending short and half outside, so I ended up creating planes tangent to dome surface at the end points of the arcs, and lofting instead of a sweep. That gave lofted circles extending beyond the dome around the end point of the arc paths, and intersecting the lofts with the dome as a solid then lost the bits of the loft that were outside and gave the solution. But... simply doing a replace face of the original sweeps extended and trimmed them perfectly to the dome, and probably would also work on the lofts that didn't conform to the dome too. Super useful feature.

[@Heile1965]

Thank you. It seem so easy, but the solution ist not obviously in any situation. Thank you for your great tuts!

[@ManAndMouseCorp]

Thanks! Very good instructions!

[@sticktothewoods]

Subscribed. Coming from SolidWorks to Fusion 360 has been a massive change for me, but I'm finding Fusion to impress me with its intuitive approach. I look forward to having the opportunity to use this tool!

[@RyanKirk99]

That's a great tool Thank you for the concise explanation!

[@LearnEverythingAboutDesign]

Great video! I rarely use Replace Face so its a good reminder to not forget about it :) What I often have to do with complex intersections like this is extend edges or ruled surface on the lofted body and use surfacing tools to get them to line up (if say the bottom face wasn't planar).

[@josephpk4878]

This tip could not have come at a better time. I've been festering over joining some complicated extrusions for the past 2 days and this video presents more options. Replacing the face with the ability to select the inner face of the target object may have just solved my problem. Thanks for the tutorial.

[@adambergendorff2702]

Wow, I run into this problem all the time, good instruction is so much more useful than beating your head against a wall!

[@MarcelHuguenin]

So great to see how to manipulate using these options. Thank you once more!

[@bradnelson3595]

This video is a great way to become familiar with some of these commands and how to use them.

[@MassimoG]

Very useful, thanks.

[@thanhavictus]

You can actually just offset face combine, then delete key the excess on the inside anyway

[@gutrali]

Holy cow!! Big subscribe. You taught me a command i have moused past 1 billion times, and never thought to use. Despite having struggled with a similar concept so many times. Please teach us more!! I like your style!!

[@jbrownson]

Excellent video, thanks

[@K_Shea]

That was clear and concise just excellent.

[@Arrowtake]

Wow! And thanks! This was very clearly explained, and I learned yet another very nice feature of Fusion 360.

[@yamr6rider]

I have needed this several times

[@antonkukoba3378]

This is perfect! So many bullshit advices and videos on youtube regarding this common issue. Thank you for solving it once and for all.

[@ianpendlebury9503]

More great tips - thanks for making these videos.

[@MikiCab1]

Excellent video. Thank You.

[@smorris12]

Excellent video as always!

[@rbyt2010]

Excellent! Really could have used this video last week :-)

[@temulygagarin6216]

Как всегда все просто и понятно! Спасибо большое автору!!!!

[@Ernzt8]

This is a great tip, thanks

[@Mad_Voyager]

Great

[@MadeInMichigan]

I've run into that problem before and come up with much uglier solutions. Thanks for the tip!

[@SpinStar1956]

Really appreciate the video but was hoping you would show the last join at the end.

[@piranin666]

thx!!!

[@Gabriel-azv]

In SolidWorks there is the move face/delete face function, I don't know if fusion has a similar function

[@mavenjo]

Common practice for NX

[@toastyboi_]

What are you using for camera controls? It rotates and zooms so smoothly

[@g.s.3389]

wow always wondered what replace face was for....

[@spencerdiniz]

How to rotate and move the view around so smoothly?

[@joell439]

👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@minozemstan]

Very helpful, thanks.