How To Model An IsoGrid in Fusion 360 | Parameter Based IsoGrid Tutorial |

[@MadPeckr]

I worked alongside your video in Fusion 360 and can't thank you enough for the help your video provided. As a novice, I could keep up with your instructions and rewatch (and re-rewatch, and re-re-rewatch) each step until I completed the step.

[@LearnEverythingAboutDesign]

Glad to hear it!!

[@spiderpat21]

Hello from France...Wonderful! I'm going to complete the parameters to define relationships to control the holes and the ribs that cause problems when scaling. Personally, when I define custom variables, I do it as much as possible for all parameters, especially when it comes to reusable files. Your training videos are top notch and very enriching. Thank you very much.

[@LearnEverythingAboutDesign]

Thank You! Yes I agree about defining all the parameters. For me its a fine balance in these videos that always tend to run long so I always hope to get the point across without going a bit too deep. In the hirth joint video i did I just provided the file with the parameters because it would have been too much to walk through:) thanks for watching and commenting!

[@CelticOneDesign]

Very powerful technique that can be used in many ways. In my particular need: surface pattern fill.

[@crazytrutas]

This is great. Learning every day!

[@LearnEverythingAboutDesign]

Great!

[@electronicshobbyistmushtha5448]

Please make videos on gear design and calculation

[@LearnEverythingAboutDesign]

anything specific? I have a hirth joint video kzbin.info/www/bejne/oJqrhnien8ZsjJI but haven't done anything with gears on this channel.

[@claudiahansen4938]

Chem-tronics GKN titanium isogrid chemically milled, hot formed, welded aerospace applications for compressor cases and many other lightweight applications.

[@claudiahansen4938]

They call it “Unistructure”. I worked there in the 1990s. Great company!

[@StephenBoyd21]

I've just found your channel. So far it has been really interesting. You've certainly got a new subscriber.

[@LearnEverythingAboutDesign]

Awesome, thank you! and happy to have you!

[@keal.vietnam]

Very nice and amazing tutorial !!!!

[@LearnEverythingAboutDesign]

Thanks a lot!

[@bwilliams1815]

Pretty cool Matt.

[@LearnEverythingAboutDesign]

Thanks Brian!

[@sp_cecadet]

Thank you for this.

[@LearnEverythingAboutDesign]

My pleasure!

[@ashpalmer1365]

Excellent tutorial!

[@LearnEverythingAboutDesign]

Thank you!

[@onkarkitekt]

Superb 😊

[@LearnEverythingAboutDesign]

Thanks 🤗

[@Reubenstein42]

Can this design be implemented onto a 3d curved surface? Great tutorial by the way! love it

[@LearnEverythingAboutDesign]

Not nearly as easily sadly. So if it were a cylindrical body you could use Emboss and wrap the sketch. If the 3d shapes becomes more complex then it starts to go off the rails a bit.

[@Reubenstein42]

@@LearnEverythingAboutDesign i know :( that's what I've noticed. it's an organic shape, I'm trying to make particular patterns or a foot cast. For breathability etc

[@LearnEverythingAboutDesign]

@@Reubenstein42 If you go to scripts/add-ins drop down and go to the app store there is a 3d voronoi generator. The other thing you could do is used a 3d lattice tool from the product design extension. that generates a mesh though. The tools to make 3d isogrid/lattice structures are pretty expensive in most cases or time consuming in CAD if you need an actual Solid. For you my guess would be to go the surface route. Make the diamond shape and thicken/cut it away from the solid.

[@Reubenstein42]

@@LearnEverythingAboutDesign thank you!! I'll try that out!

[@scruffy3121]

i did a isogrid with a different method once, it was killing my PC, looking forward to try this.

[@LearnEverythingAboutDesign]

yeah it ca be hectic. For me the key is to keep the sketch simple and use the combine/intersect rather than trying to do something like an extrude with a ton of different selections. Seems to be less intense on the computer.

[@nahuelise4055]

Hello,amazing and super complete video! How would you approach modeling an isogrid aroud a cylinder?

[@LearnEverythingAboutDesign]

Thanks! That is a bit trickier. You would have to use a slightly different process and use EMBOSS. The real trick is the math. your emboss sketch will need to be done based on the circumference of the cylinder.

[@nahuelise4055]

@@LearnEverythingAboutDesign thanks for making time to anwser,yes,i was thinking something along those lines.the idea is to 3d print an intake manifold able to hold high pressure on a turbo engine

[@K4TAKAN]

Damn! Thank you for sharing this gem of a knowledge. I was looking for a set of exercises for Fusion 360 intermediate and advanced users, and this is even better than I thought. Do you do online education? Like over zoom or something. I would be more than happy to get through several lessons on surface modelling and engineering techniques P.S. Instantly subbed and liked

[@LearnEverythingAboutDesign]

Thanks for the kind words! Certainly check out the Surface Mastery series I have on here. Surface tools in Fusion 360 aren't the best in the biz, but that series talks about making the most out of them. Feel free to send me an email [e-mail] and we can chat about what you need and see what is possible. I have a site www.LearnEverythingAboutDesign.com where i can do coaching, but I haven't enabled that just yet.

[@andrestorrejondasilva2388]

brilliant

[@LearnEverythingAboutDesign]

Thank you!

[@AmericanMakerCNC]

Great tutorial and timely! I'm going to have to do an IsoGrid design for a Titan academy part. I'm trying to find your Discord channel to join. Do you have a link to it?

[@LearnEverythingAboutDesign]

You can email me at [e-mail] and ill give you the link. On the titan part, they have videos on how they do it but its not the same way. I assume you mean the 10M part. academy.titansofcnc.com/series/titan-10m/how-to-draw-the-titan-10m

[@AmericanMakerCNC]

@@LearnEverythingAboutDesign Yes I am referring to the Titan 10M part. In F360 I try to learn various ways to design a part. I find that helps deepen my F360 knowledge. So I will do a 10M design the Titan Way and a version with your method of creating IsoGrids.

[@albertbassoe5966]

You sometimes do great videos based on viewer questions, are there any good platforms to ask these questions?

[@LearnEverythingAboutDesign]

Sometimes its from comments on videos, or through email [e-mail]. This one was on the discord channel. If you want an invite you can email me.

[@ffoeg]

nice and thanks! What if one wanted to make a box w/the iso grid on the inside surfaces?

[@LearnEverythingAboutDesign]

Do you mean completely sealed? Whatever you do for the extrude and intersect with the isogrid body will place it where you want. You could use shell selecting the main body from the browser(no face selection) and that will leave a hollow core. Then you can do the same thing if you have a solid version of that core. Hope that makes sense.

[@ffoeg]

I was thinking an open top hollow box, sides facing out smooth and the inner surfaces backed by such a grid. typing that out another alternative comes to mind.. could a curved surface be iso backed like the flat surface you demonstrated n the vid?

[@LearnEverythingAboutDesign]

@@ffoeg curved surface can but its a bit tricky because you need the start/end to line up. So if its cylindrical and you know the circumference you can plan the iso grid that way. If its conical then it gets tricky to keep each triangle the same relative size....

[@ffoeg]

​@@LearnEverythingAboutDesign yeah that looks tricky. thanks for following up.

[@LearnEverythingAboutDesign]

@@ffoeg Thinking about this a little more, one big shift here is that in order to emboss/wrap you would need the entire isogrid in a sketch. When i can I will try to make an update.

[@littlescoutfpv9776]

Hey I am a stundet in an upcoming solar car team and wanted to ask how you would model the car body For context it’s supposed to be a full carbon monocoque and the design should be updatable with many cfd cycles. Is Surface the right tool for this? Cheers

[@LearnEverythingAboutDesign]

What tool are you using for CFD? If you are designing in Fusion and exporting to Ansys, I would say to use freeform modeling over surfacing. It will be much easier to update/change and the surface quality is a bit better than with the surface tools. I have a few car modeling series on this channel and tons of forms content. If you are using a different CAD program I would have to know that as each have various tools. Inventor has forms modeling but slightly different than Fusion even though they are both built on Tsplines. Solidworks doesn't have a native freeform option in the desktop application, but Power Surfacing add-on is really good. Solid Edge has subD but its meh... and on and on.

[@littlescoutfpv9776]

@@LearnEverythingAboutDesign Thanks for the quick response I will be using fusion with either ultimate cfd or simscale. Another question if I want to du structural analysis on the frame aswell can I change the form to a solid body ? Or ad surfaces to the inside as structure? Thanks again

[@LearnEverythingAboutDesign]

@@littlescoutfpv9776 yeah when making form bodies, if they are open, when converted they will be surfaces. To turn those into solids you can either thicken them, or use other surface tools to fill in holes. With a "closed" form, that will get converted to a solid by default. When doing CFD you will likely want a version with filled in areas. Also with a form body its direct editing, but you can copy/paste a form body as a starting point. So if you want to make design changes you can easily copy/paste and work on them side by side.

[@TheLordinio]

@@littlescoutfpv9776 if you want to do structural analyses of a carbon fiber part you will have to design the whole layup of the carbon fiber composite. fusion can't do this

[@benjaminlarsen4566]

I'm curious if there is an intelligent way to make the grid conform to a non planer face? Would you just use the emboss tool

[@LearnEverythingAboutDesign]

I have been playing with this as a possible followup video. The problem here is that the isogrid is defined by the angle of the triangle not the width(circumference) of the object to apply it to. So when you start to try and wrap in the confines of a non-planar part it gets tricky. The next problem is that for emboss you would need to select the sketch profiles to apply, which means a parameter update isn't going to work like it did on the flat/planar part. I will do an update video in the near future showing how to do this on a cylindrical part, but know that it will not be as robust as this method.

[@benjaminlarsen4566]

@@LearnEverythingAboutDesign that's a very good point. I'm glad your looking into this, and I look forward to your follow up video!

[@mohaimenulislam7137]

What if I want to place it on the sphere?

[@LearnEverythingAboutDesign]

Its a much harder thing :) If you want to do it on a cylindrical part you can use Emboss, but if its a complex shape it becomes a much harder task. Is it a true sphere? or just spherical?

[@mohaimenulislam7137]

@@LearnEverythingAboutDesign True sphere

[@piranin666]

thx

[@LearnEverythingAboutDesign]

You're welcome

[@Алексей-п9й7ы]

Думал тут колдовство будет. А тут простую задачу показали очень сложно.