Tessellation in Fusion 360 (Requested Video)

There was a question in the Fusion 360 User group on the Facebook if somebody could help and do this pattern of funky shadows.
Using Surface Patch with Rails and both Circular and Rectangular Patterns I ended up with something close to the original.

[@ShirinDelsooz]

Very well explained! I only used Fusion 360 for two years and was able to follow along this detailed tutorial. Thank you!

[@KristianLaholm]

Thank you :)

[@neillightfoot6569]

Such a great tutorial and easy to follow. Only wish I had found this years ago. Really appreciate the time taken to detail every step. I'm going to use this to create wall art with my CNC. Thank you! 😉👍

[@KristianLaholm]

Thank you

[@user-di5wo9fx6y]

It's so cool. Thank you for sharing this with us, Kristian.

[@TheHaza87]

Wow what a great vid I managed to draw this and do cuts into Corian on my cnc using this video. Also learnt how to use the shortcut menu from this vid. So much learnt thank you

[@adambergendorff2702]

I always learn from your work flow!

[@fatboy1271]

Great video 🤘🤘 I love the "mistakes," as that's how I work! I've got a 3D Print Project that I want a splatter effect for. I think I can use this info to make something close to what I want. Thanks for the upload and I already hit Subscribe!

[@StephenBoyd21]

Wow! One day, when I’m old and grey, I will acquire such mad Fusion skills. I thought that I was quite good at Fusion but boy do I have a lot to learn.

[@KristianLaholm]

Thank you :) It's all about the mistakes ;)

[@mooosj]

I use solidworks so I didn't understood a single feature you used but this is amazing! I'll try it on my own later.

[@KristianLaholm]

Thank you. I don't know SW but from what I have seen there should be similar features 👍

[@cy8646]

Thank you for this tutorial. It's going to help me massively.

[@versus023]

Just watched 2 of your video. They are absolutely the shit. You do thing i would never have guessed possible. its amazing!

[@KristianLaholm]

Thank you

[@jamstechstudios]

Good stuff, thanks for sharing this good techniques .

[@KristianLaholm]

Thank you

[@tozinfo6448]

you comment sounded as it is easy as pie... well done!

[@wdwdHenry9022]

Kristian is a magician! well done

[@KristianLaholm]

Thank you :)

[@franciscopimentelascui9272]

Hey great work here, amazing how easy you make it look! How would you use the same sketch to carve into a square that al ready has volume? Like let's say a plywood door? Could be cool the see the different layers showing as you change the depth of the carving. Again congratz for the work you are doing

[@KristianLaholm]

Thank you :)

[@KristianLaholm]

I missed your question. But tools like replace face or make the pattern on another body and combine. The machining parts is not my side as I have not played around with CNC.

[@torquebiker9959]

looks nice

[@4funrc11]

_Great!_ 👍 Thx 😃 I was thunkin'... A-ha! It's Trigonometric Sine, Cosine and Tangent functions time.✌ PS - Perhaps wrapping the sketch/body around a cylinder/curve...

[@KristianLaholm]

I'm terrible sorry to disappoint your high expectations on my video 👍😀. Fusion crashes only solving the surfaces, so I'm hesitated to wrap that surface around anything 😎

[@4funrc11]

@@KristianLaholm Thx ッ Yep, too much math and Fusion 360 =̷(̷+̷-̷)̷ uoᴉsnᖵ Ɛ90 ッ

[@davidboland5344]

Very cool. Any way to wrap that around the outside of a cylinder?

[@KristianLaholm]

I have not tried it, but Sheet Metal can be used to bend things. But I don't think Fusion will not handles this in a good way.

[@jorix7]

Amazing tutorial!

[@KristianLaholm]

Thank you :)

[@eedesign878]

I need to learn everything else in Fusion. I am good in Solid bodies but absolutely lost at everything else. :F I hope there were key kommands that you use or it was not so fast clicks.

[@KristianLaholm]

There are some older good surface tutorials on YT for Fusions, but they use the old UI (all the functions are the same but have moved around a bit). You can set up keyboard short cuts for some of the features used or use the Search function in Fusion (S on the keyboard)

[@AnthonyPetrone]

Your videos are blowing my mind. Nowhow about this - at about 12:42, or in general, is there a way to wrap this into a solid cylinder? 😅

[@KristianLaholm]

I haven't tried to wrap a pattern like this around a cylinder but my workflow in this video kzbin.info/www/bejne/mYTFqnuFqZp9hpI would be my referens to start with. There is a possibility that Fusion will not be able to solve the surface geometry when refolding the tessellation.

[@AnthonyPetrone]

@@KristianLaholm Ok yeah I figured I'd have to try and combine the two methods. Will give it a go tomorrow, I hope Fusion can handle it. The square pattern worked out perfectly today, thanks!

[@ShirinDelsooz]

@@AnthonyPetrone did it work out?

[@AnthonyPetrone]

@@ShirinDelsooz Ah, no not really, but I didn't try that hard. It was definitely stressful on my computer I remember though.

[@MrHolesVids]

Great tutorial, thank you. How would one go about putting this on a cylinder?

[@KristianLaholm]

I have previous answer to this and I would use and I'd use a very different workflow. And with to many odd faces Fusion will slow down.

[@jeanmichelpantais1040]

From France. Extra super you are a great champion

[@KristianLaholm]

Thank you :)

[@SergiyZavarykin]

Top!

[@ShirinDelsooz]

Everything was going great until 4:11, how do I find the circular pattern option? How did you pull up the sketch shortcuts? Googling this now....

[@ShirinDelsooz]

Oh I found it just now, its under "Sketch" > "Create" > "Circular Pattern"

[@KristianLaholm]

@@ShirinDelsooz I have a video on how I "speed up" my workflow in Fusion 360 kzbin.info/www/bejne/pKSyfmh-p8hqhNE The most importen one is hitting the "s" key on the keyboard to pull "Design Shortcuts" and type in the command I'm looking for. Some command exist in different version for sketch/solid/surface.

[@zeusshen1505]

Hey there, nice tutorial, but how would I apply that kind of pattern to a cube with curved edges?

[@KristianLaholm]

Fusion is not the best tool for "organic" shapes like this, there are solutions to it but I think it's easier done in other software (not my strong side)

[@chrisr1241]

This is amazing! Thank you… but one question. I tried to fade out the pattern at the edges of my body. No problem with another split face or even simple extrude for straight body’s. But Looks not so nice. how could you fade out the pattern that the z depth progressively gets smaller to the edges but holds the basic pattern shape. So the inner curves on the first face should be scaled towards the edges of the whole body. Hard to explain but I tried everything… aim is to fade the pattern out without generating flat areas of extrudes…

[@KristianLaholm]

The typ of geometry you are describing is hard in mechanical CAD. I would export the design and use a mesh modeler like Blender for that (I'm a beginner at blender, have no good workflow)

[@chrisr1241]

Thank you so much! Now I can stop trying crazuy things in fusion =) @@KristianLaholm

[@user-bd8dq5bw9x]

Hi Kristian, can we make such a relief on the sphere? and if yes, how we can do it?

[@KristianLaholm]

Putting a patten on a sphere is a problem by itself, you can't flatten a sphere is what it comes down to. And squares like in the video is "impossible" to put on a sphere. The pattern has to be based on something like a geodesic sphere to work. And for now Fusion will hate geometry like this.

[@chintannedariya2760]

Hey, Can you make a video on hammered pattern, I've been trying the same but could not figure out how to do it

[@KristianLaholm]

Fusion is not the best tool if you want a "random" hammer pattern.

[@chrisr1241]

Or in other words. How would you wrap a 3d pattern on a body? I saw a lot of tutorials how to wrap / embos 2d shapes and extrude them but no 3d pattern wrapping like with this one. How to put it on a curved surface (not simple cylinders)

[@KristianLaholm]

This is something that mechanical CAD will fail with, you have to look at mesh modeling for this.

[@chrisr1241]

Thank you that helps me a lot! @@KristianLaholm

[@moderncabinets6578]

really good video! i had an issue at the very end when I did it as it came up with an error saying no intersection between target and split tool

[@KristianLaholm]

Thank you. Fusion can be tricky sometimes, I tested the workflow and it worked for me. Try saving the design and restarting Fusion to clean the memory.

[@moderncabinets6578]

@@KristianLaholm I managed to sort it in the end, I had some sharp corners that didn't stay in their shapes when patching so I changed the design slightly and it worked great!

[@joemickelssilva1347]

Can this be done over a curved surface, like a flat to curve surface?

[@KristianLaholm]

I haven't tried bending it using the "sheet metal" trick, but I suspect Fusion will slow down and crash. If the surface is more complicated then a cylinder Fusion is not the best tool for this.

[@joemickelssilva1347]

@@KristianLaholm I think I will try to chain a 3D design along some rails that follow the surface and intervals up the surface(stack them) and then join them. then subtract from the surface. so I can follow up and down a variable wavy surface? eh? work ya? lol. I am thinking about making a sort of square chain that looks similar to Celtic designs and try that. That way I can create a more detailed material that will give the Nylon or other plastic surfaces some more hard surface-looking features. As far as crashing goes I mainly find that fusion 360 like many programs is still strongly controlled by the GPU/CPU combo. (obviously) I bought a Ryzone 5 6 core and coupled it with a Radeon Pro WX 3100 and it does wonder. however the WX 3100 is under what the CPU can actually handle, So I may upgrade to a WX 4200 or higher in the coming months when I replace my motherboard. Hope that helps. The only few times it crashed, is when I deleted something in the timeline and then push pulled something and it deleted some of its surfaces into oblivion lol. Then boom, Fusion does not like that. But I have seen fusion throw fits for a few seconds, mostly because of my naive abilities in 3D modeling.

[@KristianLaholm]

@@joemickelssilva1347 Software like Dynamo (autodesk, there are other) have make repetitive patterns. I haven't played with them myself but seen the result from them.

[@silenthunter9239]

WOW!!! 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍😲😲

[@dylson77]

Nice one but so way complicated than the same thing I did in AutoCAD ( in less than 2 min)

[@georgeroper9210]

I'm sure this is a great video,I just couldn't get it lol.

[@KristianLaholm]

Try some other designs and play around with Fusion, then come back and give the workflow a new try :) 3D modeling can make your brain spin :)

[@PaulMcEvoyGuitars]

WHat's the facebook group you're using?

[@KristianLaholm]

Fusion 360 Users

[@ge2719]

Nice swastika pattern 🤣

[@HolahkuTaigiTWFormosanDiplomat]

：！！！！！

[@magnusjansson5856]

This is horrible. isnt there an easier faster way to do this?

[@KristianLaholm]

There are (expensive) software like Dynamo that makes this "easy" but Fusion will most probably never be good at things like this. I should add that some functions in Fusion has been changed that makes it possible to speed up part of my workflow. A different approach would be to create this shape in software like Blender and then import to Fusion.

[@magnusjansson5856]

@@KristianLaholm thanks im gonna take a look at that :)