Surface Modeling in Autodesk Fusion [UPDATED!]

Model a bottle using surfacing techniques in Autodesk Fusion. Follow Simon as he shows you how to convert a hand-drawn concept into a dynamic 3D bottle with the core surfacing tools available in Fusion: the Canvas, Calibration, Edit Form, Split Body, Patch & Stitch tools.

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🕰️ Time Stamps for the Time-Strapped:
00:00 Welcome to the video!
00:12 Inserting a canvas image
00:31 Calibrating a canvas image
01:27 Creating a form shape
02:12 Adding symmetry to a form
02:33 Using the edit form tool
03:42 Splitting form bodies with a sketch
06:39 Extruding a surface body
06:58 Using the trim tool
07:46 Offsetting and extending the surface body
08:37 Sweeping surfaces to fill the gaps
10:30 Trimming overbuilt surfaces
11:18 Mirror and patch the surface body
12:01 Stitching surface bodies together
12:48 Thanks for watching!

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[ikbo]

Amazing! More surfacing videos please.

[DJNK]

Great workflow and clear instructions to follow, thank you. I been struggling cutting away surfaces and this is going to help no end… I just need to start my project again 😂

[ansiaaa]

awesome video, very well explained. thank you for uploading it!

[markg]

A nice simple way of doing this. Thanks.

[martinmillson]

Great Video Simon - Now i know what form is used for!

[tribuiduc]

Can you develop these features?

- Turning machine simulation
- Add more axis in 3d CAM ..eg w axis on horizontal boring milling machine
- Movement or joint and animation of the rope/wire/routing created by pipe command
- Flatten and Wrap surface
- Bending Multiple Bodies (similar feature Lattice Rig/Bend Rig/Twist Rig/Conform Rig in Autodesk Alias)
- Draw sketches on the STL/OBJ mesh surface

One idea I would like is that you can enable 5-axis toolpath creation and simulation in the free or personal versions, and you can lock the G-code export function (only G-code export is possible when paying for Manufacturing extensions), this could help more people gain access to the CAM technology that Fusion offers and tend to think about being willing to pay for the right features.

[_GRBL]

Is this a reupload of your surface modeling tutorial from 7 years ago?

[MrJdorrington]

Most people interested in developing their surfacing skills would have stumbled across this bottle being modelled before ( and excellently!) in another video. Come on Autodesk, you can do better.

[kingsidorak]

The audio is EXTREMELY LOW. This video needs to be taken down, and reuploaded with fixed audio, or not at all.

[timp]

Fusion is so bumbling and slow at this compared to the Plasticity workflow. Someone who knows what they are doing in Plasticity could have made 20 of those models in the time it would take to make one on 'Frankenstein Fusion'.