Fusion 360 | Sketch Wrap? (Not Project to Surface)

Is there a way to wrap a sketch?

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0:00 Intro
0:33 The problem with Project to Surface
2:29 Recommended solution | Emboss
3:30 Split Body
4:25 Include 3D Geometry

[FusionSchool]

Unfortunately, there is a limitation to this method. It can only work on closed profiles. I have also been thinking about how I would go about wrapping open sketch lines. It would most probably be along the lines of the method shown in the thin emboss video:

[NeoQJ]

This guy amazed me by clicking those functions that I never thought to click. Imagine how much time I could have saved if I had known about those functions earlier!😂

[endscreenshorts]

Thank you 15 times, I've been working on this for 15 hours and I said I won't give up until I succeed, thank you for the embos, now I can put fish scale around the whole fish, it was so easy and I was lucky I immediately came across another video and that was yours, I will look at the others as we

[sidrykchewo]

The concept of wrapping any sketch on any surface (not just rounded) should be implemented by fusion. A further step could then allow the wrapping of the sketch plane itself.
Again I think of a Grasshoper like feature.
Imagine modeling a complex texture on a plane that gets stitched to any shaped body surface.

[ZPositive]

Your small leaps in logic always blow my mind. Thanks for this workaround for a very common problem in Fusion. 👍

[chrish]

Excellent tutorial. Your channel is criminally underrated. Keep up the great work.

[gaugesheen]

Deboss to cut on a curved surface is pretty clever. Thank you

[SikerGaming]

I was trying to emboss something without knowing what the term was. Even if your goal wasn't to teach about embossing, stumbling across your video fixed my problem. Thanks!

[OldSilkRoad]

An awesomely elegant solution! Your channel deserves more likes and subscribers. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

[petermiechielssens]

Thank you for this vid!!!
It helped me a lot in creating a pipe through an emboss edge.
(application: complex curved cooling tube for a drum which has to be perfectly welled on a curved copper plate)

The trouble I had before was working with the different curves on more levels and getting the distances right.
Now I could design the complex grid with different radius and more levels easy in 2D and then project them on a complex curved face.
I can change these faces (of the different drums) and curves (widder or more compact) working with parameters.
It works like a charm!

Earlier I was drawing in sketch 3D and did a lot with copy paste and used different planes
it was a lot of work to get it perfect and working with parameters didn't give the result, it should.
Again, a lot of kudo's!

[tmmy]

Wow been doing a bunch of math and the emboss feature could've saved me this entire time hahaha wow

[lbg]

Excelent. Your channel is way underrated keep it up!

[tcchallenger]

Exactly what I was looking for! Thank you.

[marguspalumets]

just what i was looking for! this keeps the dimensions of the model, compared to the intersection operation or extruding onto an object surface!

[msmith]

Nice clear explanations and easy to follow. Had to subscribe immediately.

[WMBayouLures]

Fantastic! Thanks for hacking through Fusion for us!

[idDaddy]

Been using fusion for years and never tried this. Thanks!

[JohnZeeX]

Nice, but unfortunately this only works on cylindrical bodies. I’m a tire designer, and my tires aren’t shaped like cylinders. So I have to bend/wrap my tread in two directions at once, across a complex shape consisting of multiple tangent arcs. I haven’t found an Autodesk product yet that can handle that. Only Solidworks or ProE.

[derekmarchetti]

Your videos are great, they have helped me many times.

[dittilio]

Have you tried the emboss rotation? I found that if my sketch was larger than the diameter of the curve, I would start with it rotated 90° vertically, then use the emboss rotation to "unrotate" it. This gives me a nearly perfect wrap.

EDIT:

So my method is: 1. Create your desired slot profile with it's axis aligned vertical (perpendicular to cylinder axis then,
2. Emboss a 0.01mm protrusion onto your curved surface with a 90º rotation angle. (my cylinder was 100mm tall, diameter 50mm, emboss was 0.01mm)
3. Simply enable the pipe command and select the emboss edge directly.

This gave me "exact" lengths. E.g. my slot's straight length was 48.54mm, and the equivalent pipe length was 48.54mm. I couldn't see any issues with either a zebra or curve analysis.