Fusion 360 - Project to Surface (Do you really need to use this command?)

Exploring how the project to surface command can be used and other alternatives. While the project to surface command is useful in creating complex 3D geometry, it might not be suitable for what you want to achieve.

0:00 Project to surface operation
1:58 Skip to the discussion part of the video.
2:27 Creating a patch.
3:25 Extrude from object.
4:11 Press pull.
5:03 Offset face.

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[azrael]

Face split + Press pull = Exactly what I needed.
Thank you!

[pianofortesam]

OH MY GOD YOU SAVED ME. I'm frustrated with the Emboss feature that mess up my sketch line.Not knowing there's a such simple way to do this! Thank you a lot!

[shguevara]

Good stuff, thanks! I like that you cover multiple use cases that many of us face while trying to achieve specific results

[quicksilversky]

3:25 this is EXACTLY what I needed, thanks so much!

[doom]

straight to the point instructions and easy to understand explanation. one of the best Fusion 360 channels I've watched.

[neoqijian]

I am expected to get 1 solution, instead you gave me a lot of them. You are very good on this! Thanks!🤝🤝🤝

[rosinni]

great explanation. it helped me a lot. i projected two circles onto a curved surface and try to thicken the surface between in between the circles. Obviously patching didn't work. extruding from the curved surface did work. many many thanks...

[hugueshenrion]

Dide, thank you for the extrusion trick, other videos where doing so many manipulations to get the same results! Thanks again!

[brnktv]

Why does your UI look so damn clean? I love how simple it looks compared to what we get out of the box.

[kbruin]

The trick is to create a sketch on the cylinder first otherwise you will get an error if you try to project to surface. Thank you for the awesome tutorial.

[ThraceKelsick]

Exactly the explanation I needed, thanks!

[Lozzie]

Thanks! Big help! Just what I needed after splitting a body.

[DBares]

I hope I can get an answer on this, but every time I start a new sketch after I extruded a cylinder the sketch finishes in the middle of the object I just extruded. Is the only way to go about it by move the cylinder backwards/forwards?

[littlebuch]

What if the thing I don't want it to follow the curvature and angles of the cut surface? Like with the cylinder, what if I want to extrude a block out of it?

[leonmartindale]

HI, excellent tutorial me a lot, I have found on the of my project it would not let me choose the surface on the round body to extrude why would that be?

[walterrldias]

1000 txs! straight to the point! maybe not for newbies.

[gheumann]

Thank you! Learned a lot in this video I didn't know!

[FrancoisMathieu]

Wow, your tutorials are amazing. Thank you!

[SamBatti]

Hi, can you help me please. I need to sketch on the curved side of a roll. I need to split the curved side to 6 equal parts. My goal is to design a dice roll. What is the best way to do this ? Thank you

[tthectichouse]

Brilliant, very well explained and easy to follow