Im building a octogon/pentagon sphere fire pit. It looked easy enough and straight forward as long as the oct/pent have equal sides in length. I want to rescale for different size fire pits and I want fusion to tell me what the final overal deminsion is Instead of cutting the material to find out. As you can see my bodies are not aligning. Ive tried joining and intersect but am still missing the edge. Also the degree plane angle is trial and error until it fits. Hopefully this makes sense, still a novis with Fusion.
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Are you welding in every panel individually or are you bending some. Depending on which way you’re doing it your approach would be different. Probably your best option for orientation would be using three points to a plane and creating a construction plane where you want the panel to snap to.
Post your F3D file and we could look at it in a bit more detail.
Hexagon - Pentagon
The design in the picture reminds me of the mortal Kombat logo
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Yes cutting and welding in each panel individually.
Im not seeing where to get three points to a plane for a pentagon/octogon.
this is just practice in order to resize later and find final deminsions. But this is where im at right now. Dont laugh im still learning.
Test Fire pit.f3d (112.6 KB)
Yes six sides = Hexagon thanks
i made one for you here should give you a head start. here is the F3D file.
Truncated Icosahedron TIN.f3d (111.3 KB)
you can see in the screenshot where you select three points to a plane and I’ve also indicated in the timeline where I used three points to a plane.
Here’s the wiki page on that kind of shape. And the three points would be selected off of these planes which intersect that shape from origin of the original icosahedron before being truncated.
it’s not as straightforward as just attaching and aligning parts to existing faces.
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Apparently not, Thanks for the help I’ll start practicing with your file.
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Hey Tin, either you put in a lot of time and effort in this or its really easy for you. Either way, I appreciate it and sadly it shows how much further I need to go in Fusion. Thanks for the reality check.
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Complex geometry is not easy. it took just under a hour to make that. I also had to reference a few things to figure it out.
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i couldn’t leave well enough alone wanted to make a sheet metal flat pattern from it. Still a work in progress but I am getting there.
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Haha glad I could interest you in a project. I like problems that make you have to think. The complexity of this one is further out than I realized.
Maybe a twitch tutorial in the future?
For sure. There are a few similar geodesic dome ones on YouTube currently but I could put one together specific for your project. I started going down the rabbit hole of different archimedian shapes. I’m definitely going to have to build some more skills myself.
There’s definitely some aspects that are out of my depth too and I was stretching quite a bit on this.
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@Bison-MC well you’ve definitely led me to a rabbit hole where there’s apparently no escape .
I’m pretty convinced i need to build part of one of these now , a truncated icosidodecahedron toroidal polyhedron.
I guess part of one would be a truncated truncated icosidodecahedron toroidal polyhedron…?
i haven’t got into modeling it myself yet in Fusion but i think it is gonna be quite a chore to get it right.
Thats a rabbit hole on a whole other level.
If you could get a town to commission you, picture that with about a 10’ diameter out of stainless steel sitting in a park? That would look awesome.
Ummmm……..ok sure lol
100% good luck
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Video I found, This is impressive
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It looks great!, im curious what your end game is? Its gone way further than a fire pit design lol.
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I guess right now I’m just pursuing a curiosity and sharpening my Fusion skills. Maybe there’s a future sculpture art piece in there?
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Absolutely, like I said, made out of stainless sitting in a town park would look great.
More power to ya, keep it up.
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That is someone with lots of time on their hands. I think I will stick to chess against a computer (where I get to undo mistakes 
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WOW!
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