Tutorial Fusion 360: Everyday Items Wall Mounted Tooth Brush holder Unit 2
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In this Unit we will be learning various cut methods for forming complex shapes with sketch tools without the use of any solid object tools beyond extrude.
Containing where we left off we will now extrude to create and cut 3d geometry the back wall of the holder by 15MM and ensure that join mode is selected. The Extrude command can be found under the create tool or by pressing E.
After doing this go ahead and hit enter.
We will now draw a side view, hitting L will allow you to select a face or view for our needs we want to select the right side of the 3d object we have drawn out. Once selected your camera view will correct itself and center that view on the screen.
We are going to do some editing and dishing designs to allow for our toothpaste and additional rounding on the fixture. To Start hit P and select Body then click the object this will draw a red line around the object then turn blue to show what area is selected. Doing this will give us a full shape without taking the curve into account.
Go ahead and hit enter and a purple tracing will appear around where the object is.
This tracing now gives us the full space to draw on.
To start I am going to create a space for where our toothpaste can sit this area needs to be smaller than the tooth brushes. Knowing that we will draw a line that is 30MM from the inner face.
Now we need to define a depth, and add a few more curves.
From the front draw two lines 10 and then 10 again don’t worry about the overlap.
From the center of our first line draw a line down 10MM again.
From there you can insert curves to form something similar to this.
Cut this half circle out. For a more advanced touch you can add a second set of curves like this note this will require clean up after to correct the shape.
From here on our base is done
After this step you can print or add anchor key holes on the back two of them. Note if your tooth brushes are bigger then 10MM you can easily edit this in 3D by pushing the wall back With the Q command this can also round off some of the faces on your piece to give it a softer look.
Adding anchor holes:
Turn your view to the back and hit L select the back face and create two holes of your choice to fit your screws for mine I will be fitting them to a 5MM screw head.
Divide up your area with a line pattern as before drawing across the center then down again forming a cross sub dividing the horizontal line will give you your two center points.
After this we will be creating two slots with holes at the bottom.
Create a line that is 5 up and 5 down from the center with a 5MM circle at the end point like this.
Offset the center lines by 2.5 on each side.
Trim away the excess then create one more circle At the top that is 2.5 and now with your offsets trimmed up and your original removed create two more lines 1.25MM
You now have the basis of your key hole except for one detail the entry.
Redraw in the bottom circle and get ready for a lot of extrusion.
Start by turning off your main toothbrush body you’ll wan to create a cutout body and then mirror it.
Extrude it out 5MM
Followed by selecting every part except for the bottom circle and cut it back 2.5MM you’ll end up with this shape.
Turn your toothbrush body back on and then use the Modify > Combine tool to cut out the shape.
Once complete turn off all your current sketches and select the back again, draw one line down the center vertically.
Extrude the left side leaving you with a keyed half.
Using the create>mirror tool we will complete our drawing.
Combine the result and you will be finished.
I hope you enjoyed this unit and that it gives you some useful information.