{"id":11228,"date":"2019-05-28T11:07:35","date_gmt":"2019-05-28T18:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/?p=11228"},"modified":"2019-05-28T13:18:58","modified_gmt":"2019-05-28T20:18:58","slug":"fusion-360-generative-design-split-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/fusion-360-generative-design-split-face\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech Tip: Becoming Two-Faced with Fusion 360"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our Customer Success Team spends a lot of time helping customers learn the best ways to use <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/overview#banner\">Fusion 360<\/a>. We\u2019d like to start sharing more of these tips, tricks, and best practices with the larger Fusion 360 Community via these Tech Tips.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/alessandro-gasso-b505338\/\">Alessandro Gasso<\/a> was recently helping a customer who is new to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/solutions\/generative-design\">generative design<\/a> in Fusion 360. The customer asked how he could apply a force just to a region of a surface, instead of the entire face, when defining design conditions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ale showed him how he can split the face, to create the region where he wants to apply the force. He was generous enough to create a video we could share with you all:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/screencast.autodesk.com\/Embed\/Timeline\/38245cb5-c0af-4ef3-bfb3-d96324f6e91b\" width=\"640\" height=\"650\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Want to learn more from Ale in person? Consider joining us at <a href=\"https:\/\/academypdx.fusion360.events-autodesk.com\/agenda\/\">Fusion 360 Academy<\/a>. Ale will be teaching the session \u201cAutodesk Generative Design Capabilities for Machinery Industries\u201d along with our other teammate, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/matt-lemay-autodesk\/\">Matt Lemay<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I hope you enjoyed this tip and we look forward to seeing you at the Academy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When using generative design in Fusion 360, you can split faces to apply a force to  just a region of a surface, rather than the entire face.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3034,"featured_media":11229,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-11228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fusion","dhig-theme--light"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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