{"id":418,"date":"2015-01-13T21:48:14","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T21:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fusion360.wpengine.com\/tip-tuesday-back-to-basics-kitchen-faucet-design\/"},"modified":"2020-11-19T16:30:27","modified_gmt":"2020-11-20T00:30:27","slug":"tip-tuesday-back-to-basics-kitchen-faucet-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/tip-tuesday-back-to-basics-kitchen-faucet-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Tip Tuesday | Back to Basics &#8211; Kitchen Faucet Design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember the old saying \u2018Sometimes we need to take a step back, to take a two steps forward\u2019? \u00a0Refreshing ourselves on basic commands in Fusion 360 never hurts, and can always add more \u2018tools to our toolbox\u2019. \u00a0We take a deeper look at using different capabilities underneath the Sculpt Command, visiting functionality such as leveraging \u2018Primitives\u2019, Flattening Vertices, Bridging, and the traditional \u2018Edit Form&#8217; Command. \u00a0Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Attached Canvas<\/strong> inserts an image onto a selected plane or planar face. Use \u2018Attached Canvas\u2019 to add images as references to a model, or as inspiration when creating a design.\u00a0 This is seen with the Industrial Design Sketches of a Kitchen Faucet.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Attached Canvas.png\" src=\"http:\/\/autodesk.i.lithium.com\/t5\/image\/serverpage\/image-id\/148879iE87171FC0BF7323C\/image-size\/original?v=mpbl-1&amp;px=-1\" alt=\"Attached Canvas.png\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Insert Edge<\/strong> adds edges to a T-Spline body by offsetting existing edges.<\/p>\n<p>Edges can be inserted on a T-Spline body using Insert Edge. To use this command, highlight an edge or loop and edit a value for the location of the new edge.<\/p>\n<p>There are two options on the command:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Simple: Will not move the location of any points or edges, however the surface shape will likely change.<\/li>\n<li>Exact: Maintains the shape of the surface by adding control points.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Insert Edge.png\" src=\"http:\/\/autodesk.i.lithium.com\/t5\/image\/serverpage\/image-id\/148880iFB1337907468187F\/image-size\/original?v=mpbl-1&amp;px=-1\" alt=\"Insert Edge.png\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Set Pivot<\/strong> allows you to manipulate the location of the triad under \u2018Edit Form\u2019 to change the location of rotation for a t-spline section.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Set Pivot.png\" src=\"http:\/\/autodesk.i.lithium.com\/t5\/image\/serverpage\/image-id\/148881iE2E6BD442D55BA75\/image-size\/original?v=mpbl-1&amp;px=-1\" alt=\"Set Pivot.png\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Flatten<\/strong> moves the selected control points to a single plane passing through the control point group.\u00a0 Selected Parallel Plane allows you to take any t-spline surface and make it parallel to a given plane.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Flatten.png\" src=\"http:\/\/autodesk.i.lithium.com\/t5\/image\/serverpage\/image-id\/148882i22B4D181521D4976\/image-size\/original?v=mpbl-1&amp;px=-1\" alt=\"Flatten.png\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<strong>Bridge Command<\/strong>\u00a0allows you to connect two T-spline bodies (or two parts of the same T-spline body) by adding intermediate faces.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Bridge.png\" src=\"http:\/\/autodesk.i.lithium.com\/t5\/image\/serverpage\/image-id\/148883i132A4EE0B67CCE9C\/image-size\/original?v=mpbl-1&amp;px=-1\" alt=\"Bridge.png\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><P><IMG border=\"0\" alt=\"Tip Tuesday.png\" src=\"http:\/\/autodesk.i.lithium.com\/t5\/image\/serverpage\/image-id\/148878iEEAD62E01D55FACA\/image-size\/original?v=mpbl-1&amp;px=-1\" title=\"Tip Tuesday.png\" \/><\/P><P>Remember the old saying \u2018Sometimes we need to take a step back, to take a two steps forward\u2019? &nbsp;Refreshing ourselves on basic commands in Fusion 360 never hurts, and can always add more \u2018tools to our toolbox\u2019.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":0,"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-418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fusion","dhig-theme--light"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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