How To Design 3D PRINTED Spiral Vases + Plant Pots in Fusion 360
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In this Fusion 360 tutorial, I'll show you how to design and print unique, sculptural plant pots!
During the design process, we’ll cover a variety of useful tools including the create form (AKA T-spline) workspace, creating cylinder forms, creasing edges, doing complex modeling with the "edit form" tool, converting T-spline forms into solid bodies, boundary fills, hollowing out complex forms without using the shell tool, the revolve tool, checking wall thicknesses with the section analysis tool, scaling, slicing and printing!
------- Contents of this video -------
00:00 - Introduction
00:19 - Create Form
2:35 - Creasing edges
3:24 - Edit form
4:50 - Creating the peaks of the spirals
7:00 - Creating the profile of the plant pot
9:23 - Twisting the pot to create the spirals
12:08 - Converting the form into a solid body with boundary fill
13:55 - Limitations of the shell tool
14:30 - Hollowing out the pot
18:15 - Checking the wall thickness with the section analysis tool
19:13 - Slicing
20:13 - Printing
20:45 - Design your own!
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For those who are having an issue with your boundary fill volume not turning green - make sure the top and bottom planes intersect with your vase. Remember - boundary fill is all about creating a fully enclosed volume. It might look enclosed from a distance, but if you zoom in, there may be a gap. Try using offset planes to slightly raise/lower your construction planes. Hope this helps!
Iv been stuck on this forever, no matter what i do it still won’t work and I’ve done everything you said to do, maybe im doing it wrong but i put an offset plane at the bottom of my vase then made another offset on the top then did boundry fill and still didn’t turn green, please try to help, im trying to print this befor Mother’s Day for a gift for my mom.
For anybody struggling on the boundary fill part of the tutorial, make sure that the vase is either touching the ground plane or create an offset plane that lines up with the bottom of your vase and then select it and the top offset plane along with your vase. Hope that helps.
AWESOME! Just downloaded fusion 360, and this is perfect to combine the two hobbies of 3d printing and all things green!
Thank you! I’ve probably watched 75 Fusion videos by now, and this is the first time I’ve seen this feature explained. I’ve watched multiple videos where they describe how to do this sort of design without using the form tools and it is SO much harder to do. I’ve designed a number of votive/tealight holders and it’s such a pain to do, and this looks like it will make my life much easier.
Excellent tutorial. Absolutely clear and a good pace to follow. Thank you. (I will try my own designs - the problem with a pot that has a top narrower than the rest is when you come to take the plant out for repotting!)
This was a remarkably lucid (and calming!) tutorial. I’m inspired to try this! More please ❤
Great tutorial, thank you Morley. First time I have used the form feature in F360 and it is so much fun!
Fantastic tutorial. As someone who has used Fusion 360 for many years for mostly mechanical parts and assemblies, I have never really explored the surface tools.
I've attempted a vase based on your tutorial for my wife for Valentines Day for the Lego Roses Set , hopefully it will be gratefully received.
One of the most helpful tutorials on TH-cam of this subject matter. Credit to you.
Thank you so much!
What a great video, and... you are a very good teacher. I followed you step by step in this video with no problem!
This was a great tutorial on how to use forms to make some cool aesthetic designs. Thanks!
I'm following through right now. Will update soon. So far so good. Learning for a future project.
Thanks for making this video! It was easy to follow along, and I was able to make one first time. Keep making great tutorials.
Amazing Fusion360 tutorial. I've learned a lot of things I didn't know. Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge, greetings from Argentina
Now I'm off to make a pot of my own! Thanks for doing this video, man.
That is a fantastic tutorial. So nice and easy to follow.
Thanks for the tutorial! Was easy to follow and learned a lot about forms, which I have never used!
Nice job. Clear and easy to follow.
Man, such a great tutorial! Thanks for the great content. I learned something!
Thank you ! printing in progress. Very good tuto. I had to do it two times going backward many times in the video before i could pass something to cura but it works ! THANK YOU ! :)
I'm so happy it worked out in the end! Good luck with your print :)
Great tutorial. Im just getting into fusion 360 having only used tinkercad before, so this really helps. One tip I've found to save print time and material is instead of hollowing out the object, export as a solid shape. Then when slicing (I use cura) slice with 0 top layers and 0% infill. I find 5-8 bottom layers and 5 perimeters is usually enough to make a strong enough vase/pot and saves all that extra material used printing different inner and outer shapes plus the infill.
That is a great idea! I gotta try that. Thanks for watching!
This is a great tip, thanks!
Agree, for vases infill is not necessary, more perimeters are the way to go
Thank you for this tutorial !
Thanks for the fantastic design lesson ! Love from Germany !
So cool! I’ve never seen the form tool, this is giving me so many ideas 🤘🏻
Thank you! I think that many of us makers come to Fusion from a Sketchup, AutoCAD or other engineering CAD software, where T-spline modeling (the form workspace) is not as prevalent. I feel like there's a huge subset of the 3D modelling community who primarily do this style of modelling, like video game designers, CGI, etc. Two different worlds?
Fantastic tutorial! I think leaving the center completely cylindrical will make life easier when it's time to re-pot the plant.
Yes, even though this means using a bit more plastic.
Awesome tutorial, thanks a ton!
I never used this feature set although I would say I'm quite expericed in CAD. It seems to be more of a tool animators use rather than engineers :D
But it's seriously a game changer when designing organic forms
Thanks for watching! Yeah it seems to be pretty common in the 3D art/animation world. Definitely a game changer for those of us who come from a more engineering CAD background.
That' one of the best Videos on the subject out there! I already did a few designs.
If you're having troubles finding the boundary planes for the Fill, you can also use the "plane through three points" ;)
I really should learn more about using Fusion. I use it too much to be doing it blindly. Never knew there was a create form, this was great info 👌
It’s a really amazing part of Fusion that I think a lot of people don’t know about. T-spline modeling seems to be a lot more common among video game designers/CGI artists than makers.
So freakin cool Morley! So much great information and Fusion 360 techniques!
Thanks so much man! You getting a 3D printer soon? 😉
@@MorleyKert I wish! Someday haha
This has been very helpful in making dust covers for a scooter suspension! 👌
That's awesome to hear! Thanks for watching :)
Those pots look great!
Thanks Andy! I’m really happy with them. Excited to design more
Thanks a lot from france
Amazing and very usefull tutorial
Good Tutorial 👍🏻
thank u very much
Thank you Martin!
thank's for this video!!!
Thanks, that was enjoyable to watch and your pupper is adorbs :)
Thank you! She is pretty adorable 😊
I'm always scared sculpt and used only industry. But today I'll try to repeat this project. Thanks for perfect tutorial!
Thanks for watching, I hope it helps!
Excellent tutorial! You need to keep making videos like this! New subscriber. ;)
Thank you, I will!
Your videos are so engaging and professional! I hope your channel grows!
Thank you so much! Me too 😊
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Awesome work man. Very useful and your voice is nice !
Thank you so much!
Klasse!
Morley is the only person that makes education seem entertaining.
Wow, that's a big compliment!
Very Cool!! Thx
This was useful, maybe I can finally brave the "cold" of using the form tool and finally challenge myself that way cos as you mentioned, its a bit intimidating
Go for it!
Thanks!
Ein richtig gutes Video. Leider in Englisch aber da schau ich es mir halt zwei mal an. Danke für das Video. Jetzt traue ich mich doch mal in Fusion 360 an meine erste eigene Vase. Danke
The pots look nice. I appreciate the tutorial, some really good info in there. I am curious on the longevity of the PETG, do you have an idea of how stable it is to UV light?
Thanks! PETG is one of the most UV-resistant filaments. UV doesn’t degrade it structurally
@@MorleyKert Excellent. Thanks for the info.
Thanks for video.
I had another idea how to hollow the inside out. Wouldnt it be possible to create a copy of the Body, but shrink its size so it is 2 thicknesses shorter. Then use the Combine tool to Cut the bodies with eachothers. Because your solution makes me feel material is wasted since some parts will be thicker then other. With body minus body, the outer thickness would be constant everywhere
Great tutorial. Could you help that I can not use the boundary fill and turn the object to the green color? Thanks,
me pasa lo mismo, me estoy rompiendo la cabeza, si alguien le paso lo mismo y lo soluciono me dice por favor, gracias.
Haha. Of course I end up back at this video when searching for Fusion 360 tutorials. I'm trying to make risers for my dog's food and water bowls.
Love this tutorial but for some reason when I do the area selection and scaling it doesn't work uniformly. The green line curves and I can't figure out why. When I double click on the middle line and scale it works fine. But when doing the top and bottom it starts to curve before I even get to rotating it.
Thank you, that's awesome!
You don't have to hollowing out the pot, juste use vase mode (spiralize outer contour), the print will be faster (1 or 2 hours)
But then you will have extremely thin pot walls!
@@MorleyKert
Yes but you can cheat with overextrusion and/or a bigger nozzle (for example with a 0.4 nozzle, set wall thickness to 0.6 or 0.8). And once you filled with dirt, the piece is more solid (and without seams).
And a random tip : you can coat the inside with a mix of silicon and white spirit to make it watertight
@@MorleyKert 1.0mm nozzle can print up to 2mm walls ;)
Looks great Morley, much nicer than the pot I designed🤣
Thanks man! Make another one 😊
@@MorleyKert but now that I know how it's done it isn't as much fun🤣🤣
Make it different!
@@MorleyKert I'm not creative enough for that😓😓😓
thanks for the tutorial, I made a pot! Only in fusion 360 though, I don't have a 3D printer.
That’s awesome! I need to make some more - the peperimo plant has outgrown the little pot!
Tip: If your window selection is only selecting one side, make sure to go in to selection-> selection filters -> tick select through. This was disabled by default for me.
Hello, New to fusion 360, Having a problem with the boundary fill part, I’m doing everything in your video and can’t get my vase to turn green and when I click on the vase it disappears. Hope this makes sense.I work more in Maya and Zbrush.Thank you in advance for any help.
Im also having this problem, HELP!
well, thanks for the tutorial but I have no idea how to get past the boundary fill step as my object does not "turn green". Your object seems to be perfectly aligned on the xy plane, and it has an exact height that you can snap to, which seem important to properly create the offset plane that you talk about, but you did not explain that. I was eventually able to get around that by using a different method of creating the planes, namely the "Plane through three points", one at the top and another at the bottom of the pot.
I am stuck there too :(
I was stuck here but I figured it out. In the video, he clicks the origin (XY) plane and his construction plane. I was assuming since I made my sketch on the origin XY plane that it was tangent to the edge of my mesh, but it wasn't. So my fix was just to make two offset construction planes, one for the bottom, and one for the top. You don't have to drag to snap these or know the offset height, just create the construction plane, and then click the top of your object (or bottom) and it will snap to it. Then it worked for me.
Thanks, perfectly worked...@@NotFromConcentrate
Hello, thanks for this great video !
i made the same object than yours (diametre face and height faces) but when i select them i have a different result than you.
for exemple : at 09:39 you have selected 476 edges and when i select the same area than you i have around the half (212 edges). do you use a filter or something like this for the edge selection ?
thanks in anticipation.
my mistake: i forgot to select : Select Through (in selection Filters)
great tutorial. I am having an issue around 12.49min mark. I cant see to get the construction planes to work properly. I follow what you have done here but my vase goes blue not green? I can seem to figure out what is wrong with it ?
Hi, if i doe this with my created cylinder and twist it, it shrinks the hole body! The hole bodyform is cangeing. Why is this happening to me? The basic shape of your body is retained despite the twisting.
Thx for the tutorial, but I don`'t get, how at 7:24 you'd scale to a soft form. When I do the exact same steps, my scaled form is edgy. Can anyone help?
Thanks for the video but cannot get the boundary fill to work :( Selection does not turn green, and not sure why :/
Looking at the fusion 360 timeline, it looks to me, that the different edit changes are not captured there. Does that mean I cannot go back and alter specific changes?
do you know why the body becomes blue when i perform boundary fill? i'm unable to turn the body green and select the cell
I’m having massive issues with My attempts all being shown to be non manifold in both Cura and Meshmixer. I’ve been doubly careful not to cross over and have even made much more shallow angles in the model, but the issues still persist.
Meshmixer tells me all the outside faces are non-manifold.
Have you come across this, or do you have any suggestions?
Thanks for the video, I have spent the last two days learning a lot, even if I’ve not yet been successful!
Were you able to convert the form into a body in Fusion?
@@MorleyKert hello! Yes, it shows as a body that I can hide/unhide in the folders on the left.
I’m fairly new to F360, so apologies if I don’t know the terminology of everything!
Keen to learn and get this right though, as it’s an amazing skill to unlock!
Hmmm that’s strange, I have had problems converting the form to a body (sometimes you need to delete faces, unweld edges, etc.) but I’ve never had a problem going from fusion to the slicer. Sorry I can’t be more help!
When I exported as an stl I had the same problem and it would close up the top and bottom and put infill through the whole model however when I exported as a step file I had no problems
Then in my slicer I exported the step file into a stl and had no problems again
Can someone help me? How come when I click alt and click the face it doesnt extrude it??? All it does is make the circle diameter larger
I am new to using Fusion 360, but what I noticed here is ,the first half of the tutorial was at the right speed for a novice, but the 2nd half was so fast that we don't even notice what you're clicking. Please could you please show us slowly. thanks
I have attempted this according to your instructions but it only gives me the option to change the diameter, not the height.
Hi, I am trying to make the vase, but I stuck on 4.05 minute(extrude) I can't work just with the top line because all the lines are showing, no matter if I am on the top view. Can you please tell me how I can see just the top one. Thank you!
Did you have to do anything special to print out PETG so nicely ? I've read alot online about how difficult it can be to print PETG.
the prusa printers handle it with ease, any other high quality printer as well.
but if you have a creality it might more tricky
What is the first plant shown in the video
For some reason when I twist the vase, it gets narrow on the top haha. Will need to follow it a few more times to see where I go wrong 😅
awesome video! but for some reason the boundary fill doestn work with my pot any ideas why?
"I was eventually able to get around that by using a different method of creating the planes, namely the "Plane through three points", one at the top and another at the bottom of the pot." someone said this in the comments and it worked for me. I hope this works for you!
Amazing tutorial... My issue is that when i load it to cura it has holes on the pot, i went back to fusion an adjusted the walls over and over again, and it doesnt matter how thick they are, they always have a hole in the middle of the sections. could you help?
Oh no! I’m sorry, I don’t use cura so I’m not sure what the issue is. The center cutout is poking through the sides?
@@MorleyKert do you have an email so I can send you a photo, might be easier... 😅 On fusion it looks spotless, no holes, PERFECT! then cura comes in and booooom 😂 been trying to figure it out for 3 days, done all the steps over and over again 😅😅😅 and I have some new plants in desperate need of a new pot 😂😂😂
Sure! Morleykert@gmail.com
@@martaalves9039 Did you ever get to the bottom of this? having the same issue, looks fine in fusion but cura says something about missing or extraneous surfaces
Good afternoon, what 3D program is this that you work in this video. Thank you very much.
Fusion 360
@@MorleyKert Thanks for your answer, I want to learn from scratch (I am a graphic designer) to learn 3D modeling in clay, what program do you recommend me to start please? hopefully the program is in Spanish. Happy day.
Trying to follow along but right off the bat my fusion is behaving differently. When I create a cylinder in the form workspace I don't have the "operations: as new body" option at all, and when I type in the diameter it just creates a random height cylinder and doesn't give me the tool panel to change the faces etc. What is going on with my fusion?
Hello, another Issue when creating boundary fill. nothing turns green after selecting both plans and object. i ll continue to troubleshoot this...
Great video , how much do you sell the pots for?
I don't sell the pots, but you can download the files for free on my website!
You should sell them , they are awesome
Ok if you would sell them what would you charge
need help I made my pot and tried to slice it on orca slicer but I said error 60 non-manifold edges and I tried to repair it in the slicer and in fusion and nothing worked
Great video, I keep getting crossing errors though ugh!"
9.5 horus to print ?
That was a bit complicated, but i'm going to try it.
that box @1:24 dosnt show up for me. Whats wrong? for cylinder
Can't select the boundary fill, even though I think I followed the instructions here. Please help.
When I import into prusa slicer it it fills the entire object as a solid. It doesn't see the part I hollowed out with the spline. Any ideas on how to fix this?
You can print in vase mode with 0 top layers. You will get a vase with a single wall. Not waterproof. Or you can print in normal mode, wit let’s say 3 walls (perimeters), 4 bottom layers and 0 top layers. You will get a more sturdy vase that you easily can waterproof with some primer and clear coat on the inside. The water usually leaks through the bottom and boarder between bottom and walls.
I am having trouble making it a boundary fill, I selected and even offset the planes extra to include all of it, and it won't turn green.. any reason why this may be or a solution?
"I was eventually able to get around that by using a different method of creating the planes, namely the "Plane through three points", one at the top and another at the bottom of the pot." someone said this in the comments and it worked for me. I hope this works for you!
I have a F360 problem that I haven't been able to overcome or find a good explanation for. When I am going about an F360 design, I create sketches and extrude to a body. Later on I will move, align, or join the body and it moves out of line with the sketch. It becomes hard to manage the body via the sketch. How do I better keep this all aligned and easily managed?
That’s a good question! It can be frustrating when you move a body and the accompanying sketch stays stationary. If you go back to the sketch in the timeline and edit the sketch, all of the changes will still propagate forward to the present feature, even though it’s no longer aligned with the body. Hope this helps! 😊
@@MorleyKert yes and no. 😀. Is there a way to align them again or a way to work to keep them aligned?
I don’t believe so, at least not that I’ve found. I try not to move/scale things around too much for that exact reason - just a bit tricky to wrap your head around the sketch/body relationships when things start moving!
Must have missed it. Why are you using PETG?
Can't seem to get my drawing to turn green, what am I doing wrong?
why is it so smooth? what kind of printer?
the printer has the name on the motor :P
it’s a prusa mk3, mk4 recently dropped so recommending that one over the mk3
I kept getting that overlap error when trying to finish form.
I couldn't figure out where the problem was. I'm not so good with Fusion. sigh.
But I figured out a workaround. That is, after each step, I "finish form."
If it errors, then I have to redo that step.
If it is fine, then I can just press CTRL+Z to bring the form editor back up.
However, I can't get to the point of the construction plane.
I create the plane, but when I try to click on Select Cell, the damned body and planes disappear!
They return if I click on the top option that shows 3 objects selected.
Fusion can be a real pain for someone who is not proficient in it!
when i make the cylinder i don''t get the option box, and i can't find it anywhere. anyone some tips?
When I am doing the boundary plane it is not going green. Please Help.
Got lost at the bound fill part, not able to find it
This is one of if the not the best tutorial I have seen on vases so far. Congrats. But for the life of me I cant seem to be able to get past the boundry fill... The model does not turn green
Wow thank you so much! Did you click the checkbox on the body? And select a top boundary, bottom boundary and the body itself?
@@MorleyKert yes.. many times over.. moved the model and planes around.. nothing.. by the way.. do you freelance?
Hmmmm I’m sorry to hear that! I’m not sure what the issue is. Regarding freelance work, you can send me an email: morleykert@gmail.com
@@fsouzajr I had the same issue. The way I fixed it is by adjusting the height of the offset plane from 150 mm to 149 mm (this was the height of my model). Basically, the idea is that the height of the offset plane must be within the boundaries of the vase and not larger than the height of the vase. I also moved my model slightly below 0 on the y-axis.
Great video, how much do you sell the pots for?
whe you just say click its not obvious what button. enter just finish the cylinder with the base dimention. you have to click the mouse btn in order to enter the height. Also edges dont show by default.
At 13:13 My Vase Wouldn't turn Green and I couldn't understand Why If anyone Knows Please let me know. Thank you
check that the planes used for the bounding are coincident with top and bottom of the body you've created, I had this issue as well and it was because when messing around with the form I ended lifting it up off the origin and the origin plane wouldn't bound the body any more.
Great tutorial but i am stuck at 13:00 my vase never turn green
Same here, did you find a way to fix it?
same....
Yes i will post the solution After work
I’m American and I STILL don’t use the imperial system for designing. It’s just not precise and quick enough.
Same! The metric system just makes more sense and can simplify calculations greatly. Still don’t know why we’re on imperial lol
We are all block in the boundary fill bro. Maybe you should provide an eventual new video ?