Learn how to create a grip for a scooter project using Fusion 101, complete with a detailed guide on offsetting the central plane, creating sketches, locating the center, and making necessary edits to the form. This comprehensive walk-through also includes tips on how to give the grip an appearance and save your progress.
Key Insights
- The creation process of a grip begins by activating the top line of the browser in Fusion 101, moving to 'Create', and selecting 'New Component'. The grip can be named and parented to the Fusion 101 scooter project.
- Creating form and extruding it are vital steps in the process. The profile to be extruded is the Grip Profile and it can be given a specific distance and front faces can be set.
- Once the grip is created, it can be given an appearance such as Foam or Rubber. This is done by selecting 'Appearance' after right clicking on 'Grip' and choosing the desired material from the library.
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Back in our Fusion 101 scooter project, we can create our first grip. Let's begin by activating the top line of our browser, then going to Create and selecting New Component. For the name, we'll call it Grip 1. The parent is our Fusion 101 scooter project and we'll click OK.
Here we can go ahead and go to the Construct menu and select Offset Plane. We want to offset that central plane and click OK. Open up the Grip menu and find Construction and that plane, we can give it a name.
We'll call this Grip Center. Now we'll have nothing selected and go back to Create and select Create Sketch. We want to place it on that Grip Center.
Let's zoom into our handlebar right here. First, I want to hide the clamp. So I'll hide the clamp over here in my browser and I can see the rings of that handlebar.
How do I find the center? Let's use our Project trick again. We'll go to Create, find Project Include, Project, and I'll click just the center circle of the handlebar and click OK. That gives me the purple projection lines and I'll use those to create my actual circle.
I'll go back to Create and look for Center Diameter Circle. Click one time on that purple dot in the center, then pull my cursor away and type in 26 and Enter. What do I have here? I have that concentric constraint letting me know that the outside circle is centered on the inside circle and I have this purple circle I no longer need.
It was just there to help me locate the center. I will select it and click Delete so it's gone and I'm left with my 26 millimeter diameter circle. I can click Finish Sketch.
Here in my Sketches folder, I'll give it a name. I'll call it Grip Profile and let's go ahead and click the Home button in our ViewCube to get a 3D view on what we've created so far. We'll zoom right into the center and what we have is this circle that circumscribes that handlebar.
Let's go ahead and make sure nothing is selected and now we can jump right in and start creating our grip. We'll go up to the Create area and select Create Form. Here we want to pull down the Create menu and select Extrude.
We want to find this profile which is our Grip Profile and we'll select it. We want to give it a distance so we'll type in 180 for 180 millimeters and we want our front faces to be set at 5. With that, go ahead and click OK. Now for some context, let's go ahead and turn our clamp back on.
We'll click the button to unhide it. We can see the outline of our clamp. Now right now this grip goes under the clamp.
We want to pull it out but to do that we have to shuffle each ring over to the right one by one. Let's start with the second to the right ring. We'll double click it.
We'll right click and select Edit Form. We'll grab that right white arrow, drag it to the right maybe 15 millimeters and click OK. Now we'll double click the next ring and you might guess it, we'll move it to the right as well.
We'll right click and say Edit Form, grab that white arrow, move it to the right maybe 25 millimeters this time, click OK. We've got a right click, Edit Form, drag that white arrow to the right, click OK. One more to go, double click this one, right click, Edit Form, drag it to the right as well.
Plenty past the end of that clamp and click OK. Now I can finally double click the end of my form, right click, Edit Form and drag it right to the edge of the clamp would be 50 millimeters. I can go a little bit further, maybe we'll say 70 and click OK.
So there it is. What have we accomplished so far? We've got our grip and it's no longer conflicting with that clamp. So let's go ahead now and add some shape to this grip.
Now there's not a right answer. You can make this however you'd like it to be. The one constraint would be to leave this first ring alone because it does attach or touch that handlebar.
We'll leave that one alone but feel free to make edits to the others. I'll show you a couple ideas. Number one, I can modify several at a time.
How do I do that? I'll double click the first ring and hold CTRL or CMD on my keyboard and keep double clicking all of the remaining rings. Once they're all selected, I can right click and say Edit Form and I can scale them so that they are away from that handlebar. It's a little tricky to find the scale button that I want.
It's the little tiny curve at the top of my little gizmo here. It's a little curved line. I didn't quite get it.
It's a little tricky to grab. So I'm going to grab it again. There we go.
That's it. Once I get it, I can scale in super tiny or out. I don't want to overdo it.
Small moves are big moves in Fusion form making. So I want to just go maybe like 1.3 and I'll click OK there. Now I can see the result.
My grip is now located outside or off of my handlebar. It has some space there and it appears like it has some thickness. With that, I can grab my ring that's closest to the clamp, right click and say Edit Form.
As I drag it to the left, I'll notice I start to get a nice rounded edge at the end of my grip. If I go too far, I'll start to cross things over and cause issues, but I can go just far enough to create a nice little end to my grip and click OK. Now I want the very end of my grip to be even wider.
So I will double click on the second to last ring, hold CTRL or CMD and double click on the very last ring. Right click again and say Edit Form. Again, I want to find that little rounded line.
Sometimes if I orbit, it helps. Right there at the top and drag that out again about 1.3 or so and click OK. So there it is.
Now I've got my grip and it's a certain size in the middle and it flares out at the end. Now let's add some definition here. I can take this ring, double click and I can say Edit Form and I want to move it to the right pretty far, but not so far that it crosses.
Something like that. Click OK. Now this ring here, I can double click, right click and say Edit Form and I can move it to the right as well.
OK, that's looking pretty good there. OK, I'm going to go ahead and click OK. And once I have the shape that I'd like, I can wrap up the end of this.
First off, I'll notice that it lines up pretty much exactly at the end of the handlebar, so it's a good idea to move it out a little further. I'll double click, right click and say Edit Form and pull it out maybe three or four millimeters and click OK. Now I want to select on nothing and go to the Modify area and select Fill Hole.
I'll click on any edge here at the end and I want to select the Fill Hole mode to collapse. I don't need anything else checked, I'll simply click OK. There it is, I've got my grip right there.
It looks pretty good. I'm going to go ahead and click Finish Form now if I'm happy with the form. I'll notice now I have a body here.
I can select it and we'll give it a name, we'll call this Grip. I also want to give it an appearance, so I'm going to go ahead and right click on Grip and select Appearance. Let's search for maybe like Foam or Rubber in the library.
Let's type Foam first, Foam. They're both white, that might be OK. I want maybe something black, so let's try Rubber.
Rubber, maybe Soft, that could be good. Rubber, Soft. You can pick whichever material you'd like.
I'm going to go ahead and pick Rubber Soft for mine. I'm going drag and drop onto that Grip and see the result. It turned like a nice black color, there it is, and I'm going to go ahead and click Close.
With that, I want to reactivate my top level, zoom out to see that result. It looks pretty cool with a grip there, and go ahead and hit that Save button.