A question for the Fusion 360 experts

Andy,

Early 90's, what a spring chicken. Back in the 60's we had to do both metalwork and woodwork. The metalwork teacher was one of my best mates Dad, he just despaired of me,
while the woodwork teacher nicknamed me 'the wood butcher', he wouldn't let me anywhere near a lathe, as I could do sufficient damage with a plane or chisel. Happy days, a long time ago.

Mossy

 

Oops, my typing is as bad as my woodwork skills.

 

This time I mean resolve(d) and not revolve. Spent most of the morning drawing up the gas supply to the lamps.
The intermediary supply is still to be done, but my brain is in f..t mode so stopped for the day.

Gas supply to the lamp with and without the roof:

 

After 3 1.2 hours of sketching, deleting and muttered Anglo-Saxon (the boss was fast asleep) the last bit of the pipe run across the roof is complete. Not wonderful, but I figure the odd .01 or .02mm wont show up too much. I really need to get my head around 3d sketching but that's for tomorrow.

With roof



And the full run without the roof

 

Andy,

Thank you its looks ok but could be so so much better. I've been watching a "how to" 3d sketching video, but it was really a beginner video that Rob recommended.
The pipe run (on the few roof sketches I have seen doesn't run transversely across the roof - it runs diagonally across the roof), sadly the video didn't cover 3d sketching to an angled plane or even if it's possible, so there is definitely room for improvement. For now it stays transverse, but the challenge remains.

 

Help Needed - Adding Text to a body.

Done this multiple times, but I can't see what I am doing wrong.

So far - in Sketch Edit mode. Solid - Create - Text. Draw text Box. Write text and align it correctly. All done.
But how do I then extrude it - my brain has failed and I get this message:

 

Rob,

That's the object I want to extrude from being highlighted after selecting the text to be extruded.

 

Andy / Rob,

I've fixed its but its a shaggy dog story. I tried again this morning but was still getting that "Failed to perform Boolean operation" message, so started searching the 360 help system and as luck would have it the third entry I opened was discussing text failing to extrude due to the font being used and how to correct it. It all looked a bit of a faff about, but when I reopened the sketch I realised for some unknown reason I hadn't used my normal font, so simply switched back to my standard Arial Bold font and guess what - worked first go. Another lesson learned and filed away - stick to what you know works.

Mossy

 

The R1 Coke wagons axle box/ spring assembly now has the correct text:

 

Andy,

They might look similar but is yours a grease box - more likely oil? And I bet the journals are a bit bigger that the 4" - 4 1/2" that the NER 1 fitted. But it was probably hitech in the 1880-90' when it was in use.

Happy Days

Mossy