Dabbling in Fusion 360

Ahh yes but that's because you have mainly sent your time drawing up rolling stock. I am sure that you can leave me standing when it comes to efficient ways of drawing wagons.

 

It's near the bottom of the create menu.

 

Hi Andy,
You can pretty much ignore this menu as you rarely need to use it.
click into the sketch behind it to start drawing.

 

Actually Andy, I would suggest unchecking the 3D sketch button (right at the bottom of the sketch menu) that will stop you from being able to sketch on the wrong plane and carry it across like you have in your image.

The 3D sketch function is there for if you want to do a sweep or add a line or points between two different planes. Not something that you use very often and certainly it's confusing to a beginner (it's still confuses me and I have used it to good purpose a few times...)

 

Absolutely no problem Andy,
For me the whole point of my posting on forums is to help people, while hopefully developing my skills along the way. If you hadn't asked the question, I may never had a dabble at a lamp post and see what I would have missed...

 

Here you go Andy,

A complete lamp in 7mm scale. I will tiy up the sketches and send you an stl file tomorrow.

 

I wouldn't be surprised Andy, there were a lot of independent suppliers to railway companies and they even supplied each other with some items, despite the overarching rivalries.

 

Just to finish this off, because it's meant to represent something that has been cast I went round and softened some of the edges using the fillet tool

 

It was pointed out over on Western Thunder that the inset in the base should have the profile all the way around which I agree it should but I couldn't work out how to do it. As always the minute that I started to reply to the gent who raised it I thought of how I might achieve it.



Revised files on their way to Andy