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Fusion 360 Thin Extrude SVG Map Roads
Why was this so hard.
I was playing around with making some custom running finisher medals for my hommies. We want to do our own half marathon and not pay 150$ for the privilege. To commemorate it I whipped out Fusion 360 and started to get to work designing the medal. One cool feature was to put the road directly on the medal itself to add a bit of panache.
I assumed I could just import an SVG of the road network in that area and just highlight the paths and thin extrude, however this is not the case! You can only extrude on profiles in a sketch and I had like 100 profiles. I did not want to do it manually so I made this cool little Add-In. To do so I clicked the Add-In button under the Utilities tab:
Then I made a new python script:
With the code below:
import adsk.core, adsk.fusion, adsk.cam, traceback
def thin_extrude_profiles(sketch_name, extrude_height, wall_thickness):
try:
app = adsk.core.Application.get()…