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Since this tabletop is symmetrical about its center, this may come in handy later. Note that I’ve deliberately put the sketch origin in the middle of the tabletop. The sooner you adopt habits like these, the faster you’ll become productive with Fusion.įirst sketch the tabletop on the horizontal plane which is X/Y in my configuration. I think it will be worthwhile reading anyway. This is not a tutorial for complete newcomers: I gloss over the keystrokes and mundane details. You may follow along and recreate it, or merely inspect my design linked below. Since this loft must follow a curved path, we’ll need either centerline or guide rails, and a bit of planning to make it come out right. The legs look like a job for Fusion 360’s Loft tool. Imagine four angry Cobras swallowing the corners of the tabletop! The legs emerge from the corners of the table, bend downward, and transition to a circular section at the feet. The project is an end table with legs that gracefully descend from a simple square top. Chelsea has given me permission to share them with you here. As I was looking it over, I found that it also illustrated a few ‘best practices’ I’ve cultivated that I think make my designs easier to edit and maintain. I was unable to give a quick answer, so later I practiced a bit by making an approximate copy of the design she was working on. On Monday, Chelsea came to me with a question about Fusion 360’s loft tool. Microsoft users have experienced a number of outages in recent times. The outage came at a particularly frustrating time for the millions of Australians currently under lockdown restrictions and working from home.Īs it turns out, the outage was not so much a Microsoft issue, rather it was a result of a TPG Telecom networking fault.Ī TPG spokesperson told ITNews the telco had an “earlier issue impacting Microsoft services for TPG fixed lined customers”. Thousands of Australians have been unable to access their email and Microsoft Teams accounts this morning, following widespread reports of an outage.Īccording to website monitoring service Downdetector, there have been thousands of outage reports across Microsoft Teams, Office 365 and from around 9:30am this morning. |
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