{"id":5674,"date":"2022-08-12T09:58:14","date_gmt":"2022-08-12T08:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5674"},"modified":"2022-08-12T09:58:14","modified_gmt":"2022-08-12T08:58:14","slug":"how-to-drawing-an-nsr-lamp-post-in-fusion-360","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5674","title":{"rendered":"How to &#8211; Drawing an NSR Lamp post in Fusion 360"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Over on one of the other forums, I was asked for help in the form of how to go about drawing up an NSR lamp post<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the basis of the drawing I had a few ideas of who I might go about it and once I had it cracked I was asked for an explanation of how I had gone about it. I thought I would share it wider as it might help someone at some point. You will have to excuse some of the wording that relates to answering the initial question. I haven&#8217;t the time at the moment to go through and re write it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was the drawing attached to the request for help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/North-Staffs-Platform-Lamp-Drawing.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"1000\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/North-Staffs-Platform-Lamp-Drawing.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5675\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/North-Staffs-Platform-Lamp-Drawing.jpeg 170w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/North-Staffs-Platform-Lamp-Drawing-51x300.jpeg 51w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 170px) 100vw, 170px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>First I downloaded Andy&#8217;s drawing and imported it into Fusion on the front plane. Then as I said previously, but repeated here for completeness. Because the drawing had no dimensions, I best guessed that the main part of the post would be around 10 feet tall. I was way out as it&#8217;s only around 6ft when taken right to the ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However using the 10ft as the basis, I created my self a User parameter of 1ft\/7mm which allowed me to quickly scale the drawing to 7mm to the foot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Next I did pretty much as Mossy had done in his test example and drew a profile of the lamp base and revolved it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/upload_2022-8-11_10-18-15.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"208\" height=\"292\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/upload_2022-8-11_10-18-15.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5676\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Then I worked out the middle of the column height wise and created an offset plane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/upload_2022-8-11_10-19-34.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"410\" height=\"468\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/upload_2022-8-11_10-19-34.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5677\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/upload_2022-8-11_10-19-34.png 410w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/upload_2022-8-11_10-19-34-263x300.png 263w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 410px) 100vw, 410px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Then I created a sketch on that offset plane and drew the shape for my cut out<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/upload_2022-8-11_10-21-37.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"419\" height=\"411\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/upload_2022-8-11_10-21-37.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5678\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/upload_2022-8-11_10-21-37.png 419w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/upload_2022-8-11_10-21-37-300x294.png 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/upload_2022-8-11_10-21-37-306x300.png 306w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 419px) 100vw, 419px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I nloy drew one of the shapes then used the &#8216;create circular pattern&#8217; tool to create the other five. As it tuned out initially I had the outer circle slightly under the&nbsp;column sized so when I extruded as a cut it was actually inside the body.<br>I then extruded using the symmetrical function and cut command so I was going both up and down to get the cut outs in place all around the column.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/upload_2022-8-11_10-25-33.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"447\" height=\"405\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/upload_2022-8-11_10-25-33.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5679\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/upload_2022-8-11_10-25-33.png 447w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/upload_2022-8-11_10-25-33-300x272.png 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/upload_2022-8-11_10-25-33-331x300.png 331w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 447px) 100vw, 447px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over on one of the other forums, I was asked for help in the form of how to go about drawing up an NSR lamp post On the basis of the drawing I had a few ideas of who I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5674\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gauge-o-guild"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5680,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5674\/revisions\/5680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}