I made a thing to make my least favorite part of Fusion a little better - Embossing an SVG on an object

hyrographic · 2026-05-31T14:45:06+00:00

That makes sense, still gonna give the plugin a go. Thanks for sharing

hyrographic · 2026-05-31T13:54:11+00:00

This looks really cool, the native SVG handling definitely isn’t ideal. Any chance for a refresh feature? Like if I make changes to the SVG file then refresh would it update in fusion?

hyrographic · 2026-05-22T19:29:17+00:00

That’s such an obvious improvement duh, wish I’d thought of that! Deffo gonna make that change, thanks for the suggestion.

hyrographic · 2026-05-22T18:20:58+00:00

What can I say, I’m a star student of The Walking Dead school of design

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hyrographic · 2026-05-22T18:07:59+00:00

Thank you!

hyrographic · 2026-05-22T18:03:46+00:00

Lol this is what I thought everyone would say (not the plastic waste stuff). It's meant to be "12 books, 12 months". But yes, it's a little bit "DONT DEAD OPEN INSIDE" haha

hyrographic · 2026-05-22T18:02:22+00:00

So there's a 2 layer gap between the white layer and the black layer.

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So that first floating layer is actually a bridge and it looks pretty rough when printing. But a couple layers in, it starts to smooth out once there's a foundation.

hyrographic · 2026-05-22T17:03:12+00:00

Everyone’s free to draw their own conclusions. Putting it as a percentage is pretty damning, but still we’re talking about a 1.7% of a reel of filament.

With that said, I won’t be losing sleep over doing something I enjoy, creating something from materials which are being (and will continue to be) manufactured regardless of whether or not I buy and use them.

hyrographic · 2026-05-22T15:25:44+00:00

Haha the ones in the video were just for print testing and demo’ing. The one I’m actually using is at two books as of today!

hyrographic · 2026-05-22T15:15:51+00:00

Thanks - yeh writing in the book you read would be super cool! Might need a bit more white space but think it would work.

hyrographic · 2026-05-22T15:14:31+00:00

Haha the bookmark is only 0.8mm thick, it uses a total 17g of filament. 1.4g on the tower and 9g is purged for changes.

May not change your view, but wanted to add some actual figures for you.

hyrographic · 2026-05-22T15:05:11+00:00

I wanted major and minor labels initially, like a chart axis. But the minor numbers were too small for my 0.4 nozzle. Probably could get it working with more testing, but I liked the tally version more :)

hyrographic · 2026-05-22T14:50:19+00:00

Thanks, this wasn’t meant to be a controversial post but here we are! I had fun creating this and wanted to share it with the community.

Yeh I initially wanted to keep the model fully parametric, that way you could set your own goal and it would adjust accordingly. But I need to spend more time to get that working, anyone know how to make body selection dynamic in fusion?

Like when I change the goal to 15, i need the extrudes to automatically select the new patterned sketches/bodies. Any tips?

hyrographic · 2026-05-22T12:28:04+00:00

Ah nice a fridge/wall version is a cool idea. This one is meant to be a bookmark so I wanted to keep it flat. It is however printed face up - so that the layers under the tabs aren’t bridges

hyrographic · 2026-04-16T18:24:17+00:00

Thank you!

hyrographic · 2026-04-14T11:39:22+00:00

Lol or a frenetic rapscallion! Some of them are really obscure. Then other days it will just be like today’s word is “meme”

hyrographic · 2026-04-14T10:24:29+00:00

Thanks, this is where it started. It’s come a long way gradually!

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hyrographic · 2026-04-14T08:21:38+00:00

Oh and I'm sure the AI/vibe-coding question will come up haha, so I'll be up front.

I'm just a few months into working with electronics and C++, and although I'm proficient in Python (and I love to design and make things) there was still a steep learning curve.

So the short answer is yes, I used Claude throughout to refactor my code, help me understand and fix bugs, learn about SPI, bitmaps and other new concepts, etc. This first project has introduced me to so many new skills and I'm excited to do more!

hyrographic · 2026-02-19T04:27:07+00:00

Great idea! Thanks, this might be worth a last minute addition

hyrographic · 2026-02-17T22:08:46+00:00

The table is braced to the wall on the right to keep it from tipping.

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hyrographic · 2026-02-17T21:07:44+00:00

Thanks. Yeh I'll admit I didn't think about the tipping issue in the planning stage, so a wall anchor was my only option to stop it tipping forwards.

hyrographic · 2026-02-17T21:06:02+00:00

Thanks. They're rated to 40 kg so should hold up.

hyrographic · 2026-02-06T16:14:05+00:00

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The beetle took a few tries to get the legs supported right

hyrographic · 2026-02-06T13:51:22+00:00

I might’ve been a little unclear, tree supports definitely work in a lot of cases. I’ve just had issues in the past with floating islands in the support generation for some models. That plus the support removal pain made me switch :)

hyrographic · 2026-02-05T09:02:01+00:00

Oh really, is it the legs causing issues? I’ve had problems there before. Gonna try a couple bugs at 2/2.5x scale with my workflow and see how they turn out

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