Round groove on a cylinder?

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I'm trying to model a part which is essentially a cylinder and has a number of features at different angles. I stumbled upon what seemed to be an easiest task but I can't figure out how to do it. Suppose I have a cylinder chucked in a dividing head and rotate around the long axis. I need to come in with a square end mill at the offset (say, .10 from the center axis), plunge down, e.g. .125 and rotate 45 degrees. The result would be a groove around the long axis of the cylinder. Now I'm trying to model this in Fusion, I created a cylinder body, then a body that sized like an end mill and I'm trying to do the sweep - and Fusion gives me a generic error saying computation failed. Clearly I'm doing something wrong but I can't figure out the right way to do it. Please help!
 
I'm only partly familiar with Fusion, but can't you just do a "Revolve - Cut"? Just create a plane through the center of the part (encompassing the long axis), then, in sketch, draw the profile you want to remove and revolve cut.

I hope that makes sense.

GsT
 
Ahh, I think I got it. My mistake was trying to do it with a body rather than a sketch and a profile. I'll give it a try, thanks everyone!
 
The more I learn in Fusion, the more I find that the first choice to solve a problem is from a Sketch. I started with no sketches, then I thought everything had to be in one sketch, now I can have many sketches, both due to orientation and organizational reasons.
 
Boswell said:
The more I learn in Fusion, the more I find that the first choice to solve a problem is from a Sketch. I started with no sketches, then I thought everything had to be in one sketch, now I can have many sketches, both due to orientation and organizational reasons.
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A nice feature if you haven't seen it yet is you can project the features of a body to make a new sketch. That is a big help if you want to make a cover for a component for example, just project the shape of your body or component and make the sketch from that in the new component. That saves you from having to redraw it.
 
I have used 5 different 3D CAD programs in my engineering career, and 3 more as a hobbyist.

Its not just Fusion, in most if not all 3D CAD programs, most of what you do will start with another sketch.
 
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