Moving a Sketch into a component possible ?

[TrippyLighting]

The Tips for Large Assembly Management suggest that a sketch can be moved into a component. I've tried somply dragging sketes from the top level into a subcomponet in an assemby but it dind not work.

Can this actually be done and how ?

[jeff_strater]

Hmm...  Let me look into that.  I thought it was possible, too, but I just tried it now, and you are correct.

Jeff Strater (Fusion development)

[DanielHuang]

I have tried drag sketch browser node (not sketches) and it can drag to a subcomponent. Is there any special workflows?

[SallyYang · Accepted solution]

There are 2 kinds of sketches, a referenced sketch which often worked as some reference profiles of features and a free sketch which usually has no dependency on it. The free sketches could be moved to sub-component by drag and drop the sketch instance into the target component node of browser. However, the referenced sketch cannot be moved into other components currently. 

[TrippyLighting]

Thanks for the replies.

I'd venture a guess that in a 3D modeling environment the vast majority of sketches are referenced and are used to create geometry. 

While it may make sense to prevent a sketch that is referenced by Component-A can be moved to Compoent-B, it does not make sense not to allow that a sketch that for example is use to create the base extrusion for component-A cannot also be moved to Component-A.

The only way to currently ensure that a Sketch is part of the component structure is to first create a an empty component, then activate the component and then create the sketch. If a user forgets to strictly adhere to this practice - things happen under tight timelines - and later on wants to export the component for re-use in another design the sketch is missing. That is really an unnecessary limitation.

[TrippyLighting]

So "the system" sked me per email whether  I received a helpful answer and if I could mark one as an Accepted Solution.

Well...NO.

I still cannot move a sketch into the very component (and the only one) that references it. 

[SallyYang · Accepted solution]

Sorry to say that we currently have technical limitation on cut/paste referenced sketches, so you cannot drag & drop the references sketch into other component/s . I've filed an improvement for this issue and hope we can resolve it in future releases. If you want to escalate this improvement, would you please report it to our idea station, so everyone could vote for it if they also prefer ideas/improvements. Thank you for your continuous feedback.

[TrippyLighting]

Hi Sally,

thanks for your support. I created a post in the Idea Station

[cekuhnen]

Any update? I ran into a situation where I need to move things around a lot to make the design easier to read!

[jeff_strater]

Unfortunately, still on the "to do" list...  Thanks for your patience.

Jeff

[cekuhnen]

ah thanks

this really is important to have because otherwise a design will get hard to browser read specifically when you come back weeks later or a different person reads it.

components are somewhat ideal at least in the browser to establish some clarity.