topic Re: Name sketch upon creation in Fusion Design, Validate & Document Forum

Name sketch upon creation

Don.Cyr — Sat, 18 Apr 2020 15:40:58 GMT

Good morning,

Is there a way to name a sketch, feature, body, or component when creating it? Similar to Solidworks? i poked through my preferences but didn't see a checkbox for that.

I personally like to assign names to sketches for reference and it would save a step by maybe a dialog box at the top of the sketch options dialog box to input a name vs creating & having to go back and re-name.

Thank you.

Re: Name sketch upon creation

g-andresen — Sat, 18 Apr 2020 15:59:16 GMT

Hi,

@Don.Cyr wrote:
Is there a way to name a sketch, feature, body, or component when creating it?

YES

create sketch name

günther

Re: Name sketch upon creation

jeff_strater — Sat, 18 Apr 2020 16:03:32 GMT

no, there is no way to name a sketch as it is being created. There is no dialog for the New Sketch command, so you'll need to rename it after creation.

Re: Name sketch upon creation

laughingcreek — Sat, 18 Apr 2020 20:49:08 GMT

Jeff-can you pretty please suggest to the coders this functionality? (again. I imagine you already have) I know sketch creation doesn't have a dialog box, but just about everything else does. would be nice if NAME would be one of the options in the dialog boxes. All of them.

Re: Name sketch upon creation

jeff_strater — Sat, 18 Apr 2020 22:31:53 GMT

it's on the list, as well as naming a feature at creation time. Just low priority at the moment.

Re: Name sketch upon creation

Don.Cyr — Wed, 25 Aug 2021 15:06:30 GMT

Bumping this topic to see if it is in the works yet for an upcoming release.. Pretty please!

I like to name all of my sketches but completely cumbersome to have to keep going back and re-naming after the fact.

Re: Name sketch upon creation

Don.Cyr — Thu, 16 Sep 2021 12:28:33 GMT

Found an add-in called "DirectName" that prompts you to name/rename sketches and many other features as you create them. Works perfectly!

https://apps.autodesk.com/FUSION/en/Detail/Index?id=7497198800232664541&appLang=en&os=Win64&autostart=true