topic Re: Move sketches into other components in Fusion Design, Validate & Document Forum

Move sketches into other components

men8ifr — Fri, 07 Feb 2020 13:04:15 GMT

Hi,

I'm just starting to try and use components, to do this I created 2 components and I'm trying to move all my features into one component and the 2nd will be for future work. I have moved the bodies into the first component (lowest in the browser) but I can't find a way to also move the sketches, how do I move the sketches into the new component?

Re: Move sketches into other components

g-andresen — Fri, 07 Feb 2020 14:08:56 GMT

Hi,

You can only drag the sketch of Body 1 into the component where Body 1 is located.
Set up 2 components for testing purposes and then create sketches with corresponding bodies outside the C 2. If you now drag the sketch 1 into C 1, you can see what happens to B 1.
Try out different procedures so that you understand the connections.

Only if the sketch is needed for bodies in several C, it remains in the primary plane.

günther

Re: Move sketches into other components

chrisplyler — Fri, 07 Feb 2020 19:04:29 GMT

I think also that you can only drag sketches into a component that already existed when you created the sketch.

Re: Move sketches into other components

g-andresen — Fri, 07 Feb 2020 19:38:29 GMT

Hi,

@chrisplyler wrote:

I think also that you can only drag sketches into a component that already existed when you created the sketch.

obviously not:

günther

Re: Move sketches into other components

atherisinnovations — Fri, 07 Feb 2020 21:21:55 GMT

@g-andresen

Yes, but when you dragged the sketch it moved both {the sketch and the body associated with the sketch}, not {just the sketch}. I can kind of understand why it does this, but then maybe functionality could be added where dragging the sketch creates a duplicate of JUST the sketch (allowing you to make axis and origin adjustments at the point of duplication, like it does when you duplicate bodies)..

@men8ifr

I think the workaround is to either 1) copy the elements in the sketch manually and paste them in a different sketch, or 2) to turn off parametric modeling, but that was a while ago when I needed to do this and they (F360 programmers) may have implemented workflow changes that are different now..

Re: Move sketches into other components

TrippyLighting — Fri, 07 Feb 2020 21:35:23 GMT

@men8ifr something that hasn't been addressed yet is that the workflow you intend to follow is really not a generally recommended workflow for creating components.

Are you familiar with Fusion 360's R.U.L.E #1?