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Modifying an extrusion

Anonymous — Thu, 19 Oct 2017 05:52:26 GMT

By accident, I created a cut extrusion. I want to convert it to a solid extrusion. But there seems to be no way to find it. In Inventor, each extrusion appeared in the browser, and by single-clicking the extrusion I could find it on the drawing, and by double-clicking it I could edit it. One serious defect of Inventor was that the individual components of a sketch did not appear under the sketch; now, I can't even find the extrusions, fillets, work planes, etc. It feels like a giant step backward. So back to the question: how do I locate a "cut" extrusion and change it?

I tried searching for "edit extrusion" and got hundreds of hits, and the first hundred or so did not seem to be relevant to the question, so I gave up.

Re: Modifying an extrusion

etfrench — Thu, 19 Oct 2017 06:29:11 GMT

Are you working in Timeline or Direct Modeling mode? In Timeline mode, operations are captured in the timeline. You can find items in the timeline by hovering over an icon with the cursor. You can also find an item in the Timeline from the browser by right clicking on a body, component, or sketch and select Find in Timeline. Find in Window may also be useful.

If you're in Direct Modeling mode, then the operations will appear in each component.

Operations on a sketch object are not searchable as such.

p.s. The timeline also has color coding to show which operations were done on the same component or body.

Re: Modifying an extrusion

dhummellAEKU — Wed, 04 Jan 2023 22:40:40 GMT

Why can I not just right click the extrusion in the browser and edit it (as in Inventor)? Do I really have to scrub through a timeline with Design History enabled when it is right there? Design History is unorganized and noisy. Surely I'm just missing something. How do I edit the extrusion from the Browser?

Thanks.

Re: Modifying an extrusion

jeff_strater — Wed, 04 Jan 2023 22:45:16 GMT

if you have design history enabled, there will be no Extrude in the browser. If design history is off, there will be a "pseudo feature" in the browser, but because that is a Direct Modeling feature, it cannot support edit. Selecting that pseudo feature in the browser is just a shortcut to selecting all the faces produced by that feature. There is no history to roll back to enable the edit. Fusion is not Inventor. Its history (when enabled) is in the Timeline, not in the browser.

Re: Modifying an extrusion

TheCADWhisperer — Thu, 05 Jan 2023 14:40:46 GMT

@dhummellAEKU wrote:
Design History is unorganized and noisy. Surely I'm just missing something.

@dhummellAEKU

Can you Attach an example *.f3d file that exhibits this "unorganized" and "noisy"?

Illustrate your points with actual cases.

Re: Modifying an extrusion

vs9300 — Sat, 04 Mar 2023 00:56:07 GMT

Editing existing features is a very common operation performed in CAD modeling with other software like Solidworks and Inventor (according to the previous poster). Not having this ability really makes Fusion 360 feel deficient compared to these other programs I'm more used to.

Re: Modifying an extrusion

jeff_strater — Sat, 04 Mar 2023 02:08:27 GMT

You CAN edit an Extrude. See the video. Fusion has two modes: Parametric modeling (just like Solidworks and Inventor, and Pro-E, etc, etc). In Parametric designs, editing an Extrude is exactly the same as in those other CAD applications, and Direct Modeling. This thread is about Direct Modeling, which is explicitly not parametric. In Direct Modeling, you edit the model using options like pushing and pulling on faces, etc, and the design history is explicitly not retained or editable. This thead is saying: If you are using Direct Modeling, you cannot edit the Extrude. That is intentional. However, a Parametric design is editable by design.

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Re: Modifying an extrusion

TheCADWhisperer — Sat, 04 Mar 2023 08:34:31 GMT

@vs9300

Can you File>Export your *.f3d file to your local drive and then Attach it here to a Reply?

Illustrate your points with actual cases.