topic Re: Basic Drafting Issues in Fusion Design, Validate & Document Forum

Basic Drafting Issues

jrinad70 — Sun, 02 Apr 2017 15:55:04 GMT

Is anybody else experiencing the draft feature just not working most of the time? I have some simple flat surfaces on my part. The feature will draft (two sided draft) two of them successfully, the other four it will only draft one direction. See pic below. Just don't get it. Followed the exact same procedure (it's not like it complicated). I'm using the same pull plane as the successfully draft. You can drag on the adjusting mark or modify the value in the draft dialog box all day and nothing. It just ignores it. The more I try to actually use this software to model real parts, the more I find things just don't work. Any suggesting would be great.

Re: Basic Drafting Issues

I_B_Jones — Mon, 03 Apr 2017 10:25:49 GMT

Hello,

Can you clarify? I'm not sure what you mean by "Draft" feature. Are you working in Model space, with a Sketch "plan" and then Extruding or Press/Pulling the various Sketch features out to the required height/depths? Your "draft.jpg" looks like a fairly simple extrusion case, unless I'm missing something...?

Re: Basic Drafting Issues

TrippyLighting — Mon, 03 Apr 2017 10:37:08 GMT

Whether drafting works or not depends on what exactly you want to draft. If you select the ring surface to draft the cylinder that will work. You cannot, however select the cylindrical surface to draft the ring surface.

The first item in the selection list must be a plane, which forms the reference for the definition of the draft.

If you could create a screencast and/or share your model that would be great.

Re: Basic Drafting Issues

HughesTooling — Mon, 03 Apr 2017 12:10:13 GMT

There is a bug with symmetrical draft on the end of a cylinder, see this post and the other posts in that thread by @jeff_strater. A workaround is to split the face then use 2 draft features, turn chain off.

Mark

Re: Basic Drafting Issues

jrinad70 — Mon, 03 Apr 2017 12:54:49 GMT

Thanks a million Mark! I followed the link you provided in "see this post", and it showed the exact same issue. I guess for now I'll have to split the face, although since I am new to Fusion (30 year expert in Creo/Pro-Engineer) I'll have to learn have to split the face. 🙂 Shouldn't be too hard though I guess. This draft issue sure needs fixed though, as putting draft on a cylindrical face is something that happens very often on forgings (which is what I'm designing) and castings.

-Rich