topic Re: Hiding/Deleting Sketch Points in Fusion Design, Validate & Document Forum

Hiding/Deleting Sketch Points

nicobaloncesto — Fri, 28 Oct 2016 13:45:00 GMT

Hello everyone so I'm currently working on 2D drawings as part of a project and I love the sketching tools available on Fusion 360, however I have to not be able to hide the little dots from sketch lines as it ruins the overall product. I'll show you what I mean through this picture:

As you can see, I'm drawing a neat building but the points ruin the drawing. Can anyone help me get rid of them? It seems pressing the light bulb icon left of "Sketches" only hides the whole picture (since the picture is essentially all sketched). Any help would be appreciated. Thank you very much

Re: Hiding/Deleting Sketch Points

jeff_strater — Fri, 28 Oct 2016 15:35:22 GMT

It's easy enough to hide those points. Use the "show sketch points" control in the sketch palette:

However, I'm curious about why you have all those points in your sketch. In most cases, Fusion "merges" the points of coincident lines, which means you don't get those points displayed. Can you share a screencast of how you are drawing this sketch so that you end up with all those un-merged points? Thanks!

Jeff

Re: Hiding/Deleting Sketch Points

JamieGilchrist — Fri, 28 Oct 2016 15:39:56 GMT

Hi nicobaloncesto,

welcome to Fusion. I'll say there's two answers to your problem here. I'll show them both to you.

the immediate answer is you can turn off the sketch points in your sketch palette.

The bit longer answer is that the sketch points actually are telling you something.

As you can see with Sketch Points turned on, the open ends of the triangle are indicated by the points. if you take a look at the apex of the triangle where the two lines are connected there are no points, even with the points turned on. This also is exhibited in the rectangle. Closed shapes and connected lines will not show points.

I suspect that your sketch may not have all the open lines (points showing) properly intersecting the adjacent lines.

So how to fix this?

you can use constraints to create a coincident conditions, however, in your particular case it could shift your geometry in an undesirable way.

Or, you can use the trim and extend commands, while editing your sketch, on the open lines to force them to intersect properly to the adjacent geometry.

hope this helps and happy to answer any further questions you may have.

Re: Hiding/Deleting Sketch Points

lkokkone — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 11:57:09 GMT

It seems that if the design history was not captured, there's no way to get rid of the sketch points. Autodesk, please add this option to the sketch right click menu.

Re: Hiding/Deleting Sketch Points

davebYYPCU — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 12:09:42 GMT

Its already in the sketch pallet, with or without a timeline.

Might help...

Re: Hiding/Deleting Sketch Points

g-andresen — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 12:44:52 GMT

Hi,

@lkokkone schrieb:

It seems that if the design history was not captured, there's no way to get rid of the sketch points. Autodesk, please add this option to the sketch right click menu.

1. That is not the case.
2. What is this supposed to achieve?

günther

Re: Hiding/Deleting Sketch Points

lkokkone — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 07:36:34 GMT

No it doesn't. I can not edit sketches that were created before the timeline was set. Funny that there's the "configure" option, but not "edit sketch."
Nevertheless, it is frustrating going through all the sketches to uncheck these options. On my current task it would take hours to go through them. Fusion is extremely slow on 2D that is imported from DXF. I think there should be a global option where you could disable any of those selections that you have inside the palette. At least they should include the point visibility in this menu. Nobody should need to go inside the sketch menu to work on visibility.

There's zero information value for these points.

Re: Hiding/Deleting Sketch Points

davebYYPCU — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 08:10:33 GMT

I cannot edit sketches that were created before the timeline was set.

Ah, no where did you tell us you are importing the sketches till now. (Although the first pic did look like it was)

In that case you will have one or more Base Feature icons in the beginning of the Timeline. Right click that (one for each import) icon on the timeline, select Edit Base Feature, in this area of Fusion you will be able to click on the sketch name and Edit Sketch will now be there and should work for you.

Might help...

Re: Hiding/Deleting Sketch Points

lkokkone — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 12:58:39 GMT

Great, another click to disable something simpple but annoying. Must be union controlled feature 😉