topic Unlink Sketch Pattern Entities in Fusion Design, Validate & Document Forum

Unlink Sketch Pattern Entities

SGoldthwaite — Tue, 10 Nov 2015 13:39:06 GMT

I'd like to be able to convert a sketch pattern to individual unlinked entities. For example, I created a pattern of lines, then tried to trim them, but couldn't. So these lines were not treated the same as compared to creating each line separately without using the pattern command. I was able to break the line though.

See screencast: http://autode.sk/1M3f0Vw

And forum post: http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/design-validate-document/help-with-sketch-trim-command/m-p/5900787

Re: Unlink Sketch Pattern Entities

Jonathan_Kolodner — Tue, 10 Nov 2015 19:34:28 GMT

Hi @SGoldthwaite, You can break those pattern dependencies to allow trimming by deleting the pattern sketch entity—it'll be near your "orginal" entity as a small icon, either the rectangular or circular icon accordingly to what kind of pattern you had produced. Then you should be able to trim freely, but just keep in mind it's a one-way deal, you can't restore pattern referencing once you've broken it and edited the instances.

-Jonathan

Re: Unlink Sketch Pattern Entities - Status changed to: Solution Provided

colin.smith — Tue, 01 Mar 2016 18:25:24 GMT

@Jonathan_Kolodner provied the correct solution. Patterened sketch entities have to be deleted before they can be trimmed.