topic Re: Import and move svg file?! in Fusion Design, Validate & Document Forum

Import and move svg file?!

Sandflo — Wed, 04 Feb 2015 15:54:48 GMT

Hello!

Im trying to import an svg file(logotype) but when ive imported it i can no longer move it( when i choose move, i cant select it, even if im in the sketch or have stopped the sketch.

Ive attached a screen cast of me trying to do that.

http://autode.sk/1xgZJGb

The thins how to rotate and move the thing as seen on this video, i cant to it, but please show me what im doing wrong

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3Xt1Es_dg8

Re: Import and move svg file?!

jeff_strater — Wed, 04 Feb 2015 18:44:47 GMT

The key issue here is when you projected the imported SVG to the top of the cylinder. Projected geometry in a sketch is fixed, and cannot be moved. That's why the move/drag is blocked. It maintains a relationship to the original imported SVG text. The feedback is that the sketch geometry is purple - this indicates projected geometry.

There are two ways to achieve your goal:

1. Select the purple geometry, right click and choose "Break Link". This breaks the relationship and will let you move the geometry

2. You can move the original imported SVG, and the projection will move along with it. To do this, go back to the first sketch, select the green sketch geometry (green implies that the geometry is fixed - we set imported SVG to fixed by default). Once the green geometry is selected, choose "Fix/Unfix" to allow it to be moved. Then, you can move this geometry, and the projected geometry will move.

#1 is easier...

Hope you are able to progress your design.

Jeff Strater (Fusion development)

Re: Import and move svg file?!

Sandflo — Wed, 04 Feb 2015 21:08:05 GMT

Thank you for your help. I will try this tomorrow. But is this something that you have changed since the YouTube video mencened above. Since I can't recall it being done there?

Re: Import and move svg file?!

jeff_strater — Wed, 04 Feb 2015 22:23:30 GMT

To be perfectly honest, I had not watched the youtube video, so I took a look.

The difference between the video and your case is that we have since added history-based (parametric) design to Fusion. The video shows a direct modeling workflow. This workflow is still supported in Fusion, if you choose a non-history-based design type. In that video, he is moving the entire sketch. Unfortunately, moving an entire sketch has not yet been implemented in history-based designs. It's not a fundamental limitation, just a case of not having implemented it yet.

So, that's why moving the whole sketch doesn't work for you. Which leads to trying to move the sketch geometry. Second, in your video, you are moving the projected geometry. In the youtube video, he moves the source sketch before the project. Which is only a small point, because even then, we "fix" imported SVG geometry, so you still have to "unfix" it to move it.

Hope that makes some semblance of sense.

Jeff

Re: Import and move svg file?!

Sandflo — Thu, 05 Feb 2015 06:25:06 GMT

Yhank you again!
The break link and the unfix did the jobb! Now I can move it and rotate it, but is it possible to scale it? I cant find out how to do that?
Could you show me?

Re: Import and move svg file?!

innovatenate — Thu, 05 Feb 2015 20:51:54 GMT

You can use the Scale command from the Modify drop down menu to scale a sketch.

Check out this quick screencast:

I hope that helps!

Thanks,

Re: Import and move svg file?!

PeterBrauner — Thu, 19 May 2016 09:04:45 GMT

Hi,

I have a suggestion that I not aware of is featured in Fusion. I fell in love with Fusion a year ago but before that Im were a long time SketchUp user. One very handy thing that SketchUp has is a quick way of matching a scales for a imported graphic. You can just measure anything, for example an edge that I know is 50 cm with the tape tool. Then I just write 50 cm in the value box for the resulting measure and SketchUp asks med if I want to scale the model so that line becomes 50 cm. It has saved me tons of time.

I suppose this can be done in Fusion with the scaling tool, that is showed in the screencast above, if I do the calculation of scaling myself.

But one way of doing it in Fusion would be if I import a DXF/SVG, pick my Measure tool from the Inspect menu, pick two points on the sketch (after I unfixed it of course) and in the Measure dialogs Result Distance value, there is a "Set distance" or whatever that let me set the exact known value between those points. Fusion will then do the calculation of getting it in the right size uniformerly or, if XYZ Delta is checked, in either axis.

Perhaps this is doable and I don't know how. Otherwise I think it would be a sweet and pretty simple thing to implement.

Cheers!

// Peter

Re: Import and move svg file?!

michael_koehle — Wed, 08 Nov 2017 00:46:02 GMT

Can you change the default to not fixed?

Re: Import and move svg file?!

kalmdown — Mon, 07 Feb 2022 23:53:33 GMT

Need a way to edit (Move, Scale, Rotate) sketches (SVG in my case) by snapping features so I can accurately place SVGs on material to be cut. I want to snap a corner of an SVG to a feature that is my material (usually the corner of the rectangle) and then scale the sketch by dragging the sketches bounding box opposite corner (because shape is not a rectangle) to the opposite edge of the material.