topic Re: Centerlines in Fusion Design, Validate & Document Forum

Centerlines

elee — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 22:56:13 GMT

If you are creating a 3 view drawing from a model and you have a partial arc on your front view, how do you create the centerline for that arc on the right side view?

Re: Centerlines

Drewpan — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 00:35:49 GMT

Hi,

How did you create the Centreline for the Top view? It should work exactly

the same way. One other way might be with a Section Cut line?

Cheers

Andrew

Re: Centerlines

jhackney1972 — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 01:13:42 GMT

You can create a sketch in the model to show as the center line. In the drawing make the sketch visible and change the line type to Center 2. It is not real efficient but it gets the job done.

Re: Centerlines

John_Wright — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 15:47:04 GMT

I suggest you try your own advice and see how it works out....

Re: Centerlines

user015M86Y — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 15:50:23 GMT

@elee ,

I use Center Mark Pattern

Re: Centerlines

elee — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 16:00:25 GMT

I just tried this this morning and it didn't quite work. Looks fine on the 3D model but I don't see it on the drawing. It is sketch #4 and you can see the line on the model, but sketch #4 is grayed out on the drawing and I don't see the little warning symbol at the top of the page to show it isn't sinc'd with my model.

Re: Centerlines

John_Wright — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 16:09:37 GMT

Click on the "eye" circled in the image above 🙂

Re: Centerlines

elee — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 16:15:10 GMT

I had already tried that, didn't change anything.

Re: Centerlines

John_Wright — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 16:16:59 GMT

This seems odd.

Can you share the project?

Re: Centerlines

elee — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 16:27:17 GMT

https://a360.co/42n8GHv

https://a360.co/4g67lIr

Re: Centerlines

John_Wright — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 16:40:35 GMT

Thanks, can confirm that the I see the problem too.

Is the sketch a 3D sketch? The geometry is not drawn on the sketch plane to this may be causing the issue. @ClintBrown3D can you confirm a 3D sketch would cause this please?

If you redraw a sketch on your construction plane in the middle it works 🙂

Re: Centerlines

ClintBrown3D — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 17:04:34 GMT

Yes, 3D sketch will not show.

Also, using the center mark pattern as suggested above will give you a nicer center mark on the partial arc

Re: Centerlines

elee — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 17:55:43 GMT

Ok, so I now have the line, but I can't figure out how to change it to a Center2 line like your example. I click on document settings to open that tool panel and then click on the second tab and change the linetype but I don't see how to designate which line I'm trying to change.

Re: Centerlines

ClintBrown3D — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 08:47:39 GMT

Re: Centerlines

elee — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 14:28:36 GMT

Thank you.

Re: Centerlines

elee — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 18:25:05 GMT

Clint, how did you change the small center mark on the front view to long centerlines?

Re: Centerlines

ClintBrown3D — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 09:43:45 GMT