topic Re: Unable to rotate a sketch in Fusion Design, Validate & Document Forum

Unable to rotate a sketch

ravindraw — Wed, 13 Jan 2021 14:24:47 GMT

I'm new to Fusion 360 and and am struggling with a couple of things. I'm using the latest 2.0 on Mac.

1. I'm unable to rotate the attached sketch. It was drawn on the Front Face and I want to tilt it back by say 10 degrees. I select all the sketch objects and click Move and use Free Move. I set the pivot point to the bottom right point and rotate the z-axis. But the OK button is greyed out. I think there is some constraint that may be preventing this but am unable to tell which. Is there a way to know?

2. When we create a constraint we can see a small icon placed to indicate the constraint. Is there a way to understand which elements the constraint actually refers to? It would have been great if selecting the constraint highlighted the entities involved in the constraint. May be there is a way?

Re: Unable to rotate a sketch

TheCADWhisperer — Wed, 13 Jan 2021 14:51:35 GMT

Can you File>Export your *.f3d file to your local drive and then Attach it here to a Reply?

Re: Unable to rotate a sketch

g-andresen — Wed, 13 Jan 2021 15:04:38 GMT

Hi,

@ravindraw wrote:
1. I'm unable to rotate the attached sketch. Is there a way to know?
> the screenshot shows neither planes nor axes
Please share the file.
File > export > save as f3d on local device > attach it to the next post.
2. Is there a way to understand which elements the constraint actually refers to? It would have been great if selecting the constraint highlighted the entities involved in the constraint. May be there is a way?
No Yes; when you hover over it

günther

Re: Unable to rotate a sketch

TheCADWhisperer — Wed, 13 Jan 2021 14:58:52 GMT

@ravindraw wrote:
2. When we create a constraint we can see a small icon placed to indicate the constraint. Is there a way to understand which elements the constraint actually refers to? It would have been great if selecting the constraint highlighted the entities involved in the constraint. May be there is a way?

Yes. This is exactly the behavior that I see on my machine. I am on Windows OS version of Fusion.

Re: Unable to rotate a sketch

ravindraw — Wed, 13 Jan 2021 15:41:41 GMT

Here is the file.

Re: Unable to rotate a sketch

TheCADWhisperer — Wed, 13 Jan 2021 16:20:05 GMT

Not sure if this is what you are after.

You will want to learn how to fully define each and every line and arc one each and every sketch.

(No blue lines and no white dots.)

Re: Unable to rotate a sketch

ravindraw — Wed, 13 Jan 2021 16:34:05 GMT

Thanks a lot. That is correct.

Appreciate if you can point me to either a video or documentation on what I need to learn.

Re: Unable to rotate a sketch

TheCADWhisperer — Wed, 13 Jan 2021 16:39:57 GMT

@ravindraw wrote:
Appreciate if you can point me to either a video or documentation on what I need to learn.

This is what I am working on at the moment - follow along and you will get many of the basics.

Re: Unable to rotate a sketch

ravindraw — Wed, 13 Jan 2021 17:28:07 GMT

Understood what it means to fully define a sketch. Thanks so much. I think the concept should somehow be made obvious.

Now that you mention it I can see the elements involved in a constraint when I mouse over. I think a different color would have helped.

I'm still struggling a bit when trying to distinguish multiple coincident constraints eg. say I have a rectangle that started at 0,0.