topic Re: Offset Face is now Move Face with cylindrical faces? in Fusion Support Forum

Offset Face is now Move Face with cylindrical faces?

subversivespeed — Sun, 15 Dec 2019 01:12:04 GMT

Found a bug here... Seems that the Offset Face and Move Face are now the same routine when dealing with a cylindrical face? Very strange. Please see screencast .. will post once it becomes available.

Re: Offset Face is now Move Face with cylindrical faces?

jeff_strater — Sun, 15 Dec 2019 15:44:30 GMT

Your screencast never made it. I tested this on a simple case, and it seems to work as expected - Move Faces does a move, and Offset Faces does an offset:

Re: Offset Face is now Move Face with cylindrical faces?

subversivespeed — Fri, 20 Dec 2019 16:23:31 GMT

It only does this with holes, not cylinders... You cannot resize a hole.

Re: Offset Face is now Move Face with cylindrical faces?

subversivespeed — Fri, 20 Dec 2019 16:24:55 GMT

Also it won't allow me to post a screencast... Or the Forum is locking up. I don't understand it.

Re: Offset Face is now Move Face with cylindrical faces?

jeff_strater — Fri, 20 Dec 2019 16:54:51 GMT

I'm still not seeing this. Whether the holes are created with Extrude or Hole, even on curved surfaces, Offset Faces and Press/Pull seem to both do the right thing. Is your surface a true cylinder (can you put an axis through it)? Can you share the model?

screencast: https://knowledge.autodesk.com/community/screencast/44b573dd-f048-427a-8538-db1751a09544

Re: Offset Face is now Move Face with cylindrical faces?

TheCADWhisperer — Fri, 20 Dec 2019 16:57:55 GMT

File>Export and then Attach *.f3d file here that exhibits this behavior.

Re: Offset Face is now Move Face with cylindrical faces?

HughesTooling — Fri, 20 Dec 2019 17:41:33 GMT

This only happens if you have the hole diameter fixed in the sketch but not its position and you use Automatic or Modify Existing Feature. If you use New Offset the hole diameter is modified. See attached file.

Mark

Re: Offset Face is now Move Face with cylindrical faces?

TheCADWhisperer — Fri, 20 Dec 2019 17:58:59 GMT

@HughesTooling wrote:
... you have the hole diameter fixed in the sketch but not its position ....

Why would I exit a sketch with underconstrained geometry?

Blue sketch would keep me awake at night... 🙄

Re: Offset Face is now Move Face with cylindrical faces?

HughesTooling — Fri, 20 Dec 2019 18:03:27 GMT

@TheCADWhisperer wrote:

@HughesTooling wrote:

... you have the hole diameter fixed in the sketch but not its position ....

Why would I exit a sketch with underconstrained geometry?

Blue sketch would keep me awake at night... 🙄

Why wouldn't you attach a sample file with the first post and get an answer 5 days ago?🙄 Some people like making life more difficult than it needs to be!

Mark

Re: Offset Face is now Move Face with cylindrical faces?

jeff_strater — Fri, 20 Dec 2019 18:15:59 GMT

Thanks, @HughesTooling - I missed the "Automatic" in @subversivespeed 's screencast. That is absolutely correct.

Nothing has changed in this area in quite a while, so I would not expect any different behavior here.

Re: Offset Face is now Move Face with cylindrical faces?

subversivespeed — Sat, 21 Dec 2019 05:46:33 GMT

Anyway, I needed to make a new gate bracket on an emergency basis because some nutjob rammed my gate with a truck in an robbery attempt because we don't put people in jail anymore in this country.. So, constraints were not my main concern, but speed was. Our criminal population here is organized on social media and once security is compromised they are back within hours to try again. Made the part as fast as I could, repaired the gate at 3am and moved on.. however, last time I had to use that functionality I do not remember it requiring switching from automatic to offset.

In other news, we are now #1 in property crime, so.. yay for that.