topic Offset construction planes WONT move. in Fusion Support Forum

Offset construction planes WONT move.

jeromel1 — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 15:39:43 GMT

Fairly new to Fusion, I'm an 82 year old man just keeping busy designing items.

I think I'm getting into some real details.

I have been watching a video RC CAD-2-VR titled

Part 1 | How To Design Airplane Wings in Fusion 360 - Airfoils [Episode 2]

I'm sorry but he shows how to move a construction plane look so easy.

He selects the new construction plane and just taps the M key to move it, it moves very easily.

I have watched far too many videos to duplicate his moves and have failed.

FYI, I am using the free version because I'm just tinkering.

I don't know if that feature is missing in that version!

I am to the point that I'm at a complete standstill until I can get this problem resolved.

Currently using:

Fusion 2601.0.90 x86_64
Active Plan: Personal
Windows 10 Pro 22H2 (19045.4529)

Any and all responses will be deeply appreciated. I sure would like to continue designing this airplane, but again I'm at a standstill until fixed.

Thank you in advanced!

Jerome.

Re: Offset construction planes WONT move.

jeromel1 — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 15:48:04 GMT

Can't seem to possibly edit the previous post, but I am now also against another problem.

I CAN'T copy and paste a construction plane.

HELP!!!

Re: Offset construction planes WONT move.

jhackney1972 — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 16:21:11 GMT

A Construction plane can be moved if it is created using the Create Base Feature command or by creating the Construction Plane in Direct Modeling mode. I think you would be much better off using the Create Base Feature command and maintain your Timeline and Parametric modeling capabilities. Once you create the Construction Plane, remain in Direct Modeling Mode until you do your move or return to it in the timeline later on. If you need further help, please ask. As far as copying a Construction Plane, you can do that using the Move command in Direct Editing Model

Re: Offset construction planes WONT move.

g-andresen — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 16:25:51 GMT

Hi,

This is only possible in DM (direct modeling mode > deactivated history).

I would only use this temporarily, if at all, to create the planes.

Proposal:
Create a new component and the first plane in it.
Then you can either make a pattern of this component with the same spacing or generate copies of the component with individual spacing.

günther

Re: Offset construction planes WONT move.

jhackney1972 — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 23:10:31 GMT

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