topic Re: Can't delete a feature in Fusion Support Forum

Can't delete a feature

paulshibbs — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 14:45:21 GMT

I made a cut during development of my design. I have long since deleted the cut, but it persists, somehow hidden in the model. My slicer rendering shows continuous solid in the area, but when I print, the cut persists. The extruder path shows the cutout area.

I cannot find any sketch or extrusion that corresponds in my model (long since deleted). I have tried making a new component to restore the missing area with no success. I also made a "block" to pass through the area, yet the cut-out persists. Everything looks fine in my Fusion 360 model, and looks fine in my slicer preview. However the slicer's extruder path persists in omitting the mysterious void area (cutout). It acts like there is a cutout at the end of my timeline - that cuts a corner off anything I extrude.

I really don’t want to redraw from scratch! Is there any way to export the current configuration, and not bring along the cuts and extrusions I made during development?

Model: https://a360.co/41swp70

Re: Can't delete a feature

jhackney1972 — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 14:42:58 GMT

Your model cannot be downloaded. Either you forgot to click the icon to allow downloading or you are using a Fusion Personal license which does not allow you to share models. Open your file in Fusion, select the File menu, then Export to save to your hard drive. Attach to a reply post.

Re: Can't delete a feature

paulshibbs — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 15:28:34 GMT

Thanks, the file is 1.2Mb, too large to attach. I am using Personal license. I put a copy in Google Drive. https://drive.google.com/file/d/16FjlSAnTXPP8zk50pVoOwGz9mHh2DS0x/view?usp=sharing

Re: Can't delete a feature

jhackney1972 — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 21:52:09 GMT

I did a complete Section Analysis, animated GIF below, and I could not find an voids or holes in your model. You would do well to redo the model and try and eliminate the "colorful" timeline with its many errors. By the way, I do not understand how you determined the size of your model to be so large. What I downloaded from Google Drive is only 1133 KB as shown below.

Re: Can't delete a feature

paulshibbs — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 22:23:31 GMT

Hi John, Thanks so much for looking at the file! My browser says 1.2Mb file size. (oops, I think that translates to 1200kb!) I made a short movie showing the cutout that appears in my slicer. It coincides with a cut I made in the model days ago (and deleted). I am confounded where the cutout comes from, since neither Fusion rendering nor section analysis shows it, nor does the slicer preview show it. Yet the cutout consistently reappears in my printer path and in the printed parts. Something mysterious has retained the cutout information and is reinserting it.

I spent the morning redrawing the entire model, so it's an academic question at this point. But I'd like to understand in case it ever happens again. P.S. This is my third week running Fusion 360 so my models are messy.

(view in My Videos)

Re: Can't delete a feature

paulshibbs — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 15:07:25 GMT

To close this question - I never got a solution. The persistent “cut” feature could not be deleted. The cut would not show in the model, in the renderings, nor in my slicer preview, yet it would persistently reappear in the printer path and in my printed parts. I had to redraw my model from scratch! If you have the same problem in your model, good luck.

Re: Can't delete a feature

TheCADWhisperer — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 18:41:58 GMT

@paulshibbs wrote:
I never got a solution.
If you have the same problem in your model, good luck.

@paulshibbs

Where there any unresolved issues clearly highlighted in yellow or red in the Timeline?

Did Ctrl b (CMD b on Mac) return any user created issues?