topic Re: cursor goes to origin when i try to sketch on a surface in Fusion Support Forum

cursor goes to origin when i try to sketch on a surface

ademceven — Sat, 18 Mar 2023 09:59:45 GMT

hey there, my problem is i try to create scetch on a surface of the body, everytime i select the surface and click create sketch, cursor goes all the way up to origin and then i had to zoom out and find my object body surface again an zoom in to work. it wasnt working like that before it just started recently. i dont know if i clicked a feature by mistake but im sure i didnt mess up anything on preferences for sure. so any tip would be very helpfull.

Re: cursor goes to origin when i try to sketch on a surface

jhackney1972 — Sat, 18 Mar 2023 21:01:00 GMT

You can easily prevent what is happening when you create a new sketch on a remove surface from the origin but you will then have to possibly add a new step to begin your sketch. The video will explain.

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Re: cursor goes to origin when i try to sketch on a surface

ademceven — Sat, 18 Mar 2023 22:12:51 GMT

hey there, i did exactly as you did. unchecked auto look at from design and applied it, tried to start on the surface and then clicked to look at as you did but it again went to origin. i wonder how same settings behave differend on my pc.

however with the help of your idea, i slightly changed order. what i did is first selected surface and then clicked look at and that brought my focus to surface, only after that i clicked create sketch and since my focus was already there it stayed as exactly where i wanted it to be. thanks for shining a light to the solution, you are golden.

but for anyone, this all going to origin thing wasnt there before and it had been automatically going focus to the selected surface without changing any settings. solution of Jhacjney1972 works for the time being but if anyone knows to fix it like it's original state would be best.

Re: cursor goes to origin when i try to sketch on a surface

theoballew — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 03:21:09 GMT

This is happening to me and neither @jhackney1972 nor @ademceven 's workarounds are working... help?

Re: cursor goes to origin when i try to sketch on a surface

TheCADWhisperer — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 05:43:50 GMT

@theoballew

Set the view how you want it.

Right click on the View Cube and set new Home Position.

If you can’t figure it out-

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

Re: cursor goes to origin when i try to sketch on a surface

slurton — Sat, 16 Mar 2024 20:51:42 GMT

So this worked for me as well.

But as he said it was not doing this before.

Hey, AutoDesk Developers!!!

If it's not broke then don't fix it!!!

Re: cursor goes to origin when i try to sketch on a surface

annaaschoeller — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 10:18:10 GMT

@jhackney1972 Such a relief! Thank you very much. I was SO annoying when it did that. Now all is back to "normal"

Re: cursor goes to origin when i try to sketch on a surface

kkepleyR6LA9 — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 13:16:29 GMT

This adds an extra step to fix a problem which should not be happening in the first place. Fusion should just create a view normal to the selected surface without translating to the home position. The home position should be left totally out of the picture, just rotate the current view until the surface is normal. Apparently this is how it used to work until some noob developer "fixed" it.