topic Re: Difficulty constraining sketch in Fusion Support Forum

Difficulty constraining sketch

accountsEFWLY — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 21:36:24 GMT

Often I'm unable to fully constrain a sketch. I have to try, try, and try again, often times having to scrap the sketch altogether and start over. No exaggeration: I spend the majority of my time using Fusion trying to work around issues like these.

Screencast: https://autode.sk/3H2pxRQ

Re: Difficulty constraining sketch

jhackney1972 — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 23:17:41 GMT

Please attach your model containing the sketch.

Re: Difficulty constraining sketch

accountsEFWLY — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 23:37:07 GMT

No, I will not attach my model until my previous bug report is acknowledged and dealt with: major bug .

This bug is critical and has been around for a long time. All available company resources should be put on this bug before doing anything else IMO. I cannot use the software because of this bug.

I have no faith that any attention is paid to reported bugs. I used to report bugs and would get the same response from autodesk: "attach your model" and "create a screencast". I tried doing both of those and it seems futile.

Re: Difficulty constraining sketch

jhackney1972 — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 23:58:27 GMT

Your decision, your loss! A lot of the Forum users are volunteers that just try and help but it is hard to do with "some" posters.

Re: Difficulty constraining sketch

accountsEFWLY — Sun, 20 Feb 2022 00:10:54 GMT

I apologize for the tone, I thought you were an autodesk employee based on a quick glance of what is in your signature.

I'm very frustrated and disappointed with the product; it's sucking the life out of me.

Didn't mean to take it out on you.

Re: Difficulty constraining sketch

jhackney1972 — Sun, 20 Feb 2022 00:12:11 GMT

The link you attached has already been hashed over and determined to be a flaw in the application which they have acknowledged. Old news, if you have the model for your current post, attach it.

Re: Difficulty constraining sketch

TheCADWhisperer — Sun, 20 Feb 2022 12:40:32 GMT

@accountsEFWLY wrote:
Often I'm unable to fully constrain a sketch.

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

Re: Difficulty constraining sketch

TrippyLighting — Sun, 20 Feb 2022 13:01:20 GMT

@accountsEFWLY wrote:

No, I will not attach my model until my previous bug report is acknowledged and dealt with: major bug .

This bug is critical and has been around for a long time. All available company resources should be put on this bug before doing anything else IMO. I cannot use the software because of this bug.

I can understand your frustration, but you are blowing this out of proportion. Many Fusion 360 users, myself included can create complex and fully parametric designs without using the offset tool even once.

@accountsEFWLY wrote:

I have no faith that any attention is paid to reported bugs. I used to report bugs and would get the same response from autodesk: "attach your model" and "create a screencast". I tried doing both of those and it seems futile.

I can understand that frustration as well. While I do think that attention is paid, I find the mechanisms provided for users to report bugs and investigate bug status inadequate and unprofessional.

Re: Difficulty constraining sketch

accountsEFWLY — Sun, 20 Feb 2022 21:33:04 GMT

I too can create parametric designs without using the offset tool. This specific situation I think warrants the use of offset however... it is a 28 segment (19 of which are arcs) closed, constrained shape. I'm modeling 2 pieces of fabric sandwiching 1 layer of foam. The outline of the foam (offset toward the inside) and the outline of the raw cut edge with seam allowances (offset to the outside) are obvious offsets of the finished profile. In a perfect world (or just a reasonable world) I would select the original profile and offset once to the inside, select the same original profile and offset once to the outside, and be done.

Drawing the shape 3 times for all three desired profiles seems absurd to me since there is 1 driving profile. How would you suggest doing this without using offset?

Rob