topic Lost "project to surface" Function in Fusion Support Forum

Lost "project to surface" Function

DillonRA — Thu, 14 Oct 2021 15:20:45 GMT

I'm not sure when this happened exactly, but I've lost a command that I rather like.

I use the Project to Surface function pretty often when matching a sheet metal part to another bent/formed sheet metal part that needs to fit well to the profile.

A workaround for that function takes SO long. 20 minutes of work to accomplish what could be a 30 second job.

Was there a name change or something?

Am I dumb and just missing it?

Re: Lost "project to surface" Function

HughesTooling — Thu, 14 Oct 2021 15:22:44 GMT

Are you projecting from one sketch to another? You can not project curves in the current active sketch into the same sketch. Is that the problem?

Re: Lost "project to surface" Function

DillonRA — Thu, 14 Oct 2021 15:27:44 GMT

I have 2 sheet metal parts, both with multiple bends and on different planes.

Typically I would take part A and project its edge profile to the surface of part B so I can trim away what I don't need and have a good fit up after laser and press work.

Sorry if that doesn't make sense.

I don't always do things the easy or right way, self taught and only use the sheet metal functions of Fusion.

Re: Lost "project to surface" Function

jeff_strater — Thu, 14 Oct 2021 15:29:29 GMT

it should still be there:

Re: Lost "project to surface" Function

DillonRA — Thu, 14 Oct 2021 15:32:30 GMT

Strange, found it now. I used to be able to be able to select "project to surface" THEN select the face to project to.

Thanks!

Re: Lost "project to surface" Function

HughesTooling — Thu, 14 Oct 2021 16:07:03 GMT

@DillonRA wrote:

Strange, found it now. I used to be able to be able to select "project to surface" THEN select the face to project to.

Thanks!

That's an old workflow where the sketch tab used to be visible all the time, now you need to start a sketch first.

You could get a similar workflow back if you create a shortcut for project to surface. If you click the 3 dots on a menu item you can add a shortcut and this will work even if you're not in sketch mode. So I can press Shift+P and get prompted to select a face or plane.