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I think that centerlines are a must in the sketch menu. It is very annoying to create a small line, turn it into construction, and then go find it everytime (assuming it doesn't extend the whole distance of your drawing.) My friends at work agree that it is very annoying not to be able to create center lines so I'm sure there are many others out there missing center lines in sketch mode. Thanks!
This still isn't an option in Fusion? The first comment was 2 years ago.
I am an avid Inventor user, and 95% of everything I create is round and having a center line as my start point is a must. I am very surprised with all the previous software (such as Inventor) that this small step was not in the initial release, let alone years later.
If you come from Solidworks, this small pick is actually quite annoying. However, the amount of time it takes to draw the line, click on it and press X is actually about the same time that it takes to hover over the Line selection in Solidworks and choose the Centerline. I'm still not 100% sold on Fusion, but it's apparent that they are listening to their customers and making changes and updates on a regular basis..
And by the way, How much did you pay for that Solidworks package again?.... Catch my drift?
I really miss the centerline as well. I come from CREO and do miss a better sketcher. I really miss an option to do a centerline and draw a symmetric line across this.
That being said, I am very positiv about the Fusion and already spending most of my time modelling in Fusion.
Alexander, Stop for a moment and listen to yourself...
You're giving up on Fusion 360 because of a Centerline? You realize of course, that you're saying that you haven't the capacity to adapt to a slightly different paradigm and unable to click a single different key to access the function you are looking for. REALLY?
If you want to make a Centerline in Solidworks, you click the line tool, then click down one to the Centerline tool and click that.
If you want to make a Centerline in Fusion 360, you click the line tool, draw the line where you want it (Fusion 360 will tell you when you're on the center), Click X and choose the line. Instant Centerline, easily revolved or utilized as a mirror or any other common Centerline function.
Too difficult?
It's your call, but giving up a VERY usable program (that at its most expensive, is but a FRACTION of the cost of a Basic Solidworks License) that has frequent updates and is constantly probing the user community for suggestions to be implemented seems a bit rash to me...
When starting a Sketch set the grid to display and place them on the work plane. Insure that they are accurately placed on centers and are set to "construction lines" (dashes line). It is also a good practice to "Fix" lock them so that they can not move.
If you need to extend the length of the centerlines simply grab the end point and stretch it to an extended location along the grid.
You can create an centerline off-center from the gird by drawing a construction line on the gird first, then a second parallel construction line and then define the off-set value using a dimension.
The only thing that bothers me about the way that Fusion 360 wants you to do it is that I have to draw a "large" line to make sure it goes through all of my sketch(maybe just my OCD that it has to go all the way through the sketch) and then make sure that it is constrained and/or fix it in place. Usually, I want it from the origin and I want it to extend up and down from there to infinity. If the sketch gets larger than anticipated, I then have to unfix and extend the line. Why not just a line that extends forever that I don't have to fix and unfix. One button, "Centerline", that you click and draw a line that snaps vertical or horizontal and if you need, you can dimension it on an angle. Creo, I think, did this the best, but that's just my opinion.
I just did a design where I had to create lots of lines, all on top of each other, but between different points. I was forced to do this to find the all the different centre points. The problem then was that I could often not tell which line was which, or sometimes which centre point belonged to which line. Even to select a line I had to bring up the list of items at that location and remember the position of each line in the list.
So, I wonder whether a simple tool could eliminate all this and help with many other problems too. Imagine when you are called on to specify a point e.g. using the 3 point arc tool. Instead of clicking on a point, you can press 'c' for centre and then click TWO points. The point passed to the system is the midpoint of the implied line between the two points. It would save a lot of construction lines and be quite intuitive. The system could add a point feature at the midpoint and show the implied line it is centred on when that feature is selected.
