Make commands like revolve work along surfaces edges, not only faces

[cekuhnen]

In Rhino I select all outher edges, select the revolve axis and done.

In Fusion I would have to select face by face.

That is way to slow and time consuming.

This should apply to solid as well as patch tools that use profiles, besides loft of course.

[haughec]

Hi Class,

I agree that surface features should allow the selection of edges & sketch entities to define a profile.  The surface features in the direct modeling Patch workspace do this today, and their forthcoming parametric counterparts will as well.

For solid features, Fusion 360 only allows selection of profiles & faces, and this is not likely to change.  In the example above, all three faces of the surface (and combinations of those faces) are valid profile selections.  We don't assume that the user wants to select all three.

Thanks,

Charles

[cekuhnen]

Charles,

"The surface features in the direct modeling Patch workspace do this today, and their forthcoming parametric counterparts will as well."

Are you talking about an internal build? Because the screenshot is from the DM and it does not give me the ability to select certain edges to revolve.

[haughec]

You're right, Class!  The surface features allow the selection of sketch entities, but not edges - I was mistaken.  I agree that edges should be selectable to define a profile.

I've logged FUS-12608.  Changing status to Accepted.  We'll aim to address this as we roll out parametric surface features.

Thanks!

Charles

[promm]

Thank you for your idea, this is getting changed to implemented because you can now select an edge to be revolved.

Regards,

Mike Prom

[cekuhnen]

@promm There is a problem with it  based on how you select and in what order edges

you end up with one or two bodies

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Byzv_NlyKp_2UndpM2l2Rnd3cEU/view