Tried to change the length of a slot in direct modeling mode -> see desired result
I tried to move the face
Fusion did not change the legth, but moved the slot -> message:
What did I miss?
direct modeling mode - problem changing length of slot
Accepted solution
Yeah, this is a known limitation in direct modeling. It is specific to these kinds of shapes (where connected faces are tangent). I've lost the details of why, and I cannot find the thread in which this was discussed (it was probably 4 years ago). But, it had something to do with the way we treat tangent cylindrical faces as "fillets", which are then removed and re-applied, while in DM.
Sorry I don't have a better answer, but @Anonymous's is probably the best - model a new slot on top of the old...
Jeff Strater
Engineering Director
@TheCADWhisperer wrote:
@@kb9ydn wrote:This seems like a ridiculous limitation.
If you have a frequent need for direct editing of base solids that have no feature history - you might consider Autodesk Inventor Professional. Students can download Autodesk Inventor for free from http://www.autodesk.com/edcommunity
That's not exactly a ringing endorsement for Fusion is it? 
Fortunately I do most of my modeling in Solidworks so it's not THAT much of a problem. But occasionally moving faces is a useful feature when I've brought a part into Fusion for machining and need to make some minor alterations for clearance or whatever. Of course I can find other ways to get the job done, even in Fusion. But what really bugs me about this (and a lot of other things in Fusion) is that Autodesk really doesn't seem to care. It's like they've decided that 90% functionality is good enough and that last 10% is just, meh whatever. Yeah it's a limitation but we don't really feel like doing anything about it. Seriously? I totally understand that software development is hard and sometimes takes a long time. But it really feels like they just don't care to go that last 10% of the way, and it makes me sad. I REALLY REALLY hope this is just my perception and not the reality. But given that others have made this same observation, I can't help but feel like I'm hoping in vain.
In fact this is annoying me so much I just posted in the ideastation for this to be fixed.
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Re: "Autodesk really doesn't seem to care" and "But it really feels like they just don't care to go that last 10% of the way, and it makes me sad". I apologize if my response made you come to that impression. I hope this doesn't come across as too defensive, but, that is not an accurate characterization. I can speak for the whole development and product team when I say that we care a lot. That's why we are on this forum evenings, weekends, and holidays trying to help customers. We would absolutely love to fix every defect that exists in Fusion. But, sadly, we are only human, and we do not have an infinite staff. We fix dozens of bugs every update. But, because we have limited resources, we have to prioritize. We address the bugs that affect the largest number of users, or which cause data corruption, first. I hope you would agree that this approach is reasonable. And, for better or worse, this bug is not one that comes up all that frequently. I finally did find the forum thread where this was referenced: fusion-360-quot-stretch-quot-using-move-face-command. As you can see, that was in 2015. And, as near as I can tell, there have not been a lot of posts about this since. So, while I agree with you that this bug should be fixed, and I would like nothing better than to fix it myself, I just cannot promise that. I assume you would not want us to promise a fix that, realistically, we cannot provide any time soon. There are workarounds, none of which are ideal, I know.
Anyway, again, I apologize if my initial response came across as if implying that I, or we, don't care. That could not be further from the truth. I probably was in a hurry, and did take enough care with the wording.
Jeff
Jeff Strater
Engineering Director
@jeff_strater I have a question related to this, why is there no copy option using the Move\Copy command? I have added a request for it on the ideastation but just wondered why it's not there from the start. Although as I've only got 3 votes perhapes no one wants it.
Mark
Mark Hughes
Owner, Hughes Tooling
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Just catching up on some very old flagged items. Interesting that the IdeaStation item got so few votes. I guess that does kinda mean that it is not all that interesting to people. It would be technically possible, I think. That is essentially what Pattern Faces is doing. Interesting idea...
Jeff Strater
Engineering Director
@jeff_strater wrote:
Just catching up on some very old flagged items. Interesting that the IdeaStation item got so few votes. I guess that does kinda mean that it is not all that interesting to people. It would be technically possible, I think. That is essentially what Pattern Faces is doing. Interesting idea...
It's not surprising that the more advanced ideas that are posted there by users that because it really takes that daily experience to understand the value of some of these ideas.
As such Iv'e stopped adding ideas.
@kb9ydn wrote:
@TheCADWhisperer wrote:
@@kb9ydn wrote:
This seems like a ridiculous limitation.
If you have a frequent need for direct editing of base solids that have no feature history - you might consider Autodesk Inventor Professional. Students can download Autodesk Inventor for free from http://www.autodesk.com/edcommunity
That's not exactly a ringing endorsement for Fusion is it?
Until you compare price tags. An Inventor subscription is ridiculously expensive.