2D Drawings, Hiding Lines

[ronZ93BJ]

Hello All,

I'm 18 days into my 30 day free trial and have my product designed.  Now I need to produce 2D prints.  I'm having problems hiding some of many hidden lines that make the 2D drawings unusable.  For me, not being able to hide line in the 2D drawings is a serious drawback that makes the 2D drawing feature unusable and I need to be able to produce drawings to get parts built.

I'm sure Fusion 360 can do this.  PLEASE HELP!

FYI:  The settings in the Drawing View is no help.

Ron

[ndsergeev]

You can use Trim(T - shortcut) function to delete useless lines or you can change them to "Construction"(press X while line selected). You can not hide special lines but you can hide the whole sketch.

[lichtzeichenanlage]

I'm not sure about the wording. With drawing you mean Data pannel -> Right mouse button -> New Drawing from Design" alias Browser -> Right mouse button  -> Create Drawing or is a sketch a drawing for you? Could you add an screen capture or screen cast to point out what you want to do?

[I_Forge_KC]

I understand you fine.

You're in the 2D drafting environment trying to hide extra info on a complicated hidden line view like you can in, say, Inventor

... No 

[nick.ni]

Hi Ron,

If you don't want to show hidden lines in a view, you can edit the view and choose "Visible Edges" style in the dialog (see attached picture)

If you want to show some hidden lines while make some hidden lines invisible (control edge visibility individually), Fusion 360 hasn't had this functionality. Please let me know if you do want to have this functionality.

Thank you 

[ronZ93BJ]

Thanks for the input.  Unfortunately the line are from the many internal
feature in the model and cannot be trimmed or deleted. Some I need and
some need to be hidden on certain views.

The Best.

[ronZ93BJ]

Not sure about Inventor but that sounds right.

[ronZ93BJ]

Nick,

I'm not sure what you are saying but I think I'm like what I'm hearing.
Are you saying you can select which Hidden lines in a 2D sketch you can
make invisible?  If so, my design team will buy you a beer. Sign me up.

Ron

[nick.ni]

Hi Ron,

Currently you can make all hidden lines in a Fusion drawing view visible or invisible, but you cannot make some hidden lines visible while make some hidden lines invisible in one drawing view.

You may post your drawing picture to let me understand the final result you want to achieve in your drawing.

Thank you 

[garmitage]

Is the line selection screenshot you (I_Forge_KC) posted from Fusion 360?  If so, how are you doing it?  When I try to select a line in a drawing view it selects the entire view.

[cmiller66]

Hi garmitage,

That screen capture is not from Fusion Drawings.  Currently in the Fusion 2D Drawing environment you cannot selectively turn on/off individual hidden lines.  The Drawing View dialog offers Visible Edges or Visible and Hidden Edges, and this is applied to the entire drawing view.

Thanks,

Chris

[garmitage]

Too bad.

[Anonymous]

It seems this feature hasn't been voted for or suggested. I formally request the ability to select line segments of a 2d drawing view in fusion 360 and hide them. Another feature that would allow me to make proper professional drawings which I cannot as of yet without using at least one other software jump which I hate. I still haven'

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@ronZ93BJ wrote:

Hello All,

I'm 18 days into my 30 day free trial and have my product designed.  Now I need to produce 2D prints.  I'm having problems hiding some of many hidden lines that make the 2D drawings unusable.  For me, not being able to hide line in the 2D drawings is a serious drawback that makes the 2D drawing feature unusable and I need to be able to produce drawings to get parts built.

I'm sure Fusion 360 can do this.  PLEASE HELP!

FYI:  The settings in the Drawing View is no help.

Ron

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@ronZ93BJ wrote:

Hello All,

I'm 18 days into my 30 day free trial and have my product designed.  Now I need to produce 2D prints.  I'm having problems hiding some of many hidden lines that make the 2D drawings unusable.  For me, not being able to hide line in the 2D drawings is a serious drawback that makes the 2D drawing feature unusable and I need to be able to produce drawings to get parts built.

I'm sure Fusion 360 can do this.  PLEASE HELP!

FYI:  The settings in the Drawing View is no help.

Ron

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[Anonymous]

I would also like the ability to selectively turn on or off hidden lines per component.  Are there any plans to add this functionality to Fusion 360?  Another request would be to adjust the line properties per component.  Thank you.   

[bgTGQNM]

I also need the ability to hide certain hidden lines on different views. Displaying them all makes it very confusing for the customer/end user.  Also we need the ability to turn off different components separately on different views. 

[laughingcreek]

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@bgTGQNM wrote:

I also need the ability to hide certain hidden lines on different views. ...

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if you only need to show a small number of hidden lines, there is a workaround now where you create a sketch with those lines in the modeling environment, and then expose the sketch in drawings.

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@bgTGQNM wrote:...Also we need the ability to turn off different components separately on different views. 

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each view is a separate entry in the drawing browser.  that's where you control visibility of components/bodies/sketches.

[aleksei_ovsienko]

This is actually a pretty important feature. I would also like to be able to individually manipulate line thicknesses for certain edges but I don't insist, I can live without it.

Not being able to hide things is however pretty serious. I admit it's not something that you do every day. But eventually it comes up.

[mattbutch]

Once you have your 2-D drawing from F360 on the screen, blow it up to fill the screen as much as possible. If you screenshot the drawing on an apple Mac (shift+command+4), it saves it in "Preview". In preview, you can use the markup with a white drawing feature, and scribble out any unwanted lines. This is the best fastest, and maybe only way that I have found to take care of that problem. Before you screenshot it though blow it up as big on your screen as you can to avoid pixelating later and having blurry lines.

[aleksei_ovsienko]

Well yeah, you could just edit lines out of a pdf for that matter.