can't move a sketch

[Anonymous]

I'm struggling to do very basic things in Fusion 360, including moving sketches.  The instructions here do not work for me at all:
http://fusion360.autodesk.com/resources/akn/view/NINVFUS/ENU/?guid=GUID-FFD25CD3-0707-429E-B0E6-B7F9...

For example: I sketch a centerpoint circle.  Then I want to move that circle.  I right click, select 'move,' and the dialogue pops up saying "no selection."  The circle is no longer select-able.  WTF #1.

I change mode from "bodies, sketches.." to "move sketch objects" and now I can select the center point and get the manipulator.  Progress!  Then I move it along the x axis, lets say 300mm, click ok, and... nothing happens.  WTF #2.

Going back, I find the only change I CAN make is rotating the circle about a moved pivot point.  For some reason that actually moves the sketch.  WTF #3.

Clearly I'm missing something...  

[innovatenate]

I suspect that you creating the circle at the origin point, does this sound correct? The sketch solver may be adding "hidden" coincident constraint between the center point of the circle and the origin point. Check out this screencast for more information.

http://autode.sk/1975rW5

I hope that helps! Let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks,

[Anonymous]

Thanks for making a screencast to show what's going on. My question is, can you turn it off? It looks like once a sketch's origin coincides with the project origin, it's permanently stuck there, which would be an odd choice of functionality.

[Anonymous]

Left click ot select the point at the origin.  Then right click and select "Delete Coincident".  That should allow you to move it.

Seems anything moved to the origin gets that constraint added automatically.

Dave

[TrippyLighting]

Yes, you can.

1. left-click on the center point to select it ad move the mouse curser out of the circle
2. right-click and select "delete conincident"
3. window select the circle and use the move command to move the circle

Afterwards as long as the center of the circle is not located right over the origin you can move the circle by click-draging it where yoo want it.

[Anonymous]

Hi, 

I'm struggling with this too. Moving a whole sketch is very basic. At the moment, on version 2.0.1596, the shortest way I could find for moving a sketch as a whole requires me to right click, click move, then in the pop up window, select the right icon with the pen saying "Move sketch objects" (see attached), while the middle icon with a cylinder says also it's for "sketches" but has no effect. 
Then a final click on the pop up white square / arrow hovering on the sketch itself will make it move freely. That's... 4 clicks to just move. Isn't there a hotkey to do that? Or less clicking? 

[TrippyLighting]

Your issue is differnt from the origilnal post and might get lost in thins thread.

From the screenshot you posted I cannot even recognize why you want to move the sketch elements.

If you post what you want to design we can better asist in suggesting a differnt workflow.

[Anonymous]

My apologies, this is my first forum post here, i'm just experimenting and
trying out Fusion 360 with some tutorial (coming from the Blender world).
Regardless, isn't the title of the thread just "can't move a sketch"? why
am I off topic? Or did i miss something?

Thanks

[Oceanconcepts]

You may find that if you want to move an entire sketch (what I think you are asking) the best thing is to select the sketch in the browser with a right click, and select Move from the drop down menu that appears. That's just one click. Fusion's use of the browser can take some getting used to. But selecting in the browser is often the best way to access some functions. 

[Anonymous]

@Oceanconcepts Thank you for your reply. Yes, as said in my question, indeed, I'd like to move the whole (i.e, entire) sketch. In fact, anyone of them, freely, in the plane i'm working in. I just want to reproduce the exact same move function accessed with the 4 clicks. 
However (see new screenshot), I followed your steps, when selecting any of the sketch in the browser, and right-clicking on it, I do not have any Move function.
Any idea? 

Thanks

[UPDATE]: I see the source of confusion in my question. By moving my "whole" or "entire" sketch (I wasn't any clearer with that choice of word), I mean, moving any of the sketch objects, not moving the whole "canvas" that contain all of them (that would not make sense indeed). So, with the new screenshot, I mean moving any of the sketch objects, Sketch 4 for instance. 

[TrippyLighting]

You are no off topic, but you did not start the thread. The person that starts a thread can mark any answer as "accepted as solution".

In the list of thread that thead is then marked with a little green check mark and will likely receive vey few views because it indicates no help is needed anymore.

As such your post could siply get overloked. Fortunately that has not heappend yet 🙂

As to moving a sketch. You screenshot indicates you want to move the sketch by right-cliking on it in the browser and hoping for the "move" tool to appear. Fusion does not allow that sort of thing for a sketch. If you want to move items in a sketch you'll have to right-click and select edit sketch. Then you can select the sketch elemens you want to move, either by left clicking on them individually while holding the ctrl (Win) or Command(Mac) key and then right-click and select the move tool.

If the 4 pin-slots are on different sketches you may want to put them all on one sketch. If they are constrined/dimensiond correctly you can move them without them loosing their shape.

[TrippyLighting]

Also, please check out the difference between a body and a component. That distinction does not exist in Blender - I've used Balnder for about 12 years - but understanding that one topic is going to really avoid some headaches later on.

Long story short fro each discrete part of your design you should start by creating an empty component and activating it by right-clicking on it's name and enabling the littel radio button. 

When done with a component either activate the root of the browser or another component.

[Anonymous]

Oh ok, thank you for the clarification. Yes, I was aware of the "accepted as solution" possibility but as that was not yet the case I squeezed in instead of creating a new thread.

Ok, i undertand the moving features. I've played around for a while now and will educate myself to this.

[Anonymous]

Ok, let me try that.
Another thing I realised is that a well constrained sketch object becomes easily movable as a whole without so much clicking.
Nonetheless, a hotkey for such common idiom as moving (translating) the sketch object would be welcome.

[TrippyLighting]

Yes, the keboard shortcuts definitely make Blender so fast to work with. Custom keyboar shortcurt are one of the most requested features and are going to be implemented in three phases. There is an Idea in the Idea Station for it and you may want to head over there and throw in another vote.

[Anonymous]

Yep, I would have been surprised that this feature was not in their roadmap. I'll definitely add a vote. Thanks for the tip!

[Oceanconcepts]

re. right clicking in the browser and moving the entire sketch, I should have said that this works in the direct modeling environment, but not with the timeline enabled, at least if you have built anything with the sketch- not sure about before. 

I do this frequently when I'm developing concepts and I need to reproduce something from a sketch in different locations- move sketch, extrude/ cut/ whatever, then move sketch again. Probably an odd workflow. 

[Anonymous]

Sweet!  Thank you!

An hour of struggling solved by your post.

[Anonymous]

I have also found moving sketch objects frustrating. I read a suggestion about selecting all elements of the object and then right click and select "Fix" from the contextual menu. Then repeat the selections, right click and select "Unfix." Likely you can't move the sketch object because of some hidden "Fix" constraint. I haven't tried this suggestion myself since I just found it, but thought I would offer this solution.

I totally agree that you should be able to move sketch objects with fewer clicks. I'm having the same troubles as you.

[natvert]

this worked great for me! (selecting everything, fixing and un-fixing)