Fusion
Hi mikebJL63Z,
When we create an extrusion with Join operation, the calculation of participating bodies will be based on their visibility, i.e. only visible bodies will be taken into account.
In this case, I would create a thin-wall cylinder to hold the text bodies and to do the pattern, then combine with the original cylinder body at last. Please refer to the screencast below for details.
For the sanpping issue you mentioned, there are different types of snapping. We can always hold Ctrl key to disable the snapping temporarily.
- Snapping to grid: it's controlled by the Sanp option on the Sketch Palette
- Snapping to objects (midpoints, etc.): No options
- Sanpping to other objects out of the current sketch and auto-projecting it: It's controlled by the option "Auto project geometry not in the active sketch plane" from the Preferences dialog -> General -> Design.
Best Regards,
Nicolas Xu
Sr. SQA Eng.
Fusion 360 Quality Assurance Team
Autodesk, Inc.
"For the sanpping issue you mentioned, there are different types of snapping. We can always hold Ctrl key to disable the snapping temporarily."
Is this located somewhere in the documentation? I can't seem to find it.
Phil Procario Jr.
Owner, Laser & CNC Creations
@PhilProcarioJr There is a screencast made by Nathan talked about it. I will check and see if the information is in other places.
http://fusion360.autodesk.com/learning/learning.html?guid=6affaeb4-269c-4afd-bcf6-1b2f6ef10c75
Nicolas Xu
Sr. SQA Eng.
Fusion 360 Quality Assurance Team
Autodesk, Inc.
Doesn't the Fusion team feel that things like how to snap (Explanations and how to....) is important enough to be included in the documentation?
That not everyone wants to spend 40 hours watching videos hoping they catch a glimpse of what they need, for things they can take 5 seconds looking up in the online docs?
Phil Procario Jr.
Owner, Laser & CNC Creations
I have also passed your feedback to the team to make sure this case will be covered.
Best Regards,
Nicolas
Nicolas Xu
Sr. SQA Eng.
Fusion 360 Quality Assurance Team
Autodesk, Inc.
I want to be clear of my intentions of pointing things like this out. It's not to bash or upset anyone. I really like using Fusion and more then anything I want to cut SolidWorks completely out of my work environment.
I'm trying to help the Fusion team understand what causes so much frustration around here. And to be honest at least 50% of this frustration could be resolved by complete, comprehensive online docs. Videos become outdated very fast with evolving software like this. I'm not saying stop making videos I'm saying finish the online docs first and foremost. At least to the point we can use them as a fast SEARCHABLE reference. Something else that would be a tremendous help...if there is a known issue with a tool add that issue to the docs. This would let us know that the dev team is aware of such an issue and it would keep new users from beating their head against the wall trying to figure out why something doesn't work only to find out later it was a bug or a feature that is not implemented yet. Think of it this way...you do preventive maintenance on machines in a factory to reduce down time, by a software team doing preventive maintenance on its user base you save us time and money which = a much happier user. Cost us time and money.....well you have seen where that leads you.
Anyways thank you for listening and passing my feedback to the team to make sure this case will be covered.
Cheers
Phil
Phil Procario Jr.
Owner, Laser & CNC Creations