Combining sketches?

[Anonymous]

Hello,

I am just starting out with Fusion360. I have very limited knowledge, I've watched lots of videos and have been successful extruding basic drawings and shapes. I have searched for hours now and cannot find the answer. I drew a more detailed drawing on one plane that has a total of 6 sketches. I wish to now extrude several sections at different thicknesses but am running into a problem where cannot select specific pieces of my drawing to extrude because when I try to, a larger section with multiple areas are selected. how do I join everything in my drawing so I can extrude each section individually. I hope I'm making sense, I've attached a photo of my drawing to hopefully show what I'm trying to explain. 

Thank you!

[lichtzeichenanlage]

Two choices 

• hide the sketch by clicking on the light bulb
• long click with the left mouse button and you will get a list of objects below the cursor. By hovering over those elements the will be temporarily selected in the view port

Both methods are shown in my little screencast.

[TheCADWhisperer]

Can you export your *.f3d file and attach it here?

One thing I see is a lot of symmetry.

You should only sketch one instance of symmetry and then pattern (mirror) features (or bodies) rather than sketch entities.

[Anonymous]

Thank you for the reply! even when I turn off sketches I still cannot select the shapes I'd like to extrude. I must not have completed something?

[Anonymous]

Thank you for the reply! I have attached the .f3d file. I didn't use the mirror function because at first I was tracing over an image that was not symmetrical then I decided to make it differently. The circles are center point circles with and offset, I'd also like to extrude the space between the offset but I can only highlight the line and not the space between. 

[jeff_strater · Accepted solution]

Hi @Anonymous,

The problem here is that you have put the geometry into multiple sketches, so the title of your post is very appropriate.  Regions will not be identified unless they are all in the same sketch.

You can use copy/paste to put everything into one sketch.  Here is a screencast showing how to do this for your design.  

Jeff

[Anonymous]

You guys are rock stars! thank you and thank you for the screencast! it took me a while to realize that you were double clicking the sketch tag to enable edit mode. Every time I copied, I then didn't have the paste option, took me a few minutes to figure it out. I'm trying! LOL. The screencast is so small that I didn't notice until after that the mouse icon actually lights up left/ right click and double. I though there was a way for me to expand the screencast to full screen but that eluded me as well. Also, in my drawing, I don't even know why I have so many sketches? I think its because someone told me it was easier to edit short sketches if I wanted to make changes later? doesn't make sense to me anymore. Now that I think back, all my previous drawings were done on a single sketch and that's why I never ran into this problem. Thanks again!

[Anonymous]

Hello again,

I have a new problem, now I want to extrude each piece, for example, the skull, I'd like to extrude each section to different thicknesses and when I select a section to extrude, I get the error message....

"The object you are creating is not visible. Please toggle visibility in the browser"

what does this message mean?

Thanks!

[Anonymous]

Okay, I think I just figured it out, I had the body light bulb turned off. turned it back on and I can extrude now.

[davebYYPCU]

Just means you have the lightbulb for Bodies turned off,

You need it on (when making a new body else the message),

and the bodies listed inside it turned off, as you see fit for clarity.

Might help...