I personally find it frustrating that all of us are having to use workarounds in the sketch environment in order to achieve what we want to do. The program should be assisting our work flow not making it that we have to keep adapting to it. Most users will be from an Autocad type background and so are used to the ways particular things work and so expect a product from the same stable to work in the same way, which is not unfair assumption or expectation. Let's face it, trying to copy something from one intersection to another in a sketch is a nightmare, if not down right impossible, despite it being a normal drafting task, but in autocad, draftsight, solid works, etc it would be as simple as selecting the item to be copied, click copy, select first intersection, select second one, and its done. In Fusion 360 on the other hand, the only way to do it is to:
- Create a extra construction line between the two intersections in order to create points at those locations as there is seemingly no way to create a point at the intersection of two lines in a sketch;
- Select move/copy
- Select point to point
- The selection copy, as if you do it before step 3 then on clicking point to point it deselects "create a copy" for some bizarre reason;
- Then click on end of the line and then the other end of the line;
- Hope there are no constraints automatically been applied to the object you are trying to copy, even though its a copy and not the original
- Swear at screen when it hasn't done what you wanted it to and try and figure out another work around.
That's the basic problem, at least five frustrating steps when it should be possible to do it in two, as it is in every other autocad product and most of the competitors to.
Yesterday I needed to copy something at an angle, the only way to do it was to use the circular pattern command, which in itself has a bug as when you selected angle, it often only asks you for quantity and not the included angle. Besides which, why does it not have similar functionality to the rectangular pattern command? Surely giving the option of total angle plus quantity or individual angle plus quantity? Plus setting circular pattern command to default to 1, which means nothing is created is nonsensical.
You are falling behind the curve Autocad by not building the sketch function using the commands from your other products. A lot of the time designing from a 2D sketch and the extruding is the way a lot of designers like to work, myself included, as it allows us to see the overall layout before we make things more complicated.
