Fusion
Hi, I need to costrain that line to the 2 curves so that when I move it along the curves the endpoints remain touching the curves.
How can I do that?
If I understand your question, this should work exactly as you expect it. I think that is what you are asking about. However, it does not work in your design, so I need to turn that over to the sketch team to figure out why that is. I've recorded a screencast, but it is not processing correctly. I may have to record it again. Will post here when I have something...
Jeff Strater
Engineering Director
Screencast is not cooperating today, so here is an MP4 that shows that the basics do work.
Jeff Strater
Engineering Director
@jeff_strater wrote:
If I understand your question, this should work exactly as you expect it.
Agreed, it probably "should" work, but it is still not a good idea to design this in a single 3D sketch.
When I see a user doing it here on the forum, it is almost exclusively done by users who have no experience in a modern parametric CAD system.
In any parametric CAD system I know, 3D sketches are reserved for specific purposes, e.g. piping, wiring, cables, etc., or perhaps to feed a frame generator.
It is definitely a better practice to create only those curves as 3D curves that really need to curve through space and not be constrained to a plane. All other curves should be designed in their own sketches, constrained flat to a construction plane. If Fusion 360 had a tool to planarize a spline similar to Autodesk Alias my recommendation might be differnt, but it doesn't.
@m.digristina wrote:
I wanted to use one single sketch because it was simpler to modify all the points at once, and had to use a 3D sketch because I didn't want to create 20 sections for the hull of the boat
Understood. I stand by what I said!
Why would you need 20 sections ?
