I am trying to help the user in this thread with the design of his Skate Parks.
It seemed a good fit for reusing sketches and the derive feature - or so I thought - would be ideal to do this.
It would allow to build different track section components off the same sketch without having to re-sketch.
However, when I derive a sketch into a design I can only derive it into the top level and then cannot drag it into a component. That makes it difficult yo keep designs organized and rally limits it's usefulness.
Then I broke the link hoping that I then would be able to drag it into a component. That also does not work.
The result was, however, that the sketch became fully unconstrained and dimensioned.
I have yet to find a way to edited that sheath to add the missing dimensions and constraints.
Another thing that I find renders the derive feature not useful as a use case for a small library is Fusion 360's versionitis. Any change in a file that is used as a stock pile of components, sketches etc. in essence anything that can be derived from it increases the version. All designs that derive anything out of that file will have to be updated, even if that particular object used in that design did not rally change.
So at the moment I see the derive feature useful for deriving individual components out of a design into their own design, for example to ass the CAM set ups there, but not the other way around, to derive components out of a design. for re-use into others.
