disable the look at to origin feature
Setup and created a Named View that you want to use for your sketch before creating it. Leave the "Auto Look at Sketch" off as you showed in your video. Create your sketch, select the Named View from the Browser and you are ready to go. Named Views ignore the origin and only use the view they are created for.
John Hackney, Retired
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I certainly would not do a named view for every sketch but I use named views for groups of sketches in the same general area. You do not have look at a view directly on to sketch accurately.
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Rather than finding alternatives one could also hope that the developers fix this problem.
"You do not have look at a view directly on to sketch accurately." or not 👇🏻
The reason given for this is the origin has a point so the zoom fits the only geometry in the sketch. You might find double clicking the middle mouse button will zoom to the model, not sure as I normally create my models around the origin anyway.
Another option is create a plane on the face and use that for your sketch. This will actually create more robust models as you can rereference the plane if it loses its reference and is way more robust than using "Redefine Sketch Plane" that usually destroys your design.
Mark
Mark Hughes
Owner, Hughes Tooling
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@HughesTooling has it right. Auto-look-at for a sketch zooms to show the whole sketch. The origin point is a geometry in that sketch, so... it should be included in the zoom to show the sketch contents. This is unlikely to change, IMO. Personally, I find auto-look-at to be the most annoying feature in all of Fusion, which is why I always disable it. 90% of the time, my sketches are aligned with one of the view cube's front/top/bottom view's anyway, so I use that.
Small Fusion history story: I had to beg and threaten to even get auto-look-at to be added as a preference. The original plan was to always do auto-look-at. Can you imagine? So, life could be significantly worse...
Jeff Strater
Engineering Director
This is reported in the user story/improvement ticket FUS-58898 which aims to make Fusion perform a minimum translation to look at selected faces. A lot of work has gone into the investigation of this aspect of Look At. Implementing the change isn't always so straightforward. But we hear you and have been spending time on it.
Phil Eichmiller
Software Engineer
Quality Assurance
Autodesk, Inc.
We still haven't fixed the 'zoom to origin' that happens when you "look at" a sketch with the look at command. However, there is a workflow that takes advantage of how Look at will look at faces correctly (just not sketches).
If you want to turn off the automatic Look At that happens when you create or edit a sketch, try this workflow:
- Turn off Auto Look At preference
2. When sketching, use the Look At command if you need to orthogonally look at a face, or the view cube if it lines up with the cube faces.
3. Use the Select Other menu to pick the face under the sketch profile while selecting the face to look at. This performs the minimum translation.
Video
I hope this helps.
Phil Eichmiller
Software Engineer
Quality Assurance
Autodesk, Inc.
