Dots

[alaher]

Hello and again about red dots and lines

I understand those when I create plane and project geometry onto sketch create on plane.

But what is the meaning, I draw a box and made sketch onto one of this face and then those

symbols appear on the screen (not allways...)

Thanks for answer.

[jeff_strater]

Hi, thanks for the post.  Can you supply a screen capture of your model?  It will help us understand what is going on with your model.

Thanks,

Jeff Strater (Fusion development)

[alaher]

Hi again

I meant that I draw a symbol ( rectangle, line or something) onto sketch.

Now I noticed that if symbol touch edge of sketch those dots appears.

So I don't understand those meaning.

Sorry I don't know how to do screen capture in Fusion.

[bob_holland]

@alaher,

Thank you for your post.

A screenshot would really help on this.

If your product is proprietary, can you start new simple part and show us.

Thank you.

[nathan.skalsky]

Hi - To get a screen-capture on Mac I usually

1)  Command + Shift 4

2)  The mouse cursor will change to a selector .. select the top left corner and drag to capture the visualization issue you want to highlight

3) that will create a image file on your desktop or antoher folder if you have so configured (I have mine go to Pictures->Screenshots)

4) Attach image or inline include in post  (or send directly to Bob / Fusion team)

on the rare and off chance you use MS Windows the simplest bet might be to 

1) hit the "PRINT SCREEN" button 

2) Open mspaint.exe

3) Ctrl-V (or Edit->Paste)

4) (optional) Crop image to the specific area of concern if you'd like 

5) Save image

6) attach or include inline to a post here (or email directly to Bob / Fusion team if you don't want to share the geometry widely) 

Hope this helps.

-Nathan

[alaher]

[bob_holland]

@alaher,

The Red Dots are the ends points of lines or arcs.

You will also see them in spline end points and points of tangency.

Please let me know if this answers your question.

Thank you.

[alaher]

Thanks for answer

This help me

[jeff_strater]

I can add a few more details here, especially around the "not always" part.

As Bob says, those "dots" are the endpoints of sketch curves (and other sketch points - arc centers, even points added by themselves).  And the purple geometry indicates that the sketch curve has been projected from other geometry in the model (either by sketching on a face, or specifically using the Project command).

So, there are two aspects that determine the "not always" part - Fusion only draws the dots in certain cases, for user-created geometry:

1. standalone points
2. arc or circle centers

Second, for projected geometry, Fusion does show the endpoints more often, for instance if you project a face into a sketch:

There is one relatively new behavior, though, that can cause some confusion:  When you sketch on a face, Fusion does not automatically show the projected geometry from this face.  The reasons why this is done is to reduce clutter in the sketch.  Those curves are there, but just not shown.  But, when you "use" one of those hidden curves, Fusion will draw it.  For instance:

So this can cause some head-scratching, because these purple lines and points can "appear" sometimes without obvious reason.

Hope this helps clear up some of the questions about this area.

Jeff

[Anonymous]

So im creating a sketch with a reference image. I have straight lines and spines. When I connect the 2 different lines I get the red dots.

Eventually I want to extrude the sketch into a 3d shape.

I can't extrude when there are these dots??

How do I fix this??

I have a fast deadline - hope this can be answered before then.

Any how the knowledge is valuable.

Thanks for sharing!!

*AB

[jeff_strater]

those dots should not affect your ability to extrude.  Can you share your model?

Jeff

[Anonymous]

wow. thanks for the fast reply (i just posted the same question somewhere
else)

This is a bigger screenshot

*Liffe[image: Inline image 1]

[jeff_strater]

Sorry, @Anonymous, I was not clear.  It would help if I had the actual Fusion model to figure out what's going on.

Two ways to do that:

1.  Add me to your project:

click on the "people" tab in the data panel, and follow the directions:

2.  Send me a public link to your design:

right click on the design, and choose "Share Public Link":

then, in the dialog, make sure you check the following two check boxes

then send me the link, either in a private message on this forum, or just directly to my email

Thanks!

Jeff

[Anonymous]

i think i just invited you:
jeff.strater (at) autodesk . com (?)
Thanks a bunch!
*AB

[jeff_strater]

Thanks, @Anonymous.  The problem with this design is not the red dots but the fact that this profile is composed of multiple sketches.  Fusion will only recognize profiles from geometry all from the same sketch:

here is the whole model (all sketches):

And here are the individual sketches:

So, all of these curves need to exist on one sketch for them to be recognized as a profile.

You could use the Project command to project them all into a single sketch if you don't want to redraw them

Hope this makes sense,

Jeff

[Anonymous]

not sure what project command is...

Ill just start over and do it another way

Thanks for your help

[jeff_strater]

Sorry, here is what I had in mind for the Project command (this command is somewhat badly named - think "project" as a verb, as in "project the selected item to the sketch plane", not "project" as a verb, as in "I have a project I am working on").  

Anyway, the idea is to start a new sketch and project each curve from your existing sketches into the new sketch.  In this case, it is probably easier to start over, but this method will work:

Hope this helps,

Jeff