Filling gaps between endpoints of curves in Sketch

[markD2LV3]

Hi,

Is there an easy way to fill gaps between endpoints of curves in Sketch?

I have found an add in in the App Store that does that (https://apps.autodesk.com/FUSION/en/Detail/HelpDoc?appId=1232847965088759508&appLang=en&os=Mac) but would like to make sure I'm not missing something that's already provided in Fusion.

Thanks.

[jhackney1972 · Accepted solution]

If you select "Show Points" in your Sketch Palette, it will highlight all of the disconnected points.  Then you can use the "Coincident" sketch constraint to hook each one back together.  The add-in may do it faster but it normally only takes a second to do it in the sketch. Take a look at the screencast.

[HughesTooling]

@jhackney1972  For the last pair where you were struggling because the points are close together you can use window select. Not sure that works with the old UI though.

Mark

[markD2LV3]

That's helpful, thanks.

In my situation I had very many points to connect, and they were almost on top of one another and the gaps were very non-obvious so I'd have to window zoom in a lot of times to fix all of them.

Two suggestions come to mind: one is to include fix (or at least hightlight) gaps functionality in Fusion, and another is to enable shortcut creation for window zoom. I use window zoom a lot and would really like to be able to assign a shortcut to it.

[HughesTooling]

@markD2LV3  Did you try selecting the coincident constraint then widow select the endpoints that are close together? You might need to enable the new UI preview in you preferences for this to work.

Mark

[markD2LV3]

I did try window selecting the points (first all of them and then tried selecting them in pairs) for the coincident constraint, and got a message that the sketch was over constrained, and so the constraint creation failed. Some of the curves I was trying to connect had been created by using the circular pattern command - and since that makes them associative, that might have added additional "constraints" that caused the over constrained error. 

Anyway, it was one of those things that should have been simple and quick but quickly got tedious and consumed a lot of time.

Thanks for the suggestion.