How do I group sketch elements?
Unfortunately, there is no sketch group or block concept in Fusion sketch today. Here is the idea station entry for it: group-in-sketch, give it an up vote.
Jeff
Jeff Strater
Engineering Director
It would surely be great to have, but as a matter of fact for the front panels the OP mentioned there is a better approach than grouping stuf in sketches.
@Anonymous
The repeating element on the Front plate are likely pots and receptacles LED's etc.
- I would design the case as usual.
- Then I'd create a sketch with points (constrained and dimensioned) that indicative the locations of these components.
- For each component I'd create a sketch for the cutout within that component and extrude it into a solid body. The purpose of that solid body is to combed with eh front plate using the Modify-> Combine tool.
- Then I'd assemble these components to these sketch points defined earlier.
- You can then modify the dimensions in that sketch to move the components into their final locations.
- Then you can use Modify->Combine to with the front plate being the target body and the extra bodies of all the front place components we created earlier as the tool bodies.
Done! You've got yourself a front place.
There are a number of dos and don'ts for someone new to Fusion 360 but the above is a really nice and efficient workflow.
I posted that workflow to address a particular issue, which I am happy to explain.
For ventilation holes, which usually don't have to interface with other companies I'd use a pattern.
Just to be clear, I'd also like to be able to group sketch elements and create sketch "blocks". But in the meantime, I prefer to help with workflows that can actually be done now!
Hi, I'm currently doing a Keyboard project that has an offset pattern because the keys are hexagons, and I need several sketches inside that Hexagon, there's no way I can constrain that amount of sketch elements. so this grouping or blocking sketches would be a GREAT feature to have.
