How do I hide construction lines?

[Anonymous]

I've been away for a while, and thought this would have been incorperated by now, but I can't see a way to do it.

[davebYYPCU]

I can only make suggestions,  when in Rome speak Italian

leave AutoCad techniques to AutoCad, 

If you can live with hidden construction lines, why do you need them?  

Just as I would not hide Projections, if not needed, not Projected.

Importing layered sketches from Elsewhere, Fusion creates separate or conglomerate sketches, user choice.

Use Fusion as a solid modeller, with basic sketches.  Your last example needs a sketched defined rectangle, make a solid from it and solid fillet the corners, no construction lines required, and half as much clean sketching.  Try it.

I am still with the Whisperer, someone needs to demo a reason for developers.

[adam]

Perhaps you should suggest the developers remove the option to hide projected geometry since you would never use that either.

What a right pair of trolls you two are....

[davebYYPCU]

There are other threads about visible / hidden projections and the tick mark.

[innova3d]

I honestly cannot believe how so many people are totally missing the point.  When you design something to have it laser cut, waterjet cut, or cnc routed, they ask for a DXF file.  The way to get that DXF is to export the SKETCH to dxf.  Having construction lines visible in the DXF output is unacceptable to the cutting company (sendcutsend etc) and you have to delete these from the sketch.  we know there are "work arounds" what we are asking for is to make the "work around" a feature, checkbox, dialog option (on the save as DXF maybe)....  It's such a PITA to have to do this for every drawing.

[davebYYPCU]

As a Laser cutter (and troll?) have not missed the point,

I just don’t have to export the sketch, one sketch - one file, old school.

I use DXFer, (from Github) and get to export the face of the solid, they don’t have construction lines on them.

It was published before Fusion got Nesting, and I get many part faces into one file, that needs Nesting externally.  Because it works for me I have not learned whether Nesting is any simpler.

Might help.....

[rc75]

Please add a shortcut to hide const. lines, very annoying and make the selection filter tool similar to Revit please.

[daniellukes]

+1 for this feature, especially for exporting .dxf files for laser cutting. Or at least an option to not export construction lines. 
I am exporting rather complex parametric shapes for laser cutting, which include a text layer for etching, and every time I export I have to go to a separate programme and manually delete every single construction line. It adds 30mins to what should be a 2minute job. 

[jonYDM8U]

One reason I would use this features would be to show the layout of a tile shower in sketch mode without the dashed construction lines muddying up the display.

[adam]

Yes, I can't understand why this useful ability has not been added.  Just to be able to switch of construction lines to make it easier to select normal lines for operations like filleting would be a huge time saver.  
I really don't understand the resistance to adding this seemingly obvious feature 😞

[adam]

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@daniellukes wrote:

I am exporting rather complex parametric shapes for laser cutting, which include a text layer for etching, and every time I export I have to go to a separate programme and manually delete every single construction line. It adds 30mins to what should be a 2minute job. 

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The easiest way is to select the surface, create a new sketch, project the profile and then save and export the new sketch as a DXF, that way you loose all the construction lines as they are not part of the projected profile.

Doing this while in "flat pattern" mode, allows you to project and export bend lines, as well.

You can project the embossed text to the new sketch, but all the curves will be converted into splines - making it difficult to fill them with a solid hatch later.

You will still need to go to an external 2D CAD editor to clean it up and move all the artifacts to the correct layers. 

I agree that it is frustrating and should be simpler - I am sure a lot of users need to do similar operations.

[A.Toy]

I would currently very much like to hide them with my current project.  I have multiple quite complex 3d sketches in one part and its getting very  messy.  It would help me a LOT to be able to do what I just tried to do which was right click on the sketch in the browser have a construction geometry transparent toggle.

[TheCADWhisperer]

@A.Toy 

Can you File>Export your *.f3d file to your local drive and then Attach it here to a Reply?

[TheCADWhisperer]

@A.Toy 

Been waiting nearly 7 years for someone to post an example that illustrates the need for this.

[adam]

And every time someone does, you just comment that "you don't need to use construction lines to draw that"

😕

[TheCADWhisperer]

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@adam wrote:
And every time someone does, you just comment that "you don't need
to use construction lines to draw that"

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I used to tell my students back in the last century on the drawing board not to erase their construction lines.

I use a lot of construction lines (even when not technically needed) in parametric CAD so that Design Intent is obvious a year, month, week, heck tomorrow  - when I come back to a design. 

I am specifically requesting a file that unequivocally illustrates the stated need to hide construction lines. Nothing more.  Is that really such a difficult request?

[jonYDM8U]

Well, honestly, it's faster sometimes to snap a screen capture of what
you're working on and being able to turn off constructions lines would work
for that.

[TheCADWhisperer]

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@jonYDM8U wrote:
Well, honestly, it's faster sometimes to snap a screen capture of what
you're working on and being able to turn off constructions lines would work
for that.

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Can you Attach a *.f3d file to illustrate your point?  (Tip:  This is a binary yes/no question.)

[A.Toy]

Hi, thanks for that, but like an idiot I posted in the wrong forum, was
intended for the Inventor one.

[grad2]

Here is an example that I believe illustrates the need to hide construction lines. 

1) I began with a design that I'd purchased that came in the form of a sketchup model. I don't like the detritus when importing sketchup models, so I measured some of the key locations and

2) created a sketch using rectangles, which I turned into construction lines so I could select the proper profiles for extrusion.


3) Now that I've finished, I'd like to keep those lines, but hide them en masse. 

[davebYYPCU]

And if you fully define that sketch, all your construction lines will be overlaid / duplicated with dimensions, that can be turned off, (twice / half the work depending on how you read it)

Dimensions can be dragged out of the way, for clutter management.

Investigate Thin Extrude, to reduce your sketching.

Modelling patterns are recommended, not sketch patterns.

Define sketch elements as you make them.

Your stuck with axis lines of the ellipse.

Nah, don’t think it pushes the case.