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.

[jeff_strater]

Just to clarify, are you asking about a way to hide sketch construction geometry (as opposed to construction geometry such as work axes)?

If so, the answer is no, there is no way to hide just construction geometry for a sketch.  We've discussed adding the ability to show/hide a bunch of sketch categories (constraints, dimensions, projected geometry) on top of the current ability to hide profiles, but it hasn't bubbled up high enough in the backlog yet.

Jeff Strater (Fusion development)

[James.Youmatz]

Hi @Anonymous,

 If the case is you only want to hide sketch construction geometry, one workflow you may want to try is to create your construction lines on a separate sketch in the same plane. That way you can still snap to the construction lines, but be able to turn that sketch off that contains all of the construction lines, while still having your sketch profile visible. This may not work for all instances that you want, but it should help out a little.

Hopefully this suggestions works for you,

[Anonymous]

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@jeff_strater wrote:

Just to clarify, are you asking about a way to hide sketch construction geometry (as opposed to construction geometry such as work axes)?

If so, the answer is no, there is no way to hide just construction geometry for a sketch.  We've discussed adding the ability to show/hide a bunch of sketch categories (constraints, dimensions, projected geometry) on top of the current ability to hide profiles, but it hasn't bubbled up high enough in the backlog yet.

Jeff Strater (Fusion development)

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Yes. I brought this up a year ago, and it was "accepted."  

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-360-ideastation-request-a/suppressing-construction-lines/idi-p/...

[Anonymous]

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@James.Youmatz wrote:

Hi @Anonymous,

 If the case is you only want to hide sketch construction geometry, one workflow you may want to try is to create your construction lines on a separate sketch in the same plane. That way you can still snap to the construction lines, but be able to turn that sketch off that contains all of the construction lines, while still having your sketch profile visible. This may not work for all instances that you want, but it should help out a little.

Hopefully this suggestions works for you,

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I tried that, but if I go back to add more construction lines to that "construction" sketch, it turns off subsequent sketches that I made from the construction geometry. 

[James.Youmatz]

That's a good point that I hadn't thought of originally. Well luckily your idea has been accepted and as @jeff_strater mentioned it is in the developers future plans for implementation. I'll keep trying to brainstorm a good workaround for you in the meantime.

[Anonymous]

Just thinking out loud here, but one method would be to create a subcomponent that contains all your "construction" sketches, being multiple sketches if you need to create construction lines subsequent to other geometry as you say.  Then turning off visibility of the subcomponent does the same to all its construction sketches.

Jesse

[Anonymous]

Just thinking out loud here, but one method would be to create a subcomponent that contains all your "construction" sketches, being multiple sketches if you need to create construction lines subsequent to other geometry as you say.  Then turning off visibility of the subcomponent does the same to all its construction sketches.
Jesse

[Anonymous]

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@Anonymous wrote:

Just thinking out loud here, but one method would be to create a subcomponent that contains all your "construction" sketches, being multiple sketches if you need to create construction lines subsequent to other geometry as you say.  Then turning off visibility of the subcomponent does the same to all its construction sketches.

Jesse

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Interesting. I'll give that a try. Thanks. If they just made lines available in the CONSTRUCT pull-down, they would end up in the construction folder in the browser, etc..

[Anonymous]

Yeah, I'll be curious to know how that works for you!

Jesse

[Anonymous]

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@Anonymous wrote:

Yeah, I'll be curious to know how that works for you!

Jesse

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Tried it, and it doesn't make a difference. It seems history based, so if the construction line sketch is made first, and you go back to it, you don't see anything you did after it. Moving the construction sketch later in the history worked, but that wouldn't work in an existing file I was working on, likely due to some other dependent operation down the line.

[Anonymous]

Never mind, I can't get the history solution to work well either.

[Anonymous]

Right, it is indeed history based, and does not let you see subsequent stuff when doing major sketch editing (i.e. entering the sketch rather than just moving sketch elements around while out of the sketch) likely to prevent new sketch features projected from subsequent features, which could then in turn be projected, causing a bad temporal feedback loop 😕  But that's why I suggested the subcomponent, so that if needed can make multiple construction sketches, creating a new sketch whenever new construction lines are needed with the existing features visible.  If in a new construction sketch you need to reference previous construction lines, you can always project their end points or the whole construction line(s) into the new sketch.

I don't know exactly what you're doing, it sounds like you have a lot of construction lines and want to be able to quickly turn them all of at times, but perhaps what I suggested could be made to come in handy.

Jesse

[Anonymous]

+1 on this. I would like the ability to hide construction lines too.

[Anonymous]

I know I'm replying to my own reply-- but I was thinking about this-- it occurs to me that one way to do this effectively would be to let the user select one or more construction lines and group them together into a selection group, and then permit the group to be hidden / unhidden along with some visible reminder / button somewhere to quickly toggle them on/off while they're being used that way. This would be a handy and easy of solving the issue I think plus have the benefit of being able to use ui features which are already built-in instead of adding something new. 

[BaischBCWHRU]

I would like to add some bubbles to the backlog. How many bubbles can I add?😂

[Anonymous]

Has there been any development regarding this issue? Some time has passed from the last post in this topic. Has the feature been implemented?

[davebYYPCU]

Yes and no, 

In the 2nd message above, those other categories have been implemented.

Construction lines were not part of that upgrade.

I can't see a need for this feature,  

that they are there but can't be seen, would be close to what you are asking for?

I still struggle (but getting better) with hidden projected lines on a profile.

Might help....

[adam]

Please add a feature to show/hide construction lines in sketches - it would be such a huge help - not just when drawing the sketch, but it would also be helpful when exporting profiles for laser cutting etc.

[Anonymous]

It's been like five years since this change has been "accepted". A toggle to hide or show construction lines (or even some key you have to hold, if you're worried about confusion) feels pretty basic to the idea of lines used explicitly for guides and not content. Is this something actionable?