Hi,
In this case I think you should refer to RULE #0 and especially points 4 and 5 in the last section. I don't think
@davebYYPCU has done anything wrong in his post other than suggest that the original poster may have an issue
with their workflow. Your Rant about Gurus pointing fingers about "right ways" and suggesting fusion is in some way
is broken does not address the spirit of the original comment at all.
The question of why you would want to delete projections or indeed most things in fusion is quite valid and
addresses not correcting other peoples mistakes but guiding them to the correct workflows. These workflows in
some ways might be the "only" way or a "preferred" way but in all cases have been learned by trial and error and
often the hard way by people who appear to have exceptionally more experience than you do.
It is clear that you have not understood this original post and so I will explain it for you so that you do understand.
As a design engineer, I want my designs to not only flow but also be able to be easily followed by others so that
they can see my design intent, and in a worse case take over the design without having to start again from scratch.
If I delete important things from my design then others cannot follow as easily when they try to look at a design
in the future. You may yourself not be able to follow your own design at some future date because you have deleted
information. In my experience, most people who claim that they will "remember in the future" often don't.
The original post in this thread was about deleting projections. The question is valid to be raised about why you need
to delete these projections. A projection should be a link from previous sketches and geometry or parts that assists
the designer in some way with the new sketch. It might be for a part that will be designed in place and this link
defines an origin in the sketch. Logic dictates that you should only project what you need onto a sketch and so if
you make a mistake then it is valid to delete the mistake. If however you have used the projection in your new sketch
and you subsequently delete it, then you are deleting important information that may be needed to follow the flow
and design intent. Questioning why a user would want to delete something as important as a Projection is valid in
this case.
If the original user used the wrong words and instead of "delete" what he actually meant was "hide" is also quite
valid to raise. This forum is world wide and many times English is not a users native language. Also fusion uses
some key words that are not obvious if someone mis-uses them. I was recently abused by someone from Germany
who kept complaining I didn't understand him because he was using the word "drawing" in his post and what he
described was his problem was perfectly able to be done on a drawing. What his problem was actually concerning
was with Sketches. Once this was resolved the issue was trivial to solve. In this case, again raising that you may hide
projected geometry in several ways is also valid.
In terms of "Delete is a bad thing at any time" is important because apart from removing important information
from others, fusion treats the Delete command quite differently from the Remove command and not all users know
this important difference. @jeff_strater recently commented upon this difference between the two Commands in
another thread. After a short search I was unable to locate it but I am sure that if you want to know the difference he
will explain it again.
My only issue with Dave's post is that it may have been a little blunt and to the point, but it was objective and valid.
Gurus like Dave are here to help. Look at the Solutions Leaderboard, he is currently as I write this in 4th place.
Cheers
Andrew
