Import Sketches from other design (URGENT!)

[Anonymous]

Hey everyone,

I'm designing a compost tea brewer for a university project, due this coming Monday (ahaha I know right). 

I was trying to sweep a circular profile along a spline, but every time I tried to do so, Fusion would crash. Very stupidly, I thought that it was because of the excessive amount of sketches and construction planes in the design, so I deleted them all hoping it would work. Sadly, Fusion kept crashing regardless.

Luckily, before deleting all the sketches I created a copy of my design, so I still have all the sketches in there. However, I kept on working in the version with no sketches ("test"), and now I need to import the sketches into the new design. 

To clarify, I need to import all the sketches in "sketches" into "test". 

N.B. "sketches" is the same as "backup" but without any bodies!

If anyone can help, it would be truly amazing.

Thank you so much!

[jeff_strater · Accepted solution]

Hi @Anonymous,

The short answer is that you can kind of do this, but it is not convenient today.  You cannot copy/paste an entire sketch between designs.  However, you can copy sketch geometry from one design to another.  You will have to:

• edit the sketch in the "sketches" design
• select all the geometry, Copy
• in the "test" design, create a new sketch (on the same plane as it is in "sketches")
• Paste the geometry

However...

I don't think you really should do this.  The sketches will not be connected to the bodies.  That is, the features which create the bodies will have no relation to the sketch.  You will not be able to affect the body by editing the sketch.

I see from your screen shot that you have lots of yellow features in your timeline.  Most of them, in fact.  Each one of those is an error that indicates you have lost design intent (a broken relationship, most of the time).  You should work to avoid those kinds of errors, and fix them as soon as they happen.

I suspect that you will be better off trying to start again from the "sketches" design, and re-build the bodies using those sketches.  Deleting the sketches was probably not the best idea, I'm sorry to say.

Regarding your crashes, did you submit crash reports for those?  Can you reproduce them?  If so, we'd like to see them, so that we can investigate.

Thanks,

Jeff

[Anonymous]

Hey Jeff,

Thanks for the quick reply. 

Indeed, it was a horrible idea. I'll try to start again then 

I've reported all crashes and can confirm that the same type of crash has happened on a different computer with a different OS.

Thank you again!

[etfrench]

There are several more options you can use to get the sketches into a new file.  Neither will fix the timeline issues, but they will allow you to either copy or project the geometry to a new sketch.

First method:

Start a new file.

Insert the old file with the sketches into the new file. 

Second method:

Move the sketches to a component.

Copy the component.

Paste it into the new file.

[jeff_strater]

Hi @Anonymous,

I did look at your crash reports today.  It looks like at least some of them can be avoided by turning off the "Auto project edges on reference" setting in your preferences:

There is a bug (which is in the process of being fixed) where certain types of edges can cause this crash.  I would highly recommending turning this option off until this bug fix is released.

Jeff