Making muliple holes from many sketch points is tedious.

[CarlM89]

We need a new kind of point called a Hole reference point that can be mass selected by the hole tool without clicking every single point individually. That is all, thanks for coming to my TED Talk. 

[TrippyLighting]

A sketch driven feature pattern, as has been available in SolidWorks for 15+ years, would be an even better option.

[CarlM89]

That would be helpful, but not for my particular application. The holes I'm making don't really follow a pattern, there is just a lot of them. I want to be able to place my points and then select them all at once. clicking 50 points to select all my hole positions sucks.

[TrippyLighting]

I've worked with SolidWorks since approximately 1999 and with Fusion since 2014. What you describe is exactly what  that tool does! 

That tool replicates features, including the hole feature, wherever it finds a point in a sketch. Those points don't have to follow a regular pattern.

[TheCADWhisperer]

Autodesk Inventor Professional automatically selects all points in a sketch when using the Hole command.

Has done that for as long as I can remember.

[laughingcreek]

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@CarlM89 wrote:... I want to be able to place my points and then select them all at once. ...

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you can't just window select them?

[CarlM89]

Very cool, That is exactly what I need. 

[CarlM89]

No, but even if you could, fusion treats line endpoints the same as manually placed points so it would select all of those as well. 

[TheCADWhisperer]

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@CarlM89 wrote:

I want to be able to place my points and then select them all at once. clicking 50 points to select all my hole positions sucks.

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@CarlM89 

Can you attach a logical file that has 50 points for hole positions?

(With window select you can Ctrl unselect extraneous selections.)

[CarlM89]

I could but it would be a waste of my time. I design thermoform moulds and they have lots of holes for venting. Sometimes hundreds.

[etfrench]

The selection tools already do this:

All of the points were selecting in one click/drag operation.  You can also turn on/off visibility of various sketch objects.

[CarlM89]

I thought you had the solution there. I hid the projected geometries, but when I drag to select, it's still selecting the endpoints of lines. Very frustrating. 

[etfrench]

Try using the Free Form selection tool.

[bwalker145]

I see the same thing, setting the center lines/points (1-4) as construction & hiding on the sketch, they still get selected when dragging over the area; not the behavior I'd expect.

[TrippyLighting]

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@CarlM89 wrote:

Very cool, That is exactly what I need. 

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I discussed this and other pattern tools with a PM (Senior Principal Experience Designer) in a Zoom conference a few months back. While this often does not come across on this forum, the Fusion development teams are interested in feedback.

Here is the list we discussed. This list is prioritized according to my requirements and includes things that have repeatedly been requested here on the forum.

That doesn't mean all of these features will be implemented, or implemented in the order below.

• Pattern construction planes

• Ability to suppress the seed instance.

• Surface and Solid Body patterns

  • Automatically combine patterned bodies with themselves and with another selectable body.

  • Automatically stitch patterned instances.

• Component Instance

  • Automatically Rigid Group joint patterned instances to the seed instance, or to another selectable component

• Derived or inherited patterns

• Sketch-based patterns. Instances will be created based on the points in a sketch.

• Fill pattern to border -> test geometric pattern abilities.