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[pbreed]

Ok here is a public link...http://a360.co/1RWQric

This is a DXF profile that is generated from a design program.

I want to do the following steps....

This is doing what I want to do in Rhino...

I can't seem to get this to happen in Fusion, I'm missign something really basic...

I select the line segments and it won't let me offset....

First step is to offset the line... then draw the rest of the cross section...

[HughesTooling]

Can you attach the DXF there's an easier way of working with DXF files if you use Insert DXF from the insert menu.

Mark

[pbreed]

The origional file is on my other computer..... but if I export from Fusion and open in Rhino the DXF looks fine...

So here is the file....

And this morning it works.... Arghhh! not sure what was wrong before, but it would not let me select and of the DXF lines for offset.....

[HughesTooling]

My only guess would be you started another sketch by mistake and you were trying to select curves from another sketch. So your curves were in Sketch1 but you were in Sketch2.

Mark

[pbreed]

It seems it has soemthing to do with direct editing turned on or off....

DXF imported from the file menu (not the sketch import menu)  You can offset with direct editing turned on. You can not with direct editing turned off (IE history recording on)

DXF imported into a sketch via the sketch import menu you can offset in either mode.....

When I origionally searched for DXF importing in the documentaion I found the import via file solutions, later I found the import into sketch solution....in a forum discussion....

So at some level I was led astray by doing a document search on DXF import....

[innovatenate]

Hi there! I'm trying to follow along, but I'm having a little bit of trouble following the steps where the offset doesn't work. 

By "..DXF imported from the file menu..." do you mean that you used the Upload command in the Data Panel? I am not seeing DXF as an option in the New Design from File command in the File menu. Is that the correct place?

Is there any chance you could record an Autodesk Screencast of the failure behavior you are reporting?

Thanks,

[Feiqi.Zhang · Accepted solution]

I played with your outline.dxf a little.  I guess the issue you encountered ("And this morning it works.... Arghhh! not sure what was wrong before, but it would not let me select and of the DXF lines for offset...." was perhaps not to do with DXF, but might be a general sketch offset issue.  

I tried to simply draw a sketch line in a new design, and then played with the below two offset workflows,

(1) select the line --> right click mouse --> select "Sketch - Offset"

(2) select the line --> right click mouse --> select "Edit Sketch" first (this will get you to enter the Sketch editing environment first) --> right click on the line --> select "Sketch - Offset"

The (2) worked well for me, but (1) did not.  The sketch selction in (1) seemed not working after Offset command is activated.  I will be reporting this issue to the development team and we will get it fixed.

Hope it helps...

Feiqi Zhang - Fusion 360 development team

[pbreed]

Nice to see I'm not loosing my mind. Thanks for looking at that...

Paul

[jiang_peng]

The bug is logged as FUS-22578. Thanks