Hi,
This is what happens to me time and time again: I model along and I realize after a while, that I had the orange component selected instead of the pink one. (/having the wrong component selected)
I know, I could delete all features and do it all over again. But that sucks. Especially if you're were already modelling for a few hours.
thanks!
-d
SOMETIMES you can fix this type of thing by dragging sketches around. Are all the extrudes derived from the sketch circled in the timeline?
if yes, then from the browser tree drag the sketch into the yellow component, then drag it right back to the pink component. may need to do a compute all after.
PS
here you see the sketches are in the pink component and the body derived from it is in the yellow one.
Features cannot be moved between components.
So, as an alternative, we have grouped related sketches and features together, and also swapped component names.
Features that were created in Skadis cannot be moved, so we left them as they were and re-created those features.
Since it is difficult to explain in words alone, we have taken a video for your viewing.
https://knowledge.autodesk.com/community/screencast/cbf5e852-3e49-41da-b85b-442fa170dd70
I have attached the data.
@dlVARTY wrote:
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I think the bottom line is:
Moving features to other components is impossible. If you create your features in the wrong component, you're screwed an have to delete your progress and remodel them again.
Correct!
hi, @TrippyLighting
@dlVARTY @laughingcreek @davebYYPCU
It's been two weeks now, and after much investigation, it appears that features can be moved.
If you move a sketch associated with a body to another component, the body will automatically move to the component to which it was moved, provided there are no dependency issues.
With simple models, it is possible to move the body relatively smoothly, but with slightly more complex models, it often does not move.
In the case of the Skadis Rod Holder, the dependencies were a bit complicated, so we worked around this by creating a new component, which was successfully moved.
I took a video of the demonstration for your reference.
https://knowledge.autodesk.com/community/screencast/409b8f59-bc11-4126-9d5f-3925d64e66c1
@Bunga777 wrote:
hi, @TrippyLighting
@dlVARTY @laughingcreek @davebYYPCU
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If you move a sketch associated with a body to another component, the body will automatically move to the component to which it was moved, provided there are no dependency issues.
With simple models, it is possible to move the body relatively smoothly, but with slightly more complex models, it often does not move.
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If you think of this ahead, and create a "feature" as a separate, fully isolated component using the BORN modeling technique, then it is easy to re-use and move features. You can then create as many copies of that component and use joints to locate them. Then you can use the combine/cut or combine join tool to join them to a target body.
But if you don't think of this ahead, usually it is more work to delete the old feature from the timeline and start that feature from scratch.
Dragging sketches into another component often works, but comes with caveats. If you created the sketch on an origin plane of component A, used it to create geometry, and then dragged the sketch to component B, the sketch and the geometry might both move to component B.
However, the owner of the sketch is still the origin plane of component A and in order for you to fully move it over to component B you'd have to change the sketch plane as well. There are a number of gotchas that can make it make it quite laborious to completely move a feature form one body to another.
@laughingcreek wrote:
I feel like timeline management, manipulation, and visualization is the achilleas of fusion. It's been a long time since there has been any significant changes in this area. without some updated/additional tools I think this will be the thing that eventually kills fusion.
I don't think this will kill Fusion 360, but it will turn off a lot of users that have experience with other CAD software with better tools to manage complexity.
We do get ever more sophisticated tools to cerate complexity. But the tools to mange that complexity are lagging behind by half a decade, or more!
