Moving a sketch

[Anonymous]

I'm coming from Rhino, which is incredibly easy to use and attempting to make the transition to Fusion 360 with very little success. So here's my question. Is it possible to move a sketch? In my mind, this is a very simple basic command that should be present in all CAD software. However, I have tried and tried and tried only to discover that there truly is no logical way to move a sketch. Am I losing my mind over nothing here? Are the rest of you magically sketching without ever the need to move lines, curves and circles?

[Anonymous]

After selecting the sketch you want to move I right click the mouse and select move.  Is this what you are looking for?

[Anonymous]

If this were so simple, I would not have posted the problem. Selecting the
move command does nothing.

[Anonymous]

If this were so simple, I would not have posted the problem. Selecting the
move command does nothing.

[Anonymous]

Maybe if you describe the sequence of keystrokes/mouse clicks  you are selecting when you try to move a sketch someone with more experience than I have

can help. Giving a bit more information will help someone identify the problem.

[fredsi]

Just guessing here....

Did you start the sketch at the origin? If so, there is an automatic constraint to the origin and the Move command is ineffective. If this is the problem then right clicking on the origin point and hitting delete coincident should free it up to move. Thanks to Jesse and others for this tip some time ago.

Fred

[ShirleyShi]

 Hi jasonharrelson,

In Fusion 360, Sketch is a collection of Sketch lines, curves and circles, currently we are not able to move a sketch, but as a work around, you can window select sketch geometries and move [Right mouse click at left bottom position of marking menu or from Menu: Modify->Move ] to a new place you want.

Is the information useful for you? Feel free to let us know you concerns about sketch. Thanks.

[Anonymous]

Thanks Fred,

You are correct. I spent hours trying to move something trying every weird click pattern I could imagine all for nothing. Fusion is extremely difficult to use considering there is no way to know if something has an active constraint or not. Little dots are constraints? If this is true, why isn't it mentioned in the videos? And why would "move" be an option if the option is not available? I selected "move" over a hundred times and nothing happened, yet the software could have shaded out "move" if this is not an option.

I'm just sitting here scratching my head wondering why someone thought it was necessary to constrain sketches to the origin. ???

[Anonymous]

You lost me. You CAN move a sketch, but you CANNOT move a sketch?

Fred's comment was correct. The software automatically glued my sketch to the origin for someone unexplained reason.

[archer6817j]

This is an old thread, but as a new F360 user I also spent hours trying to figure out how to move a sketch. I almost always start a new drawing at the origin. Eventually found the "delete coincident" answer, but my first impression of F360 was that the most basic operation for any CAD software was impossible.

First, I'm not sure why you'd want the behavior for starting a sketch at the origin to be different that starting a sketch somewhere else.

Second, F360 has nifty warning messages that pop up at the bottom right. Couldn't you just have a warning that says, "Remove coincident constraint to move this sketch?"

[Anonymous]

I agree and wonder how this behavior can be "assumed" by the software development team. 

Just give us some hints if you're going to do things by some strange set of rules we've never before encountered. 

[archer6817j]

I get that it's hard to design anything, especially software, that will accommodate "all" users. It's really not possible. However, this one seems like an easy update engineering wise. I'm sure a lot of new users would appreciate this change 🙂