offset editing

[Anonymous]

Is there a way to go back and edit an offset?

I just did several offsets in sketch mode, then revolved the sketchs to make a body....I was then unable to go back and edit the offset distance.

Should I request an enhancement?

[Anonymous]

Hi, assuming the timeline is not turned off and you're not in Direct Modeling/Base feature mode, this is how I edit sketch offsets.  In the browser on the left side of the screen, you should find the sketch under Sketches, and be sure the lightbulb is turned on for visibility.  Then you can right click the sketch and choose edit.  Since to my knowledge you can't go back to the original offset action to change the offset distance, what I do is just use the good old Sketch dimension tool under the Sketch tab, and individually dimension the desired distance between each offset section.  A really powerful trick is after you add a dimension to the first section (click one line, then offset line to place dimension), be sure the dimension is editable (double click it when in select mode), hover over the dimension area, and you should see something like "d2, Dimension value" (if not be sure 'Show tooltips' is on in preferences).  Your dimension will likely be something other than d2.  Then when you make the next dimension, instead of a numerical value, just enter that previous label, in my case d2.  Continue this for all your sections, and then when you change the original dimension (d2 in my case) they will all update.

When you exit the sketch the revolve body should update.  

Perhaps a more simple feature would be good.

Hope that helps a little and let me know if something wasn't clear.

Jesse

[Anonymous]

Thank you jjurban55,

This is a helpful workaround, but it is a lot of clicks. I so wish Fusion was simply able to edit the original command like most CAD systems!

-Bill

[jeff_strater]

It's coming...  This is already in progress, and we hope to deliver it soon.  We realize that it is a limitation, but we felt that the ability to create better offsets (Fusion's first offset was not very useful, to be honest) was valuable even without the editing capability, so we made a decision to release it, even though associativity is still in progress.  We'll get there.

Jeff Strater (Fusion development)

[Anonymous]

When, it's been over a year?

[HughesTooling]

@Anonymous You can edit an offset now.

Just edit the dimension and the offset will update.

Mark

[n.ebner]

Hello!

Is there a procedure to add or remove line segments to the offset-operation?

Kind regards, Norbert

[HughesTooling]

No once the offset is created you can only edit the offset distance. You can change curves to construction curves but that's about it.

Mark

[dewaine50]

How does this apply to non round shapes? Like complex polygons and stuff?

[TheCADWhisperer]

Can you File>Export and then Attach your *.f3d file here?

[TheCADWhisperer]

Where did you go?

[Anonymous]

Hello Cadwisperer!I got frustrated with Fusion, so I went back to using Solidworks. But it is an old version (2016),and is becoming outdated. So I am venturing back into the Fusion world....Thanks for asking!