Projected Geometry Difficulty

[Anonymous]

Hi, I've ran into a surprising issue/apparent bug of not being able to duplicate any body made from projected sketch geometry without getting a lost reference warning.  Specifically this problem occurs when invoking either Paste New for components, or Insert Into Current Design (and then Break Link).   

Here's a short screencast for the former.

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/community/screencast/fc92b680-0cf0-494c-9d64-d63641a9b372

And a short one for the latter.

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/community/screencast/782a0c8d-ddf0-4f19-aea9-1d9c26e178f2

Thanks,

Jesse

[michallach81]

Hi Jesse, I thing that behavior might be surprising but it's rather expected, why? When you do paste new, you're braking continuity between features. It's just "dump" copy of sketches, bodies and others. Your new sketch have new id, and that new id is not re-assigned to new extrude. You can repair it by re-editing extrusion, and choosing sketch again. Note that after we perform paste new, we can move new object without enabling move command, problem is that while it's not shown on history it was made (of course if you took that chance to move it), so if you want to re-edit extrusion it will drove history back before that "ghosted" move.
In general that behavior might be confusing, and I think that was result of introducing Distributed Designs.

[Anonymous]

Hi Michall, that's a good point, I never was forced to fully understand distributed design until now, and it does look like that is a good way to create new independent (i.e. make variations between them) duplicates of an assembly/subassembly, that is to save repeatedly with different file names, then insert these all into a new file, keeping the links ;), so can work back and forth from there.

This should work pretty good, since if an assembly has a lot of projected sketch geometry, as it stands for Paste New or Insert and break link options it could be quite a large effort to try and re-edit all the extrusions, revolves, etc. that would be necessary, and quite possibly for multiple duplication times. 

Hopefully in the future these two options will have the advanced ability to asign the bodies to the new sketch ids. 

Thanks man, really helps!

Jesse

[Anonymous]

I wanted to add that everything works fine so long as the sketch geometry forming the profiles used to make bodies are not projected.  Their position and size can be constrained to projected points, lines, etc. without problem for the Paste New and Insert/break link options.  Yay!

Jesse

[brucehuang]

@Anonymous, thanks for posting the issue. Yes, it turns out a bug of sketch project in the copy/paste-new scenario. I've logged a bug (FUS-21293) to track this. Hopefully, we'll try to fix it soon. 

Bruce (Fusion Development Team)

[brucehuang · Accepted solution]

Hi @Anonymous, the good news is that the issue has been fixed and will be available on Jan. 2016 release. Thanks again for letting us know the issue. 

Bruce (Fusion Development Team)

[Anonymous]

Wow that's great to hear Bruce, thanks for the awesome response!

Jesse