I'm creating a drawing in Fusion 360, but I've noticed that I can't change the section line width.
As shown in the screenshot below, other lines have an option to select their width, but the section line only allows changes to the line type, color, and visibility. Also, changing the overall line widths doesn't affect the section line width. By comparing the section line to other lines, I can see that its width is consistently around 0.25mm.
Are there any way to change section line witdh?
In Fusion 360, you can adjust line weights in drawings through the Document Settings (I think). However, the software doesn't provide a direct option to change the line width of section lines specifically. To modify section line widths, you might consider exporting your drawing to a vector editing program like Adobe Illustrator or Inkscape, where you can customise line properties more precisely, and then see if it remains the same once exporting it to Fusion...
Not really something I ever cared much about or where I specialise, mostly though that you couldn't change line width till I asked a few people I know.
New Year Wishes
Ricky
Hi,
AFAIK the settings in the Drawings in fusion are based upon the relevant ISO and The United States National CAD
Standard (NCS) and possibly the UK AEC Standard. If it isn't a standard in any of those then I don't think you can
actually create a Custom Standard. You might be able to create a Hybrid of those standards but the idea is that they
are STANDARDS so everyone uses them and understands them.
You may be able to modify the drawings after you have created them in other software to get custom Drawings, but
the intent of Fusion is to be a Tool that uses the Standards wherever possible so that it is easy to change between
the various Standards. Take measurements for instance. The basic distance measurement under the hood of Fusion
is the ISO millimetre mm, but you can switch between mm and inches easily and more importantly ACCURATELY
with a couple of mouse clicks. Even other metric measurements like the metre m, fusion treats as 1000 mm. Also
American Customary Units or Imperial Units like Feet are all measured in mm and then converted.
I have not tried it but there are other tricks in Fusion to convert between various Standards and so there may be a
way to also do it with Drawings, but there is only so much flexibility that can be built in without going overboard.
The number of thread Standards alone is a nightmare.
I think you will be out of luck with Drawing Standards. Fusion uses the most commonly used and agreed upon
Standards to be compatible with other software and to meet Industry expectations.
Cheers
Andrew
Hi,
As I understand it, if you created a Hybrid line type from the Fusion like an ISO Centre2 Line but NCS width (which I
could not actually tell you if it is an actual thing), then Fusion could manipulate that line within settings. If you were
to import a file from another package that was completely Custom then Fusion would most likely import it and you
could not change it, or it would convert it to the closest Standard. I doubt that if you saved it in Fusion and tried to
import it into the other software again that the custom line would still exist.
The nearest example I can think of is that some software will create vector graphics and save them to a DXF file
which Fusion natively recognises, but curves turn into complex line segments. I think this type of thing would
probably happen with custom Drawing lines.
My advice is to stick to the Standards.
Cheers
Andrew
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