Slice graphics and projected geometry

[cad]

Hello all!

I am learning Fusion 360, and am migrating from 5 years with Inventor. In general the programs are very comparable, but I am having an issue with the Sketch environment. I do a lot of work with "sliced graphics" in the sketch environment, and want to know if there is a way to toggle off the "hatching" that happens in Fusion 360? When I "slice" in Fusion 360, all of a sudden I have to contend with my geometry, a new color, and a series of diagonal "hatch" lines. I imagine that someone is going to tell me that this is a feature and not a flaw, but it makes my sketches more complicated, and also makes visualizing projected edges much more difficult as the slice command makes edges of parts appear as black lines (with the sketch geometry that I am editing harder to see/evaluate). In Inventor, I have some options to control the appearance of the "slice" command in sketches, so I'm also wondering if there is any way to alter this appearance?  Thanks

[jhackney1972]

I would suggest you experiment with your different Environments.  The one below is pretty easy to read.

If you want to jump to the extreme, assign you model the Physical Material of Air and then you can eliminate all the section lines.

[ryan.bales]

I don't know if there is anyway to change the hatch/color on a sketch slice - at least i've not tried and can't find it yet. I did ask @jeff_strater to weigh in as well. 

Other than @jhackney1972's workaround i would approach this differently as shown here with section analysis(note because you aren't slicing the bodies in sketch it "could" behave differently):

In the video above i used section analysis and an offset plane in the same fashion as slice sketch. The only hitch is you can't have more than one section analysis enabled at a time so it may be prudent to use both slice sketch and section analysis to get around this. 

[jeff_strater]

There is no way today to change or turn off the cross-hatching of the body during sketch with Slice on.  I tend to usually work in this environment (when sketching in the middle of a body) by toggling the body on and off.  If I need to grab a reference from the body, I turn it on, and use Project, then turn it back off again if the cross-hatching is getting in the way.

[cad]

Thank you for the response, but this is the third or fourth issues I've come across with Fusion where the answer is: "if you don't like it, there's nothing to be done". In inventor, I can create the image from the new screenshot in a few seconds and clicks, where the geometry is clear, I can see the sliced graphics in yellow, and can create the necessary geometry without a lot of visual interference. The workarounds suggested are fine (and really appreciated), but it's a lot of additional work for a really basic workflow, and the graphics presented in Fusion are really hard to work with visually. I'm typically looking at 10-15 parts at a time with the sliced graphics workflow, so for me it's unreasonable to start the sketch, project my geometry, turn all the parts off, do the work I need, finish the sketch, turn the parts back on, and then complete the operation. In Inventor, I: start sketch, slice graphics, project slice graphics, do my drawing, and am done. Is Fusion just too new to be able to accommodate customization like this? 

[cad]

Thank you for the video and looking into this, but your video confirmed that this ins't a viable solution. In Inventor, I create a sketch, press a preset button for sliced graphics, project sliced graphics (in my heads up display), and am done. The edges of the part are clearly projected (I observed you tried to tie a dimension to a part edge, and then realized it wasn't projected, and had to project it), and there's no additional work added. I've also noticed that everyone is drawing a basic rectangle within this view, but what if I was working with really complicated geometry that happened to line up with the hash lines? 

[cad]

Thanks for this response. I've tried to change the material to air, but am still seeing the hatched graphics, can you elaborate on how this is applied (I must be missing something). Thank you!

[jhackney1972 · Accepted solution]

Here is a short Screencast showing the setting of the material to AIR and then doing a sketch on an interior plane withe the Slice option.

[cad]

Thank you very much for your help with this! Much appreciated.