Sweep is not turning at one corner.

[Anonymous]

Can anyone tell me what might be causing this sweep to not turn this corner?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Mike

[TrippyLighting]

Please share your model. export it as a .f3d file and attach it to your next post.

[Anonymous]

Here you go. Thanks.

[TrippyLighting · Accepted solution]

Fixing the Sweep is really simple, but your sketch has a number of other problems.

The correct process to start a project like this would be to edit/rotate the canvas so that :

1. One key element of the sword on the hand sketch coincides with the origin of the design.
2. The center line of the canvas sketch is as horizontal as possible.

then, when you start sketching/tracing the lines of the sword, the starting point will be the origin.

Many of your sketch elements are not properly constrain, so its very easy to break the sketch and ultimately the design so make sure to use constraints.

@jeff_strater It would be interesting to look at this sketch for the Fusion 360 team. Even though there is not really much in the sketch, the performance when sketching, e.g. just moving line ends around is absolutely terrible.

[Anonymous]

Thank you for this help. This is not the first time that I've found myself not properly constraining the Fusion 360 sketch. Wish I was a faster learner. I'm coming from the Revit environment and have probably not made the full "cultural" shift. When I do these sketches I just think about the shape and the whole think is pretty intuitive and unconscious. If I understand you correctly, when I draw it in Fusion I need to keep in mind this sketch information is both a blessing and a curse. The sketch can serve as a guide, but the whole shape needs to be geometrically "built"; one assumption built on another. When you're adapting a shape from a sketch there are probably an infinite number of ways to do this. Ultimately, there needs to be only ONE narrative (or build). I think I must have failed to do this. It strikes me this reconciliation of approaches might be more emphasized for people making a shift from this more primitive but universal analog approach. I have seen this alluded to in certain videos. Maybe I just missed the boat. In any case, thank you again for looking into this so rigorously. I'll start over and keep your earlier comments in mind.

[jeff_strater]

Thanks, @TrippyLighting for pointing this out.  This is filed as FUS-33837

Jeff

[Anonymous]

Finally got the sword done.  Thank you for your help guys.

[TrippyLighting]

Post a picture or it did not happen 😉

[Anonymous]

[ben.lorimore]

Beautiful!!!