I've been working on making a mold out of a piece of fairly simple line art from Illustrator. I've sort of got it working, but it's been a somewhat frustrating day.
Here are some of the things I ran into:
- SVG imports at 1 unit in SVG (pt from illustrator) = 1 unit in Fusion (inches);. It's of course possible to scale using the dialog, but, because the units were so far off, the bounding box preview was invisible (all edges were off-screen). That is: it was hard to tell that anything imported at all. Suggest making bounding box shaded or something.
- Sketch curve selection misses short curve segments. It seems like this might be related to level of detail? Basically, lasso/rectangle selecting around a mixture of long and very short segments misses the short segments. This is a really, really bad bug, because it's really hard to tell what's going on unless you zoom way in and discover that some tiny segments are not getting moved/patterened, etc. The result I kept getting was that the patterned sketch geometry wouldn't close and it took a long time to figure out that these short segments were to blame. I cleaned up the line art in illustrator alot, but it's not totally possible to avoid these.
- Some sketch curve segments are not selectable when in the move dialog. I'm blocked here. I cannot select these curve segments, even when very zoomed in:
The points and segments around are selectable:
These segments are selectable normally (when not in move tool):
- Performance with these imported sketches is really bad. I also did a rectangular pattern, which also seems to have really bad performance. With the imported sketch ("Sketch6") enabled, display update slows to seconds per frame and is basically unusable. Also, lots of flashy behavior around mouse-overs taking a second or so to update. I've tried disabling effects, etc, but doesn't seem to help.
Here's the file: http://a360.co/1JdBlxa
Here's the SVG: http://www.cmason.com/tmp/molds/counsyl_logo_only.svg
Any suggestions would be appreciated!
-c
