error messages

[patrick_william]

I am getting a bunch of error messages in the timeline.  I can't figure out what I did. Can someone look at my file and help?  I am generally having trouble with the join and align with parts. It keeps rotating even with joint origins picked

[patrick_william]

 

 

[dan.banach]

Hi @patrick_william 

The issue with the yellow highlighted sketch is because the plane the sketch was created on cannot be found, or geometry that the sketch referenced was changed or deleted. There is no easy way to fix these issues. You'll need to edit each of the yellow sketches and fix the issue.

A few week's ago we talked about keeping the components in their own files and inserting / referencing them into an assembly and patterning the components. Then in the pattern, you can suppress occurrences. This would help clean up your assembly.

Hope this helps.

-Dan

[patrick_william]

Thanks Dan, Here is the one that started it all Original clear new 1

 I am not sure what it is asking me to do in the edit.  I am trying to dimension it?  it that what it is asking? 

If so how does a person dimension an organic sketch?

[dan.banach]

Hi @patrick_william 

When the sketch is yellow in the Timeline, could means that the plane that the sketch was created on cannot be found. Here is a link to an article that explains the issue and how to fix it The sketch plane is lost. Cache is used. Please redefine the sketch to select other plane!' On a Ske...

Or. Geometry that the sketch referenced cannot be found. See this article for more information Reference failures [...] The project source is lost" warning on a sketch in Fusion 360

Does this help?

-Dan

[patrick_william]

Thank Dan,

Ok the first error message of the sketch, I followed your directions and it lost its plane , and I was able to fix that, thank-you.  The second type of error message I am not sure what it is asking me to do

 Because basically I don't know Fusion 360 in how things are built, so the term reference geometry does not come to me as a missed step because I don't know the steps. I don't know the terms "cached geometry" or "reference geometry"

Below is the contour v32.f3d can you look at it and see my process that got miss done?  The general problem is I still do not know how to  make components join without the axis spinning to the wrong direction and then making the joined component merged to a new component and then taking the new component to join with other components and then making all of the previous combined joined components into a single component.

[kellings]

Hi @patrick_william When you create a sketch on a face, using the default settings, Fusion automatically projects the edges of that face into your sketch. It may not seem like that is happening because in the background Fusion is making those projected edges invisible. When you start to sketch lines, circles, arcs, etc. Fusion is able to "snap" or find those projected edges. Those projections are called references. Some geometry from a different area of the part is referenced into your sketch. You can also reference in geometry from different components. Should one of the bodies or components move and the sketch isn't tied to the body or component, that reference for the sketch can be lost. You may also create a sketch on a face that had a feature that was created before the sketch. You might later go back and delete the feature. When that happens, the sketch loses the reference because that geometry that created the projection is removed from the sketch. This is usually the cause when you see a sketch turn yellow in your timeline. You can then right click on the sketch and choose review warning and Fusion will sort of point you in the right direction as to what the problem is. 

The design you are working on and the way you approached it might be a bit complicated. You might have been better to make individual external components with things like joint origins etc. and then place those external files into a new file where you could assemble them together. You could then pattern and suppress instances as needed. 

Hope that helps a little. 

Kevin

[patrick_william]

Thank you Kevin for replying.  I need some of the definitions explained in order to understand the concept. I don't know what a "projected edge" looks like or what that means. I am importing organic shaped svg files that do not have the geometry simple like a circle or square or straight line. can you explain it in terms of what fusion does with organic imported sketches?