Strange problem with an SVG file

[landcrush]

Okay, I'm trying to do some Mission Style inlay, I've created a fusion file with with the spline tool, exported it out as a DXF file. After that, I opened it in Illustrator, and re-saved it as an SVG file. After I insert this SVG file onto the top of a piece of stock, I'm unable to select certain parts of it for the negative extrusion I want to do. If I use the DXF file, I can get the extrusion I want, but resizing it is a real problem. I can resize the SVG file just fine, but not all faces are available for selection for the negative extrusion.

[engineguy]

@landcrush 

Hmmm, not 100% sure what it is you are trying to do but there are several areas where the lines of your sketch do not connect with the lines they are supposed to which means that some areas don`t work properly. I found some and connected them and it seems to work now. Is the image below what you want, all I have done is Extrude the Sketch into the block ??

You can easily re-size stuff in Fusion using the "Scale" option ???

[landcrush]

I knew that they were not connected, but I didn't know how to go about connecting them 🙂 I can ( and did ) use scale, but the way you can resize an svg file and rotate it and move it all with the same group of handles is preferable. With the dxf file, it's really finicky.

[engineguy · Accepted solution]

@landcrush 

Easy enough to connect lines in a Sketch, just go to "Edit Sketch" and under the "Modify" tab use the "Extend" option, you only need the click on the line and it will automatically go to the nearest intersecting line, see image.

I didn`t use a DXF, just used the repaired Sketch, much easier, personally I would just as easily move the Sketch around within Fusion rather than have to open and use another software, seems to be over complicating things, but, as they say, each to their own 🙂 🙂

[landcrush]

Thanks for the intel. Yes, I'm still very new to this, so I'm still hunting around for the most efficient way to do things. Thank you for your help!

[johnswetz1982]

the other way to check is just to draw a line(s) over the sketches. Closed areas will turn a different color showing the can be extruded. 

[landcrush]

Thank you!