Fusion 360, single line toolpaths and miterfolds

[mwoodzork]

Hi

I am trying to do some simple miter folds along one edge of flat stock. I need to cut the overall shape along the permiter outline with 2d Contour then carve a v-grove down the middle. I cannot seem to find a way to select one of the contour lines as my v-groove path. Does anyone know how to do this

[dave.anderson]

Have you tried sketching the centerline for the v-groove and using Trace?

[HughesTooling]

If you are using a PC hold the Alt key down and select. On a PC or mac click one of the lines you want to select then click on the same line a second time will open a small dialog select the open contour icon then click the green plus.

Mark

[mwoodzork]

I did try that but I cant seem to select the sketch line. It always selects the curve of the entire object. Is there a keyboard choice that allows for the selection of a sketch line as a trace or contour path?

Thanks

[mwoodzork]

I just tried this. Command key on the mac. I selected the curve then clicked again and was able to highlight a single line. With trace I then had to highligh the face of the edge. That seemed to work. 

I also need to select multiple edges of a piece but the trace option did not seem to allow me to pick multiple, contiguous segments. Is there a way to do that so that say two contiguous edges of a curve could be tooled one way and the other edges tooled another?

Thanks ofr the quick feedback!

[mwoodzork]

Ahhh. Finally got it to work. Is there somehwere in the documentation that discusses this in detail? Its a little fussy but seems to work once you get it.

Thanks again

[HughesTooling]

Here's a screencast I did for someone a while ago showing how to modify the path of a boundary curve. For open path selections click the first segment of the path click again to get the selection dialog, select the open icon then hold the shift key and click the last segment to get a chain select.

Mark

[mwoodzork]

Excellent!

Thanks. Really helpful

[HughesTooling]

Here's another one. I did this for someone wanting a quick way to select an open contour, if you click the first curve then the last then one more to define the path.

Mark