Can't project vertices - Fusion

[williamw003]

I'm not sure why i can't project any vertex of my sketch for future reference, but i'm trying to move the line of my second sketch onto the corner of the first. How can i do so? I've got "Auto project geometry on active sketch plane" and "Auto project edges on reference" turned on too.

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[davebYYPCU]

In the first movie there are no bodies to Project, change the icon to articles.

If you have Project on Reference, it should be working.

Might help...

[williamw003]

i've selected it, but it still doesn't latch onto anything

[TheCADWhisperer]

@williamw003 

Can you File>Export your *.f3d file to your local drive and then Attach it here to a Reply?

[williamw003]

here it is:

[g-andresen]

Hi,

1. You are currently in Sketch 1.

This means that you cannot project any elements from the active sketch, only from sketches and solids created before Sketch 1.
However, since Sketch 1 is the first feature in the timeline, there is nothing that could be projected.

2. Various dimensions are still missing.

günther

[TheCADWhisperer]

@williamw003 

For your Sketch2 you must first make sure Edit Sketch2 is active.

Then either

1. Add a Coincident Constraint between the endpoint and the vertex

or

2. p for Project and drag and drop or manually add the Coincident Constraints.

But somehow you created a 3D Sketch for Sketch2 and I don't think it is where you intended.

Lines are not planar...

Are you attempting to follow a Tutorial?

If yes, what is the link?

[williamw003]

I haven't been following a tutorial. When applying coincident, it locks onto this misaligned grid and doesn't let me select the outside face. I used a 3d sketch because with the 2d one it acted very strangely and i couldn't draw lines properly + project tool also wasn't working and i thought 3d would fix it, which it didn't. 

I think it's because i started a sketch using the origin interface. If i delete the current one and create a new sketch on the side face then everything works fine.

 

[g-andresen]

Hi,

1. move lines to sketchplane

2. project body edges into sketch

3. create constraints

günther

[TheCADWhisperer]

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@williamw003 wrote:

If i delete the current one and create a new sketch on the side face then everything works fine. 

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@williamw003 

I recommend that you Attach your model when completed to see how others might have modeled the geometry. (I see several things that I would change in just the first sketch.)

[williamw003]

If you dont mind, can you share what you'd do differently? I can't think of anything I'd do differently in the first sketch - all I did was create outlines for the base of the object to extrude before using more sketches to build up on each part. Also, do I really need to define measurements for each part of a sketch? Wouldn't that require at least 10 measurements for the first sketch alone? Because I was mainly just free-sketching

[williamw003]

I thought the project took worked in that you brought the editing information from one sketch to another? For example, if you want to reference a sketch made in sketch one you'd project it into sketch two so you can hover over it and see it's vertices etc? Even when I was in sketch 2, the project took did not project the vertices I wanted, and ended up randomly placing purple projected geometry indicators around places I didn't click on and locking it even when I clicked on it and pressed delete

So now I have to resort to creating a new 2d sketch, one sketch for each individual face so it'll let me edit in detail based on the existing geometry of the face

[g-andresen]

Hi,

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@williamw003  schrieb:

…and ended up randomly placing purple projected geometry indicators 

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Nothing was projected randomly.

The magenta dots are located on the sketch plane you previously selected and refer to the clicked edges and vertices of the body.

I pointed this out in the screencast.

Günther

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[TheCADWhisperer]

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@williamw003 wrote:

If you don't mind, can you share what you'd do differently?

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Make use of symmetry about the Origin and fully define your sketches.

This is essentially the exact same information that we covered in this video...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhG7WNBelGk