Find the sketch which contains a geometry I select in the design window?

[chris]

I want to remove a geometry from my design. I can see it on the display but I cannot find the SKETCH which defined it.

If I selct a geometry and right click it I can see "Find in Browser" and that seems to highlight the BODY - not the sketch.
I can also see "Find in timeline" and, as far as I can tell - that does nothing whatsoever.
I found a forum post from 2016 in thish this feature was requested and promised, but so far, nothing I know about.
If it's helpful, please see my Fusion Frustration video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCCLIcN08iM

So - is there a way to do this?
If not, is there a plan to make a way to do this?

Also, is there a public list of known bugs and fix schedules?

Thanks
Chris

[g-andresen]

Hi,

try this:

1. Click Body > Feature is highlighted in the timeline

2. doubleclick highlighted feature in timeline > Edit Feature

3. result:

works even the sketch isn´t set to visible

günther

günther

[Anonymous]

I am a beginner and would like to know how to find sketches too. Guenther.andresen's method appears to work. If so, that raises another question : Why isn't that explained in the online documentation ?

One can use a selection filter. It should be on the right of the command bar (or whatever that thing with big buttons is called).

In the bottom right, next to the timeline, one can choose to show or hide timeline elements of non-active components. In order to be found in the timeline, elements have to visible there.

About the right-click menu options 'Find in window/browser/timeline' :

– Right-clicking offers commands for the selected element, regardless where you click. Hovering over an element may highlight it, but that is irrelevant.

– You claim that it should not offer 'Find in window' as option if you have selected in window. The program presumably only records what is selected and not how it is selected. Removing that command may actually be undesirable. E.g. you select something in window, then pan to some other place in your model and lose sight of your selection. You can then find it again with that command.

– Some things are in the timeline, while others are not. When selecting a body, the command 'Find in timeline' is not available because bodies are not timeline elements. You can use a selection filter to avoid selecting a body when you want to find something in the timeline.

[chris]

Thanks for your help.

In this specific case, this worked.

When I clicked the object I wanted to remove, it highlighted an extreude for wqhich there was no sketch.
I deleted the extrude and it's OK now.

I suppose I caused this issue by deleting the sketch which originally drove the extrusions in place.

However, more generally, when I click a feature in the design window I do NOT see anythint highlighted in the timeline. My timeline is wider than the screen - so perhaps it can't scrollto the object it wants to highlight?

[Anonymous]

For me when I select an element that is listed in the timeline and use the command find in timeline, then the timeline scrolls to show that element.

[chris]

OK so I assume mine would do that too, which means that the need to scroll is not what's preventing it from showing up in my timeline. So I'm still looking for an answer, but I aprpecaite your reference point here.

Thanks

Chris

[g-andresen]

Hi,

why do you delete a sketch?

Just set it to „unvisible“ in the browser.

günther

[chris]

WQht an oidd question this is to me, but I welcome if I have anything to elarn from others.

I delete things which are not needed to make my world simpler.

I am struggling enough to understand this minefield, without garbage lying around marked "not needed any more",

which I have to look at, understand and then explicitly pass over.

What are the benefits of hiding instead of deleting?
I can undertsnad supressing a feature temporarily and I do that with what I call "Chopper extrudes" which delete most of my model for I can 3D print small parts of it to test fit and function. I then supress them to get the whole model back.

But if an old sketch is replaced by a new one which does it better, and the old one is and will always be useless, then why not delete it?

[g-andresen]

Hi,

If you are absolutely sure that a sketch has no reference to another element, delete it.

But if you where wrong in this assessment, don't complain about error messages and destroyed constructions.

günther

[chris]

If I ignore warnings and delete anyway, then saure - blame me.

[Anonymous]

It turns out that guenther.andresen's method doesn't always work. There is not always a profile to select in the feature's dialog window. The pertinent sketch appears to be underlined in the browser, but only when it is actually displayed (i.e. the browser is expanded to show the sketch's folder). So one would have to search the browser for sketch folders. It would be useful to also mark the sketch in the timeline.

[chris]

So - can't be done then. I find that astonishing.