How to Select a Sketch Object?
You are not selecting the sketch object, you are selecting the profile. The profile is an enclosed area fusion expects you to extrude, press pull etc.
If you want to select all the curves forming a profile you can window select or if all endpoint are coincident you can double click a curve and the chain will select. Rather than waste your time getting frustrated why haven't you done some of the tutorials or looked through the help, in six hours you could learn a lot.
Try starting here.
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Not sure what to say now, was so used to the older way to get it done, never looked for the copy box in the dialogue, but I have got it in the 2.0.5301 version.
weird.
If you have spent hours watching youtube videos and still don't know what a profile is you have either been watch bad videos or you might be wasting your time trying to learn CAD. CAD is not as simple as a word processor and will take time to learn, yes there are simple CAD programs but the more simplified the program the less it can do, you might not like it but that's life. As for your question about Sketchup and Solidworks, don't know anything about sketchup but newer versions of Solidworks have a similar ability to extrude any closed area in a sketch. Don't know if they call them profiles @TheCADWhisperer might know, selecting the closed are would more than likely give the same results as Fusion. I'd guess Inventor's the same.
Profiles are any closed area, in the image below there are 9 individual profiles add a few more lines you'll get into hundreds or thousands so having them listed somewhere would be pretty useless. Also they're no secret, as soon as you run a command like extrude, loft, etc. you are prompted to select profiles, you should have picked this up from any of the basic tutorials.
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@davebYYPCU wrote:
Not sure what to say now, was so used to the older way to get it done, never looked for the copy box in the dialogue, but I have got it in the 2.0.5301 version.
weird.
Just a note on the image above. You only get the Copy option if you are in sketch edit mode, if you've closed the sketch and select the curves and points you can only Move. Not really a good to modify sketches outside of sketch edit mode though. Using Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V is more useful as you can make multiple copies from one selection.
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In your video - you are not in an Active Sketch.
Think of sketches as similar to individual Microsoft Power Point slides.
Right click on your sketch in the browser and select Edit Sketch.
@akerezy - you posted this in two different areas: There is other discussion on this thread: sketch-object-move-copy-still-not-working-easily
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