Sketches acting differently than before...

[jasonmrye]

Fusion now requires "Stop Sketch" to move into any other command. Or, that's how it's working for me - maybe I don't know the "trick". When doing the Titans of CNC 1M project, my sketches lay on top of each other and won't interact. I did the 1M 3years ago (and several times since then) in teaching my class how to get started in Fusion and it used to work. Now we have to do ALL sketching before ANY extruding or push/pull. What do we need to do differently now? Is there a setting that's changed and I don't know what it is? Help!

[g-andresen]

Hi,

if you create a screencast of the behavior described, this might be helpful when looking for possible causes.

günther

[jeff_strater · Accepted solution]

not entirely sure what you are referring to, but my guess is it is the "new toolbar UI".  This is documented and explained here:  Fusion Tabbed UI quick guide 

[jasonmrye]

Previously, you could start a sketch, move along and sketch up what you wanted to and then select Press/Pull and do that. Then, down the road, you could go back to that sketch without going to "Edit Sketch". If you chose not to Close Sketch, it never closed and all lines and points created on that sketch could interact with each other. Now, Close Sketch MUST be selected prior to moving on to ANY other function. Create Sketch performed later won't allow the two sketches to interact with each other. My apologies if I'm not making myself clear and thank you for looking into this for me (us).

[jasonmrye]

'll try to figure that out and share it. Thanks!

[HughesTooling · Accepted solution]

It's not that different but you have to select the Solid tab to activate the solid tools, when one's selected the sketch workspace closes. Note you can right click and select Press Pull or press Q or E etc.

Select any of these tab to get at the solid tools.

Now one big difference is the Sketch tab is hidden until you start a sketch. In the past you could pick the line tool for example and click on an existing sketch profile and that sketch would become active. You can not do this with the new UI unfortunately. What you can do is right click a profile and select edit from the right click menu or use hot keys like L, C or R. Another option is to use the S key search toolbar to select a sketch tool. I've complained about the hidden Sketch tab from the first week the new UI was in preview but minds we're made up so we're stuck with the less efficient workflow.

Mark

[g-andresen]

Hi,

1. I've been working with Fusion for almost 4 years and can't remember that you can start a function while a sketch is still active.

2. have you ever considered this option?

Nevertheless please show a screencast.

günther

[jasonmrye]

Mark, thank you! About 2/3 of the way through the New UI video referenced above, I found this explanation. Yours is an easier to understand version of that. Thanks again!

[jasonmrye]

The video did indeed have the solution at about the 2/3 mark. Thanks!

[jasonmrye]

It was almost seamless before. The video referenced above mentioned that people used to have trouble knowing which space they were in (Sketch/Modeling). This new way just requires the manual selection of going back to Solid rather than the Stop Sketch which I had been selecting. It was the obvious and familiar command I was comfortable with and not the newly correct (and probably better) way the Fusion team changed it to.

[Anonymous]

The Fusion TabbedUI quick guide link does point to a document that exists.