Line Command, then "select a plane or planar face" - But No Cube in Upper Right

[bobus17821]

I am following the Kennedy Tutorial on YouTube.  When he issues his first Line command there is already a cube in the upper right corner.  But when I do the Line command I get a message saying "select a plane or planar face".  I think I could do that if the cube were in the upper right corner.  How do I get the cube up there?  Or how do I select a plane or planar face without the cube in the upper right corner?

Thanks,  Bob

[jeff_strater · Accepted solution]

can you record a screencast showing what you see?  Also, check this setting?:

does it have "Hide ViewCube", or Show ViewCube"?  If it has "Show ViewCube" then click on that menu item, and it should turn on the ViewCube object.

[MoshiurRashid]

Hi

Thanks for posting. The cube is just for navigation. Before going to line command you have to declare that you are starting sketch and sketching in this plane. So, click "Create Sketch", then select a plane from 3 planes appear in the screen. Then you are in sketch mode. You can now create line.

[HughesTooling]

Would help if you added the link to the youtube video. 

How are you starting the line command, are you using the S key toolbox or marking menu under sketch? After selecting line the origin planes should show like this.

Have you got all object visabilities enabled?

Mark

[bobus17821]

Thank you Jeff!  Two screenshots below ...

This first one is right after the Line command (I just pressed the "L" key.

This one shows the menus you mentioned:

Thanks again for looking at this for me.

Bob

[bobus17821]

Thanks Moshiur but it did not work for me.  Here's the screen right before I click on Create Sketch:

But after the click on Create Sketch the screen looks exactly like it did before I opened the Create menu.  And the Line command still does not work.

Thanks,  Bob

[HughesTooling]

@bobus17821  Have you been able to create any sketches in Fusion before this?

Maybe try going to the Graphics diagnostics and tick the option to limit effects. Can you get a screengrab of the graphics diagnostics as well. Also have you updated your graphics driver lately?

Mark

[davebYYPCU]

Click the eyeball next to the Browser entry labelled Origin.

Sketches must be tagged to an Origin Plane or face of a model part, but you can’t see the plane to select.

But seeing as you are in a Box Component, Open the box’s listing, click small triangle, and I would click the eyeball in the Origin section there.

Which Tutorial?

Might help....

[HughesTooling]

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@davebYYPCU wrote:

Click the eyeball next to the Browser entry labelled Origin.

Sketches must be tagged to an Origin Plane or face of a model part, but you can’t see the plane to select.

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For me you don't need the origins visible, just pressing L makes an origin and grid visible like this. Guess he could be a long way from the origin though.

If you zoom out away from the origin there doesn't seem to be a quick way to get it back on screen if you lose track of where it is.

Mark

Edit There is an option from the view cube Go Home that gets the origin back but as @bobus17821  doesn't have the viewcube that isn't going to help.

[bobus17821]

Thanks so much for responding Mark.  The url to the video is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvrHuaHhqHI

It strikes me as an excellent video.  But knowing nothing about Fusion 360 I am completely lot after having clicked at the wrong place or at the wrong time.  

I just press the "L" key to execute the Line command.  I have no idea what the S key tool box is.  When I press the S key I see this pop up:  

But I don't know if that is what you are talking about and have no idea what I'd enter in the "search" box.

Thanks again for responding.  Bob

[jeff_strater · Accepted solution]

A quick terminology question.  Are you talking about the View Cube being missing?  Or the Origin?

If you are asking about the View Cube, please see my earlier post, with this image:

[HughesTooling]

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@bobus17821 wrote:

Thanks so much for responding Mark.  The url to the video is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvrHuaHhqHI

It strikes me as an excellent video.  But knowing nothing about Fusion 360 I am completely lot after having clicked at the wrong place or at the wrong time.  

I just press the "L" key to execute the Line command.  I have no idea what the S key tool box is. 

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I was just unsure how you started the Line command that was all. It definitely seems like you have a display problem. Has Fusion worked before? What happens if you close Fusion and start again, is the view cube still missing?

If it is try the suggestions I made above, limit effects and update your graphics driver.

Mark

[bobus17821]

Hi Mark,  Thanks again for your input.  No, no prior sketches.  My affair with F360 began about 2 days ago!  Info from graphics diagnostics is : 

[GPU Information]
GPU Device: NVIDIA Quadro T1000
GPU RAM: 3968 MB
GPU Driver API: DirectX 11.0
GPU Driver Version: 432.13
GPU Driver Date: 12/05/2019

[Graphics Effects Settings]
Anti Aliasing: On
Ambient Occlusion: On
Object Shadow: Off
Ground Shadow: On
Ground Reflection: Off
Selection Display Style: Normal
Transparency Effect: Better Performance

[Limit effects to optimize performance]
Off

Thanks,  Bob

[HughesTooling]

@bobus17821 Not sure what to suggest, did you try selecting the limit effect option on the graphics diagnostic dialog? You could also try going to preferences(menu under your name top right), and on the general tab try setting the graphics option to DirectX 9.

@jeff_strater  Any ideas? If you look at the screenshot @bobus17821  posted above you'll notice the show\hide option for the view cube is hide so it should be visible.

Mark

[bobus17821]

Thanks for your continued help Jeff.  I don't see the cube in the upper right corner or the origin!  And Hide/Show ViewCube does not alter the screen at all.  

Bob

[HughesTooling]

@bobus17821  I noticed in your screenshots you have a message in the info bar, if you click it is it a warning of any sort?

Mark

[bobus17821]

I greatly appreciate all of the assistance I've received here.  I am so glad that I chose a product with an active and willing-to-help-noobs user forum.  But I AM GIVING UP!  Not on my interest in Fusion 360 and not on 3D printing and certainly not on this group.  But I am going to close my current Fusion 360 session and start over.  I think that is likely to resolve the problem.  And maybe that's what I should have done as soon as the problem arose.  But that seemed like a coward's way out.  And I thought that I would learn a lot by resolving the problem.  But I am obviously not able to resolve it on my own and I don't want to exhaust the group's patience with my noob questions.  

So I will close my Fusion 360 session, watch several intro tutorials and overviews and then give it another shot.  THANKS AGAIN.  I hope someday that I will actually able to make a contribution here.  Bob

[jeff_strater]

the only things I can recommend at this point to try, in order would be:

1. Reset to default layout:
   
   
   
2. Clean uninstall/reinstall:  How-to-do-a-clean-uninstall-of-Autodesk-Fusion-360 

[HughesTooling]

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@bobus17821 wrote:

  But I am going to close my current Fusion 360 session and start over.  I think that is likely to resolve the problem.  And maybe that's what I should have done as soon as the problem arose.  But that seemed like a coward's way out. 

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No not the cowards way out at all. I've had this problem, sometimes only in one tab and saving, closing the tab and reopening fixes the problem. As this thread is spread over a couple of days I figured you'd closed Fusion overnight and still seeing the problem. Hopefully restarting Fusion will fix your problem, might want to reboot your PC as well.

Mark

[bobus17821 · Accepted solution]

Shutting down Fusion 360 and then starting it back up did resolve the problem.  

Bob