Lost "project to surface" Function

[DillonRA]

I'm not sure when this happened exactly, but I've lost a command that I rather like.

I use the Project to Surface function pretty often when matching a sheet metal part to another bent/formed sheet metal part that needs to fit well to the profile. 

A workaround for that function takes SO long. 20 minutes of work to accomplish what could be a 30 second job.

Was there a name change or something?

Am I dumb and just missing it?

[HughesTooling]

Are you projecting from one sketch to another? You can not project curves in the current active sketch into the same sketch. Is that the problem?

[DillonRA]

I have 2 sheet metal parts, both with multiple bends and on different planes.

Typically I would take part A and project its edge  profile to the surface of part B so I can trim away what I don't need and have a good fit up after laser and press work.

Sorry if that doesn't make sense. 

I don't always do things the easy or right way, self taught and only use the sheet metal functions of Fusion.

[jeff_strater · Accepted solution]

it should still be there:

[DillonRA]

Strange, found it now. I used to be able to be able to select "project to surface" THEN select the face to project to.

Thanks! 

[HughesTooling]

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@DillonRA wrote:

Strange, found it now. I used to be able to be able to select "project to surface" THEN select the face to project to.

Thanks! 

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That's an old workflow where the sketch tab used to be visible all the time, now you need to start a sketch first.

You could get a similar workflow back if you create a shortcut for project to surface. If you click the 3 dots on a menu item you can add a shortcut and this will work even if you're not in sketch mode. So I can press Shift+P and get prompted to select a face or plane.