No Way To Flip Direction of Hole Tool In "From Sketch" Mode

[therealsamchaney]

I'm trying to add some holes to a body using the Hole tool in the "From Sketch" mode, but the default direction of the holes is down (toward the bottom origin plane) and the body I want to make the holes in is up above the sketch plane. Fusion 360 will not let me flip the direction of the holes to fix this. I can't drag the arrow past the 0 point like I normally could for an extrude. I can't change the depth to a negative value. There is no option to "flip" the hole direction. Fusion just assumes holes always go down, and there seems to be no fix.

Please add a "flip direction" option to the hole tool when in "from sketch" mode!

[g-andresen]

Hi,

Please share the file.

File > export > save as f3d on local drive  > attach it to the next post

günther

[davebYYPCU · Accepted solution]

Arh, any closer and it would .....

Will work if there is a body to cut into.

Might help....

[therealsamchaney]

Ugh I don't know how I didn't see that there! I feel like it used to have the words "flip direction" instead of just using a little icon. Anyway, that's it, thanks! It is strange that you can't achieve the same functionality by pulling the arrow past the 0 point like you can with extrude. 

[ysz77jp]

By the way, I have same problem about this matter. Because I am facing this situation on my Python script. Does anybody know how to flip direction of hole by using Fusion360 API.

        holeInput.setPositionByPoint(plane1,adsk.core.Point3D.create(x, y, z))

        distance = adsk.core.ValueInput.createByReal(5)

        holeInput.setDistanceExtent(distance)

         hole = holes.add(holeInput)

Python pop up helper says that " The natural direction of the hole  opposite ....."   and this script generate opposite direction of hole. I want to flip direction of hole by API. Anybody advise me !

[kandennti]

Hi @ysz77jp .

It seems that you can change it with the HoleFeatureInput.isDefaultDirection property.

https://help.autodesk.com/view/fusion360/ENU/?guid=GUID-312ea494-476b-4655-be91-c23432144711 

I came up with a process like this.

def initHole(
    plane1: adsk.fusion.BRepFace,
    x: float,
    y: float,
    z: float,
    diameter: float,
    depth: float) -> adsk.fusion.HoleFeature:

    comp: adsk.fusion.Component = plane1.body.parentComponent
    holeFeatures: adsk.fusion.HoleFeatures = comp.features.holeFeatures
    holeInput: adsk.fusion.HoleFeatureInput = holeFeatures.createSimpleInput(
        adsk.core.ValueInput.createByString(f'{diameter} mm')
    )
    holeInput.setPositionByPoint(
        plane1,
        adsk.core.Point3D.create(x, y, z)
    )
    distance = adsk.core.ValueInput.createByReal(depth)
    holeInput.setDistanceExtent(distance)

    holeFeat: adsk.fusion.HoleFeature = None
    try:
        holeFeat = holeFeatures.add(holeInput)
    except:
        holeInput.isDefaultDirection = not holeInput.isDefaultDirection # here
        holeFeat = holeFeatures.add(holeInput)

    return holeFeat

Initially, the default direction will be used, and when an exception occurs, the opposite direction will be used.

[greggroos]

Thank you, that screen shot remains very helpful, the current icon is slightly different, still gets the point across. 

It is odd that the blue direction arrow will not allow a mouse move to reverse, as it does in many other commands