New sketch always centering on the origin point

[Anonymous]

Everytime I start a new sketch, I would like the screen to stay where it is on the part I am designing, but instead it always jumps away and zooms out centering on the origin point somewhere way off in the distance and then I have to zoom out to find the design and then zoom in on it and re-orientate myself. It wastes some much of my time!

Is there anyway of turning this off so the screen stays where it is when I start a new sketch please? It would make my life so much easier! Oh and for anyone who is about to post that I should sketch around the origin point, please don't, I don't like being around the point, I like to be away on a plane somewhere. (A bit like real life lol.)

Thanks 🙂

[jtylerbc]

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@Anonymous wrote:
Hi Kami,

Ok thanks for this. The more people are saying the more I am realising that
actually, I don't need to worry so much because you all sound like you do
far more complicated work than I do! I literally only make single parts
with no need to make assemblies other than to see what it all looks like
stuck together lol. Don't even need to be able to function as they should.
So yeah, thanks though!

Rob.

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I use a lot of multisolid and other advanced techniques to more efficiently model the relationships between parts.  But when I'm not doing that, I think you would be surprised by just how simple my individual part models tend to be.  We mostly do steel fabrication work, so the majority of parts are just a piece of plate steel or sheet metal.  Many are built with a just single Extrusion feature (or a single Face or Contour Flange for the sheet metal parts), although the sketched shape for that Extrusion may be fairly complex.

The benefit to fully constraining sketches is not limited to complex work with assemblies.  The real benefit is predictability.  If you're a hobbyist or otherwise using the program a fairly small amount, you might get away with a lot of poor technique.  But if you're doing this all day every day, there's a great deal of efficiency to be achieved just from the fact that, because of proper sketch constraining, you know exactly what is going to happen when you make a change. 

The effect is bigger the more complex the part is, of course.  But even if what you're making are mostly simple parts, all the time spent trying to get the part to do what you really wanted it to do (instead of whatever it chose to do because of an underconstrained sketch) can really add up.

[pythoncontrol]

Great if I knew how  to open this window. Jesus fk

[kacper.suchomski]

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@pythoncontrol wrote:

Great if I knew how  to open this window. Jesus fk

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This is the program settings dialog box.

File -> Options

[pythoncontrol]

If someone is still interested in finding solution to this problem instead of licking each others .... then it's here in the new interface.

[kacper.suchomski]

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@pythoncontrol wrote:

If someone is still interested in finding solution to this problem instead of licking each others .... then it's here in the new interface.

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You provided a screenshot from Autodesk Fusion, but this forum and thread are about Autodesk Inventor.

[pythoncontrol]

Ehh googling all day because each tool lacks simple "ctr + f" for all features.