Sketch Closed Profile - Indicator

[admaiora]

Hi Dears,

How many times have you failed trying to extruding when you were convinced that it was a closed profile...but it was not actually closed?

How many times have you edited / revise/ exit >> Fail feature profile recognition ......edited / revise/ exit >> Fail feature profile recognition a sketch trying to solve it?

It could help an automatic internal highlighting of a closed sketch that can warn you of the profile state, open/closed, while you are still inside the sketch.

Thank you!

[jtylerbc]

How should it deal with sketches that contain multiple possible closed profiles?  Should it just highlight the largest possible one?

Even in the example sketch, there are three - the one indicated in the example, the interior of the slot, and the interior of the circle. 

[admaiora]

Good point.

Just the main island.

It should indicate the health of the closed loops, not what you want extrude,  if the main island highlighted then it is a symptom that all the other loops are perfectly closed

[jtylerbc]

I think that makes sense.  Another possibility would be for it to highlight the boundary instead of the area, possibly with a different color for each closed boundary. 

A great bonus would be if it could highlight where the profile was broken.  This might need to be a view option like "Show all Degrees of Freedom", so it could be turned off to prevent cluttering the screen too much.

[esmith53]

Just as long as it doens't create an automatic surface like it does in Fusion 360, I'm for it.

[jletcher]

"How many times have you failed trying to extruding when you were convinced that it was a closed profile...but it was not actually closed?" Never

[admaiora]

Good for you.

[alex.haerens]

If you are wise you limit the size of a sketch. In the example given above I would have a base rectangle and 4 distinct features that each have no more than 4 sketch components. Most people want to put everything in as few sketches as possible resulting in parts that can hardly be modified.

[DRoam]

@admaiora also suggested in another Idea that we be able to color in different profiles with different colors to enhance clarity, something like this:

I think a hybrid of these two Ideas would be great. Basically, profiles are filled in automatically to indicate that they're closed, but each profile fills in a different color to enhance clarity. And we can manually customize the color of each area as desired.

[DRoam]

Also, here's a related Idea suggesting the ability to "segregate" clusters of geometry (currently 15 votes): Sketch layers

These two ideas combined would be really great and make dealing with complex sketches much, much easier.

[asiu]

I like jtylerbc's idea with a special color for closed loops.

I like the hybrid approach too, but what will happen if two profiles intersect? 

Taking this idea a step forward, I would like to be able to have an option to "extrude all" closed profiles in a sketch. At this time in Inventor 2016 R2 you have to select the closed loops areas individually.

[ca-d.one]

In Fusion 360, closed Geometrys are "Highlighted" when they are closed.

It would be great, if Inventor does the same^^

Thanks !

[machiel.veldkamp]

VERY MUCH YES

[mk92]

Great idea!

[timdown73]

Yes!!!!!!! Please Autodesk, eliminate the guesswork!

[pbeer]

Amazing!

[jtylerbc]

Good idea, but it is a duplicate.  See older submission of the same idea:

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-ideas/sketch-closed-profile-indicator/idi-p/6274511

[leblanc2024]

Great ideal @ca-d.one

I like this a lot!!! Imagine the time savings... (lost in thought) 😉

Regards Ivon

[petestrycharske]

I'm also for jtylerbc's idea of a boundary color marker for closed loops.

[petestrycharske]

I like the idea, but I prefer a suggestion that jtylerbc made in the other thread; using a boundary color marker for closed loops.

[b.graaf]

This would be a very nice feature; I really like this in Fusion!