moving profiles in sketch

[thepirate1]

Dear Community: 

Summary: I need to select every line in a  profile inside the move command every time I want to move.  THere's gotta be a better way!

Apparently the basic element in sketch is a line (points are just weird, and act very differently, and I don't understand them at all, but that's for a different post). On the other hand, what's really important for your design is a profile  that is used for lofts, rotations, etc.  When you hover over a closed set of line segments, which I think is a profile, F360 will even highlight it, signaling it knows this is a profile.  When you try to move more than one line in a sketch, profile or not, actually made with the rectangle command or not, you have to laboriously select every single line segment before it will let you move.   Is there a better way?  This is sooooo inefficient.  

If anyone could tell me a way to move all segments of a profile at once without selecting them with shift-clicks (tedious and difficult) or selecting with a square marquee (always selects lots of other stuff you don't want), I would really appreciate it. 

Thanks, 

-TPC

[TrippyLighting]

There sure is. It's just not implemented yet, unfortunately. If you want to throw your vote in the hat you can do that here on the Idea Station 😉

[jeff_strater]

I'd like to point out that window select (or loop select or paint select) in sketch mode is not quite so problematic as it might first seem.

Yes, window select does select things other than sketch items.  But, when you invoke Move, because you are in sketch mode, only the sketch geometries will be moved.  While the visual clutter of selecting other things can be annoying before the Move, it really does the correct thing.

Here's a quick video showing a simple model with a few examples of things other than sketches visible.  Watch how the Move command works in only moving sketch items:

Hope this helps, until we get the "chain select" bit implemented.

Jeff Strater (Fusion development)

[thepirate1]

Jeff:  

Thank you for your reply.   Most of my sketches look like connected "profiles", and in fact, overlap.  In the drawing I was actually working on, ontop of a base rectangle was stacked another rectangle and at that top of that rectangle, centered on the top line, a circle.  I tried selecting just one rectangle with that tool and everything was selected.  I could not even un-select the parts I wanted to eliminate.  That's crazy.  For the same reason that bodies have an identity and can be manipulated as indivisible objects, sketch objects should be treated the same way, at least for selecting. 

Thanks, 

-TPC

[TrippyLighting]

Sketches are separate entities. If you want to share your stuff you can invite me to you projects: dangolboom at mac dot com.

You just need to make sure that you draw all profiles on separate sketches. Then it's best to hide the sketches you are not working on currently to avoid selecting stuff you don't want to select.