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Learn the fundamentals for fully defining sketches in Fusion.
After completing this practice exercise, you'll be able to:
Exercise
Transcript
00:02
This is a practice exercise video solution.
00:06
To get started,
00:06
we want to open the supply data set under defined.
00:09
F3D.
00:10
We want to make sure that this sketch is fully defined.
00:13
If we expand the sketches folder,
00:15
we can see there's a small pencil icon showing us that the sketch is underdefined.
00:19
We can also see that all the sketch entities are displayed as blue,
00:22
meaning that they're not fully defined.
00:25
Let's double click on sketch one
00:27
and begin by fully defining the position of our circle.
00:30
We're gonna do this using the left mouse button to drag the center of the circle
00:34
to the intersection point of the two orange construction lines.
00:38
We can also do this by applying constraints.
00:41
First,
00:41
we'll select the center point of the circle,
00:43
hold down shift,
00:44
and select the origin.
00:45
Then,
00:46
from our constraints tools,
00:47
we'll select coincident.
00:49
We also have a couple of other constraints that we need to apply.
00:53
Let's go ahead and pre-select the perpendicular
00:55
constraint and apply it between this left line
00:58
and this horizontal line.
01:00
This can be done by either pre-selecting the constraint tool,
01:04
or you can pre-select the sketch entities and then apply the constraint.
01:08
Let's go ahead and hit escape.
01:11
Currently,
01:12
our sketch is defined with constraints,
01:14
but there are no dimensions.
01:15
So we need to begin applying some dimensions by using the sketch dimension tool.
01:20
We'll start by selecting the circle
01:22
and apply a 50 millimeter diameter and hit enter.
01:26
I'm gonna double click the mouse wheel to fit the screen
01:28
and then zoom out so that I can see my entire thing.
01:32
Next,
01:32
I'm gonna left click and select the vertical line and make this 75 millimeters.
01:37
Then I'm gonna left click to select the horizontal line and we'll make this 200.
01:42
Once our sketch is fully defined,
01:44
all the sketch entities will turn black and we'll also see that the
01:47
pencil icon on our sketch has changed to a small lock icon.
01:51
We can go ahead and select finished sketch,
01:53
go back to a home view,
01:55
and make sure that we save our design before moving on.
00:02
This is a practice exercise video solution.
00:06
To get started,
00:06
we want to open the supply data set under defined.
00:09
F3D.
00:10
We want to make sure that this sketch is fully defined.
00:13
If we expand the sketches folder,
00:15
we can see there's a small pencil icon showing us that the sketch is underdefined.
00:19
We can also see that all the sketch entities are displayed as blue,
00:22
meaning that they're not fully defined.
00:25
Let's double click on sketch one
00:27
and begin by fully defining the position of our circle.
00:30
We're gonna do this using the left mouse button to drag the center of the circle
00:34
to the intersection point of the two orange construction lines.
00:38
We can also do this by applying constraints.
00:41
First,
00:41
we'll select the center point of the circle,
00:43
hold down shift,
00:44
and select the origin.
00:45
Then,
00:46
from our constraints tools,
00:47
we'll select coincident.
00:49
We also have a couple of other constraints that we need to apply.
00:53
Let's go ahead and pre-select the perpendicular
00:55
constraint and apply it between this left line
00:58
and this horizontal line.
01:00
This can be done by either pre-selecting the constraint tool,
01:04
or you can pre-select the sketch entities and then apply the constraint.
01:08
Let's go ahead and hit escape.
01:11
Currently,
01:12
our sketch is defined with constraints,
01:14
but there are no dimensions.
01:15
So we need to begin applying some dimensions by using the sketch dimension tool.
01:20
We'll start by selecting the circle
01:22
and apply a 50 millimeter diameter and hit enter.
01:26
I'm gonna double click the mouse wheel to fit the screen
01:28
and then zoom out so that I can see my entire thing.
01:32
Next,
01:32
I'm gonna left click and select the vertical line and make this 75 millimeters.
01:37
Then I'm gonna left click to select the horizontal line and we'll make this 200.
01:42
Once our sketch is fully defined,
01:44
all the sketch entities will turn black and we'll also see that the
01:47
pencil icon on our sketch has changed to a small lock icon.
01:51
We can go ahead and select finished sketch,
01:53
go back to a home view,
01:55
and make sure that we save our design before moving on.