I am designing a tool with a belt loop that needs to be adjustable in length. Much to my irritation, the Inspect tool will only add a couple objects, and it won’t chain lines.
Luckily, Fusion360 has a great feature that I almost never hear about: Add-Ins and an App Store. There are a number of great tools that help with missing and specialist features. Many of them are free like this one.
SketchTools was the one that helped with my belt perimeter problem. One click and it chained the faces automatically. Do you want to know how I was doing this before? I made a spreadsheet and measured each segment every time (not fun). It lists the individual lengths and offers a selection tool to override the chain. I did notice that I can’t vertically resize the window to see the whole list at once; instead I have to scroll.
This isn’t even the main feature of the SketchTools add-in, but it was a boon to my design process. Its other features deal with the source of sketch planes, projected geometry and their links. Unfortunately, it’s only available for Windows due to the installer. The menu is moved to Design -> Tools in the new UI.
Links:
SketchTools in Autodesk App Store
Thanks to Manfred Steinbach for creating this handy add-in and providing it for free! There are a number of useful Fusion360 articles written on his site: link to Google Translate German to English version of his page.