I am designing a railing that was imported from Sketchup in a DWG format. I have the structural members on Fusion 360 button on my program and in order for it to read how I’d like, the lines need to be continuous. I have attached a video of what I am looking at. TIA
Wherever two edges contact or intersect each other, the portion between contact points is considered a separate edge from any other portions that might happen to be colinear with the segment in question. This is the nature of SketchUp. For example, if you draw a horizontal line and then draw a vertical line across the middle of the horizontal line (to form a + shape), the result will be four edges: two horizontal and two vertical, separated by the intersection.
The separation across intersections can be avoided if the horizontal and vertical edges (in my example) are in different contexts - different components say. Then the intersection will be purely visual and it will not divide the long edges into multiple shorter ones. Depending on one’s goals, that approach might be useful or might not.
I was thinking exactly the same, Tom. But would that carry over to Fusion360 because that’s what the OP “seems” to be after?
Can’t you draw or redraw them in Fusion360?
Good question! I do not know exactly how to interpret the original post’s description of the intended workflow.
Me neither…
Not really sure why you wouldn’t draw them in Fusion if you need something specific.
You could try to Weld the lines, assuming they are all touching.
I was able to draw my lines continuously then go back and erase a small bit off each end. Not sure if there was a faster way to do that but it worked for me!