From the course: Fusion 360: Tips, Tricks, and Techniques

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Reuse sketch profiles

Reuse sketch profiles

- Reusing a sketch to create features in Fusion 360 is possible. Hi, everyone, and welcome to Fusion 360 Tips, Tricks and Techniques. In this 3D model, we have three extrude features referencing a single sketch. Let's go back in time to where our model initially has one sketch. Here it is. I'm going to grab the extrude tool, hitting E on my keyboard and selecting this profile. Heading to direction, selecting symmetric. Let me give this a overall thickness of 20. At the distance, I'm going to key in 10. Operation, new body, and hit OK. Whenever a sketch is consumed, its visability is automatically turned off. To turn the sketch on, let's head to sketches and select this eyeball. Let's grab our extrude tool once more, hitting E, selecting this profile. Let's pull this up to give this a height. Head to direction, change this to symmetric. Let's have the overall distance of this feature to be 40. Operation…

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