Trouble creating sketch from imported .stp file

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I’m a new user having difficulty creating a Sketch from an imported .stp file from Fusion 360. No matter what I do, the Projected Sketch isn’t a closed object, and I’m not familiar enough with Shapr3d to figure out how to get past this.

I’ve created a screen recording on Loom.

  • Is this just a bad imported file?
  • Is it new user ignorance on tool use?
  • Can this new sketch be closed manually? If so, what would be the steps to take?

Help would be very much appreciated, thanks!

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Start from copying the projected sketch. That gives you regular sketch which you will be able to edit.
If you can share this step file I will take a closer look at it.

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@Xdrakosha, much appreciated. I will try a copy of the sketch a bit later on today.

I am not able to upload the file — too new of a user on this site :frowning:

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You can send it to this email shapr3d@tsbl.net

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Very strange but I don’t have this issue

Also on iPad

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email sent, thanks😎

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tried a copy of the sketch. closed it (I thought)

when attempting to Extrude the closed copy, received …”can’t be extruded because it would create a non-manifold body”

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That’s normal. Just read about non-manifold in wikipedia :slight_smile: and remove all thin places on sketch. Shapr3D rejects to produce bodies with this issue.

What is strange, that I don’t have these problems at all with the same step file.

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Did you modify imported object before doing projection? Maybe scaled it?

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I did move the body after import because it was placed way off in left field some how, but I didn’t modify it.

Odd, but actually very interesting you dont have the issue. Maybe I will create a new drawing from the exported file I sent you. Maybe the export from S3D corrected something.

Will look at this a bit later when I get back home.

Thanks for the excellent feedback :blush:

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Manually deleted part of the sketch to emulate your case.

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That is so helpful to watch how you adjusted the connection point to remove that improperly closed connection!

I struggled for hours, and in a few minutes of instruction, you demonstrated how to correct that particular issue. Most Excellent!!!

…and, even more awesome is, that I created a new drawing by importing the step file I re-exported from S3D, and this cleared up the original issue — just like it had worked for you as well!

I am very grateful for your help and support!!! A BIG Thank you !!: :slight_smile:

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