Change Number of Sides in a Polygon After Sketching It

Mastering sketch constraints is the key to being able to design whatever you want

Tutorial on how to model parametric polygons. Once you sketch a polygon you don't have the ability to go back and change the number of sides. I show you to accomplish this using user parameters to design polygons that are parametric.

[Hyphonetics]

That is a brilliant solution for a problem that shouldn't exist. I find it very silly that Fusion 360 *still* doesn't allow you to change the number of sides of a polygon after you sketch it.

[ChristianCristofori]

Thank you, your seven years old video still rocks. Fusion has evolved a lot but this is still working.

[CraigHollabaugh]

7 years on, this is still the recommended solution.

[blakeseppelt]

Wish I would've searched for this sooner. Thank you!

[nikkwong]

Are they going to fix this? Seems like an important cornerstone of parametric modeling. Why isn't this built in natively?

[CrzyMan_Personal]

Thank you so much! Been thinking about this for way too long.

[StephanJPPL]

Perfect solution for my need, Your are my man 👍🙏

[spikekent]

Fantastic solution and very well explained. Thanks Vlad.

[blablamann]

thank you very much for this tutorial!

[mspacone]

Thank you - You did an excellent job explaining this for us! Finally an answer! :)

[gbancroft]

Thanks, great solution. However i can not get the sketch to be be a black line. Suggestions?

[antonmessina]

Love thus tutorial, i have one issue that my dimensions dont change to a function, my polygon changes sode but theyre spaced out, not touching?

[ethanbb]

Thanks so much! Totally awesome solution, very useful for me!

[deanroadifer]

Thanks for sharing, I have encountered this quite often. Is there a way to make a macro to put the equations into the perimeters since this is something I would use quite often?

[nrom]

I love your tutorials, it's great to learn another way to get results and you're an excellent teacher, but ...
How to change the number of sides in a polygon after sketching it?
Deleting it and making a new polygon. That icon if it is useless should not be or should be repaired.
Thank you very much for your lesson.

[MichaelR]

I'm trying to figure out how change the length of one side.

[DiegoLealFontecha]

it is unbelievable that programmers from Autodesk cannot fix that issues correspondingly. Thanks for your help, unfortunately I can't do anything now that my figure with many polygons is already created.

[dogastus]

That really helped me with a problem, thank you!

[mf]

Thanks for the video. I've tried your method, but when I try to select the object to pattern, I'm unable to select anything. Any tips on what I'm doing wrong?

[gbancroft]

The line is now black but sketch item in the browser does not show it is locked?