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Your bracket sketch won't extrude. Here's your plan:
Fusion 360 help
The Fusion 360 problems students get stuck on — and the fix
Only closed profiles extrude — they show shaded. If yours isn't, there's a gap or an overlapping line: trim or extend the ends, add Coincident constraints, and delete duplicate lines. Show Profile in the Sketch Palette helps you see it.
A feature lost what it referenced after you edited an earlier step. Right-click the coloured feature → Edit Feature and reselect the face or edge, or drag the timeline marker back to before the change.
Joints connect components, not bodies. Right-click the bodies → Create Components from Bodies, and activate the right component before you sketch inside it.
Pick the joint origins carefully (snap to centres and corners), then use Flip or an offset. If the parts are already in place, use an As-built Joint instead.
Modify → Change Parameters lets you name dimensions and add user parameters with expressions, so changing one value updates the whole design.
The bodies have to actually overlap. Check the target and tool bodies are the right way round, and tick Keep Tools if you still need the cutting body.
The wall is thicker than the tightest curve allows. Reduce the thickness, shell before adding small fillets, or remove different faces.
Right-click the body → Save As Mesh for STL or 3MF (raise the refinement for smooth curves). For STEP or F3D, use File → Export.
File → New Drawing → From Design, place a base view and its projected views, then add dimensions and fill in the title block.
Fusion needs you to sign in online every couple of weeks, and the education licence has to be renewed each year through Autodesk Education. Work Offline mode covers short gaps.
Blue means under-constrained. Add dimensions and constraints until the lines turn black, so the sketch can't move when you edit it.
Edit that feature in the timeline instead of deleting and redoing it — later features update. Keep Capture Design History on so the timeline exists.
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