Ellipse Stencil (now also with circles)

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I thought a template for drawing ellipses would be an easy introduction to parametric Fusion360. I really found this challenging as Fusion on my laptop really stuggled with the combination of directly-draw ellipses using parameters. This fusion file uses circles projected onto a plane - the next challenge is getting features sketched on the plane to be constrained appropriatley. The text to show the angle of the template is not parameterised and has to be edited. This first version of the fusion file uses imported parameters from a csv maintained in Excel. My poor Excel skills are available here https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_hcvMkEYtKEAvQYu9rIU5PODDkynZE2Z/view?usp=sharing I realy only expect angle and template thickness to 'work' as parameters but there is some potential for changing the start (smallest) diameter - these templates are 4mm to 38mm with 2mm step. I used ParameterIO Fusion plugin on Windows. I found it best to download from GitHub https://github.com/AutodeskFusion360/ParameterIO_Python which is 'easy' to install once you know how. Update: I added a new Fusion file that doesn't need the import of parameters but this version only adjusts length depending on first row of circles… at 20 degrees, the third row (of large circles) is longer and the resulting body seems truncated - you should be able to increase Lengthy parameter to sort it out.In Cura the STL files sometimes seen to not be able to 'align to build plate' in Cura…. they float above it.... changing views and moving things about sometimes fixes.