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Turning on Timeline and Changing Inserted Parts

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artygal12
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Turning on Timeline and Changing Inserted Parts

My question is twofold.  

 

1)  Is there some way to turn on Timeline mode on in a part with timeline disabled?  I understand that you wouldn't be able to roll back to anything earlier than when you turned on the timeline, but would it be possible to make it keep track of all future changes you make?  I've been working with imported STLs and cutting slots out of them, and I'd love to be able to adjust where the slots are, but timeline is automatically off when I import the STL.

 

2)  When you've imported a part into another file, is it possible to update the imported part to a different version of the same part?  For example, I've imported Part A v1 into Part B v1's file.  I go back and change Part A's dimensions, and I now have a Part A v2.  Can I go back into Part B, and update Part A v1 to Part A v2?  For the same utilization, I have a part in the shape I want the slot to be, and I use a boolean cut to make the slot in my main part.  It would be convenient to be able to just update the slot-shape-part and have the cuts update automatically.

 

Thank you!

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artygal12
in reply to: artygal12

So I've figured out how to turn on Timeline.  You right click the name at the top of the browser, and then select "Capture Design History" at the bottom of the drop down menu.  I still would like to know about how to update the version of inserted parts, though, if someone can help.  🙂

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casperhofstede
in reply to: artygal12

Thank you very very much for coming back to your own question and letting everyone know. I have seriously spent 30 minutes looking at all the "Design History" instructions videos and visiting the help pages. I could not find it anywhere on how to enable the design history. Apparently, because I started with an imported model (from Solidworks) it was not enabled by default.

 

For everyone else, you can find enable/disable here:

 

capture-design-history-or-not.png

 

I have not yet found an answer to your second question. I am also wondering about that one.

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kb9ydn
in reply to: casperhofstede

No kidding!  It took me forever to figure this out.  There needs to be a setting to enable design history by default.  Not having this will drive people that are used to history based modellers up the wall.

 

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casperhofstede
in reply to: kb9ydn

Actually its also in the settings, so you can enable it by default. See attached.

 

It appears the F360 will be moving toward "everything captured in design history" so with patience all will be resolved in due time.

 

capture-design-history.png

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kb9ydn
in reply to: casperhofstede

Yes, that's what I thought.  That was one of the first settings I changed, yet it still defaults to disabled for imported models.

Perhaps it's a bug then.

 

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innovatenate
in reply to: artygal12

Thought I would mention that X-Ref's have been added to the Roadmap for Fusion 360 Ultimate. This should apply to question 2 from the original post.

 

You can read more about it in the below blog post.

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/design-differently/fusion-360-and-fusion-360-ultimate-roadmap-into-nex...

 

Thanks,

 

 




Nathan Chandler
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