Hey all,
I haven't used Fusion360 quit so much during the last weeks. After an earlier update i suddenly noticed my view beeing Orthographic which i haven't used ever (well apart from using it accidentally). I normally use "Perspective with Ortho faces" like probably most of us do.
But no matter when i switch views i see it defaulting back to Orthographic every now and then. I couldn't find a default setting for that so i was thinking it probably in the past just remembered what i set. Did this behaviour change? Can i somehow avoid having Orthographic set by default or set back from what i set?
Thanks,
Frank
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Hi Frank,
You can change the default camera setting through "Navigation toolbar" -> Display setting -> Camera. Once it is set, it will persist across Fusion sessions.
Chengyun
Fusion Team
Hi Frank,
I agree with you. I experimented the camera views a little. I think the camera view will change to "Orthographic" by itself once you selected the new Split Screen view. Even when you switched back to the single screen it will be changed to "Orthographic". I think Mr. Yang should experiment that before telling us who had been using the program for over two years how to set the camera view.
Sorry about that Mr. Yang.
Hi,
This sounds like a bug that we should fix, instead of a behavior change. If you activate multi-view and then switch back to single view, it should keep the camera setting before the activation of multi-view. We will look into it.
Thanks
Chengyun
Fusion Team
Hi Frank I will experiment with that behavior tomorrow. My two Mac Minis at the office had the first update with the problematic server configuration that I had fixed. Maybe it happens on that particular update. I will post what I had found here again. The Split View problem can be duplicated. Please try on your end too. Oh are you using PC or Mac? I am using Mac. If you are using PC then it could be a PC Fusion 360 bug. I had found the Split View bug for Mac thanks to you!
Hi Frank and Kingson,
Another possible cause - we introduced the “Auto-Look At sketch” option in November update. The option is turned on by default in Preference->General->Design.
When the option is on, view will automatically switch to normal view of sketch plane when creating or editing a sketch. At the same time, the camera will be set to Orthographic so users can easily infer/constrain/dimension to the body edges/vertices which don’t lie in the active sketch plane. If we perform an auto-look-at, this capability will be more discoverable. That's the purpose of the behavior.
On sketch exit, the camera will be set to the previous state (what it was). However, if you close the document when still in sketch environment, the camera state may not been restored. It should be an issue, I will ask the development team to look into it.
When the "Auto Look At Sketch" option is off, the camera should persist as previous version.
Hi Frank,
Thanks for your feedback and the comments.
Regarding the shortcut problems of Multiple Views, I have forwarded it to the development team for a solution (FUS-16182).
Regarding the feedback of camera view, I will forward the feedback to our UX for overall consideration.
Best Regards,
Hi Frank,
Many thanks for highlighting this issue on the camera resetting. It certainly wasn't our intent to reset your camera to Orthographic each time, but it's an unfortunate limitation/side-effect in this initial version that you're right to call out.
When switching to multiple viewports we default to following the common convention for 4-window layouts, having the top-left, bottom-left and bottom-right views display as synchronised third-angle projections (but allowing you to freely change these camera views & modes as you wish). We use orthographic cameras for these views because the concept of synchronised projected views only really makes sense when using orthographic cameras (we tested it with perspective cameras: it was a mess!). The unwanted side-effect now is that switching back to a single view is overwriting your original camera setting.
We've made an improvement in the internal build now so that Perspective with Ortho Views is maintained both switching to and from multiple viewports - so you should see this behaviour fixed in the next update.
The behaviour when the original camera was pure Perspective won't be affected by this change though. I guess this won't affect your own workflow, but it would be interesting to know what your expectation would be in this scenario:
Would also be great to get your thoughts on a couple more questions around limitations in the initial implementation that we're looking into potentially changing:
Thanks again for your feedback on this, and any more thoughts you have on this are really appreciated,
Jake
Jake Fowler
Principal Experience Designer
Fusion 360
Autodesk
Hi Frank,
Is this issue solved? I seem to have exactly the same problem and its working on my nerves, but there doesnt seem to be a solution?
Looking forward to your reply, its giving me headaches..
Sjors
This is now back as a bug. You can set to perspective and it will change back to ortho after any sketches or actions
This is still an issue - when you switch from one option to another - like trying to draw to extruder - once it switches back, it goes back to Orthographic view.
This has got to be a bug. I'm so tired of changing my camera back to "Perspective with Orthographic Faces". I can NOT deal with the default camera views. I'm very upset to have to continue to change a personal setting. As a software engineer of 40 years. This should be a simple bug / setting to persist just like my other preferences. This is such a problem for me I will need to find more formal way to report this BUG!!!
4/15/2022 and having a similar issue. Every time I open a new file it defaults to ortho and I literally never use it. When I open a new file I have to go through the process of selecting the camera view I want rather than being able to set perspective with ortho faces. If I have a rhythm going in my work flow, this can throw me off for a sec when I have to adjust settings every time.
Personally I think an option would be to set up everything you want and having a single box to check to set it to everything you open. "Add Current File Settings to Preferences"
September 2022, this is still a very annoying bug. Any new sketch puts the camera view back to Orthographic. I want the camera view to always be "Perspective with Ortho Faces" even when I start a new sketch. Can someone please fix this? It's been reported many times and nobody ever fixes it! Thanks