topic Re: Strange centre-point arc problem in Fusion Design, Validate & Document Forum

Strange centre-point arc problem

lemelman — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 14:36:04 GMT

This is an odd one. I'm in a sketch and want to draw an arc between two specific points with centre at the origin. I choose the centre-point arc tool and click the origin, but the arc centre is somewhere other than the origin - it's miles away. See attached screen shot. It's happened on several sketches. If I try and try again, it sometimes works.

Re: Strange centre-point arc problem

davebYYPCU — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 15:04:06 GMT

You can’t draw anything under the Browser.

Review the video again, the centre point gets detached from the mouse as your mouse goes under the Browser space.

Zoom out, should work.

Might help…..

Re: Strange centre-point arc problem

lemelman — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 15:15:23 GMT

Zooming out didn't work -why should the mouse pointer loose the centre pointer?

Re: Strange centre-point arc problem

laughingcreek — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 15:31:18 GMT

is this just happening with CenterPoint arcs?

Re: Strange centre-point arc problem

HughesTooling — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 15:46:17 GMT

I can get this to happen but only if I start the command from the dropdown menu, I have the arc icons on the top tool bar and using from there works fine. This problem has come up before and it is only a problem if the mouse pointer is under the area where the browser is.

You can see here the pointer has hit the side of the browser and will not move any further to the left.

Re: Strange centre-point arc problem

HughesTooling — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 15:53:16 GMT

Bit more testing and it seems like all the commands on the dropdown menu have this problem. Seems like the browser is grabbing focus and blocking the drawing area. After starting the arc command, if you click the tab for the active design the pointer works correctly again. @Phil.E Is this a known problem at the moment? EDIT, seeing this on 2 Windows PCs.

Re: Strange centre-point arc problem

Phil.E — Wed, 01 May 2024 14:40:33 GMT

Thanks for reporting. This is reported in ticket FUS-49946. I'll add the link to this page and comments to update the ticket.

Here is a bit more explanation.

Other than being careful how the mouse moves, here are two other workarounds: