topic Re: Can't escape orbit! in Fusion Design, Validate & Document Forum

Can't escape orbit!

Anonymous — Thu, 03 Jul 2014 02:32:03 GMT

The June update has introduced a serious problem for me, I cannot escape orbit once initiated. It's the exact same problem that 123D had a few releases ago. I open a scene, orbit the view and it gets stuck in orbit with no way to stop it. The machine is a bog standard win 7 pc. The May and earlier releases worked fine so I don't know what has changed but I cannot use F3D. All I can do is quit the program once it happens.

Any ideas?

Re: Can't escape orbit!

NCSkalsky — Thu, 03 Jul 2014 05:01:40 GMT

Hi - I'm sorry to hear you are having trouble with orbit. I have not seen this myself. Are you having issue using the orbit command from the navigation toolbar (pic below)? <ESC> key is not working?

If you prefer and as a possible workaround you might use <SHIFT> and the middle mouse button to orbit (I actually prefer this rather than explicitly entering/exiting orbit command each time from the navigation toolbar).

I'll ask the team if anyone has seen this.

Thanks for reporting this and apologies for your inconvineance.

-Nathan

Re: Can't escape orbit!

Anonymous — Thu, 03 Jul 2014 08:24:53 GMT

Hi Nathan,

thanks for the quick reply. Orbit works properly with Shift>MMB and the Nav bar, the problem is that I have a habit of hitting the view cube unconciously and it's ok as long as I move the mouse from the cube in towards the viewport area. If I move to the outside of the screen (to the right) it will seemingly go out of bounds and lock orbit mode. I'm a lefty and so moving the cube left to right to orbit is my normal mode... hence the problem. That same as that action will also cause the cube/view to spin wildly. It appears that the mouse gets confined by the screen space, forcing the orbit to operate in an increasingly confined area until it becomes like a orbital singularity, it the mouse were permitted to do a screen wraparound (like in various numeric dialog boxes) it would likely fix the problem. I don't know if this is doable. In the meantime I've disabled the viewcube.

Try to reproduce this by rotating from the cube to the main screen border. If you wiggle it around the right of the screen edge it should reproduce the problem unless it's just specific to my configuration.

Re: Can't escape orbit!

Mike.Zhang — Fri, 04 Jul 2014 07:47:12 GMT

Hi,

Could you provide your machine information?

Mac or Windows? Detail OS information will help us address it.

Thanks for bing this up!

Re: Can't escape orbit!

mjlarragueta — Mon, 19 Jul 2021 18:36:16 GMT

This is still an issue, fixes have been promised in 2015, and in 2017, it is now 2021 and this bug still exists.

-Mac OS X Catolina 10.15.7 (19H2)

Re: Can't escape orbit!

tedbradley314 — Tue, 31 Aug 2021 03:03:55 GMT

This happens to me a couple of times every day. The help article says to restart Fusion 360. So that's what I do. But it' frustrating. See attached for a video. Escape key does not exit orbit mode.

Re: Can't escape orbit!

tedbradley314 — Thu, 09 Sep 2021 06:37:33 GMT

@Anonymous can we please mark this as "no solution"? It says it was solved but it has not been.

See attached for a video with repro steps on Mac OS Catalina 10.15.7 (19H1217) with bluetooth mouse.

Simply click and hold the orbit cube then drag over the tree/browser and then release.

Re: Can't escape orbit!

JPBrockway — Sat, 11 Sep 2021 22:55:24 GMT

I have the same issue. Once I select orbit, I can't deselect it.

In general orbiting, panning and zooming are clunky in Fusion360 compared to other 3D apps I have used where moving around using gestures on a MacBook Pro are natural and fluid.

In general gestures do not always work as if the app forgets that the setting "Use gesture-based view navigation" is enabled.

Re: Can't escape orbit!

emmdee — Tue, 05 Oct 2021 18:09:42 GMT

same problem here. REALLY FRUSTRATING!!!

FIRST TRACKPAD GESTURES STOPPED WORKING SOME MONTHS AGO

NO ONE SEEMS TO CARE

NOW THIS?!?!

REALLY?!!?

THIS IS CRUCIAL, BASIC, ELEMENTARY STUFF.

FUSION IS BECOMING MORE AND MORE A NIGHTMARE TO USE

COULD THE DEV.TEAM PLEASE START TO SOLVE THESE CORE ISSUES

BEFORE ADDING MORE USELESS FEATURES?

THANKS A LOT

Re: Can't escape orbit!

dero_flem — Thu, 14 Oct 2021 16:59:07 GMT

I also have this issue. MacOS. If I click on the top right cube to rotate my project, all ok unless I hold my mouse button down for more than 10sec. After that the rotate function locks ON. To unlock I have to restart Fusion. Odd is the other tabs are not locked.

Re: Can't escape orbit!

Anonymous — Tue, 02 Nov 2021 21:30:07 GMT

Hi, I have a student using Fusion 360 on a chromebook in a university setting. He is complaining of this and esc does not release him from Orbit view. Please tell me his solution IS NOT to restart the program.

Surj.

Re: Can't escape orbit!

ellis.lowell.scott — Sun, 16 Jan 2022 02:14:35 GMT

Same issue. I am on MacOS Monterrey 12.0. Happens to be at least once every couple of hours.

Re: Can't escape orbit!

scott8UDGF — Thu, 03 Feb 2022 19:51:11 GMT

I have the same issue on my Mac and have been trying for days to schedule support! Autodesk support is terrible so far, I'm starting to regret paying for the subscription. As a hobbiest it was a lot of money and it doesn't really get me any support. Sad...

Re: Can't escape orbit!

Anonymous — Thu, 03 Feb 2022 20:08:07 GMT

I hope you solve this. I have had zero help or follow up from Autodesk. The sales guys keep calling but I think I have to look at "is the software fit for the job?" and I have to say "mostly, but not with a faulty steering wheel".

Re: Can't escape orbit!

scott8UDGF — Thu, 03 Feb 2022 20:12:49 GMT

Thanks, I don't have a lot of hope, it looks like this bug has been around for 8+ years. It got worse after I paid for the software. How is that even possible? Very disappointed in Autodesk.

Re: Can't escape orbit!

nicolaslowmanFFSAR — Wed, 16 Feb 2022 04:12:17 GMT

I am able to reproduce this issue as well. It is super annoying.

Mac OS 10.15.7

Re: Can't escape orbit!

ellis.lowell.scott — Wed, 16 Feb 2022 07:31:40 GMT

I finally just bought parallels so I can run the windows version of fusion
360. Not sure if it’s the M1 chip in my Mac mini of just bugginess in
Fusion for Mac. Disappointing.

Re: Can't escape orbit!

dero_flem — Wed, 16 Feb 2022 13:53:40 GMT

Mine is Intel chip and this complaint is years old.

Re: Can't escape orbit!

gorodni4ij — Wed, 23 Feb 2022 20:51:12 GMT

The same issue for me

Re: Can't escape orbit!

chase.keith25 — Thu, 12 May 2022 01:31:38 GMT

same

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