topic Re: Added component visibility in drawing workspace. in Fusion Design, Validate & Document Forum

Added component visibility in drawing workspace.

thomasDTVML — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 08:54:34 GMT

Hi all,

I've been struggling recently with visibility/ toggling inclusion of components in the drawing workspace. If you create a model and create a drawing from said model with only certain components selected all is fine. Now if you go back into the modelling space and add new components and update the drawing after saving the model they automatically become visible in the drawing workspace. This happens on every sheet for every component added for every design change made. Fusion for some reason seems incredibly slow when suppressing components in the workspace so to do this over and over again is a bloody nightmare.

Does anyone have a work around for this or not?

I think the problem is explained here albeit poorly: https://www.autodesk.com/support/technical/article/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/How-to-prevent-adding-new-parts-from-been-visible-in-every-drawing-instance-in-Fusion-360.html

Re: Added component visibility in drawing workspace.

anirudha_kulkarniHVD7C — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 10:38:43 GMT

Hello @thomasDTVML

Sorry to hear that you're facing issues while using Fusion.

I’m trying to understand the visibility issue in more detail. Could you please confirm:

When you add new components on the design side, is the visibility of those newly added components turned on by default, or
Are the components that were previously hidden becoming visible again after adding new components?

It would be very helpful if you could share more details about workflow — including steps to reproduce the issue, a video recording, or if possible, the dataset you're working with.

Regarding the performance issue with suppression, currently we recompute the views after every suppress/un-suppress action, which may cause some slowness. We acknowledge this and will work on improving the performance.

Thanks for your support and feedback.

Re: Added component visibility in drawing workspace.

thomasDTVML — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 11:49:19 GMT

Hi,

Yes in the model space the visibility is turned on.

Say if you created a design with 2 components. Created a drawing from the design and suppressed one of the components leaving only one visible component in the drawing. Then went back to the model space added a 3rd component, updated the drawing now the drawing would show the initially selected component plus the newly added component in the model space.

If you would like to do a screenshare of this to show you the issue I'm more than happy to do this just let me know the best way to go about it.

Re: Added component visibility in drawing workspace.

sandip_dumbare — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 11:58:47 GMT

Hello @thomasDTVML
I understand the issue you're experiencing. However, this as expected behavior. Without this mechanism in place, the drawing would not receive or reflect the most recent changes made to the component file.

Re: Added component visibility in drawing workspace.

thomasDTVML — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 12:04:31 GMT

On large drawings this crashes the software regularly due to the reason highlighted above by @anirudha_kulkarniHVD7C) this seems a rather large floor in the software. Why don't new components just not show up in the drawing after alteration of the model. It causes equal amounts of problems either way.
Please could someone suggest a workaround the problem that @anirudha_kulkarniHVD7C has already acknowledged.

Re: Added component visibility in drawing workspace.

sandip_dumbare — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 12:22:40 GMT

@thomasDTVML While creating a Drawing, use 'Select' option under 'Contents', as shown in the snapshot. (Steps: In Design workspace > Right-click the Design that is open and select Create a Drawing)

Then select the components that you want to add to the Drawing. The newly added components will not reflect the the Drawing. Hope this will help.

Re: Added component visibility in drawing workspace.

thomasDTVML — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 12:49:34 GMT

Hi,

Do you have a solution for when updating an existing drawing? New parts created in the model space are automatically shown on the drawing. The only way to remove these from drawing sheets that the new components are not required on is to go through each sheet and remove them by supressing them in the drawing space. As acknowledged by Autodesk above this doesn't work very well as the computing power required to do this is quite large.

So to summarise the way you suggest does not help my problem. Please advise on a workaround for exiting drawings that are updated.

Re: Added component visibility in drawing workspace.

sandip_dumbare — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 12:54:55 GMT

Feel free to book time on my calendar and I can show how it works.