topic Re: Turn of part highlighting when mousing over in Fusion Design, Validate & Document Forum

Turn off part highlighting when mousing over

Natranzow — Mon, 17 Oct 2022 12:32:02 GMT

How can i turn off the model from highlighting when i mouse over it? If i have sketch dimensions on a model face but mouse over the model, and not the sketch dimension on the model, it turns white blocking any visibility of the sketch.

Not moused over:

Moused over:

Re: Turn of part highlighting when mousing over

jhackney1972 — Mon, 11 Oct 2021 17:35:01 GMT

The highlighting of faces when you mouse over is a core function in Fusion 360 and I doubt if there is a way to turn it off, nor do you really want to. I suggest a different workflow. It is probably a rare occasion when you have this situation so why not simply touch on the Body visibility icon and turn the body off temporarily to see your sketch or simply rotate the view to the sketch side. The sketch can be viewed from either side of the plane, the text is the same.

Re: Turn of part highlighting when mousing over

Natranzow — Mon, 11 Oct 2021 18:50:14 GMT

When you turn off the model, the now invisible model faces still light up when moused over. I don't care that it does this. I care that it washes out literally everything in line with that face.

Re: Turn of part highlighting when mousing over

jhackney1972 — Mon, 11 Oct 2021 21:16:54 GMT

I do not understand what you are saying. If the body is turned off, in the Browser, it cannot interfere with viewing an underlying sketch as you can see in my Screencast. If you are doing something else, please record your own Screencast to show your issue better.

Re: Turn of part highlighting when mousing over

Natranzow — Mon, 11 Oct 2021 21:23:08 GMT

All bodies off. Only thing visible is the three rectangles around the center hole. Yet the model face still highlights when moused over.

Re: Turn of part highlighting when mousing over

jhackney1972 — Mon, 11 Oct 2021 21:29:01 GMT

Of course it is if you hover over the Browser at any level. Doing this is the same thing as hovering over the body or component in the design workspace. Turn off the visibility of the body that is hiding your sketch and work on it in the design workspace, do not hover over anything in the browser.

If you want no highlighting if you hover over a model body or component as well as when you hover over the body or component in the Browser, you are out of luck!

Re: Turn of part highlighting when mousing over

Natranzow — Mon, 11 Oct 2021 21:48:37 GMT

Im NOT mousing over anything in the browser. This is ALL in the work space.

Here I have only the one sketch visible.

Re: Turn of part highlighting when mousing over

jhackney1972 — Mon, 11 Oct 2021 21:51:26 GMT

I have shown you, in a Screencast, that if the body is turned off, it is not visible in the design workspace. Send me a Screencast showing your process, not a screen capture, as I need to see what you are actually doing.

Re: Turn of part highlighting when mousing over

Natranzow — Mon, 11 Oct 2021 21:54:51 GMT

https://autode.sk/3oS3LdP

Re: Turn of part highlighting when mousing over

jhackney1972 — Mon, 11 Oct 2021 22:10:04 GMT

Your Screencast shows your problem. You have "Auto Project Geometry on Active Sketch Plane" in your Preferences turn on. So when you created the small rectangle sketches, on the back face, the outside edge of the circle was projected and created a Profile. You have "Show Projected Geometries", on your Sketch Palette, unchecked and have "Show Profile" checked so that is what you are seeing as you pass over the body area in the design workspace, the profile of the complete circle which seems to you is the body showing up. My Screencast will try and explain it better.

Re: Turn of part highlighting when mousing over

donniej2015 — Sun, 16 Oct 2022 18:16:49 GMT

Its October 2022. Many have requested the chose from disabling highlighting when hovering. A halo around the cursor would satisfy both those wanting to highlight a face on hover and those not wanting to see the entire face be highlighted. It is blinding to see large faces in the background be highlighted all the time when the drawing is not that of a few bodies. Its not a highlight anymore, for its a constant bright light. As been stated, the option exist on other software.

The fix is in.

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-360-design-validate/can-i-turn-off-the-selection-preview-while-hovering-over-my/m-p/9938823/highlight/false#M234763

Re: Turn of part highlighting when mousing over

chmed — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 17:20:35 GMT

I'm not sure that this is the same thing but, it hits a lot of the same search terms. What I'm finding annoying is when I'm working on a sketch, every time I mouse over a profile area, it highlights blue. This behavior stops if I turn off "Show Profile" in the Sketch Palette. But, what I want is for this feature to automatically turn off when editing a sketch and turn back on when done editing the sketch. This seems like it should be an obvious default behavior. Don't we generally extrude after finishing our sketches? But somehow F360 doesn't appear to work this way. Am I missing something? (And I don't remember this being so annoying a few versions back. Is this new?? Can't be.)

Re: Turn of part highlighting when mousing over

sandaeson — Fri, 03 May 2024 06:52:41 GMT

I have the same issue. its very annoying having faces light up when hovering... its enough to trigger epilepsy. Uselectable should mean unselectable, like locked but visible...Then this can only be reactivated in the outliner tree. To disable the body is a pretty rudimentary solution because making objects invisible is not the best solution if wehat you are doing requires reference to that object..

Re: Turn off part highlighting when mousing over

CGBenner — Fri, 03 May 2024 11:03:49 GMT

@sandaeson

Hello! Have you seen the post by @jhackney1972 from October 11, 2021 with the screencast? Could this be happening for you as well?

Betreff: Turn off part highlighting when mousing over

lostkatanaautodesk — Sun, 17 Nov 2024 14:51:42 GMT

I came across this as well and found the solution in this thread: https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-design-validate-document/highlight-color-when-selecting-sketch-profiles/td-p/6870925

In the settings under Graphics you can select what "highlighting" type you want. Normal is the way to go!

Re: Turn of part highlighting when mousing over

loyd.nornes — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 19:46:19 GMT

Pheeww... I am sure glad you know my needs better than I do. I though for a second there, that it would be great to not have the parts light up every time I roll over during a screen capture for a video. Sure happy to find out I don´t need that.