topic Re: Default shortcuts in Fusion Electronics Forum

Default shortcuts

silvio3105 — Sun, 31 Jul 2022 22:26:30 GMT

Hi, I found this list - https://www.autodesk.com/shortcuts/fusion-360

I cannot find for what F2 shortcut is used. I cannot set F2 for custom shortcut.

Is there any way to disable default shortcuts(eg. F6)?

Where I can find commands to execute?

Re: Default shortcuts

jorge_garcia — Mon, 01 Aug 2022 20:59:18 GMT

Hi @silvio3105,

I don't know if the default Fusion shortcut system uses the F keys but I know that in electronics you can define shortcuts that use those keys.

Let me know if there's anything else I can do for you.

Best Regards,

Re: Default shortcuts

silvio3105 — Mon, 01 Aug 2022 22:01:06 GMT

I get this

Also, where I can find commands to change layer or activate something else?

Re: Default shortcuts

jorge_garcia — Tue, 02 Aug 2022 18:18:03 GMT

Hi @silvio3105,

I stand corrected. I don't know what Fusion does with the F buttons, I just tried them in a few different places and got nothing. I'll ask one of my colleagues for more info.

The following page documents all of the different commands along with their syntax that you can assign to shortcuts.
https://help.autodesk.com/view/fusion360/ENU/?guid=ECD-CLI

Let me know if there's anything else I can do for you.

Best Regards,

Re: Default shortcuts

silvio3105 — Fri, 05 Aug 2022 17:03:26 GMT

I hope we'll find for what F2 is used.

Re: Default shortcuts

CGBenner — Fri, 19 Aug 2022 19:06:54 GMT

@jorge_garcia

Have we learned anything new on this?

Re: Default shortcuts

silvio3105 — Fri, 19 Aug 2022 21:50:09 GMT

It would be nice to unbind F2 key since I use F1 top top, F2 would be for bottom layer and F3/F4 top/bottom silkscreen.

Re: Default shortcuts

jorge_garcia — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 21:38:59 GMT

Hi @silvio3105,

I hope you're doing well. So I spoke to a colleague and as far as he knew Fusion doesn't use the F keys at all and they are not available for use. Apparently, Inventor uses them but Fusion does not. I can put in a feature request for this.

Let me know if there's anything else I can do for you.

Best Regards,

Re: Default shortcuts

silvio3105 — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 21:57:29 GMT

Yes, you should put request to solve this bug. It does not seem to be big deal to fix.
What Inventor has to do with Fusion?

Re: Default shortcuts

silvio3105 — Mon, 26 Sep 2022 17:06:47 GMT

Any news about this request?

Re: Default shortcuts

bandrewsHH3AM — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 04:42:31 GMT

I'm going to bump this as well - I'm starting to migrate my Eagle work into Fusion360 and want to start getting my shortcuts set up so the transition is as painless as possible (it's still going to be a P.I.T.A.). HOWEVER, I've got assignments for certain layer views to things like CTRL+1 (top layer stuff) / CTRL+2 (layer 2 stuff) / etc. and I'm getting the 'shortcut reserved by Fusion' message for some of the shortcuts. It'd be really nice to know what shortcuts just aren't available to me without having to guess and test...

Re: Default shortcuts

jorge_garcia — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 22:12:20 GMT

Hi @bandrewsHH3AM,

I hope you're doing well. Which shortcuts are complaining? I'll talk to our devs, so far I'm not aware of any definitive list of what shortcuts won't work in Fusion.

Let me know if there's anything else I can do for you.

Best Regards,

Re: Default shortcuts

bandrewsHH3AM — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 13:49:17 GMT

Hi @jorge_garcia ,

Just a start to looking at these, it appears at least these all show as 'Reserved':

alt+1, alt+2, alt+3, ctrl+4, ctrl+5, ctrl+6

Re: Default shortcuts

jorge_garcia — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 19:22:29 GMT

Hi @bandrewsHH3AM ,

Love the Megaman avatar! Ive passed this along to our developers for review.

Let me know if there is anything else I can do for you.

Re: Default shortcuts

jorge_garcia — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 19:17:26 GMT

Hi @bandrewsHH3AM,

I got a response from one of the developers.

"Numbers, F keys and many combinations are reserved by Fusion core. However, some modifiers plus numbers can be supported. For example, "Ctrl+2" is default shortcut for "Switch sch to pcb" in schematic workspace and "Ctrl+2" is for "switch pcb to sch"."

Since we built the shortcut system on top of Fusion's shortcut system we are strapped by their limitations, so there are going to be key combos that EAGLE could handle, which we will not be able to transfer into Fusion. With that said, you should still be able to get the results you want just using different combinations.

Best Regards,

Re: Default shortcuts

bandrewsHH3AM — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 19:41:24 GMT

Hey @jorge_garcia ,

Thanks for looking into this and asking. What I'm hearing from the developer's response is essentially 'There are reserved combinations, but we're not going to tell you what those are. Users will just have to figure them out for themselves.' ...

I can't blame you - I'm just a little frustrated their response didn't bother addressing the actual question, which is 'What key combinations are reserved, so I can plan my new customized shortcuts around what I can't change?'

Re: Default shortcuts

melisa.kaner — Mon, 03 Jul 2023 10:28:48 GMT

Hi @bandrewsHH3AM & @silvio3105 ,

Thanks so much for posting on the forums and for your feedback. I agree, understanding what key combinations are reserved isn't easy today and it should be better. If not directly in the dialogue, then in help documentation.

Here are some help docs showing shortcuts across Fusion : https://www.autodesk.co.uk/shortcuts/fusion-360, of course this wont count for system reserved hotkeys. In terms of function keys (F1, F2 etc) being reserved, I will research this internally and come back to this thread.

I would love some more feedback on the shortcuts system, so please feel free to DM me and we can set up some time to have a quick chat or chat over DM. We're always looking to improve.

Best regards,

Melisa

Re: Default shortcuts

silvio3105 — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 19:48:22 GMT

I'd love to see all key combos that are not in use, are free.
It's "stupid" to see that F something key is reserved for nothing(?) or user cannot use some key in electronics module because it's default for some action in other module(don't know is this case but who knows?).
Also, it would be nice to see option where user can remap actions to other keys(or remove key to do something). That would be top!

Re: Default shortcuts

melisa.kaner — Fri, 04 Aug 2023 12:54:21 GMT

@silvio3105 , appreciate the feedback! Looking at F in particular, this is reserved for 'flip board' in 2D PCB. But as I agreed above...this isn't represented in the link I sent above and could be a lot clearer. I'll bring this back to the team and come back here when I have news in this area.

Best regards,

Melisa