topic Re: CAM tools: Selections missing, would you like to clear them? Yes in Fusion Manufacture Forum

CAM tools: Selections missing, would you like to clear them? Yes

jacob_r_jennings — Sun, 14 Jul 2019 02:21:42 GMT

If geometry is missing from the selections on any CAM operation, and you edit that operation, it pops up a dialog asking if I would like to clear the selection. This dialog does nothing; or, it does the same thing if I say YES or NO. Old geometry still must be manually cleared. Either clear it when I say yes, or don't show the dialog

Re: CAM tools: Selections missing, would you like to clear them? Yes

jeff.pek — Wed, 07 Aug 2019 11:25:48 GMT

Do you have a model you can post that's exhibiting this problem?

Thanks,

Jeff

Re: CAM tools: Selections missing, would you like to clear them? Yes

seth.madore — Fri, 09 Aug 2019 15:03:48 GMT

@jeff.pek I have seen this behavior many times in osX and Win10. I'll get a screencast going today on it.

Re: CAM tools: Selections missing, would you like to clear them? Yes

nick_p3dcreations — Sun, 11 Aug 2019 04:37:06 GMT

I also see this regularly on Windows 8.1

Re: CAM tools: Selections missing, would you like to clear them? Yes

daniel_lyall — Sun, 11 Aug 2019 06:32:29 GMT

Same here on my Imac and win10

Re: CAM tools: Selections missing, would you like to clear them? Yes

seth.madore — Sun, 11 Aug 2019 16:55:06 GMT

I've logged this as CAM-16522

Re: CAM tools: Selections missing, would you like to clear them? Yes

jacob_r_jennings — Wed, 21 Aug 2019 06:04:55 GMT

I'm not seeing this lately with recent updates. I have opted in to the new toolbar, not sure if that had an effect.

Re: CAM tools: Selections missing, would you like to clear them? Yes

jw.hendy — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 17:07:35 GMT

With old posts, I'm not sure if the recommendation is to start a new topic or use the old since it's an exact match. I'm erring on the side of not starting a new topic, but will happily do so. This is still an issue, and I'm surprised more people haven't run into it? It happens 100% of the time for me when editing geometry. Here's a trivial example, and you can reproduce in the attached:

edit the sketch, delete the circle, make a new circle, close the sketch
edit the extrude, select the new circle
go to manufacturing, edit the 2d contour
when this dialog pops up, select "Yes" to [supposedly] remove the reference to the non-existent geometry
but then note that the geometry is still there, but with a highlighted error

I noted people saying the behavior might be OS dependent. I'm on a Mac. Maybe part of the issue is alignment of exact terminology? Technically I guess the geometry is not there anymore, as Fusion indicates that the existing chain is missing selections (geometry is removed). That said, when I see this dialog, my intuition is "Fusion correctly realizes that former geometry no longer exists, and I would indeed love if it removed the toolpath geometry associated with it."

Essentially I'd like to "start over" with respect to everything except my selections for e.g. tool, roughing passes, linking, heights, but to provide new geometry updated with my changes to the model. I frequently am moving fast, select the new contour, and then go to save and encounter this:

Then I go back, see that I actually have 2 contours selected now and delete the one with the error. I guess technically you can click "chain" select nothing, click OK, and Fusion gives the same warning but allows it... so it is possible to manually recreate this. I think it's not clear to me what the benefit is of "removing geometry" that still leaves an error, or what the design-intent was for how this helps. I could also see this becoming more helpful with options: "Missing geometry, what would you like to do? [Remove reference only] [Remove reference and path]?"

Re: CAM tools: Selections missing, would you like to clear them? Yes

jw.hendy — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 17:11:09 GMT

I'm naughty and did not watch the video. I guess this is apples/oranges. In 2019, there was only "the contours" vs. the current approach of having path "types" with associated geometry within. I can't tell if this is really the same issue. In some sense it does, in that you're left with an error situation: you'd select the new geometry, and Fusion would complain about missing geometry.

In another sense it isn't the same, as Fusion is clearing the geometry... but it's leaving the empty "container" for a selection, which still yields an error.