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Fusion 360 Animation Timeline 'Events' are Invisible

s3839132 — Mon, 10 Aug 2020 13:53:49 GMT

I am having some issues with the animation workspace and I am not sure what exactly is wrong with it.

It has been like this ever since I got Fusion (student account) I tried uninstalling and reinstalling Fusion 360, but that did not seem to fix it.

When you create an action such as moving the camera, a blue bar is supposed to appear showing the duration the action is animated for.

like so. However in my case, I do not have those blue indicators.

As you can see, the camera movements were recorded, but the blue bar indicating how long the action occurs for is not present. This is making animation a nightmare as I do not have a visual representation of the timeline. does anyone know what is wrong with my animation timeline and is there a way to fix it?

Re: Fusion 360 Animation Timeline 'Events' are Invisible

jhackney1972 — Mon, 10 Aug 2020 17:40:39 GMT

It looks like a graphics card issue or something related. Go to the Help drop-down and pull a Graphics Diagnostic.

Also in your Preferences, try a different Directx setting. This setting is under General.

Re: Fusion 360 Animation Timeline 'Events' are Invisible

s3839132 — Mon, 10 Aug 2020 23:30:35 GMT

Hi John,

I tried both DirectX 9 and 11 and restarted fusion, but the problem persisted.

I checked the graphics diagnostics and these are my computer specs.

[GPU Information]
GPU Device: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
GPU RAM: 4096 MB
GPU Driver API: DirectX 11.0
GPU Driver Version: 442.23
GPU Driver Date: 06/29/2020

[Graphics Effects Settings]
Anti Aliasing: On
Ambient Occlusion: On
Object Shadow: On
Ground Shadow: On
Ground Reflection: Off
Selection Display Style: Normal
Transparency Effect: Better Performance

[Limit effects to optimize performance]
Off

I also tried to limit effects to optimise performance, but the timeline remained unchanged.

Andrew Eow (Student)

Re: Fusion 360 Animation Timeline 'Events' are Invisible

jhackney1972 — Mon, 10 Aug 2020 23:48:42 GMT

Please forgive me from my question but I want to be sure you are creating the Camera entry to the timeline correctly. Also I want to see if Transform Component command does the same thing. Take a look at the Screencast.

Re: Fusion 360 Animation Timeline 'Events' are Invisible

s3839132 — Tue, 11 Aug 2020 01:35:22 GMT

Yes, I am definitely animating like that. The camera and transform tools funtion perfectly.

I am still able to tweak the blue bars as if they were there, such as dragging the start and end point of the action, as well as dragging and dropping it along the timeline. It is just that they are invisible. The white camera and transfrom icons are still barely visible.

Re: Fusion 360 Animation Timeline 'Events' are Invisible

s3839132 — Wed, 12 Aug 2020 10:32:33 GMT

It seems I have found something else out.

It look as though the Show/Hide action is showing just fine in the animation timeline. It just seems to be happening to the blue coloured bars