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the history timeline is really annoying

Anonymous — Sat, 04 Jul 2020 14:18:15 GMT

Hello,

I'm working on a big project in fusion 360 so my timeline bar is really long.

And sometimes i have to go back in my timeline beacause i want to change or to add something. For exemple like that :

The problem is that during my work Fusion 360 change the view of my timeline and show me the begining of it. Like that :

So if i want to move again in my timeline i have to slide it first. It is really really really annoying.

Sometimes i just don't remember where i'm in my timeline and just for that i have to slide it to find it.

I'm loosing a lot of time because of that!

And also as i can't watch where my history timeline is i cannot use buttons for going left or right because i can't see what i'm doing.

Is there an option somewhere to force fusion 360 to stay at the point i'm working at? Or at least to force it to not move the timeline at all.

Thanks

Re: the history timeline is really annoying

TrippyLighting — Sun, 05 Jul 2020 02:23:12 GMT

Are you aware of Fusion 360 R.U.L.E #1?

It is a key concept you should really internalize.

Re: the history timeline is really annoying

OceanHydroAU — Sun, 05 Jul 2020 04:37:02 GMT

Is there a way to name operations?

e.g. lets say I've done something complicated, and it's got 5 fillets.

Later, I'm wondering which one was (.e.g.) the "outside corners" - it would be very handy to have had a way to label that item in my history with that name...

Re: the history timeline is really annoying

g-andresen — Sun, 05 Jul 2020 08:48:15 GMT

Hi,

give this a try:

@OceanHydroAU

Is there a way to name operations?

günther

Re: the history timeline is really annoying

OceanHydroAU — Mon, 06 Jul 2020 04:27:17 GMT

(blush) - I really need to spend more time looking for stuff, instead of asking stuff I think!!!! as always - brilliant hint - thanks again 🙂

I've been hatching a crazy idea - a mashup of training videos with github and a Makefile - but "for smarties" as opposed to "for dummies" (clever people tend to "switch off" when training has repetitive baby speak). The general idea is to make tiny video clips that very quickly introduce the learner to specific things, along with all the details they need to know and why (so, to use my own ignorance as an example, the video topic about the timeline would mention you can rename stuff, and that doing so helps later when you're wanting to quickly find something you need to tweak among many operations). Those tiny video clips become individual "files" on github, complete with githubs issue tracking/development system and source control etc. For continuity, spoken words would best be scripted (AI can convert the original words to text with timing and inflection hints, submit it into the wiki area, then another AI can use the wiki to replace the audio with a clear voice and/or change language). Finally, a Makefile process can assemble all the clips and voiceover into a video that's published on Youtube.

What that means, is that everyone can contribute. Fusion360 is *huge*, and there's lots of experts at different part s of it around here. If anyone wants to improve the text, they just use the wiki to change it - the voiceover will re-master the video. If you want to add video stuff, just make a new clip. If you think things need to be in some other order, move them around. It would be like a one-stop perpetually-self-updating everything-you-need-to-know-in-one-place master product guide. If done extensively, you could in theory sit through a few hours of fast-paced no-repetition video - and at the end of that - you'd have experienced every single product facet, alogn with hints and reasons. I dunno about you, but I tend to remember stuff, even if I didn't learn it. So for example, if one day in future I noticed it was hard to remember what I'd done in the history, the fact I'd seen "right-click rename" in a video in the past would be enough for my brain to know how/what/why (and, the fact the video is text-searchable, would mean I could near-instantly find the clip needed to remind me the details...)