topic Re: Body grouping causes hidden objects to export in Fusion Support Forum

Body grouping causes hidden objects to export

anton.kuptsovEJSSW — Mon, 30 Dec 2019 16:13:00 GMT

Just noticed, that if I "hide" some group without hiding directly the bodies that is contains, such objects while invisible to me, will be exported (to STP or whatever) as if they were visible.

"Cable-Silicone" will be exported...

Re: Body grouping causes hidden objects to export

l_kesiunas — Sun, 15 Nov 2020 12:00:58 GMT

Same problem to me, it feels unintuitive. Has anybody got any workarounds without clicking each body and hiding it separately?

Re : Le regroupement de corps provoque l’exportation d’objets cachés

Anonymous — Sun, 15 Nov 2020 14:06:20 GMT

dans les composants

Re: Body grouping causes hidden objects to export

hrabecj — Mon, 25 Jan 2021 10:37:10 GMT

You can select all bodies you want to hide {either SHIFT+click for from-to selection or CTRL+click for individual bodies) and then press V - this toggles visibility of the selected bodies.

Re: Body grouping causes hidden objects to export

hrabecj — Mon, 25 Jan 2021 10:38:16 GMT

Even now (01/2021) I am experiencing the same problem, please fix this.

Re: Body grouping causes hidden objects to export

b.jacquesF9G7Y — Mon, 01 Nov 2021 15:03:44 GMT

Problem still persists as of November 2021
Problem is even worse when creating drawings:
- Create drawing of visible bodies: Grouped bodies are shown in the drawing even though both the group and all contained bodies are turned invisible!
- Create drawing of selected components: Not applicable since this only allows selection on component level (and we're talking first-level components, not sub-components!), not individual bodies
- Only solution: Delete the group and "expand contents" - that's in general the only way to get bodies out of a group. Get them into a group - Drag+Drop. Get them out - no way, you have to delete the group completely to free its contents. What if I've got 50 bodies in a group, and want to take only one of them out of the group? Yes, blast the whole group and put the 49 into a new one. Mostly defeats the purpose of groups for me.

It's moments like these when I really miss "professional" CAD programs. Not because of their expensive fancy functions (Fusion has lots of those, too), but because such basic things just work. Fusion? Banana-ware at its finest.

Re: Body grouping causes hidden objects to export

BaronTC — Sun, 14 Aug 2022 00:24:27 GMT

Hello from August 13, 2022! This just cost me 25 minutes of trying to hide / show / export until I finally realized that it was probably a bug that the FOLDER hide doesn't do anything about the inclusion of bodies on export, only toggles their visibility in the drawing.

Please do fix this.

This is maybe low hanging fruit since export already respects a body's visibility flag and would be just a matter of checking the body's group flag?

Re: Body grouping causes hidden objects to export

jeor — Sat, 24 Sep 2022 09:00:33 GMT

Despite several Fusion360 updates over the years since this issue was first reported, it's still not resolved!

Does the developers keep an eye on the user comments in this forum at all!?

It's pretty annoying, that one have to hide every body inside the group folder that one do not want to be printed.

If one only hide the bodygroup the bodys isn't visible in the Fusion workspace but they are certanily visible in the exported mesh file. If saved as a 3mf file, the Prusa slicer can't even import the file correctly. Haven't tried other slicers, but I think it would be the same issue.

As mentioned above, please fix this now, thanks.

Re: Body grouping causes hidden objects to export

Steven_Gao — Mon, 26 Sep 2022 03:44:37 GMT

Thanks for reporting this problem. We opened an internal ticket to track this problem.

Thanks,

Steven

Re: Body grouping causes hidden objects to export

ricthot — Sun, 22 Jan 2023 17:20:14 GMT

Any updates yet? Its really annoying having to go through all grouped bodies individually hiding those we don't want exported?