topic Re: Canvas highlighting while working on sketch in Fusion Support Forum

Canvas highlighting while working on sketch

garmitage — Fri, 17 Nov 2017 00:58:03 GMT

The canvas image I'm using for a background reference gets highlighted any time I have the cursor over it (which is all of the time since I'm "tracing" over it to draw the sketch. Wicked annoying. Is there anything I can do?

Re: Canvas highlighting while working on sketch

saito.kh — Fri, 17 Nov 2017 03:43:51 GMT

Hi @garmitage,

Thank you for posting in the community!

I am sorry to hear that you are experiencing this. Does this happen on a particular image or on all images?

At this point I am not sure why this happens but can you please try the Selectable/Unselectable toggle if you have not?

This is the command to disable/enable in selecting the object, and is located in the menu as right-clicked on the image name in the browser as below:

If this does not make any differences, would you turn on "limit effects to optimize performance" and let me know if it helps?

To turn on it, you would please go to the Help menu - Graphics Diagnostics.

Thanks!

Re: Canvas highlighting while working on sketch

garmitage — Fri, 17 Nov 2017 15:24:07 GMT

Unfortunately, neither of these helped. Actually, selecting "limit effects to optimize performance" made it worse by causing it to highlight in purple. The Selectable/Unselectable toggle made no difference at all.

Re: Canvas highlighting while working on sketch

saito.kh — Mon, 20 Nov 2017 06:03:28 GMT

Hi @garmitage,

Thank you for the update!

I am sorry to hear that my suggestions did not help.

Can you please post the image file you are using as a canvas so that I can test and troubleshoot this issue?

Also, would you let me know the specifications for your system as below?

- OS:

- Memory:

- Graphic card : (you might please attach the screenshot of the Graphics Diagnostics window as shown in my previous post)

If you have any questions, please let me know. I am happy to assist!

Thanks

Re: Canvas highlighting while working on sketch

garmitage — Mon, 20 Nov 2017 14:50:52 GMT

I experience the same issue on both a Mac and PC so I don't imagine the
particulars of the system specifications are the issue.

Below is a link to the design and I've attached one of the jpg files I
use in the canvas.

http://a360.co/2zYOoVK

Re: Canvas highlighting while working on sketch

garmitage — Mon, 20 Nov 2017 15:02:30 GMT

I experience the same issue on both a Mac and PC so I don't imagine the particulars of the system specifications are the issue.

Below is a link to the design and I've attached one of the jpg files I use in the canvas.

http://a360.co/2zYOoVK

While you're looking at that design maybe you can tell me why that one arc on the left side of the lower shape is not black even though it seems to be fully constrained.

Re: Canvas highlighting while working on sketch

saito.kh — Wed, 22 Nov 2017 10:13:17 GMT

Hi @garmitage,

I am sorry for my late response!

Thank you for posting the public link. I looked into the behavior with your design file and also with a new file attached the image file, and I still haven't been able to recreate this.

Can you please watch how I operated in the Screencast and let me know if I missed something?

I would also appreciate if you record your operation!

For the sketch constraint with arc in the attached image, the green dot shows it is constrained with "Fix" and the point has been constrained only with "Fix".

Thanks.

Re: Canvas highlighting while working on sketch

garmitage — Tue, 28 Nov 2017 19:52:12 GMT

It's behaving the same for me so I don't need to provide a screencast. I see that the canvas highlighting only happens in an open the sketch if a tool or constraint isn't selected, but the highlighting is still annoying and distracting when doing line selection. Did you notice that if there are closed shapes it highlights inside the shape or outside depending on the cursor placement? Since the canvas isn't part of the sketch is there any point in it being "selectable"? If there is any way to prevent it from highlighting, I would be grateful to know.

Glenn

Re: Canvas highlighting while working on sketch

jeff_strater — Tue, 28 Nov 2017 22:41:45 GMT

Yes, you can make a canvas unselectable:

You can also turn off the selection filter for Canvas in the Selection menu:

With both of these, though, be sure to remember to turn them back on if you ever want to edit or delete the canvas.

Jeff

Re: Canvas highlighting while working on sketch

TrippyLighting — Wed, 29 Nov 2017 02:46:22 GMT

I am not sure Fusion 360 is doing this by now, but I'd made a suggestion the Idea Station a looooong time ago for context sensitive filter settings. This would be one candidate for it.

There's really no reason to ever want to select a canvas when sketching, so this could be automatically turned off when editing a sketch.