topic Re: Selecting a Face in Render Mode in Fusion Support Forum

Selecting a Face in Render Mode

tolgay.hickiran — Tue, 12 Sep 2017 08:58:13 GMT

I've been doing quite a lot of rendering work in Fusion nowadays and it has been a struggle choosing faces. You can check the problem in the screencast.

Re: Selecting a Face in Render Mode

tolgay.hickiran — Tue, 12 Sep 2017 09:08:36 GMT

Somehow the screencast does not appear on the first message

Re: Selecting a Face in Render Mode

Phil.E — Tue, 12 Sep 2017 18:29:05 GMT

@tolgay.hickiran

I can see the same issue when picking sliver faces. The Faces filter in Appearance dialog is somehow getting a tiny bit confused if the mouse is not entirely on the face. I'll file a bug report on it.

There are a few things that might help you get productive today.

1. Don't use face appearances when the entire part is probably the same material. The nut you show in the video, does it really have different appearances on the faces?

2. Use the selection priority filter to force Face priority. This removes all doubt for the face selection logic.

Thanks for posting. Let me know if you have more questions.

Regards,

Re: Selecting a Face in Render Mode

tolgay.hickiran — Wed, 13 Sep 2017 12:26:41 GMT

Hey Phil,

Since this file is in SAT format converted from an inventor iam it is not perfect, hence the need to choosing faces time to time.

If i want to choose the entire body, the blue part on top of the body also gets selected. And i can't change the the appearance after that which is much more interesting. So i thought i had to choose all the faces.

Re: Selecting a Face in Render Mode

Phil.E — Wed, 13 Sep 2017 16:07:24 GMT

Thanks for following up. I understand a bit more now.

Have you tried using STEP export from Inventor? This preserves appearances and browser (component) structure and names. It might make this workflow a little easier for you.

Another tip: just zoom in closer. When the mouse is small compared to the face you are trying to work with, it's much easier to select the faces.

One last thing: This is the appearance hierarchy in Fusion. Face > body > component.

Face overrides body and component.
Body overrides component.
Component overrides nothing.

Sounds like you may have applied appearances and could not override them. Can you make a video of that?

Thanks,