topic Re: Blurry text and icons on high dpi display (4k) in Fusion Support Forum

Blurry text and icons on high dpi display (4k)

Anonymous — Sat, 09 Sep 2017 17:57:18 GMT

Hello,

I'm new to Fusion 360 and it seems to have a scaling issue on high-dpi displays. I'm using a 24 inch 4k (3840 x 2160) and the entire screen looks blurry (texts, icons, main viewport, etc...). I've found this support link and tried disabling scaling for this program, it did make everything sharp and crisp but also extremely small and unusable...

Here's how it looks like:

Re: Blurry text and icons on high dpi display (4k)

paul.clauss — Sun, 10 Sep 2017 15:36:55 GMT

Hi @Anonymous

Thanks for posting and welcome to the Fusion 360 community!

As you found, disabling scaling will make the Fusion UI more clear on the high resolution monitor, but can result in the text, menus, and toolbars becoming very small. You may be able to improve this by setting your display to a lower resolution (try 1920x1080).

One Ideastation post that could help folks using Fusion take advantage of high resolution monitors is the suggestion to allow options to scale the text and UI - this post is linked here. Please give it a vote if you would be interested in seeing this improvement in Fusion!

Feel free to let me know if you have any questions!

Re: Blurry text and icons on high dpi display (4k)

Anonymous — Sun, 10 Sep 2017 17:05:29 GMT

Hi,

I up-voted this post but it seems to have only 4 votes... Surely there must be a way more people using an high DPI display?

This is a major issue for me and is the only thing preventing me from purchasing this otherwise excellent software! I hope this will be sorted out in the future, meanwhile, I think I'll continue to use it for my hobby projects with the free license...

Maybe make this vote more visible? I'm sure a lot of people want this feature but don't know where to voice their opinion...

Thanks for the response!

Re: Blurry text and icons on high dpi display (4k)

paul.clauss — Sun, 10 Sep 2017 17:17:13 GMT

Hi @Anonymous

Agreed - I would like to see that Ideastation post get more votes, as the ability to scale UI in Fusion would also provide an accessibility improvement for folks with poor eyesight as well as help optimize the use of high resolution monitors. Hopefully this forum thread will point some votes over there, and feel free to comment on the Ideastation post if this is something your feel strongly about. The development team does consider other factors than total number of votes when looking through the Ideastation!

We appreciate your kind words about Fusion 360 and hope that development can provide this improvement in the future.

Re: Blurry text and icons on high dpi display (4k)

john — Wed, 27 Sep 2017 16:20:56 GMT

Hi, This has been discussed since 2015 as an issue. Why does this need to be an ideastatio post after all this time - surely support for 4k monitors for a CAD package is an obvious requirement. This sounds like a stalling tactic for a requirement that has been highlighted since 2015 that I'm aware of.

Fusion is a great product but this is a frustrating issue.

John

Re: Blurry text and icons on high dpi display (4k)

Anonymous — Wed, 23 Mar 2022 19:28:20 GMT

@paul.clauss you posted a duplicate of the original idea https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-360-ideastation-request-a/adjustable-width-length-for-window-panels-palettes-4k-monitor/ from 2015.

Changing my screen back to 1080p is DEFINITELY not an option. Thats not why i bought a display with higher resolution.

I also got response from my YouTube Subscribers which would really appreciate this change!!!

Video Removed by Moderator as Dead Link.

WE NEED THIS CHANGED!

Re: Blurry text and icons on high dpi display (4k)

paul.clauss — Mon, 11 Dec 2017 16:21:59 GMT

Hi @Anonymous

Thanks for reaching out! We do understand that this is something that needs to be improved in a future update to Fusion - unfortunately this can take some time. The Ideastation post has been marked for future consideration and our development team does have it in their backlog. We apologize for any inconveniences this may cause you as they work towards a solution.

Re: Blurry text and icons on high dpi display (4k)

fernandosorianello — Mon, 28 May 2018 14:20:09 GMT

Hi,

I have just installed fusion for the 1st time. Is this issue solved already?

Re: Blurry text and icons on high dpi display (4k)

Anonymous — Mon, 28 May 2018 18:39:58 GMT

I just updated Fusion 360 today and it looks like it's not solved yet unfortunately. This is really the only feature preventing me from purchasing the product 😞

Re: Blurry text and icons on high dpi display (4k)

john — Mon, 28 May 2018 20:34:12 GMT

Wow, this incredible - 2+ years and its still the same status! Seriously this is exactly the kind of application that should be making use of 4k monitors. Very disappointing - otherwise such a great product.

Re: Blurry text and icons on high dpi display (4k)

Anonymous — Thu, 09 May 2019 11:45:23 GMT

2019, icons still small

Re: Blurry text and icons on high dpi display (4k)

jurisUDPNY — Tue, 11 Feb 2020 04:48:27 GMT

2020 and still no fix 😞

Please, we need this fix so much!

Re: Blurry text and icons on high dpi display (4k)

manuel.fr — Tue, 11 Feb 2020 06:44:54 GMT

im working on a 27" 5k imac and have no issus, everything looks very crisp and nice. nothing looks to small or blurry or other problems... fusion has a realy good graphic in my eyes. very nice compard to other cad software. i like its clean look.

Re: Blurry text and icons on high dpi display (4k)

matthewjralston — Sun, 17 May 2020 16:39:47 GMT

It is absolutely amazing to me that this is a problem for years on an application that otherwise checks every UI box for me. This is the sort of issue I deal with trying to get applications working in the antiquated printing industry. I never would have dreamed downloading an industry standard 3D modeling application, especially one which looks to be written as a cross platform electron app.

Re: Blurry text and icons on high dpi display (4k)

miky3848 — Fri, 05 Jun 2020 08:08:53 GMT

STILL NOT FIXED ON 2020

This is how much these people are serious

disinstalled

Re: Blurry text and icons on high dpi display (4k)

Anonymous — Sun, 12 Jul 2020 10:00:48 GMT

Beggars belief this is still an issue and in a CAD application of all things where screen real estate is important.

Re: Blurry text and icons on high dpi display (4k)

jrychter — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 19:39:55 GMT

I normally use an iMac, but I just ran Fusion 360 on Windows with a 4K monitor, and WOW -- this is a flashback from ten years ago! Everything is blurry.

These days I consider 4K to be a low-res monitor and spend most of my time on 5K iMac. I followed the (ancient) support article about enabling/disabling application scaling and now I ended up with hi-res rendering with a user interface that is too small. I guess that's better than nothing, but still -- this needs to be fixed.

Re: Blurry text and icons on high dpi display (4k)

tnalleyS6NCB — Wed, 06 Jan 2021 16:11:14 GMT

2021 and not fixed. You would think high resolution support would be one of the basic facets of a program that is almost always used on high resolution displays.......

Re: Blurry text and icons on high dpi display (4k)

alexander_ko — Sun, 17 Jan 2021 13:39:10 GMT

Janaury 2021. The program still looks blurry. Why is everything fine on Macs, but there is no HighDPI support on Windows?

Betreff: Blurry text and icons on high dpi display (4k)

thburn — Sat, 30 Jan 2021 21:01:20 GMT

Hi,

I just face the same issue - blurry huge icons on a 4k monitor.
Autodesk should ask the Blender developers (www.blender.org) how one get smooth UI with every display size!
Blender allows to increase/decrease UI almost in pixel steps - very smoothly.

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/community/screencast/6fa23371-8122-4240-8d52-7454c722297d

So Autodesk developers please ask Blender developers how to get there!

Thanks!