topic Re: Design history and element browser in Fusion Support Forum

Design history and element browser

konrad.lessel — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 15:09:58 GMT

Hi, i would like to see the things i did like extrusions in the element browser rather than in the timeline below. When i disable the timeline they are shown in the element browser, exectly like i would like it to be, but i cant edit them anymore. How can i have the elements shon in the element browser on the right AND have them be editable? Or is it possible to just show them with the design history enabled?

Re: Design history and element browser

g-andresen — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 15:21:39 GMT

Hi,

You can only edit features when the history is activated.

günther

Re: Design history and element browser

konrad.lessel — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 17:15:35 GMT

I know. I just want to see these elements in the element browser on the left.
I find it quite difficult to find them in the timeline at the bottom of the screen and would like to group them into folders ... like for example sketches

Re: Design history and element browser

jhackney1972 — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 17:28:22 GMT

Take a look at the Editing Method outlined in this Blog Article and Blog.

Re: Design history and element browser

konrad.lessel — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 18:41:36 GMT

Ok, that is indeed a big help. Thank you.
But is there no way to have all the features in the browser on the left, like they would be when the design history ist disabled? I am used to Creo where this is the case and i find it to be very heldfull to group certain features and sketches.

Re: Design history and element browser

jhackney1972 — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 20:58:04 GMT

If you are in Direct Modeling Mode, no Timeline, and you have to shift to a different set of commands to edit features. Commands such as Press Pull, Offset Face, etc. will be the only method to edit some features. Original sketches are still editable from the Browser, but that is about it. What you seem to really desire is just not available so I would learn the use the Timeline more effectively. Are you creating components? When you activate a Component the Timeline, the Timeline is reduced to show just the sketches and features in the activated component, unless you have turned off this feature.

Re: Design history and element browser

jeff_strater — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 22:04:08 GMT

@konrad.lessel wrote:

I know. I just want to see these elements in the element browser on the left.
I find it quite difficult to find them in the timeline at the bottom of the screen and would like to group them into folders ... like for example sketches

No, this is not possible, and is not likely to ever be possible. Fusion does not show parametric features in the browser. They exist only in the timeline. If you turn off history (direct modeling), you get those "pseudo features" in the browser. They exist primarily for selecting all the faces produced by that feature (provides an easy way to delete geometry), but those are not parametric features.