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F360 Mac- Search issue- Can only open 1 drawing

bigeddymachineshop — Tue, 26 Apr 2022 21:27:57 GMT

I found a post by myself from almost 2years ago with this issue.

Has any progress been made?

Its a colossal pain to have to run the search 5 times when I want to open multiple models/sketches of a particular part.

I've had an issue on F360 for mac for a while.

When searching for a file in the left pane, once you open a file, you have to "X" out of the search, and search again to open another file.

Trying to open a model, and then the drawing of the same model, doesn't work , as the blue border around the file wont show up.

Does anyone else have this problem?

Thanks!

Re: F360 Mac- Search issue- Can only open 1 drawing

ClintBrown3D — Fri, 29 Apr 2022 12:01:49 GMT

Hi @bigeddymachineshop

Is it possible to share a bit more information, maybe a screencast or art least some screen grabs of the problem? With a bit more context, I'm sure someone may be able to assist.

Re: F360 Mac- Search issue- Can only open 1 drawing

Phil.E — Fri, 29 Apr 2022 16:28:02 GMT

Would it be possible to make a video of this behavior as Clint requests? I ask because the search results are interactive on both mac and windows. When search results are presented, you can right click on each one and open them. Or double click them to open them. So, it's a bit surprising that somehow you are blocked. But a video would very much help to show the issue.

Re: F360 Mac- Search issue- Can only open 1 drawing

bigeddymachineshop — Mon, 02 May 2022 18:59:44 GMT

Thanks for the reply!

Here is a screen cast of the issue. I'm able to open the first file, then after that left clicking doesn't select anything in the search pane.

Right clicks bring up the blue bar with "??", and I have to exit search, then search for the component again.

I'm running on:

2018 Mac Mini

3.2Ghz 6 core i7

32gb rem

Vega 56 eGpu.

P.S: Is Mac performance in general is pretty poor. Is there a native mac app being developed that will make better use of hardware? I'm rarely using more than 10% of the cpu, and less than ½ of the ram, but still get lots of hang ups and pinwheeling.

Re: F360 Mac- Search issue- Can only open 1 drawing

bigeddymachineshop — Mon, 02 May 2022 19:03:44 GMT

The screen cast keeps getting removed because of "invalid HTML found in the message body"

Hopefully this link to it will work.

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/community/screencast/71668bc9-793e-44ec-94b0-3e681d829fc6

Re: F360 Mac- Search issue- Can only open 1 drawing

Phil.E — Mon, 02 May 2022 22:27:18 GMT

Thanks the link works just fine.

FYI, if you ever need to embed a screencast, here's a screencast showing how to do that.

And pro tip: make Fusion much smaller, or your screencasts all turn out like this:

Regarding your search issue, I think it's because search is looking only in recent data. Change the filter to "all data", or look in a specific project. Does the same effect happen? I ask because I can't reproduce the effect, but I also can't force Fusion to search only in recent data to test the workflow in your video. My searches use "all data" and I'm testing it on a very restricted/slow network. It's working for me, but I am hoping to follow up on what you find.

As for your other question:

Mac performance and windows performance are similar.
Fusion is a native Mac app.
CAD applications are mostly single threaded, hence the use of only one CPU.
Fusion probably doesn't need more than half your RAM.
Hang ups and pinwheeling you see are related to Fusion computing the parametric design.

Please let me know if you have more questions.

Thanks,