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Animation/exploded view Drawings

m.dan4SYMQ — Thu, 17 Jun 2021 15:40:56 GMT

I have several questions regarding the Animation workspace as well as drawings created from exploded views.

I have been using the Animation worskpace to create exploded views of several large assemblies. I generally place three views on one sheet, and then create a BOM table from one of the views.

The first issue I have is rather simple yet frustrating. Fusion defaults to creating the BOM table with the same preset columns and column order, and writes the rows upwards. I change the columns and column order, and rows to show up downwards each time, but cannot save this as a default, and have to switch every time.

More frustrating is that with every new view I place, I need to manually select which components to suppress. It would be very helpful to have a setting that automatically suppresses all the hidden components in a certain storyboard/exploded view.

Moving back and forth between the drawing and the animation workspace proves difficult because everytime I move from one storyboard to another, Fusion registers this as a change to the design and forces a "Get Latest" update when I go back to the drawing file, even when nothing has changed.

Also difficult to understand is that when I hide or drag a component in the Design workspace, that applies to all of the storyboards in the Animation workspace. So if I ever need to go back to the Design to look at a component and hide several others to do this, I need to remember to show them again, otherwise they will be erased from all my exploded views. It would be helfpul to have the visibility of components within Animation storyboards frozen, somehow separate from the Design component visibilities.

Re: Animation/exploded view Drawings

Pramod.kadam — Fri, 18 Jun 2021 04:35:17 GMT

Hi @m.dan4SYMQ ,

Thank you for your feedback.

For behavior related to BOM table placement, please note that If we place a table on the bottom half of the sheet then it gets flipped automatically. The numbered rows are ordered from bottom to top. Press the Shift key to lock or unlock the table flipping feature.

Regarding component suppression behavior in drawings created from animations, all the hidden components in the animation will be by default hidden in the drawings too but they will not be suppressed. Also part list (BOM) created for animation views shown only visible components. Is there any specific reason, do you want to suppress hidden components in animation views?

Regarding get latest notification, I could not reproduce the behavior. I will check and file an issue if that is the case. Does this happen when you have 2 separate drawings open for same reference model or even with 1 drawing?

Re: Animation/exploded view Drawings

m.dan4SYMQ — Fri, 18 Jun 2021 19:55:53 GMT

Thank you for your reply.

As for suppressing the invisible components, I am doing that to load parts lists that only include the visible components from a given storyboard. So far I have found that the parts list created from a view will include all of the components that are not suppressed, whether they are visible or not, and that I have to manually toggle all of the ones that are not visible to suppress them from the parts list.

I have seen the get latest issue happen whenever I have a drawing open and the animation from which it was created. It didn't matter how many drawings were open.

Re: Animation/exploded view Drawings

Pramod.kadam — Mon, 21 Jun 2021 11:43:56 GMT

Hi @m.dan4SYMQ ,

We will check the get latest issue on our side.

Regarding parts list, all the un-suppressed parts will be included in the parts list for design or animation views. This behavior is consistent for views created from design and animation.

Thanks,