Can I turn off the selection preview while hovering over my geometry?

[owenhooker]

Is it possible to turn off the selection preview when the mouse cursor is hovering over geometry? I find it difficult to look at when it flashes from one face to another. I think in autocad there is a text command SELECTIONPREVIEW=0 but this doesnt seem to work for me in Fusion. 

[Maowen_Zhang]

@owenhooker, current there isn't an option to trun off selection highlight (preview) in Fusion 360. How important of this issue in your workflow? I feel sometimes this selection highlight is quite useful to tell me whether an edge or face will be selcted when click mouse. There are two options, not very good for this case, but hope it could help when you need to. 

1. Unselect some selection filters, so less selection highlights, but it also disable selections, so not exactly what you need

    

2. Modify the environment settings (which configure highlight colors as background color so "no highlight/preview" in most cases). I don't recomment this way unless you need it badly. Because this requires manualy edit resouce xml files, and might get overwrriten when update to new Fusion builds. Please share us more info or detailed cases when require this function, it helps us prioritize issues. Thanks for sharing with us!  

[owenhooker]

For me the it's most problematic when zoomed in close to geometry. When a few faces fill most of the screen and they flash as the mouse moves over them I get very distracted. I would love for there to be a way to change the intensity of this affect as I do find times when it comes in handy. I need a dark background most of the time to lower the strain on my eyes but the affect of the highlighting seems to be more pronounced. I would love to know how to make these changes to the xml files even if they get written over on an update. Maybe I could create a script to automate the process after an update. Should I post this as a request over on the idea station?

[jeff_strater]

I understand about the annoyance when zoomed in.  Yes, definitely, post an idea to the Idea Station.  Seems like a reasonable request.  

Jeff

[Maowen_Zhang · Accepted solution]

@owenhooker, For your infomation, below are about how to modify the environment XML file to "turn off" face selection highlight.

1. Find the related environment XML file, such as PhotoBooth.xml (or DarkSky, GreyRoom, etc.)

• find the Fusion360.exe location (from taskmanager) if use windows OS
• find XML file such as PhotoBooth.xml in "Neutron\Server\Scene\Resources\Environments\PhotoBooth\PhotoBooth.xml"
• Example:  C:\Users\zhanglo\AppData\Local\Autodesk\webdeploy\production\9dc57ac7328faaa98e6bb4734628b2fbd5d10ece\Neutron\Server\Scene\Resources\Environments\PhotoBooth\PhotoBooth.xml

    

2. Modify the XML file, Use Background color for HighlightEffectInfo colors, then restart Fusion 360. You could backup the original XML file first.

    

[Maowen_Zhang]

@owenhooker, attached example PhotoBooth XML, please let me know whether it works or need any assistent. 

As Jeff mentioned, please help post an idea to the Idea Station, it would be better to have UI/switch to do this. Thanks for sharing issue & idea with us! 

[owenhooker]

Thanks for the help on this. It seems straight forward to edit the XML file. I did add This to the idea station so hopefully it can gain enough support.

[HughesTooling]

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@Maowen_Zhang wrote:

@owenhooker, For your infomation, below are about how to modify the environment XML file to "turn off" face selection highlight.

• Example:  C:\Users\zhanglo\AppData\Local\Autodesk\webdeploy\production\9dc57ac7328faaa98e6bb4734628b2fbd5d10ece\Neutron\Server\Scene\Resources\Environments\PhotoBooth\PhotoBooth.xml

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Hi Lori

Does that folder move with every update, so any edits will need to be done every time there's an update.

Mark

[Maowen_Zhang]

Good point, Mark!

Yes, these files will be updated and moved to another folder (folder named with GUID), so we need to update the XML file for each update. Fusion 360 assume the XML file are read only, and new update might contain changes to the XML file by overwriting it directly. It doesn't work as the user options. Which is why this isn't a good way for resolving this issue, we like to provide easy of use features, hope we get this implemented directly in Fusion 360 with UI soon. 

    production\8dff41745a408f5f536cc824988ff9dca9c17503

    production\41a59d8c908b122a58a80fc0d96f3eacadd43a39

[matteo_trasi_formamentis_it]

Since you're an expert maybe you can solve this my big issue: I need to make selected entities in sketches more different from non selected entities. I've some color blindness, so it's very important for me.

Is it possible to view selected entities in red while non selected in blue? I looked and tried to change many settings in PhotoBooth.xml and saw the effect of these working, but not for this aim. None worked for selection color or base line color in sketches (sure I didn't catch the right ones).

Any idea?

is at least possible to make selected line more "bold" (I tried some settings but didnt work)

Really thank you so much if you can help!

[Anonymous]

This is a really old topic, but I just started using Fusion 360 and could not handle the highligting. 

I modified my XML file to this:

I changed the first values to ZERO (see in bold) and now it hightlights with a dark color.  (Infinity Pool). Removing the entire line causes it to crash, but you can certainly change the color...But the darker highlight is MUCH easier to use.

<HighlightEffectInfo BaseColorRGBA="0 0 0 0.3" BackFaceColorRGBA="0 0 0 0.15" HaloColorRGBA="1 1 1 0.5" HiddenLineColorRGBA="0 0 0 0.2" LineColorRGBA="0 0 0 1" GlowColorRGBA = "0, 0, 0, 0"
BlurWeight="0" HaloWidth="3" LinesWidth="2" UseBase="1" UseGlow="0" UseHalo="1" UseHiddenLines="1" UseLines="1" QuickHalo="0" DilateOne="1"/>

[donniej2015]

Now that is far better than the epileptic blinding effect.  Took me longer to navigate to the path than to make the change.

Why could this not be a simple feature in Preferences?  Why a user has to come along with this hack?

[donniej2015]

This approach or changing the 0.929 to 0 are the two best answers I have see. Can this be pinned somehow so the next poor person suffering can ease their pain in short order?

[CaseyJScalf]

This is so silly this is the actual solution.

A simple checkbox would do in a future update.

[CaseyJScalf]

As a follow up that file path does not seem to exist anymore.

[CGBenner]

@CaseyJScalf 

I'm sorry that you are having difficulties.  This is a 9 year old post, so it is very likely that a lot has changed.  Can you elaborate on what the problem is that you are trying to resolve?  Is it the same as the subject of the original post?

[TrippyLighting]

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@CaseyJScalf wrote:

As a follow up that file path does not exist anymore nor does the XML file. This is no longer a working solution. Nice. Back to epilepsy as a "feature" for the next 3 hours...

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The file is still located in the a webdeploy folder. Identifying the right sub-folder in that webdeply folder OTOH is not a trivial task. However, once you have identified it, the file is still in the same location and has the same name.

[HughesTooling]

@CaseyJScalf Someone came up with a script to modify the XML file for dimension text colour here. You could modify the script for the setting you want to modify. Once you have the script setup it should take care of finding the correct directory.