[Open] New Ideas for Fusion’s Dialog

[yirang.choe]

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[mac_ito]

@Phil.E  @yirang.choe having some color sktech would also be welcome.. 

it is possible on inventor please do it

[jean-michel_legoff]

and what about Layers? to help getting something a little more rich in "dxf" export

[JDutraTech]

When I am doing a big program with lots of setups and folders sometimes its hard to tell if a toolpath is inside another setup or folder . If We could set different colors for tabs and tool numbers it would make it much easier to read the information at a quick glance .

 

[rhetths]

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@JDutraTech wrote:

When I am doing a big program with lots of setups and folders sometimes its hard to tell if a toolpath is inside another setup or folder . If We could set different colors for tabs and tool numbers it would make it much easier to read the information at a quick glance .

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What do you reckon if they ditched the second dialog box of post process and instead added a narrow column to the toolpath tree where you could assign the toolpaths to NC programs?

[rhetths]

In my experience as a user, and in relation to the things i do in Fusion, i consider that the programming changes over the last three years have regressed the program more than progressed.

REGRESSION

1. Component Properties - this dialog box was very good but was heavily revised, it is now slow to load, and has had most of the information stripped out of it requiring multiple extra clicks to access the information.

2. Arrange - Arrange was very good and functional, i can't say that i identified any issues, but it was changed, and now it is spread over two dialog boxes which is serious regression, the boundary size input boxes are hidden and need to be found and brought out into the open, and i have issues removing/adding components and or flipping components.

3. Exporting files to local - When i open one file from one folder in my desktop, then open another file from a different folder in my destop, then export the first file to my desktop, rather than exporting the file to the folder i originally opened it from, it exports it to the folder i opened the second file from.

4. Post Processing - The second post process dialog box has recently been modified such that a click anywhere outside of the small check box will generate a blue background for a toolpath.  I accidentally generate this blue and find i cannot get rid of it.  Normally a click somewhere else on a screen will get rid of highlighting, or clicking a second time on the highlighting with get rid of it, but none of those work.

5. Tool Library - False error messages now occur saying there are more than one tool with the same tool number and that the Gcode will be wrong when in fact the issue only exists in the Documents tool library(s) that Fusion creates. 

6. Simulation - Some solves now take more time, solves are now more dependent on internet connection, and solves could in future attract a cost in instances where previously they did not.

PROGRESS

1. Post Process - The previous post process dialog box was confusing.  It was replaced with two dialog boxes, the first of which is much better than the one it replaces.

2. Toolpath NC - Previously toolpaths that were out of date said they were 'Failed', now they say they are out of date. 

[jean-michel_legoff]

and if it could be possible to export colored entities on different layers when exporting Sketch as DXF it should really be great...

[lemelman]

An improvement that would be very welcome would be to have the Parameter List as a separate window that was visible whilst creating or editing a sketch.

[marchancomponents]

Now that some iPads has M1 chips and better multitask control, I think that is moment to create a cross Mac OS plataform with at least design modules in iPadOS as a complete app version. iPads have a good amount of performance and now calculations are only in the cloud so… why not? Autodesk has an official opinion or planning about this?

clasdical use + touch use + pencil use will be great

[professor.secco]

In Sketch, use blue for geometry not constrained, grey for partially constrained and black for fully constrained.

[lorenzo.ferri23NV6]

In the sketch it would be interesting to be able to display the degrees of freedom, avoiding having to move the blue curves that are not constrained, to understand which dimensions are missing. Sometimes in complicated sketches Fusion 360 becomes very slow and because of this delay it is not always easy to understand the constraints to be inserted.

Greetings

[horst39]

I would suggest to have letters as icons, i.e big "A", "B", "C" etc.
This may help to distinguish the groups

[horst39]

Timeline is important during debugging, but quite difficult to read when there are 100s of icons.
Isn't it possible to add colored (green?) icons labeled "1","2","3"..."9" etc. just as placeholders?
In this way it would be much easier to find a point of interest.