Activate Component Improvement

[robpage]

this is almost certainly pilot error but here goes...  I've been using Fusion 360 for about a month, maybe a little longer.  The number 1 thing that keeps tripping me up is I forget to activate the component I'm working on and end up making gobs of changes that are saved in the active component's history.  Sometimes I'll realize it pretty quickly—I had the main component active and not the sub-component for example—and undo a few times, activate the correct sub and retrace my steps and avert disaster.  But sometimes it'll be hours later and I'll notice tons of work I did on a part but none of it in that component's timeline and no idea what component that work is hidden in.

Again, it's probably something I'm doing wrong but if it isn't, would be great if Fusion simply wouldn't let me continue to work on a component if it isn't active.

Thanks for listening!

[kb9ydn]

I have the same problem.  For a long while I've thought that Fusion could do a better job at providing visual cues for showing the component context that you're operating in.  That little dot next to the active component is just too easy to lose track of.

I'm not exactly sure what the solution is but just as an example for discussion, here is a screenshot from Solidworks of how it shows what component is active.

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