Defer User Parameter Update

[casey.rogers]

Add a "defer user update" checkbox to the user parameter dialogue box. When checked, the Fusion design will only update to reflect changes made in the user parameters when the user closes the dialogue box or presses an "update design" button.

This feature would allow the user to change multiple user parameters before the design updates. This is important because sometimes changing a set of parameters one parameter at a time breaks the design whereas changing all the parameters at once would not.

For example, given a triangle defined by user parameters "S1" "S2" "S3", changing the three parameters, respectively, from 10, 10, 10 to 100, 100, 100 requires the intermediary steps 100, 10, 10 and 100, 100, 10. Since a triangle with sides 100, 10, 10 is geometrically impossible, the sketch breaks. Usually, Fusion recovers when you finish updating all three sides. But, if the design is more complicated than just a triangle, Fusion often can't recover even after all the parameters have been set to their new values.

I have a script that repeatedly updates and copies a traignle template design via three user parameters. Because I have to update the user parameters one at a time, the constraint solver often breaks and gives me the following result:

[roambotics_scott]

Voting up but you should be using equations to ensure that the design is consistent (although I just noticed in trying that that changes to parameters are now completely ignored in F360 for me 😕 )

[roambotics_scott]

OK so they work in modeling but they're ignored in sketch

[casey.rogers]

Equations are definitely good in a lot of situations but the particular shapes I'm dealing with are irregular triangles so there's not really a way to fully constrain them short of specifying three side lengths  (or equivelant) via three parameters.

Thanks for the vote though!

[Anonymous]

   This is probably the simplest feature that would help me and my company the most when it comes to Fusion 360.  I've been consistently getting small errors in the way my models solve if parameters are not updated in just the right order.  A dimension can easily flip to the opposite side of its reference object and be hardly noticeable until I have a piece of scrap metal coming off my mill.

   Plus my more complicated models can waste a ton of time solving when I have 25 parameters to update.