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I think it will be really useful indeed to sort using the item heads (name, unit, expression etc.). I also would like to add to that, that I would love to have the possibility to manually sort them by drag & drop. So if I create parameters later on, I can cluster them together. Rather then having the parameters of my components scattered through each other.
I'd settle for being able to sort by column headers (once for ascending, twice for descending) as a quick fix, with filters and searching later if necessary. I try to name my parameters so they naturally group, (eg nut_dia, nut_height, bolt_length, bolt_dia, bolt_colour, bolt_flavour) but this is all rather pointless if you miss one when you enter the parameters and it ends up at the bottom of the list.
Completely agree. Parameters Window is being badly designed: - resizing the window doesn't give predictable results: Scaling-down causes the first column to shrink, but scaling-up causes the last column (comments) to expand. Completely off and non-intuitive
- unable to sort parameters alphabetically by name
- unable to edit certain features (units) of parameters, or remove unit (make it unit-less parameter). Always must delete and re-create the parameter
- can't dock the parameters window, is always floating.
... and many more. Autodesk, you can do much better!
Bonus:
- parameters calculation is totally dumb (we expect our software to be a bit intuitive, or we would use pen and paper). Doing computations with parameters, one has to divide by measuring unit, in order to get a valid formula. (eg: if I want a dimension to be sqrt of another dimension, I can't just input the params, but I also have to divide by the measuring unit, to make it scalar, or it won't compute). Maybe Fusion should know to do this by itself. Of course, we can have a situation where we operate two different units, but then the first unit should take precedence (and the second value, the divisor, to be treated purely scalar, as a number only) so the result value comes in first member's units, which makes only sense: If I divide 4 apples to 2 kids, each kid gets 2APPLES (not 2 kids). Similarly if I do a power operation: I want a dimension to be raised to the power of another (both parameters): 5mm^2mm, obviously, I don't want the result to be in mm2, so using only the base units, and the exponent as scalar would make total sense.
It is completely bonkers that this isn't possible. Implementing this wouldn't even require significant work on the backend parameter database. It's purely a UI issue. The most basic programs in existence have the ability to sort columns alphabetically. Why can't Fusion have that for parameters?
I'm mostly working with models that have ~100 parameters. I can't even imagine how someone deals with 1000+ parameter assemblies. This issue alone would make Fusion a non-starter for bigger projects.
Parameter window should be editable like a spreadsheet. That is being able to insert parameter rows, and manually re-arrange them, change/delete units. If you want to create a parameter that has a formula that uses another parameter (like a variable), that parameter must be declared before the formula in the list. I've had instances where I'm developing parameters as I go and ended up not having one declared before the formula. Fusion can't compute that!
