Quick Parameters

[Anonymous]

Allow a quick parameter feature. You might have to read some of this twice.

When I enter a dimension even its for the first time let me be able to write :

Dimension=parameterName

And "parameterName" is added to the parameter list.

So if the dimension was width/2, 5/2, or 2.5 and we wanted the parameter to be named midwidth.

We could enter in while doing the dimension itself width/2=midwidth, 5/2=midwidth, or 2.5=midwidth and it would automatically add midwidth to the parameter list upon creating the dimension, so you can do the dimension while creating the sketch/object and create the parameter at the same exact time using the = sign. Skipping the step of doing parameters and then doing the object or going back and fourth its very very tedious. This would combine two steps into one making it very quick and user friendly.

[Anonymous]

Won't allow me to edit above, I'm often not using parameters from them being too tedious to implement before doing what you want to do. Or I go back and do them later through history, also tedious.

[commercial.voight]

I absolutely support this idea. I find myself midway through a complex whatever and realize that I don't have a variable already identified for something that should *definitely* be a parameter, and now I have to stop everything, hit the big Greek button, and enter half a dozen more parameters and lose track of where I was.

Being able to just say, length=13cm, tab, width=7cm, and hit enter directly in the 2-point rectangle or whatever I'm working on would be super.

[barronbarnett]

I'd also take being able to keep the parameters window open and accessible on the side like a control box so I can quickly add a parameter without fiddling with another window only to have to close it then open it again.

Being able to do as commercial.voight noted though would be the best interface where I can just add and define the parameter as I create the sketch.

[Anonymous]

Barron what voight said is exactly what the original post is excpet the original post does it like a normal math equation rather than listing the name of the parameter first.

[barronbarnett]

And what voight said follows normal software convention of the item to the left is taking the value of the information to the right.  This convention has existed for a very long time as it makes code easier to read as well as parse by the machine.

I'd rather it follow convention than create an additional method of reading depending on which program and now context relevancy.

[Anonymous]

When writing this I was thinking it can be implemented either way, you seem to be dismissing the op in favor of the exact same thing rewritten giving no credit where due. This is clearly 100% thought of by baron though.

[ToddHarris7556]

Inventor allows creation of on-the-fly parameter names via simple "Width = 12" syntax as sketches and/or features are created. As I spend 75% of my time in Inventor, I find myself missing it whenever I'm in Fusion. 

[barronbarnett]

@Anonymous when did I ever claim this was all my idea or dismiss you the OP?  Are you always such a miserable argumentative pain in the ass?

All I mentioned was my preferred method, and provided a reason as to why. You seem upset at that fact, why I don't know.

Please, quote exactly where I dismissed you as the OP, or otherwise said they got no credit? What I did say was what @commercial.voight wrote was preferred by me as it was easier to understand and read.  If you want to take that as an insult, slight, or offense, that's your business.

“He who takes offense when no offense is intended is a fool, and he who takes offense when offense is intended is a greater fool.” - Brigham Young

[Anonymous]

I really liked fusion since I first opened it. The idea seemed to be progressive at first as well as innovative taking programs like this in the right direction. I've been wanting to submit ideas to improve this program in specific but only submitting good ones. I didn't know this is already in inventor. For someone to nearly dismiss the entire idea for the same idea said differently crediting another author derailing the idea is not what you want to see in your thread, if this was not in inventor and would be something entirely new to fusion you would basically credit it to vought.

[ToddHarris7556]

Regardless of who submitted it or rephrased it, I'm sure we can all agree it would be a great add to Fusion and save us all a bunch of time 🙂 Let's get some votes up and make it happen!

[Anonymous]

Well I study C#.
With that said you name variables like this :
int variableTwo = 12;

Even though I study csharp and write that way it still seems backwards for fusion/3d as well as math which is what you are actually doing. Numbers seems to be the most probable thing I'm going to want to enter first/naturally while doing this type of work sketching or making something a certain size and then naming it.

Writing it either way is the same exact thing, however I put it this way because when you first drag out that rectange you are going to be thinking of the number/size while expanding it not really its name.

[hansmbakker]

I found several topics that have a similar idea like this. Please upvote these topics, hopefully it will lead to more visibility of our request:

• https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-360-ideastation/add-ability-to-define-user-defined-parameters-...
• https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-360-ideastation/quick-on-the-fly-parameter-definition/idi-p/63...
• https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-360-ideastation/defining-parameter-values-and-names-on-the-fly...
• https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-360-ideastation/quick-parameters/idi-p/7974380
• https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-360-ideastation/user-parameters-show-quick-link-to-user-create...
• https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-360-ideastation/parameter-generation-when-writing-dimesions-us...
• https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-360-ideastation/define-parameters-on-dimension/idi-p/5224433

[I_B_Jones]

The ability to set a Parameter and its value whilst entering a dimension's value would be very helpful.

Having to open the Parameters form before using one is tedious.

I prefer the standard maths form : ParameterName = Value rather than merchant1307's reversed form.

However, I suspect to be really useful the implementation would need to allow "embedded parameter definition". I.e. the ability to define a Parameter (or several) in the midst of a Dimension's value specification. To do that in other than the trivial ParameterName = Value case, you might need to embrace the parameter definition in parentheses. So, as an example, in defining say the length of a rectangle's diagonal one might enter its value as SQRT([RectLength=7]*RectLength + [RectWidth=5]*RectWidth).

[ToddHarris7556]

+1 for implementing it the same as Inventor:

newParameter = newValue

Not that we're trying to turn Fusion into Inventor, but for those of us that jump back and forth between the two often (i.e. every day) it would be a really welcome relief.

[Anonymous]

A retired programmer here. F360 is just a hobby for me. CNC, 4D printers. That said...

F360 is parametric software, correct? Why then can't I just write anywhere , "xyz=value" when using dimension? Fusion 360 simply looks to see if there has been an xyz defined, if so, asks if you mean to be redefining it, otherwise automatically and elegantly creates a variable.

As many others say the parameter window essentially being modal makes no sense at all.  Maybe put an update button  on the window if your worried about complex models taking much time to compute. That way the problem is solved of having the window modal and quick model update. Not sure if this was the reasoning or not. Otherwise it seems kind of of obtuse to handicap paramaetric modeling software.