Place marker flag on timeline

[terry_fusion]

Is there a way to add a script to add a marker pin/flag onto the timeline?

Most of my CAD models are large and have many many components grouped on the timeline to save space and create a sense of order.

However, I find that when I am scrubbing back and forth along the timeline it can be difficult to maintain an eye on the component group I need to reference for other components. (if that makes sense?)

I've quite often thought that it would be very helpful to drop a pin/marker at some location on the timeline to keep track of a component position on the timeline.

I'm thinking of being able to drop a colored pin/ flag at one position, scrub through the timeline and drop another pin perhaps the same color perhaps a different color.

Also looking if there's a way to indicate what view my screen is in as a quick reminder, either perspective or ortho?

maybe a word or icon at the top in each tab with the words ortho or perspective?

It would be nice to have a visual indication of which view your staring at, not a bug deal just an idea.

[CharlieSaxon]

This.
I would love an empty "tool" that is just a namable flag/pin in the timeline. It would make complex projects much easier to navigate and make work-sharing among designers much easier.

[picadilly]

You may add, that it would be helpful, if groups could be grouped again. Like folders in folders in folders.

What I do as workarounds:

Usually I create a new component and the create sketches and bodies there. Then I group everything, but NOT the created component. My time line then looks like that:

And if you hover over a component, the help text gives you some glue.

Sometimes I also create empty components as some sort of a marker.

[terry_fusion]

The entire timeline needs a rethink, I think.

It is fine for small-ish projects, but when you begin getting into larger projects with hundreds to thousands of parts and many several components, finding, organizing and making sense of relationships become increasingly difficult.

1. Right click on any of the features within the timeline should have the same options as when right clicked in the browser tree. Why is there this huge inconsistency?

Why am I able to right click on a component, in the browser to open it (move it, change appearance, pull up history, or even show and hide it) but not on the timeline?

2. Resizing the timeline for ease of use would be a good start, the icons are just insanely small, especially the + and -

3. I understand that the color swatches on the timeline are supposed to represent some kind of useful information.

The color grouping and colors make no discernible sense?

Inserted components get no color on the timeline, yet they are colored in the view-port?

Any grouped set of features get colors, some are a solid color bar while others have several small color swatches that are barely visible. Not useful at all.

See this forum discussion.

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-design-validate-document/basic-questions-about-icons-in-the-de...

For me its never been useful and is usually turned off.

4. I can right click within an expanded group to rollback the marker to a specific location, but only if the group is expanded?

What about when you're entire timeline is taken up with grouped features and your towards the start of the timeline, now you have to navigate to the end of the timeline (or where ever the marker is at) and then try and drag the marker back to the beginning where you were but now you lost track of the grouped components you were searching for to begin with.

5. Right click with an option to expand the selected group in the browser would be helpful.

6. Grouping of components is a half measure, once grouped any useful information about the contents is lost, sure you get a nice list of the features grouped unless Fusion determines there are too many, which at that point you get a number count of features in it and nothing else.

Perhaps a real folder icon for the initial grouping, then allow for sub grouping?

I feel a lot of this could be simplifies and maintain within an expanding pie wheel?

I'd like to hear how others group, organize and maintain their timeline workflow?

It feels like the relationship between the browser and timeline are akin to stepbrothers who particularly don't care for one another but live together grudgingly out of necessity.

[terry_fusion]

Here' s a file to a small project I'm working on.

Trying to navigate on the timeline from one end of it to the other is annoying at best.

Especially when it jumps as a group is expanded, using component icons as markers, and following the pattern they make is the only way I have of keeping tack.

I've tried color components but its distracting and makes my head hurt.