A few little things in Mac OS...

A few little things in Mac OS...

sambirchenough
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A few little things in Mac OS...

sambirchenough
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There's a few little Fusion 360 UI / UX things have finally gotten to me enough to make a post; maybe they'll help with future development 🙂

 

Why does Fusion 360 install (well shortcut & uninstall launcher) to the user Applications folder and not the main Applications folder where every other app goes?

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I have my OS X menu bar set to "automatically hide and show the menu bar" yet when Fusion launches, it leaves the menu bar space empty and it cannot be dragged up to occupy the space thereafter. Furthermore, it'd be great if, like other apps, it would remember the fullscreen or windowed state last used and launch to that state (I almost always use fullscreen mode and it gets old to have to manually enter fullscreen each launch). It's tough to tell in this picture because the top of my desktop is white but:

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Similarly, I use "high resolution graphics" on both of my macs and it's annoying to have this notification every launch (this is nothing, that list gets long). I don't want to turn off Notification Center for Fusion 360 because other notifications are useful.

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The last thing I can think of right now, is that sometimes in the UI, text fields don't fully display, requiring clicking and arrowing to see their values. See "Scale" field here:

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founder @ BRCHN Design House
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secorw
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We've got a project underway that's looking broadly at improving a lot of the experiences in Fusion which includes what you've posted (notifications, command dialogs and controls, window behavior).

 

 

But that's a little ways out, so I've logged both the UI text field issue and full screen issue as bugs, and I'm chasing down answers to the other two issues.

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secorw
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I asked around about our current install behavior -- we took this approach because you can finish the install without being prompted for admin credentials.

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sambirchenough
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@secorw Thanks! Looking forward to the improvements.

founder @ BRCHN Design House
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