Assembly components modify

[Anonymous]

I created a bunch of little parts.. one by one.. all in different workspaces.. then brought them into an assembly and made them components. Now I'd like to be able to modify the components individually while in the "assembly" workspace.  But appartently I cannot. Or at least I cannot see how to do it. If I open the individual parts I can modify them, and they update in the assembly workspace. But this is not ideal.

Can someone tell me how to modify each component of an assembly while in the assembly workspace?

Thanks!

[schneik-adsk]

The capability you describe is often describe as "In place edit." You can do that today in Fusion 360.   We do have plans to enable it in the future. We recently improved the update so you can do an update to changes at any level of an assembly. This was a building block to in place edit.

[Anonymous]

I'm sorry.. I'm not quite sure I understand based on the statements that appear contradictory.. "You can do that today in Fusion 360"  and "We do have plans to enable it in the future" cannot both be true.

I assume it cannot be done based on the context of the rest of the reply.

This should be at the top of the list of things to get done in my opinion.. a must have.  I always did this in my other CAD package.. Why restrict what you can do with components??  Whether the components are referenced or not.. I should be able to instantly modify anything in my assembly workspace.

[schneik-adsk]

Sorry, let me clarify. You can not do it today. You will be able to do it in the future when we add it. We understand this is a desired ability.

This is often called "in context" references in SolidWorks. There are many who teach to NEVER allow in context relations because of the difficulty in working with these parts. Rather than replicate these issue, we thought it was a better idea to try and fix them. That requires more time to design and implement this capability in Fusion 360 but the result will a better solution than what is there in legacy tools today. Therefore, until we add this capability, we restrict edit in place.

[Anonymous]

Ok.. I accept that it cannot be done today. But I implore you to move it up in the list of feature additions. I fail to see why anyone would teach to never modify components inside of an assembly. It's the fastest way to design..  even Fusion 360 lets you modify components in an assembly that has been built from the ground up. There is no faster way to design parts that work together and fit correctly.  It's a huge time saving! There is no acceptable reason to restrict "in context" part modifications it to "ground up" assemblies only. Now I'll have to move back to my other CAD tool to get this design done quickly. While Fusion 360 has a lot of advantages over other CAD tools... I find this to be a big Fusion 360 fail. 

Thank you for your time to reply to my post.

[TrippyLighting]

In Fusion 360 you can perfectly fine structure a complex assembly, with sub assemblies and components in a single design/file, allowing you to change the design of a component directly without having to open any additional design files at all.

Fusion 360 does not use different file formats for assemblies and components. Any file can be a component or assembly.

The design process you described really follows an old design paradigm that relies on different file formats for assemblies and components.

[Anonymous]

Just break the link and modify in place if in place modifications is the way to go from here onwards.
Or make copies of these components, insert those, break the link and modify.

This way your original parts are still there.