Bad Fusion UI experience

[0502880]

Hello Fusion enthuisiasts and active users!

I have waited on every Fusion update, that there will be some enchancement of Fusion Browser/ timeleine usability. But seems, that my wishes shall go under the christmas tree... I really appreacite the development work of the functionality of Fusion and all new features which have been implemented, but I hope that it's now the right time to bring the timeline and browser usability up to date.

I am now working with a project which have over a hundred (going to have a couple of more...) components/subcomponents and it begins to be a nightmare to manage and find all features and changes (will be a lot of changes because of a conceptual design). I have tried to use all "good practises" to manage things (give good names, groupings etc.) but still I'm lost and desperate almost  every time when I have to do some changes to exisiting bodies/components. It should help a little bit if you could move a components place in the browser tree, but that's not possible... Also some contrast colors, bold fonts or whatever should help in Browser tree. And in the "real life", a project consisting about a couple of hundreds of components is almost nothing...

I really don't know, if I'm alone with this problem. Probably other "desperate" users should give enough kudos to my post and we should hope that Autodesk should put real efforts to UI development! After that we will have a perfect tool for the product development!

Best regards

Juha Alitalo

One enthusiast user of Fusion

[mavonte.J]

I'm currently trying to deal with what... 8 components and positioning of things is already getting out of hand. lol

how are you keeping your components related in the workspace? do you have joints in play or are you using another method of management?

[TrippyLighting]

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@mavonte.J wrote:

I'm currently trying to deal with what... 8 components and positioning of things is already getting out of hand. lol

how are you keeping your components related in the workspace? do you have joints in play or are you using another method of management?

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If you have a problem with locating 8 components, then you clearly on; t understand the problem the OP is describing. I suggest you open your own thread and provide amor detailed description along with sharing your design and I am sure one of us will be able to help you.

[TrippyLighting]

@0502880

I can imagine a whole host of improvements to how the browser and timeline work and particularly work in conjunction with each other. I consider this core work, because ultimately if you wan to build bigger and more complex assemblies there are some key functions that are missing and that make it difficult to reorganize the timeline.

These additional features, however, go beyond UI improvements.

[0502880]

@TrippyLighting

do you have any "inner circle" information is there any plans to make any major changes to Browser/timeline core functionality? Because if Autodesk really likes to compete with Fusion against other mainstream professional cad systems, the user interface (Browser/timeline) should be better. And I think you also agree, that a 100+ components construction is just a start of a some mechanical "real life" device.

But I really hope, that there will be some development plans in the Fusion roadmap of this issue.

[mavonte.J]

It's ok, I fixed all the stuff i was having errors with.