Callouts in Anmation - why no text?

[ksprayberry]

Am I misunderstanding how the callouts are supposed to be used? I thought I would add callouts that would name each component as I exploded it out and transformed them, but all they really do is add a green dot. Am I doing it wrong? You can hover over it in the view and it tells you what the text is like a tooltip, but they don't really do anything when you publish your video. Maybe I'm doing it wrong.

http://a360.co/2AG0TUT

Thanks

Kelly

[TimeraAutodesk · Accepted solution]

Hi @ksprayberry,

Thanks for posting your question here. Callouts are specifically designed to be viewed in 3D, interactively through the web or mobile viewers. When you have an animation open in the Web viewer or on the Fusion 360 mobile app, you can tap any callout pin to reveal the text while being in that 3D environment. They are, however, not useful for animations that are published out as a "2D" video (mp4 or avi), which it sounds like you're doing. 

Let us know if you have any more questions!

Timera

[ksprayberry]

Ok I guess I’m using in a different manner then. Maybe I’ll look more into the app and the web viewer then. Still thinking having tags and callouts would be nice, I guess I can add them with a video editor. That might be something to add on the ideatation.
Thanks

[maryanneF5NKN]

I have done the same.

It would be useful to have a option to display the callout text in a animation.  Push pins are displayed and can be sequenced using the timeline but not displaying the text seems like a bug or a poorly chosen design decision.

This would be trivial to implement by a junior developer.  The text would be displayed at the position described by the pushpin and at the time specified by the timeline.

Why would someone *not* do this?

Regards,

Maryanne
Programmer.

[dvothknecht]

It makes no sense to see a pin instead of the intended Text!!!!!!