Change visibility of (x-ref'ed) referenced origins, bodies or sketches locally?

[Anonymous]

Folks

I'm wondering if there is a way to change the visibility of origins, bodies or sketches of a referenced component locally within my top level assembly.  It seems like a lot of steps to have to open the referenced component, hide the item I want to hide, save the change, then update my referenced copy, then repeat to turn the visibility back on.  Am I missing something that lets me do what I want locally?

[jeff_strater · Accepted solution]

Unfortunately, today, there is not a way to do that, other than by editing and saving the referenced design, then updating the top level assembly.  You can change visibiltity of components, but nothing inside the component.  Fusion considers that a component edit operation.

We understand that this is not a good workflow.  We are working on a fix for it, and we hope to have it implemented before too long.  It sounds like it should be easy, but unfortunately, it's not as easy as it sounds...

Thanks for your understanding

Jeff Strater (Fusion development)

[Anonymous]

Hi Jeff,

Thanks for the reply, that makes total sense.  If F360 wasn't designed with X-refs in mind, I can imagine adding that layer in might have some ripples of complexity.  FYI, I happen to be traveling in Asia and while trying to reply to this I kept getting a squawk that I was banned from posting.  Hey, I'll admit to being abrasive, but not that bad 😉 and until I punched out to the top level and set my location as USA I couldn't post.  Something you might want the forum team to know about.

Cheers,

Art

[kb9ydn]

Are there any updates on this particular issue?  I just discovered this today and it's pretty annoying.

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[jeff_strater]

Sorry, but this issue still exists in Fusion.  We were working on a fix, but other priorities have put that on hold for a while.  No ETA at the moment.  I agree it's annoying.  Until it is fixed, the only workaround is to either edit the design, or turn off the whole component.

Jeff

[Anonymous]

This would be great to have, but I couldn't find this on idea-station, so I submitted it as a suggestion here

[Lonnie.Cady]

@jeff_strater the workaround of editing the file and resaving does really provide a good solution for parts that are used thru AnyCAD.  I would have to open them in SW and save it.   Maybe I am missing something???

The original post was from 2015, is it still being considered or another solution.  It seems as though there is a push to use AnyCAD.