Circular dependency found
That is a hard to answer question without even so much as a screen shot 😉 It would even be better if you could simply share the project file so we can look at it ans perhaps make sggestions.
Here's the missing screenshot showing the problem component.
This shows the component as it was looking before this problem:
I'll share this too. Thanks for any suggestions.
Ian
I've downloaded you file and the first thing I see is that there are no components in the file. You nave tried to neatly organize and name your objects and thats great. If you are adding components as another way to organize your work you'll be in excellent shape.
The first thing you should to is to read this in the Fusion 360 learning resources.
This screencast is from April but it also provides a few hints of the advantages of components. I am to time constrained to create a new one at the moment.
Once you're done with that you'll likey realize that you've got some work to do but I can guarantee you it'll be much easier going forward if you re-organize your work. I started with Fusion 360 in November last year and re-designed the lighting system in the screencast three times from scratch before I had it where I wanted it.
The curcular reference also happens in the model without the linked components/assemblies.
That's a heck of a casting! Would you have a few photos of it how it looks complete ?
This is the real casting after powder coating. It's from a 4.6 litre Range Rover V8 ungine that I'm fitting into my Marcos Mantula two seat sports car. More information here: Marcos Mantula blog.
The plan is to model the entire engine installation as I have a lot items to reposition and systems to design. I only want to do the job once, so it should be far easier and cheaper to make all the mistakes and rework in the Fusion 360 environment than on the actula car.
Thanks for sharing that model. The circular dependency should not happen, definitely. We will investigate this and see if we can figure out why this happened and block this in the future.
We apologize for the somewhat cryptic error message, and lack of feedback about where the cycle is. We thought we had all the paths blocked to create these cycles. Apparently not...
Jeff Strater (Fusion development)
Jeff Strater
Engineering Director
thanks, @Anonymous for the debugging head start! Knowing that the problem feature is Combine3 will help a lot.
Jeff
Jeff Strater
Engineering Director
thank you, @zhuravliki for this observation (here and in this thread: double-click-of-timeline-entry-which-does-cut-paste-to-create). I think that this gives us valuable information about how to re-create the circular dependency problem. We will try to use this information to see if we can re-create the circular dependency problem - selecting a timeline entry when Fusion is busy. This may also explain another phenomenon that we have been seeing from customers - sometimes just selecting a timeline entry does a feature reorder, even if no drag is done. I think these are related.
Regarding the "Fusion freezes for 5 - 15 seconds every five minutes or more often for performing auto operations" observation: Most likely, what this is is Fusion generating a "recovery file" for the current design. You can control how often this happens, by adjusting this preference. You can see that I have mine set to 20 minutes. Of course, there is some danger to this, as you may lose up to 20 minutes of work if Fusion crashes. I get around this by doing an explicit save fairly often, at a point in time where the design is in a good state, and I know I can afford the save time interruption (I will check email, get coffee, etc). Just something to think about.
Jeff Strater
Engineering Director