Fusion auto-selects random surface to extrude

[Anonymous]

Hi there,

I just created a new design and within this design only, I get some strange behaviour. When I press the shortcut "E" for extrude, it automatically selects a random surface on a sketch to extrude. Even though the sketch is not visible and I've made sure the face isn't selected, Fusion will select it. I can simply deselect it to extrude a different face, but it's rather annoying. Please see the screencast and notice the keyboard presses

I looked through the preferences and couldn't find anything on this. Have I clicked on something on accident to turn on this behaviour or is it a bug?

[wmhazzard]

Please attach an f3d file so we can look for the problem.  

[g-andresen]

Hi,

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@Anonymous wrote:

Please see the screencast and notice the keyboard presses

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screencast > where?

günther

[Anonymous]

Hey,

The screencast was somehow lost. https://autode.sk/2O9D6pJ

I've attached the f3d. I did some further work on it, and it stopped doing the autoselect. However, when I opened the v1 through the history, it still had the error

[g-andresen]

Hi,

that does look a little strange indeed.
Especially the dependence on the behaviour of the 1st sketch is irritating.

strange profile selection behavior
Maybe @jeff_strater  or @Phil.E  should take a look at this?

günther

[jeff_strater]

The logic here is:  If there is one visible sketch, and if that sketch contains one profile, Extrude will auto-select that profile.  It's not random at all.  This was added as a productivity enhancement a while ago, for the fairly common workflow of:  create a sketch, draw a single profile, then immediately extrude it.  Customers were annoyed at having to pick the profile, when there is an obvious choice.  Personally, it didn't bother me at all to have to pick a profile, but, whatever.  If there are two sketches visible, or if there are more than one profile, then the choice is not obvious, so Fusion doesn't auto-select anything.

The one logic error exposed here is that the sketch in this design is not truly "visible".  It is marked visible itself, but the sketches folder is not.  That is a minor bug, I agree.

[g-andresen]

Hi Jeff,

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@jeff_strater wrote:
This was added as a productivity enhancement a while ago, for the fairly common workflow of:  create a sketch, draw a single profile, then immediately extrude it. 
this explains the behaviour
Personally, it didn't bother me at all to have to pick a profile, but, whatever.  

I agree with you

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günther

[Anonymous]

I understand the enhancement/logic, but as @jeff_strater pointed out, there's a bug in that it selected a specific face no matter if that sketch (or any other sketch for that matter) was visible.

[Anonymous]

I tried reproducing it. The bug is simply that when a sketch is visible but the "Sketches" folder is not visible, it will auto-select the profile (even though nothing is visible on-screen).

[jeff_strater]

I've created FUS-60184 for this issue.  Thanks for reporting it.

[jeff_strater]

Quick follow-up:  This bug has been fixed.   The fix will take some time to work its way through the release process, so I can't say for sure when it will appear, but it's on its way.

[awilliamwright]

The bug continues, but in a different way: When you have a component isolated, if there is an errant sketch somewhere in the full project that's still visible, the extrude tool will grab that profile. Even though the entire component that the sketch exists in (as well as everything but the active component) has been hidden.

At least I know what's causing the bug now, but it is still pretty annoying. I'm a "worst practices" type of drafter, in that I usually have multiple profiles in each sketch, so it's taken me a while to figure out why this happens to me.