how come my axis colors are off

[fredi]

Am I really the only one who has a problem with x,y,z  planes working correctly  and with there supposed corresponding colors of  blue z red x and y green? Just started trying fusion 360 coming from a long autocad career (since v12 dos) and by checking z up in preferences ,my colors are off for axis.there doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to picking a plane and having x,y,z, work correctly and watch a simple box with one corner at origin move 2 units to right if I give it a x value and 2 units in the y direction for 2 units entered and up for 2 units in the z direction. It makes it very confusing. and then it almost seems to change depending on how my cube is oriented! I am almost ready to throw in the towel. Is this a bug or what am I doing wrong?

And why aren't there better clues as to which direction you're working? The manipulator works great for a ucs but I can't believe nobody else enters information that is an absolute value from the origin.Maybe I am missing something having all those autocad years engrained in me but it seems like something is wrong? any insight would be appreciated.

thanks

fredi

[jakefowler · Accepted solution]

Hi @fredi,

When looking at the model outside of any commands/sketches, the colored axes should correspond the world coordinate system, as you would expect (X=R, Y=G, Z=B).

When you start a sketch, you're entering a sketch 'mode': here, we hide the world space axes, and instead show the sketch plane with the X and Y axes of that sketch (X=R, Y=G). Since sketches can be created on a plane in any orientation, these need have their own X & Y directions (which typically won't correspond to world space).

Does this match the behaviour you're seeing?

Regarding moving objects: hopefully the reply to the post about Move clarified some of this behaviour. The X/Y/Z directions are typically based on the face you select in the Move command. Admittedly, there's more we could do in the UI to cross-highlight between the selected manipulator and corresponding field in the dialog - this is something the UI doesn't currently support, but it's an improvement we definitely intend on making.

For now, if you click a manipulator (without dragging it), it becomes blue, which indicates that this is the active manipulator: now typing a number will perform the Move in that direction. This might be an easier way to enter values if the X/Y/Z directions in the dialog aren't immediately obvious.

Again, let us know if this didn't help, or if you had any further questions.

Thanks!
Jake

[redevill]

Wow - I was not expecting my axis to change when entering sketch mode - explains alot.

What about the colors changing when I simply press the shift key - in preparation for orbit? Also finding this very troublesome - UI messing with my orientation of the world every time I make a move - not nice.