How do you deactivate a component?

[Anonymous]

I can 'activate' it, which I have no idea what the point is honestly... but I cannot deactivate it. Sooo if I want to see what this thing actually looks like I have to go into render. I'm confused. How can I deactivate it?

[Anonymous]

I did not expect them to change a radio button action. I suggest a check box.
As to Fusion 360 using radio buttons - once you start with radio buttons you should have a null selection to go back to nothing. At least in a CAD/Design situation. You/We Are THE Supreme Power of Our Design. No? Yes?

[Anonymous]

Issue-Activating the Root Component after having activated another component caused my instance to ghost the newly 'activated' component/group. The way I effected a clear component view was to 'Undo' the previous 'activate'. The ghosting effect is why I went to the Undo command.

[Oceanconcepts]

It's very common to have lists of radio buttons where you are required to "select one", and when you select one all the others are deactivated. The problem in Fusion, I think, is that the buttons disappear from view completely when deactivated. That makes their function less than obvious. I could imagine other interface methods, like highlighting or coloring the section in the hierarchy that corresponds to an active component, that could give better visual cues. 

[Oceanconcepts]

---

@Anonymous wrote:
Issue-Activating the Root Component after having activated another component caused my instance to ghost the newly 'activated' component/group. The way I effected a clear component view was to 'Undo' the previous 'activate'. The ghosting effect is why I went to the Undo command.

---

Something else is going on here- when the root component is active, any subcomponents should not be ghosted (unless opacity settings were changed). When a component is active other components will be ghosted, but when the root component is active, by definition all components are subcomponents and should be visible. Can you maybe share a screen shot of this? 

[Anonymous]

A desired result - the radio selection should cause the components to be clear once selected. Not ghosted out as the radio selection presently functions.

[Anonymous]

The attached screen capture shows my Fusion 360 session with the Pulley component radio button selected/activated. If I now go to the top level and select the radio button to activate all the components the same type of ghosting effect happens. The only way I have easily found to go back to a clear view is to use the 'Undo' - Go Back feature.

[Anonymous]

Disregard my Ghosting issue. My fault- If I select the background/canvas the ghosting stops. I thought I'd tried that before with no positive results. My bad.

I am presently working through the lessons for Fusion 360 - SO, I AM VERY NEW/GREEN. Sigh.

[Anonymous]

When the radio button is selected to activate a component the component is shown ghosted.

Once the canvas is selected the active component becomes a clear view and the non-active components are then put into the background as ghosted.  ---- This is nice. And I see now how that activating the top level components at first appear ghosted then, by selecting the canvas/background puts us back into a top down design with all components clearly displayed. Nice - once the function actions are understood.

[Oceanconcepts]

Good that you worked it out.  I think that the fact that new users consistently have trouble getting the mechanics of activating/ deactivating components (I'm not talking about the conceptual or logical structure of how Fusion uses components, that's another issue) indicates that there is room for interface improvement. 

[chrisplyler]

Pretty much any video I've seen that talks about the reason to activate a component also shows how to activate a component.

[Anonymous]

I am honestly just trying to say that the question has possitive feedback. Cuz this is exactly what I am struggling with.

[TrippyLighting]

You either activate another component or you activate the root  level, which is also a component.

In Fusion 360 you are always working in a component because each design is its own first component.

[willianma]

thanks jeff.strater but, it isn't practical to roll all the way up to the root of the tree to deacti...

[TrippyLighting]

Yes, it is practical if you structure your assembly better. 

[Oceanconcepts]

I think Peter is right in that knowing how Fusion works, planning for "down the road" in the way you structure components and subcomponents can make this much easier. 

But sometimes you (at least I) don't know where a design is heading, or change some directions midstream. Often it's easier at that point to rebuild from scratch. 

What I often wish for, though, is the ability to rearrange (drag and drop) same-level components up and down in the browser display. That could save a lot of scrolling when at some point in the process you end up working back and forth on components that are widely separated. 

[TitaniumBlue]

Wish the scroller was easier to grab, or be able to put bookmarks to go back to that component of interest...

[markusbarnes]

You replied to my comment after a year of Fusion 360 updates. Have you considered that the issue issue may have been fixed or improved during that time?  You should think instead of engaging in reckless brown nosing.

[Anonymous]

What does this mean, or never mind.

What I want to kno how exactly do I recover from experimentally activating this non understandable chaotic functionality.

I just want it to be as it was before pressing activate, and will never press that again.

[TrippyLighting]

---

@Anonymous wrote:

What does this mean, or never mind.

What I want to kno how exactly do I recover from experimentally activating this non understandable chaotic functionality.

I just want it to be as it was before pressing activate, and will never press that again.

---

What functionality do you want to recover from?

Do you understand the purpose behind activating components?

[Anonymous]

Pressing the activate button.

But never mind, luckily this was at the start of the project, just deleted it and not redoing.