I was working on a small section of my project, fixing a few minor rigid Joints and suddenly noticed that these Joints were showing up as Yellow in the timeline with a Warning message that "Compute Failed : Some positions cannot be resolved due to joint conflicts".
What does that warning message even mean? What's the conflict? I select a face on a component to move and a destination face on the component it's to be moved to. The move happens correctly and it's right where I want it, but it reports a warning. How should I interpret the warning and what is the sensible suggestion for resolving it?
I tried deleting both the joint and the object that I was joining to the primary Component, then making a new copy of the Component to be Joined, doing a new Joint operation, and the same thing happened. The Component was properly positioned but it showed up as Yellow in the timeline with that exact same error.
I did some searching through the forums and discovered that a recent update to Fusion was distributed to correct a problem that had been reported some time ago regarding Joints showing spurious warnings. The new update indicated that the original problem, the one causing those warnings, had been fixed, that the new update would not subsequently cause such errors BUT that it couldn't fix/remove the warnings that had previously (apparently incorrectly) been generated by Fusion. It provided three approaches:
1. The quick and dirty
Promote a previously saved version before the June 27 Update from the data panel and continue working from that one.
2. The slow but effective
Go to your timeline, locate the joints that have been affected, delete, them, and re-create them.
There is a third way, but will require you to know about text commands. We made a post in the forum with more details and discussions going. Check it out if you want to pursue that path
I took another look at my project, in particular looking at the entire breadth of the extremely long timeline (over six months of work), and discovered that now nearly every single Rigid Joint was now flagged yellow with a warning. I looked back through prior saved versions of the project and found that I would have to go back several weeks in order to find a "clean" version, meaning that if I took the first recommended approach I would LOSE several weeks of work!
The second recommendation, of locating every single Joint warning instance and correcting it also would not work. There are HUNDREDS of such spurious warnings through the entire breadth of my project!
EDITING DOESN'T WORK!!!
In addition, I did indeed try to go back to the most recent Joints I had worked on. I deleted a Joint, Deleted its associated Component, re-created the component, re-did the Joint, and it STILL showed up as Yellow in the timeline. So this idea of going back and somehow fixing the Joints simply does not work.
THE THIRD RECOMMENDATION also did not work. I tried it and it still left all the Joint warnings.
Please, please, what is wrong? What is it about these Joints that Fusion is thinking is wrong? It positions them correctly, exactly where I want them to be, but it insists of flagging them Yellow as having some kind of error. It would seem that the problem detection algorithm is not working properly. These things should not be getting flagged as warnings.
I cannot imagine that any of your many, many, MANY customers will be happy with losing a couple of weeks of work. Please tell me that there's a fix for this.
