How to turn off auto highlight on mouser hover

[m3atwad]

How do you disable auto highlighting in fusion 360?  The default settings highlight every surface the mouse hovers over.  I need to turn this off.  I couldn't find a clear answer on the forums.

[laughingcreek]

The only way I know of is to change the selection filters/priorities.  Of course, then they won't be selectable.

I'm curious to know how you would utilize this ability?

[m3atwad]

Most other cad packages I've used allow you to turn this off. The auto highlight feature is very bright and irritating when trying to view parts, take measurements, screenshots etc...  

It is a simple option that makes a very large difference in the quality of the program and how customers interface to parts they are designing.  

I unfortunately have to micromanage my mouse constantly to take screenshots, measurements etc...  The highlight feature is only useful when selecting parts which is less than 90% of work/view rotations.  It should be bright and obvious, but should not be forced on for mouse hovering all the time.  This is disappointing.  

[m3atwad]

Is there any way this can be captured as a feature request?

[m3atwad]

Has there been any updates?  Are customers still unable to turn off auto highlighting?

[jeff_strater]

no, there is no update, and there is no way today to turn this off.  Your request has been recorded, but, to be honest, we have not heard other folks ask for this, so I don't expect it will be implemented any time soon.

[HughesTooling]

It has been complained about and there's a workaround in this thread, if you try modifying the xml file make sure you have a backup. Also a idea station request here.

Mark

[TrippyLighting]

I've complained about this before but have gotten somewhat used to it.

An option to turn this off particularly for faces would be helpful and it would seem that given that this isn't hardcoded but read from a XML file as a configuration it would seem that this should not be relatively easy to provide as a preference setting.

But it does really not come up very often so might not be the highest priority.

[m3atwad]

If autodesk plans on keeping fusion and eagle pcb integrated this needs to be fixed.  This is unacceptable.  Maybe for pure MCAD this isn't a big problem, but collaborating ECAD and Fusion now with circuit board design - this is makes the user experience from the UI perspective absolutely terrible.  

[TrippyLighting]

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@m3atwad wrote:

If autodesk plans on keeping fusion and eagle pcb integrated this needs to be fixed.  This is unacceptable.  Maybe for pure MCAD this isn't a big problem, but collaborating ECAD and Fusion now with circuit board design - this is makes the user experience from the UI perspective absolutely terrible.  

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There a a number of options to greatly reduce occurrence of the effect

• In sketches you turn off the profile to reduce eliminate the effect.
• It you're working on a single component, you can isolate the component which will hide any geometry not in that component.
• You can then also hide any bodies in that component.
• First and foremost turn off the noonish auto-project nonsense in the preferences.

Then you might find that this is most manageable.

[Anonymous]

@jeff_strater I record a decent number of screen capture videos of Fusion 360 for my YouTube channel.  The flickering of objects being highlighted as you move the mouse around to rotate objects/hide objects/etc is pretty distracting. I know I can create animations, but that doesn't always suit the purpose.

http://www.thegraindoctor.com

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkOEujzt5m4&t=10s

That being said, it is a fairly minor annoyance in a fantastic product that has literally changed my life.

Nick

[Anonymous]

I've had similar issues that make it extremely frustrating when selecting small and complex geometries for surfacing. If the auto-highlight feature can't be turned off at this time, are there other techniques to improve surface and geometry selection without selecting the entire part model? 

[tuckerbeauchamp]

Any update on this? The highlighting is way to exaggerated, even the ability to tone down the highlighting would be great

[donniej2015]

A halo around the cursor is the best option. That halo size and softness may be configurable as well. A halo saves the eyes from constant blinding highlights.

Selection should not be coupled with hover over. Once selection is made, then of course the entire face should be highlighted.  This feature is more than well established as a nuisance.  Why is this not addressed?