Mouse Cursor Position

[Anonymous]

Is there a way you can bring up and see the mouse cursor co-ordinate?

[promm]

Hello @Anonymous,

We do not provide mouse coordinate feedback.  Can you walk me through the workflow that you would be using this for?

Thank you,

Mike Prom

[Anonymous]

Mike Prom,

Thanks for the reply.

I am currently working with worknc and familiar with few other software. They all have mouse tracking displayed. I find Mouse tracking useful in many cases.

I am trying to get familiar with fusion 360 as I find it very interesting.

Anyways, I was trying to draw a sketch (circle) at an accurate position where I can key in the x and y coordinates. In another instant I was trying to move a model from point to point where the 1st point would be a corner of a model and 2nd point would be x, y, z coordinates.

Any suggestions would be greatly appriciated.

Thanks

[promm · Accepted solution]

@Anonymous,

Happy to help.  I have attached a link to a video below to help start our conversation about how I would recommend approaching sketching a design in Fusion 360.  For you first example about accurately positioning a circle, you can see I drew the circle first and then used the dimension tool to accurately position it.  The benefit to this workflow as you can see in the video is that I have one dimension driving another and then when I make a change to one the other updates.  I then drew a rectangle using one dimension and one constraint to accurately position it to the origin.  The next thing I did was have a circle reference the corner and make changes to the rectangle to observe how it updates.   In a summary lay out the sketch the way you want it to look and then go back and dimension/constrain.  In cases where I have geometry that I want to change to explore ideas, I will draw that first, dimension to the origin and then draw the rest of the geometry.

http://autode.sk/1lU8ec0

Cheers,

Mike Prom

[Anonymous]

If the cursor position coordinates are not available, why do the axis adaptive numbers disappear when I zoom in, in other words, how am I supposed to maintain position?

[promm]

@Anonymous,

Please review the video I created earlier is this thread.  The numbers are there for basic reference of scale, but are not designed to be used for positioning.  With a parametric model you can sketch your design and then apply the dimensions that parametrically maintain position.  If you have a workflow that you are having difficulties with please provide details and I would be happy to create a video for you.

Cheers,

Mike Prom

[autocad]

I would very much like this feature as well. For engineering drawings, where the exact dimensions are already known, going through all that scaling (as in your video) is not time efficient.

[Anonymous]

Agreed x,y coordinates on the cursor would be handy.

[Jyrsija]

This option would come in handy.

I use a pod an rail Cnc router and the XY coordinates of the cursor are a great way for positioning the pods on the machine manually, as rough dimensions are usually enough for this use.

[pdevDMGRW]

Why on earth is this marked "Solved"?    The "solution" shows what may be the most rudimentary Fusion 360 tutorial in human history (how to draw two circles and a square),  but doesn't address OP's original question: ie.  where the frog are the dang mouse coordinates?  

It's 3 years later - are we still out of luck with viewing mouse coordinates?

Bah.

[pdoubek]

Here is another vote for being able to view the cursor coordinates. It's always aggravating when a company dismisses a customer request as unneccesary when there is clearly a need or desire for a feature. Autodesk has always been a leader in engineering grade software, but ignoring requests like this makes me think this software is intended to be hobbyist-grade. Marking it "Solved" is also dismissive. It would be more appropriate to flag it as "Working as Designed" or "Won't Fix". I love Fusion 360 but the reason I found this thread is because I have a need for this feature and assumed I just didn't know how to enable it. 

[Anonymous]

Your video is not the solution we are looking for. We just want to KNOW where we point at.

[Anonymous]

Another vote for this function.  I get very tired of counting grid lines.  Sometimes I'm moving way out from center with part of my drawing off the screen and I just want to know about where the heck I am!  Yeah, I can draw a line from center to see the distance from there, but it would just be very helpful to see what X and Y (relative to the sketch plane) are.  Very bizarre that I can get complex things like center of mass of a solid but not a basic thing like XY coordinates of a sketch!  

[pdoubek]

This thread appears to be dead to Autodesk; no activity from them for well over a year. Maybe we all need to create new feature requests rather than keeping this thread going. As I said a year ago; it's seems like they dismissed the idea as unnecessary rather than acknowledging the need and desire for the feature.

[TRIALCAD2014]

It seems Autodesk has a policy to not care about users . They act dismissive and rude when the obvious is pointed to them by so many users.
Obviously, this is a company culture rather than an individual employee's doing and proves a lack of leadership and management. 
This type of companies usually end up going bankrupt and investors should be aware. I've see that too many times when arrogant companies like Autodesk end up having a Kodak moment.

[Anonymous]

Nudged, because I find this very irritating, although I doubt it will make a difference.

[Anonymous]

Autodesk's arrogance is shocking. Any computer user would want and need  to know where the mouse is EXACTLY. The second sentence in this reply is KEY, and its so true as to be unarguable.  how can Autodesk not get it ? I suggest some outside therapy for the decision maker. and maybe a brave Autodesk engineer could tell  the boss how wrong he is ?

[jeffCY5D8]

Nudged again.  How hard can it be to show the mouse coordinates on a plane? Especially useful for starting a sketch that is a certain distance from 0, 0 or certain distance away from a point/intersection.  It's cumbersome to draw a rectangle, then move it to position.  ... Or at least make the process easier to start an object at an exact location on the plane.

[Anonymous]

I have drawn a rectangle in a sketch mode. Then I moved a rectangle to the coordinates so that its lower side aligns with the horizontal axis (in my case it is Y=0). Unexpectedly it didn't align with the axis but stayed a bit lower. So I'd like to know now, where is my mouse pointing at, at least to find out where is 0,0 point.

The same problem is with a vertical axis.

And could someone please explain me, why are the displayed  axis offset from their actual positions? And how do I get them shown properly?

[jeff_strater]

Here is how you align a rectangle with the X axis in Fusion.  FYI here is what is shown in a sketch: