Move components in design tree

[Don.Cyr]

Hello,

I am trying to move components in the design tree as my list is fairly long and I am trying to keep certain components together to avoid some scrolling. i have my master component selected and when selecting the component to move, I do get the blue line with triangles on both ends but when I drop the component where I want it, it doesn't actually move. Is this normal behavior due to the timeline capturing the components in time as they are created or am I possibly doing something wrong?

Thanks in advance.

[jhackney1972 · Accepted solution]

This is normal behavior.  The blue line is just a teaser of, what we hope, is a coming feature.  You cannot rearrange the Browser tree at this time except in small ways, and then only when dependencies are not present.  You can sometimes drag components together to create sub-assemblies also sketches and bodies into components all depending on dependencies.

[mhag33tg2]

I also had a problem where I could not move components into and sub-assembly component in the browser - but I since found a solution that worked.   It seems the critical issue is that I created the sub-assembly AFTER creating the components, when I later realized I needed some sub-assemblies.  The solution is to delete that sub-assembly, wind back the timeline to well before creation of the components and then create the sub-assembly early in the time line.  Then when you wind the timeline forward, you can then move all those components into the sub-assembly.  And the joints don't get disrupted either which is a relief.  This has solved what has been a really frustrating issue.  Another benefit is that it also gets the sub-assembly higher up in the browser instead of way down the bottom.  This method is also good for managing fasteners and it sometimes makes a lot of sense for me to create a "fastener kit"  sub-assembly and put all the many McMaster, nuts, bolts etc in there so that the browser list does not get so long and cluttered. 

Having said that, the McMaster-Carr parts download thing is great but their part descriptions that come into the Fusion auto-parts lists are terrible.  Either Autodesk or McMaster needs to fix that.   Because of that I no longer use the Fusion auto parts list functionality on my drawings, and instead just create a custom table on my drawings and manually enter the parts so that I can more quickly control the parts descriptions etc more directly.   If they ever fix the descriptions I suggest they adopt Spanish kind of grammar for all parts, which is;  NOUN, adjective 1, adjective 2, adjective 3, etc, etc. Having managed thousands of elevator parts for many years I can confirm that this is by far the best naming convention