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Hi all,
as I already mentioned in the "slow performance & crashes" thread I experience major performance problems with Fusion 360 on my Mac.
So I made a video and want to show you how my user experience with Fusion 360 currently is.
The following video is marked private on YouTube, so you can only access it via the following link.
If there are any problems viewing it, please let me know.
The video does not only show my performance issues, but also a few other usability flaws.
Because I don't have much time to edit the video and to recorded spoken comments (my apologies) I write my comments here, so you hopefully understand what I am showing you in this video.
This video was captured on a freshly rebooted system. Therefore the 3D navigation is pretty smooth. After some uptime this changes dramatically. But what you can see in the video is the lagging of alle menus and operations.
I recorded this video with Quicktime (and mouseposé) and therefor you don’t see the constantly reoccurring spinning beachball cursor because of a long running operation i.e. application hang.
Rule of thumb: If you see the mouse cursor stopping or not moving for more than a second -> beachball-time!
My system the video was recorded with is a MacBook Pro 13’’ - Early 2015 - 2,9Ghz - 16GB RAM - 256GB SSD Version with Yosemite 10.10.4 (same behavior on 10.10.3).
I will provide links with time-markers to the section of the video to which my comments are related to.
So lets start:
- Fusion 360 (non-App-Store version) is still not showing up in spotlight. So you have to have a shortcut somewhere present, or you will end up digging through Finder in order to find the application under such a convenient location like „/Users/martinmajewski/Library/Application Support/Autodesk/webdeploy/production/aed8aabe08959634c15091c7e2e9e3e952f5bb77“.
The only thing Spotlight is able to find is the „remove“ tool… Can’t tell how often I opened that tool by accident and nearly clicked the uninstall button.
https://youtu.be/xPaC2nwXKBw - Extremely slow startup. Because Fusion 360 crashes a lot I have to spend a long timespan waiting for Fusion every day…
https://youtu.be/xPaC2nwXKBw?t=21s - Slow and non-responsive menus… e.g.
https://youtu.be/xPaC2nwXKBw?t=1m12s
https://youtu.be/xPaC2nwXKBw?t=2m42s
There are a lot more places there the GUI is simply not responding to my clicks. - Weird viewport jumping. When I use my touchpad and try to zoom or pan with a two finger gesture it happens often that the viewport behaves odd, like seen here:
https://youtu.be/xPaC2nwXKBw?t=7m12s - I already posted an idea-request for a better parameters management window. But what should really be added in the next release is the possibility to change the variable-type (i.e. the units). Currently you have to delete a parameter if you have chosen the wrong type.
https://youtu.be/xPaC2nwXKBw?t=2m2s
See also: http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-360-ideastation-request-a/parameters-dialog-not-blocking/idi-p/... - Choosing a sketch segment or a object outline as path for a tool like the rectangular pattern tool is not always the best choice - especially when the sketch or objects gets modified. Construction lines would be a far better option but are not selectable as paths.
https://youtu.be/xPaC2nwXKBw?t=11m35s
See also: http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-360-ideastation-request-a/construction-lines-as-paths/idi-p/569...
These are „all“ problems for now. You can watch the video entirely if you like. Maybe you will finde some other odd behaviors that I forgot to mention here.
But the worst thing is the lagging and the instability of Fusion 360.
22 minutes video without a crash is a pretty good result.
I hope that I could provide some insights and help you guys to improve Fusion.
Bye
Martin
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