Problem with components and history

[Hugo_Eerik_Jõgi]

Hi,

I am participating in a competition for making a moon base design in fusion 360. I have made solid progress however I have stumbled upon an annoying workflow problem. You see I need to create a bunch of boxes, in which plants are grown, however they all become different objects which clutters up my browser. To fix this I made them into components and grouped them together into a construction folder of sorts. But suddenly when I created another assortment of boxes I could not group them. Only fix I found for this was to delete the history, which worked, but that came along with another problem. All the fillets, chamfers, revolves and circular patterns that I had created suddenly appeard in my browser. This makes my browser list extremely long and I can't even move them neither can I group them. What am I supposed to do to fix this? Also I need a fix quickly because the project need to be completed by 18th of April and I am only about 40% done. 😞

[TrippyLighting · Accepted solution]

It looks like you are working in direct modeling mode, which is something most of us here on this forum do not recommend.

One of the reasons I personally don't recommend for complex designs it is exactly what you describe. All the modeling operations clutter up the browser. 

[Hugo_Eerik_Jõgi]

So if i have the history timeline on, then i am not using direct editing? Or is there some way of changing it?

[TrippyLighting]

Correct!

However if you have modeling icons shown in the browser, as shown in the image below, that means that you do not have the design history (timeline) enabled:

[Hugo_Eerik_Jõgi]

Okay, I have the model open with the history timeline however there is still another issue. When I try to combine the components of the boxes on the outer shelf they for some reason don't combine. As seen in the video. When I made the inner shelf boxes into components i was easily able to combine them. I don't really know at what point I wasn't able to do that anymore.

[g-andresen]

Hi,

1. combine is done with bodies not with components
2. share your design and tell which bodies to combine

File > export > save as f3d on local drive  > attach it to the next post

günther

[Hugo_Eerik_Jõgi]

I meant group the components. Like in the video, I turn the inner shelves boxes on and off. That sort of group.  The components that I want to group are component36 to component83. PS sorry if the model is a horrendous mess.

[Hugo_Eerik_Jõgi · Accepted solution]

Okay turns out it was working all along, I just needed to create a new component that was empty and then drag them onto it. Thank you for you help with everything!

[g-andresen]

Hi,

Please do not use the quick reply option in future replies, but reply to specific posts.

günther