Search for a component

[docara]

HI,

As subject I know I have two component (or possibly bodies) with "collar" in the name - I just cant find them.

Any ideas is there a search facility available?

Thanks

[aaronkcap]

Under the data panel by the where the folder name is there is a magnifing glass that allows you to search for a file

[docara]

HI Aaron,

Thanks for the reply .

No I wasn't looking to search for a file but a component within the browser.

In the end I had to redraw what I was looking for

Matt

[aaronkcap]

Ohhh I'm sorry I read that incorrectly.

[ash2020]

Are they not always in alphabetical order?

Having said that, I uploaded a GrabCAD file today and it didn't appear. Then I shut down Fusion and opened it again and the file was there.

Andrew

[autodeskdkf]

I found this question because I was wondering the same thing.  

Click "Select" / "Select Tools" / "Search by Name"; see screenshot #1, below

Rather frustratingly, though, it pops up two dialogues - one in the middle the screen which allows you to type a name into it, and a larger properties dialogue on the R.H.S of the screen.

If you type a name into either of the dialogues, the name doesn't appear in the other dialogue (which seems like a bug to me).

And, also rather frustratingly, it only allows you to select bodies and components - not sketches and/or joints (the latter of which is more problematic for me)

If you want to find the currently selected component in the browser, right-click on the selected component, and choose "Find in Browser".

[arild]

I do not understand the seach function when it comes to finding a component. As an example below I have a folder called Cagiva_Mito. In this folder I have a part that is called Cagiva_mito_rear_seat

But if I press the seach icon marked i yellow below and I type in mito nothing is found not the folder or the part. 

I understand that  mito is inside the text in  both the part and the folder but there must be a way to search for parts of the name???

[laughingcreek]

so this is weird.  the under scores before and after the word seem to throw the search function off.  when I do a  search using a word, I get results for files that have the word when no underscores are used, but the files that have underscores are omitted.  If I rename an omitted file and remove the underscores, then search finds them.

also, if I search for a partial word, search will find it if it's the first few letters, but if any other part of the word is used (excluding the first letter), it also fails to find the file (probably related to first problem when using the underscore)

i.e searching for "neg" will return files with the word negative, but searching for "gative" does not.

gotta be a bug

@jeff_strater ?

[arild]

Yes I'm pretty sure this is a bug. Or maybe a very bad search engine. Unfortunally I have used underscore a lot in my files. A bad habit from running old CNC machines where space made filename fail in old Phillips, Emco an fagor CNC kontrollers. I find it very strange that this have more attention. There must be others around that have many files in the 360 could and have issues to find them? But I do not find many comments on the internet so I have been thinking that there only have been me that have had this issue.

[TrippyLighting]

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@arild wrote:

... A bad habit from ...

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That's not a bad habit. Still today, a lot of computer software has a problem with spaces and the usual fix that has worked for the last 30+ years is to use an underscore instead of a space. 

[autodeskdkf]

I'm doing a rebuild right now so don't have it installed atm, so can't test this... but have you tried using wildcards (*)?  So... *mito*

[arild]

Yes have tried using *  and other " + - and more but I have not found a way that Fusion360 are able to find any thing inside a name or text string. It's still very strange to me that not more people thinks this is a big issue.

There are maybe many users of Fusion 360 that not make many parts?? 

[programify]

This is a huge issue. Frequently I have a meshed STL file generated from a component within a model of multiple components, and then lost which model the component was taken from.

Fusion 360 has a huge number of bugs and faults and omissions in functionality, and this is just one more that autodesk refuses to acknowledge or address.

Rather than asking for details of the bug I would expect autodesk help people to know this problem without any further discussion.

It is the practice of asking too many questions that autodesk kills any further complaints because they grind you down like we're at fault, not their flakey software. Still it's better than using chalk on a blackboard. Just.

[autodeskdkf]

Dude, all software has huge amounts of bugs. Give blender, sketchup, lightwave, modo, photoshop a try. I've crashed every single one of those hundreds of times, each. 🙂

Also, I hope you didn't read my username and think I work for autodesk - I don't (I create a separate email for every site I join which helps protect me from spam and lots of potential hacks) . So if my reply is what triggered your response (thinking I'm some useless autodesk employee that was stalling) then it wasn't. 

[arild]

I'm kind of supprised that there is not more people than me that is frustated to this flaw in the search engine. It have still not been improved more than a year later.

I have stopped using underscore to my fusion360 files but still have many files with underscore that is really hard to find unless i know the complete name. But then they are normally not lost.