Shortcut for home view

[Anonymous]

Hi,

Being totally new to Fusion 360 I ask my self if there is any kind of keyboard shortcut to activate the Home view. I would like to map this view to a button on my 3D mouse but I cannot figure out what to map.

Thx n greez,

dialsc

[jeevesme · Accepted solution]

It does'nt look like there is:

http://help.autodesk.com/view/fusion360/ENU/?guid=GUID-F0491540-0324-470A-B651-2238D0EFAC30

[Anonymous]

Thank you!

[wugwizard]

Found a way by using the freeware AutoIt tool:

Create a script with the following lines...

; Script Start
; Get the handle of the Fusion360 window
local $hWnd = WinGetHandle("[CLASS:Qt5QWindowIcon]")
; Using window handle, get the size of the main display area
; The instance number may possibly vary between versions etc.
local $aArray = ControlGetPos($hWnd, "", "[CLASS:Qt5QWindowIcon; INSTANCE:5]")
; Do a "blind" click on the location of the "hidden" home button
; Not sure if display scaling or DPI may affect the offsets from the top right corner
ControlClick($hWnd, "", "[CLASS:Qt5QWindowIcon; INSTANCE:5]", "left" , 1 , ($aArray[2])-109, 18)

Bind the script to a keyboard macro key or spacemouse home button...

[wugwizard]

Last update changed something, had to update AutoIt script:

; Script Start
; Get the handle of the Fusion360 window
local $hWnd = WinGetHandle("[CLASS:Qt5QWindowIcon]")
; Using window handle, get the size of the main display area
; No longer using instance number, the main area is named "QTCanvasWindow"
local $aArray = ControlGetPos($hWnd, "", "QtCanvasWindow")
; Do a "blind" click on the location of the "hidden" home button
; For some reason we have to send 2 clicks?
; Not sure if display scaling or DPI may affect the offsets from the top right corner
ControlClick($hWnd, "", "QtCanvasWindow", "primary" , 2 , ($aArray[2])-109, 18)

[hemicuda3FNEZ]

@wugwizard I did a bit of googling but didn't turn up any useful info. Would you mind elaborating how to bind the script to a button? I created the au3 and compiled it to an exe as well based on your script. Thanks.

[wugwizard]

@hemicuda3FNEZ here is the script I currently use, binding to the HOME key globally...

#cs ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

 AutoIt Version: 3.3.14.5
 Author:         J Taljard

 Script Function:
	AutoIt Fusion360 Home script.

#ce ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

#include <MsgBoxConstants.au3>

HotKeySet("{HOME}", "HomeKey")

While 1
    Sleep(100)
 WEnd

 Func HomeKey()
; Script Start
; Get the handle of the Fusion360 window
local $hWnd = WinGetHandle("[TITLE:Autodesk Fusion 360 (Personal - Not for Commercial Use); CLASS:Qt5QWindowIcon]")
If @error==0 Then

; Using window handle, get the size of the main display area
; The instance number may possibly vary between versions etc.
local $aPos = ControlGetPos($hWnd, "", "Qt5QWindowIcon2")
If @error<>1 Then

local $aSize = WinGetPos($hWnd)

; Do a "blind" click on the location of the "hidden" home button
; Not sure if display scaling or DPI may affect the offsets from the top right corner
local $aMouse = MouseGetPos()
MouseMove(($aSize[0]+$aSize[2]-110), ($aSize[1]+$aSize[3]-$aPos[3]-40),0)
MouseClick("")
MouseMove($aMouse[0], $aMouse[1],0)
Else
   MsgBox($MB_SYSTEMMODAL, "ERROR", "Fusion360 Canvas not found.")
   EndIf
Else
   MsgBox($MB_SYSTEMMODAL, "ERROR", "Fusion360 Main Window not found.")
EndIf
EndFunc

Hope it helps. 

[i.fanariotis]

Hello

Is any chance to use this with OS X? Its unbelievable that this feature is not a must for the developers after all those years 😔.

[harikrishnan725]

please autodesk, we need a shortcut for this.

[harikrishnan725]

Thank you! This works very well. I bound it to a key on my gaming mouse.

[poshpaws]

 OS with the 3dconnexion driver allows me to map button to home view

[s.sirapol]

I still waiting........

10 years ago....

20 years ago....

[ericdlaspe]

@poshpaws 's answer works and doesn't require any third-party tools or scripting.  How do we make their answer display more prominently?

[Transmedic]

@poshpaws  ? does  Home View still show up for you in the latest versions? it was strange,  when I saw your post I went into 3dConnexion space mouse button mapping went to map it to FIT found it in the drop down , selected it , it didn't map went to try again and its never shone up again in the drop down. I have the latest versions of fusion 360 and 3dconnextion.

Thank you any info would be helpful.

[pezula.alan]

Not sure if Autodesk have formerly mentioned anything further on this but for what it is worth, I received a mailer from 3Dconnexions to say that they had enhanced their interactivity in Fusion 360.   After digging around on the setup of my Spacemouse I found if I allocate ISO1 View to one of my Spacemouse buttons it gave me a Home action.  The logical conclusion is that Autodesk have either released a macro or script to perform this function.

Note that all modules are treated differently for the Spacemouse button allocations so you have to enable ISO1 in say both Design and Manufacture modules to get both modules to perform this Home view action.

Absolute magic.

A bit more detail in my blog at 

https://altrish.co.uk/2022/06/28/3dconnexion-spacemouse-has-better-fusion-360-integration/

Alan

[philrydin-orwin]

Buy a super zoom mouse from 3dConnection and use the idea above, I just got one and absolutely love it!!!

[DARSHANKAMDAR]

Can you please explain steps how you did it?

[pezula.alan]

I have added a PDF sheet on how to allocate the Spacemouse button to HOME view in Fusion.

https://altrish.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/SpaceMouse-Home-view-with-Fusion-360.pdf 

[poshpaws]

Hi so , I have been away from fusion360 for the past 2 years since I was doing another job role.

Now I have time to set up my system once again - and can say following the instructions above worked flawlessly

One issue I did have was getting the settings app to give me the autodesk fusion360 context (tip - use the menu button on your space mouse while in fusion)

not tried with OS X yet , but it worked before so probably its ok

[poshpaws]

OS X works too.