Some simple feature requests to streamline design
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I've been using fusion professionally for years and here are a few easy to instigate features that would make everyones life a little easier.
Please upvote if you think any of these would be useful to you.
Apologies in advance if any of them exist already and I've just failed to notice them.
1. Super Visible: A toggleable visibility override that makes the a particular component/body etc. the only visible component without changing the visibility status of anything else. This would save you from having to turn off dozens of things to perform an action only to then have to turn everything back on again a moment later. simply right click the eye icon and select "super visible"
2. Preserve settings in extrude: a simple check box within the extrude command pallet that saves all extrude settings and values for the next time you use the command. This would save a great deal of time on certain repetitive tasks. The same could be applied to many other tools.
3. Appearance override: An option to make everything appear in the default steel. I work in wood and the wood textures can be messy to look at and are more demanding on the computer. In theory I could just keep the appearance features at the end of the timeline but in practice it is easy to forget and occasionally with patterned objects that have different appearances on different faces it is best to apply appearances before pattern feature.
4. space becomes underscore in parameters: This is a minor gripe but can we please have space automatically converted into an underscore in the name field of parameters. If you have a lot of parameters with long names to input then having to hit "shift -" every time is awkward and slow.
5. date of last save/export as an attribute in the tittle block of drawing space: the date a drawing was first created is not useful information for me or my client, it might be years ago if it's an amendment of an old design.
6. lock cross section plane in drawing space: adjusting the length of a section view often results in accidentally changing the angle, something that I can't see anyone ever wanting to do.
7. leaders that point at empty space: If you are labelling finishes in the drawing space you want to point at the middle of a space, not a line or other edge feature. Perhaps all enclosed spaces could have an invisible central point a leader could lock to to retain cohesion after model changes.
8. A rebate (rabbet if you're American) tool that functions like the fillet or chamfer tools: rebates are an extremely common design feature in many industries, being able to apply them more quickly would be helpful.
9. Combine multiple tool bodies into multiple target bodies: there's a plugin for this but it really should be a core feature.
10. A zone at the end of the timeline which the marker will not move into except when manually forced. These features would therefore always be applied at the end. This zone could be suppressed as a group or set to be automatically disregarded by the drawing space. It would be useful for features that you wish to have when producing renders but not on your technical drawings for example small fillets or splits in bodies that allow you to visually simulate joints in wood.
Please upvote or comment if you like the sound of any of these or have your own simple feature ideas.
p.s. Fusion team, your dimensions disassociate at the drop of a pin. Please make this more robust before I accidentally throw my computer out the window.
