Spline terminator icon not showing up

[RogerInHawaii]

I've used the spline tool a lot and it works great. Each time I would click to add a point during the creation of the spline a little checkmark-in-a-circle would appear and clicking on that would tell the tool that I'm done adding points.

But in my most recent use of the spline tool, that little checkmark-in-a-circle icon never appears. I watched a video of spline-making and the fellow said to double-click and that will terminate the spline, so I used that technique to end the spline.

But WHAT HAPPENED to that little checkmark-in-a-circle icon? Why isn't it showing up any more? Instead, I'm seeing a box saying "Select first point to close". I'm not sure if it always said that, but I don't want a "closed" spline. I want, or at least expect,  that check-box icon.

[davebYYPCU]

Thank you for the fix, was happening to me,

but didn't know about the double click, I think I fitted arcs to the job at the time, but arcs might not work next time.

[jeff_strater]

hmm... it seems to be there for me.  Can you record a screencast of what you are seeing?  What operating system are you using?  The below was recorded on a Mac

[davebYYPCU]

I'm on a Windows 10, HP Pavilion.

Seen it a couple of times last was a week or so ago, usually in a larger file, 

Was in my airfoil workflow. 

Import dxf, project four top points and then trace the airfoil with a spline, in a second sketch, but now I remember just going with the imported profile.  Visual only for that model.  Reviewed today was all ok.

[HughesTooling]

I've had this happen occasionally not just for splines but any of the line\arc tools. Personally wish I could turn it off completely as it gets in the way way too often. It's easy enough to finish a line or spline using right click and select OK or hitting enter.

Mark

[RogerInHawaii]

Here's a video of what happens. [ It's "attached" as a video to this message since I haven't installed the screencast extension and really don't have time to learn yet another tool just to post a screencast. 🙂 ] You can see that there's no checkmark-in-a-circle icon, which usually appears as soon as you click a second point for the spline.

I will point out that this only occurs for the project that I'm working on, which is indeed large and complex. I did a test with a simple temporary project that just has a block shape in it and used the spline on a sketch on one face of the block and it works fine, actually showing the check-mark-in-a-circle icon.

So the problem does seem to be related to the complexity of the project, EVEN THOUGH I only had one Component active and visible and that component only had a couple of simple sketches and just one simple body at the time that I was doing the spline.

[jeff_strater]

It could certainly be related to the size (either physical size or complexity) of the model.  I wonder if the checkbox is there, but is drawn in a very inconvenient location.  If you have an example model that you can share (privately or publicly), we can investigate it.

Editorial comment:  I personally agree with @HughesTooling - I find this UI annoying, and have often inadvertently clicked it before I was ready, ending my line/spline.  For Line, it's not a huge problem, but for Spline, it is not so good, since you then have to re-create your spline.  I tend to use other methods (Enter, or right-gesture) to end my commands.  To each his/her own...

[HughesTooling]

I think when I've seen this problem it's because I've had Fusion running for a while, using hibernate so might not have restarted for a few days. It always goes back to working as normal after closing and restarting Fusion.

Mark