Stop updating component after every change

[infoQN65E]

Hi guys,

I really enjoy working with Fusion360, but there is one thing that keeps bothering me every time I'm changing a Sketch somewhere in the middle of the timline:

The whole part/component is refreshing its complete geometry and it take a few seconds on every little change. Is it possible to deactivate this auto-update of the component and manually refresh it, after all the changes are done? I know SolidWorks has such an option and it works quite well. I don't know if Fusion may has this Feature as well but I couldn't find it yet. If it hasn't, that's definately a feature I'd hope for!

Any help would be highly appreciated!

[jeff_strater]

@infoQN65E,

what operations are you doing to a sketch that are causing a full update?  If you are in sketch mode, and are rolled back to that sketch, only that sketch will compute.  If you are just dragging visible sketch lines while not in sketch mode, then yes, Fusion will update after the drag is finished.  If you want to suppress that behavior, then manually roll back the end of design marker to just after the sketch.

[infoQN65E]

it's just sometimes the case, that I'm satisfied with the overall design, but want to readjust some diameters in different sketches along the design-history. I would love to have my overall design being kept in its final stage, edit my Sketches, that not affect the outer design of the component, and when I'm done with that, refresh the component, to have those "minor priority" details updated. 

I could drag the design marker to every sketch, that is being changed, but this is always very CPU-intensive and sometimes not very helpful, as the major design sometimes helps to proportion something.

Hope this is making it a little easier to understand, but I know for sure that SolidWorks has this Feature which had even a street lamp signal integrated, that kept the user infomed, whether ones changes are already up to date or still had to be updated.

[infoQN65E]

hi again,

I'm getting frustrated right now, as I wanted to give a rounding a new value and mistakenly mistyped it.

Now Fusion is frozen for nearly 10 minutes and is trying to give that rounding a impossible value. 

I'm really bothered by this ongoing refreshing feature. It should be possible to update the changes I've made only after hitting the enter key. It's refreshing even while typing in some values... This is slowing down my workflow intensly. 

Are there any other suggestions to bear with this?

[craigpamment]

Did anything ever happen with this? I have lots of frustration with this also.

Most of the design is bottom up modelling. I changed the size of one component in the design - which you then have to get latest to reflect the changes. Fusion then wants to refresh the whole design. It started getting stuck on a "CreateComponent" part for about 30min, so as that's a body to component conversion I thought if I just delete it - meaning that component would not longer be there, hoping it would be sorted. Now, even though I have deleted the "CreateComponent" operation from the time line - which makes the part is just a body again, It now gets stuck for over 1 hour on that same "createcomponent" number that doesn't even exist anymore. The part I modified is not even touching the parts that having the problem. How and why does this happen? Does the whole design need some sort of purge or something?

In the past I have had a similar issue with a "CreateComponent" on refresh, but after deleting/converting that part back to a body - I didn't have any more issues with that part. But for some reason, this one is different.

[mike.pageLB8HW]

I think that, as with most forum, posts I've read surrounding similar issues, that the Fusion team will do nothing to address this. This is an opinion that I've concluded over the past three and a half years, and can be evidenced by looking through similar posts. For shame.

[g-andresen]

Hi,

If I change e.g. the position of a profile in a sketch, the resulting operation (extrude; sweep...) has to be transformed immediately and automatically to be able to continue working in the changed shape.
Saving manually afterwards does not help me.
I also don't know anyone who would use something like that.

günther

[TrippyLighting]

In Fusion 360, the only option we have to stop full full re-computation of the timeline is to roll back the timeline marker.

In other CAD software I can also roll forward a freeze marker from the beginning of the timeline.

That software allows a very similar top-down design approach to Fusion 360 where all parts/components can be designed in a single file. That makes this a very valuable feature.