Visibility Can Not Be Changed....

[Anonymous]

WTF???  I created a brand new component.  I inserted that component into a brand new design.  It says I cannot change the visibility of the bodies or sketches because they are read-only in the referenced design???

Regards,

Ray L.

[TrippyLighting]

Break the link ?

[Anonymous]

But why???  I did nothing unusual in creating that component, and I don't WANT to break the link!  How did it become read-only without me explicitly making it so (and I have not clue #1 HOW to do that even if I wanted to...).  Seems like just another of the seemingly endless things Fusion just does at random because it can...

Regards,

Ray L.

[TrippyLighting]

Currently ALL external components are read only. In order to edit them you'll have to open them, edit them, save and then go back to the designs referencing them and update that design.

Cumbersome!

Why don't you want to break the link ?

Don't get me work. There are very valid reasons to use linked components. 

[Anonymous]

Same issue, some of my parts import just fine, others have the "visibility warning".  The purpose of importing components is so that you can change them on the fly, and make adjustments to them so that they reflect in the original part.  By breaking the link, you need to fix the issue as a broken link part in the assembly, and then rebuild the fix in the original piece.  Completely defeats the purpose.  

[HughesTooling]

I don't use linked parts much but you should be able to change visibility of components and subcomponents but you can't change visibility of sketches, bodies ect. Inplace edit is supposed to be on the roadmap but I can't see it for 2017.

http://www.autodesk.com/products/fusion-360/blog/spring-2017-roadmap-update/

Mark

[Anonymous]

I have imported a component from one CAD drawing to another. I go into the orginal component, make the changes to display the origins, and save. I try to replace the existing component but the changes don't come through. I'm using the Save as and Replace command, but that is not working. Why can't I see the different versions of the components I have created.

[Matt.Nguyen]

I feel your pain. All I want to do is turn on or off the visibility to the different layers of sketches from the link file but not able to unless breaking the link. Why are you doing this Fusion? Its just visibility on and off but not changing the file. 

[edcasati]

I had the same problem. The visibility of the origins line on a derived component was locked. So I turned the visibility OFF on the original, and it got turned off on the derived. That is the only component that has that problem out of several in the same document. Placing the same component is a separate test document has no problem, so the problem is on the input to the new document, not the output from the original.

At least I found the work-around.

[laughingcreek]

are you using linked components or derived?  important distinction.

for linked components we do now have edit in place capabilities that didn't exist when this was originally posted.

[edcasati]

AHA! The one that is giving me problems is linked (??? Has the chain symbol), and the ones that are working OK are Derived (??? curved arrow). I have NO idea how they ended up different or what the difference is... time to look it up.

[TrippyLighting]

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@edcasati wrote:
... time to look it up.

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Perhaps it would be prudent to look it up before using it ?