Search through placed components in scheamatics and layout

[aadityadengle]

Hello Autodesk,

I have used Eagle for long and now I am trying Fusion 360 Electronics. The main thing I have found missing is to find the component placed on the board. In eagle we used to have Ctrl + F shortcut for this but fusion this basic functionality / shortcut is missing. Can you guide me through?

[yqliu]

@aadityadengle , you can do it in Design Manager panel:

[aadityadengle]

Yep, the Design Manager is fine but it adds up time in actual process. As we are considering Fusion 360 Electronics as a professional software, we expect to have production ready features in it. Comparative to Egale, the F360E is having overall bulkier UI, slower performance, requires more clicks and movements to do similar task and in case of schematic lesser onscreen work area. 

Even one have to accept above changes in the name of modernization, some basic features and key board shortcuts should have been present. Ctrl + F (search) one of it. 

IMHO, Fusion 360 Electronics is Not a bad tool but could have been better, with its UI, Shortcuts and by avoiding unnecessary sub menus and commands. The UI designers should have considered the fact that Electronics design is different than that of other streams of engineering (I am designing things in Mech since last 2 decades, and Electronics for almost a decade now). 

I can go ahead and run 1 to 1 features review, if autodesk find it helpful to improve their product. 

[m.neujahr_at_moe · Accepted solution]

Hello @aadityadengle ,

you can add a keyboard shortcut and use "run find" as command line.

Because Ctrl + F is used by another function, I've added Ctrl + R

Add:

https://help.autodesk.com/view/fusion360/ENU/?caas=caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/DEU/The-CTRL-F-sho... 

[aadityadengle]

Thanks for the update.

[shaische222]

How do create a shortcut to open the window to search for signal or component? The article you linked gets translated to German....

[m.neujahr_at_moe]

Hello @shaische222 ,

here you find "SHORTCUTS" to add

[aadityadengle]

@m.neujahr_at_moe looks like this is a common expectation among the users to have many handy functions on keyboard shortcuts. Hope we see shortcuts being assigned by default in upcoming updates. 

[shaische222]

@m.neujahr_at_moe How do I remove Cmd + F shortcut so that I can use it? It's occupied by "Project Filter", but the shortcut doesn't do anything when I try it and I don't use Project Filters. It is more natural than Cmd+R and universal program to program to use Cmd + F (I'm on iMac)

[m.neujahr_at_moe]

@shaische222,

please take a look on this Costumize or Shortcuts