Improvements to Fusion 360 Simulation Display

[ajacobs6LJTJ]

I know this is not a Fusion 360 Manage suggestion.  But there was no selection for Fusion 360.

I have been using the simulator for a digital circuit for a few days now and there are a few things that could be much better:

1. The names of the signal traces are truncated with "..." when they exceed the size of the label box.  There is no way to increase the length of this box to see the full name and it cannot be viewed by mousing over the name either.  Leaving no way to see the full name.
2. Please use the mouse wheel to zoom in and out of traces.  Selecting a start point and dragging to an end point works.  But when you zoom in several times, the only option is zooming all the way back out with a double click.
3. When zoomed in on a specific area of the trace display, it would be nice to be able to scroll the existing zoomed window to see data off screen.  A scroll bar at the bottom when zoomed, or if the mouse wheel is used to zoom, a click and drag of the trace area to move the veiwport.
4. The label boxes do not line up with the actual traces.  The more traces you have the worse this problem gets.
5. Remember the sequence of the traces from top to bottom once they are reordered.  Or provide a way to set the display order before starting the simulation.  New traces would always be added at the bottom.
6. The simulation form is always topmost on the screen.  Making it difficult when switching to another app.  You end up constantly moving the simulation form or just closing it so you can fully use your screen real estate.
7. The time display at the bottom of the traces is very useful.  I see numbers like 0.000059999 that are not easy to determine the actual time from.  It would be nice if the time scale followed whatever unit was used in the End Time entry (200u would have the time scaled in microseconds).  Then you could have the time numbers truncated to three decimal places to improve readability.
8. Allow the user to specify the color of the traces and remember these settings for that file.
9. If you close the schematic view in the simulation window, remember that setting for the next time that simulation is run.
10. Provide better error descriptions.  This is not very helpful: "Error: There was an issue running the simulation! [code 2]".  What is a user supposed to do with this?

[TrippyLighting]

@jorge_garcia can you move this to the electronics forum and perhaps tag the responsible product manger for this?

[jorge_garcia]

Hi @TrippyLighting,

Always nice to hear from you. I've requested the thread be moved to the electronics forum.

I've also sent this directly to the developer responsible for SPICE. We have some small work for SPICE done this year, however the full UI overhaul that is needed will no be done this year. With that said, @ajacobs6LJTJ VERY SOON you'll be able to export all of the simulation results in a simple csv file which you can then visualize in Excel, python, or whatever is most convenient for you. Not what's needed, but should hold you over until this work gets prioritized.

Let me know if there's anything else I can do for you.

Best Regards,