Buggy timeline

[Anonymous]

For a couple of updates the timeline is really a pain in the a**.

- Is is buggy when I try to go back to check some features: the cursor sticks, the name's bubble flash and it freeze my Mac and mouse with the famous "beach ball" until Fusion thinks and does what in older updates did like a pro.

- When I just link on a feature (no double click, no dragging, no right click), just a normal left click, Fusion starts to conmute something. At the beginning I tough "Oh geez, Fusion needs to repair something, let's give him time....but at the end, after a while I realise that this "Conmute" does nothing but errors. Errors no in the features, but error saying "Invalid conmute"! For now on, every time I click on the timeline and Fusion starts "commuting something" I cancel that pressing ESC, my mouse turns on the beachball for a couple of second and then I can work again. But now I am afraid to touch the timeline.

I miss the time when this awesome feature (the timeline) was really responsive, intuitive, not a dramatic "conmute-freak" tool.

Guys, please resolve this as soon as possible, because for me and many of my colleges this is a really problem.

Thanks

[Phil.E]

@Anonymous

Could it be that you are working with a much more complex design? That often happens in CAD with any application, as the design grows in complexity so does the compute power required. Does this compute lag happen with very simple designs, perhaps with only one component that has as many features as the one you show in the video?

If you can share your design with me I'd like to analyze it in person. I can give a better answer looking at the actual design.

Thanks,

[Anonymous]

Have you ever opened your drawing and had it show up in some state that doesn't match how you saved it?  I ask because I can slide the timeline back into history a ways, then slowly move forward back to 'current' and the drawing will be as I expected.  In my software background, the only thing that will do this is a race condition or a dependency failure to wait.  I hope they find it before I have to start from scratch.  Problem for me is the physical build against this drawing has already started and I'm not sure I can 100% re-create it if I have to.

[Phil.E]

@Anonymous

That sounds really strange. Let me be clear about my understanding of what you just said. 

First, when you say "drawing" do you really mean "model"? A 3D model is a model, and a 2D drawing is a drawing. Just making sure here.

From your description:

1. You save a file with the timeline marker at the end.
2. When you open it, the design is incomplete, as if there should be more features saved at the end of the timeline.
3. Then you manually scroll the marker back in time, and then to the end, and your missing features appear.

Is that what you are experiencing?

Thanks,

[Anonymous]

Sir,
I do mean Model.
By incomplete, I mean the position of the components is not as it should be at the end of the timeline. I have now found that I can use the timeline buttons to jump to the start of time and back to the end of time and it will incorrectly represent the model. If I go just to a specific Position element in time, then back to the end, it draws things in the appropriate locations.
I have heard back from a Mr. Tessier who is looking into it from an original thread. Re: Drawing not re-opening to saved state / version
Regards, Preston.

[TrippyLighting]

@Phil.E I've noticed the lagginess when moving the timeline marker as well. I am not sure if there is a direct connection to it but It seemed to coincide with me updating to macOS high Sierra.

This also happens I simple designs which less than 2 dozen timeline features. But is more pronounced in designs with a longer timeline.

[Anonymous]

Hi @Phil.E, thanks for your reply.

This issue happens to me with less complex designs as well. In 2016 I worked with other more complex and detailed projects and I remember that I spoke miracles about the smooth behaivoiuor from the software. Now, opening the same project from 2016 and sliding the timeline, I reproduce the same behaviour as shown. That issue is quite annoying considering that Fusion was before very good.

I would like to share with you a design where I reproduce this issue. How can I share it with you?

In my case @TrippyLighting this issue was already there before updating to macOS High Sierra.

Thanks,

Rafael

[Phil.E]

@Anonymous

It is not design specific. I meant to reply last week but I have reproduced the behavior and reported it as a bug.

Thanks for reporting this.

(Internal reference: FUS-37465)

[rhudaynath]

Hi @Anonymous , 

Can you please let us know OSX version that you are using? 

Thanks,

Rhudaynath  

[Anonymous]

Hi

I am using the last version of the macOS (10.13.3) on my Macbook Pro Late 2013

I hope this helps to resolve the issue.

Kind Regards,

Rafael

[rhudaynath]

Thanks @Anonymous for sharing information. 

We will keep you posted.