Can I turn off the selection preview while hovering over my geometry?

[Araphen]

When I'm working on an object with a lot of features on one surface and I quickly move my curser across them, all the different faces will flicker rapidly as Fusion 360 highlights whatever face is beneath the cursor and all those flickers quickly fatigues my eyes.  When I googled where to find the option to turn that off, all I found were 7 year old requests to have the option added.

I found a post that had a work-around for this from 2015 here:

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-360-design-validate/can-i-turn-off-the-selection-preview-while...

In short, it says to edit the XML file for the scene that you use (For me it's photobooth) and make the "HighlightEffectInfo" match the "RRTBackground".  That means when your cursor passes over a face, it changes the color to the same as the default so it doesn't appear to change. 

I used this fix successfully before but now I can't get it to work.  I'm not sure why it stopped working and I was hoping someone might know why and how to modify it to work again or give another solution like a plugin.

It even looks like no matter what I change the "HighlightEffectInfo" variables to, there's no change at all in fusion.  

This shows no change:

Even this shows no change:

I copied the XML file from the older post and it didn't stop the flickering, and I used the backup of my old PhotoBooth.XML file that I know worked and still nothing.  And I know I'm not making changes to an older version that Fusion isn't using because if I rename the XML file and restart fusion, Fusion crashes on launch.  

Any suggestions are very appreciated.

[Araphen]

I made a gif as an example.  This is a pretty extreme scenario but it shows what I'm talking about.  I would think this by itself isn't fun to look at for just a few seconds but working on something like this for over an hour is definitely not fun.  This gif is also running at 33fps so it's not even showing all the flickers.  My monitor runs at 165hz so it's much worse 

 

[suryawa]

Hi @Araphen ,

Have you tried the 'Selection Filters' Option from the toolbar?

Hope it helps...

Thanks & regards

Amit Suryawanshi

Fusion 360 Drawings

[Araphen]

This was suggested in the original post but doesn't do what I want.  Unless I'm misunderstanding it, it stops Fusion360 from highlighting things when I mouse over them but also disables my ability to select them which is required

[Araphen · Accepted solution]

I found the solution and I'm posting it in case anyone also has the same problem as me.

I spent over two hours changing one color variable in the XML file, launching Fusion360 to figure out what changed, documenting the change, closing Fusion360, reverting the changed color variable to it's original value, and changing the next one.  I did that until I got to "AdornerHighlightedColor ARGB" which made the change I wanted.

The XML file you edit will depend on which environment you prefer.  Environment folders are located in this directory with their XML files inside the corresponding folders:

C:\Users\>YourUser<\AppData\Local\Autodesk\webdeploy\production\5504d85ae982f0b7c130e43cd174ede20d73f523\Neutron\Server\Scene\Resources\Environments\

The 5504d85ae982f0b7c130e43cd174ede20d73f523 folder will change with updates and the environment XML file will need to be edited again.  If there's an update after I make this post and before you make the change you should make sure you're making the change to the most up to date file.

I don't know why this is required now but it wasn't before. 

The original fix was changing these to be equal to the "RRTBackground RGB" of the environment you use:

Background RGB

BaseColorRGBA

BackFaceColorRGBA

HaloColorRGBA

But now you also change "AdornerHighlightedColor ARGB" to match "RRTBackground RGB"

So for the environment PhotoBooth you change it like this:

It looks like changing "Background RGB" doesn't actually make any difference but I changed it anyways since the last fix required it.

I hope someone gets some use out of this before there's some update that breaks this fix too.

[drew.porter]

Thank you for figuring this out again. This is my biggest gripe with F360. 

Unfortunately it does break when Fusion updates. So you have to go back and change the values frequently. 

[cobbce]

This is honestly so terrible, and actively makes me reconsider upgrading to pro. Eliplepsy issues here and holy cow my head hurts. Thanks for the workaround, hopefully the devs start using their own product and identify the cause of their daily migranes...