Fusion 360 - I can't work with assemblies

[lokaj12MLURH]

After the last two updates, I'm de facto unable to work with assemblies in Fusion 360. Can you tell me what the hell you're talking about? In assemblies, I cannot edit in the position of capturing the part, or the whole program gets completely stuck, so that it is completely impossible to work with it and only a hard restart of the program via the Windows task manager will help. Can you please fix this?? It's incredibly exhausting, constantly opening and closing everything. I was working relatively without problems before, but now the program is a nightmare to work with.

[g-andresen]

Hi,

please record a screencast of your process and share the file

File > export > save as f3d on local drive  > attach it to the post

günther

[lokaj12MLURH]

Sorry, but I will not share the .f3d file here. However, the attached video shows my problem. I can't edit the part in the position I place it in. I can't force the program to freeze, it happens very randomly.

[lokaj12MLURH]

Now I also have a video of the frozen program. It happened when I updated externally modified components in the assembly.

[TheCADWhisperer]

@lokaj12MLURH 

1. Are there any unresolved issues highlighted in yellow or red in your Timeline?

2. Are all of your sketches fully defined?

3. Have you used computationally efficient modeling techniques - especially avoiding large sketch patterns?

4. Does Ctrl b (CMD  b on Mac) return any issues?

[g-andresen]

Hi,

From your screencast it is not clear what (feature or joint limit) you are editing.

Günther

[TrippyLighting]

Please use an appropriate screen recorder and not a mobile phone. We need to see the timeline of your design to evaluate where the problems might be. I personally use OBS to record screencasts. It's free and very powerful.

[HughesTooling]

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@lokaj12MLURH wrote:

 I cannot edit in the position of capturing the part, 

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This is a red flag. You should not use capture positions you should use a joint to position a component. Helping on the forum I've seen capture position used wrong thousands of times, only seen it used correctly once! Each capture position creates data of the position of all moved components and this will slow Fusion down. Using joints is a lot more efficient and I've seen it speed up slow assemblies many times.

At this point in your video you're given the option to capture the position but you pick revert so of course it goes back to where it was before you moved it.

[lokaj12MLURH]

Based on what you wrote here, I saw that the assembly is almost entirely colored yellow, obviously since the last update. I completely rebuilt the assembly from scratch and the parts modifications are now working. I don't understand why this is the case when the whole assembly was working perfectly without any problems before. Before, I worked at solid works, so I never experienced such problems, I definitely do not think that the joints and connections were used incorrectly, when they are now exactly the same and work without problems.

[TrippyLighting]

@lokaj12MLURH when it comes to assemblies and joints your SolidWorks experience it pretty irrelevant.

I started working with SW back in 1998. 

If you are interested in learning how to work with assemblies in Fusion 360 properly, then share a design, that exhibits the issues you are seeing. Even a design without those issues might help.