No error message. Mirror completes, but no mirror.

[Anonymous]

Been having fun designing this up until now. Fusion always does this. I will get into a design, complicated for me, and then when I am about halfway through, commands start failing left and right. Can't combine, can't split, can't offset, can't extrude, etc. Error message are almost always unhelpful, and this time, I'm not even getting one. I'm trying to mirror this face I've offset using the XZ plane to get the other name part in position. The mirror shows you the silhouette of what it's gonna do, then I hit ok, and it's like "psych! made ya look!". No error message is displayed, the feature is not mirrored, but it shows up as a mirror in the timeline.

I'm only halfway finished with my design. I've still got to put the text on path, do the star of david, get the triangles at the bottom, and the graphic at the top. This has to be fusion, because my computer fans never kick on. And if it is Fusion, I don't like the chances I have to finish the rest of my design. Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong, or how to work around this nonsense?

[g-andresen · Accepted solution]

hi,

"Optimized" is your friend

günther

[davebYYPCU]

Not quite -

change the option to Optimized.

Might help....

[Anonymous]

@g-andresenWhy exactly does it default to adjust when optimized works but adjust fails? It's like a guessing game trying to figure out which way to do things when all the other ways fail.

[jeff_strater]

there is no way to predict which method will succeed - it depends entirely on the model, the faces/features selected, etc.  You just need to try different methods if one fails.  One important piece of info:  Optimized is significantly faster than Identical, which is significantly faster than Adjust.  So, start with Optimized, then work your way up.  I agree, the default should be Optimized.  We are working on that.

[Anonymous]

@g-andresen @davebYYPCU  and yes, I am frustrated, but I want to thank both of you.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for addressing that. I've simply noticed this on most of my models - the more complex ones, but even some of the more basic. At the beginning of the design, first choices work almost all the time. You get into it, and things start to fail. Is something always going to work, and I just have to find it?

[davebYYPCU]

Over time you will build a knowledge base of what does work, and why, 

if you have this syndrome of bigger is not better, then perhaps those designs need some examination / feedback for you.

Took me a few versions of workflow to get where I am now.

[Anonymous]

@davebYYPCUSo exactly what are you telling me?

[davebYYPCU]

Basically - most of us learned to walk before being able to run.

Your statements are all we can go on, over time you will have encountered workflows that do and don’t work, stop using the ones that don’t work.  It’s a learning curve.

Take that mirror for example, when the file arrived, you stated you got no mirror, and no error.

The feature did not give the desired result after preview, but you had a change in face height, based on my previous learning curve, check the operation type, Gunther had also been there done that.

This forum is a place to ask why things don’t work, and if an unknown bug is found in the process, the managers like to fix them.  

Files that are breaking can can be shared, solutions or work arounds to the problems are often found.