Searched forever, how to display mouse position coordinates!?!?!?

[Anonymous]

I get a post from 2015 over and over again, and a pile of answers for Autocad, but neither google nor this forum's search function comes up with anything useful. 

I swear that it used to display in the corner. I can't scour the internet for an answer anymore, I can't believe I have to make a post about this. Why do I find this program so hard to find information for?

[wmhazzard]

From my perspective having never used AutoCad, I can't imagine why on Earth you would need to see the coordinates of the mouse pointer when all you need to do is type in a dimension instead of scrolling and hope that you click in the correct place or rely on snapping to some sort of grid. 

If you need to check clearance for something, make a simple sketch to check if you have the clearance necessary.  

This is a 3D modeling, not a drafting software. One doesn't have to work the same as the other. 

[jlgustrowsky]

. . . interesting. Read the posts above for examples of why you might want to know where your mouse pointer is in the coordinate space you're working in. . . Seems elementary, but we don't all use software the same way do we.

Anyway, don't worry about fixing it for me. I'm off to model 3D stuff using other tools.

[reese7376]

Thank you for posting this!

[scottQ5TH]

Offen you will need to work backwards into a sketch or begin a separate object an exact distance from an existing object. Every other graphical interface I have ever worked on either in 2d space or 3d, including other autodesk products has this feature. Omitting this simple, necessary feature on purpose is extremely narrow.

[scottQ5TH]

Thanks John, can you get a job at autodesk please and fix fusion.

[g-andresen]

Hi,

To achieve this, create the object anywhere on the plane and then position it in relation to its reference object using dimensions and/or constraints.

Günther

[david_m_bean]

Wow.  I just started using Fusion this morning.  I'm designing my first project, and the very first question I had was "why do I have to manually count grid lines to position things?".  Makes no sense.

This is the first thread I've looked at here on the Autodesk "Community".  I really hope that other Autodesk reps are more helpful, and less confrontational / condescending than Jeff here.  

[davebYYPCU]

Your new, 

so what did you do when you found this feature does not exist?

Maybe you turned the grid off, sketched the shape part freehand, then constrained the article with constraints, and Dimension, got the sketch fully defined, and made the part.

Or did you just shut Fusion down?

[david_m_bean]

This is a little disappointing - when I got a notice that there was a reply to my comment, I thought maybe someone had something helpful to offer.  

To answer your question, though, I just counted the grid lines, like I would have had to if I was drawing the design by hand.  I need to get this done today, but moving forward I'll probably look for a solution that hasn't left such a simple and obvious feature out <shrug>.

[davebYYPCU]

Sketching,

gives you live time feedback when stretching a line or circle, even with prompting constraints, 

I prefer it this way - used to the efficiency.

Might help...

[astralhoops]

I'm here to say that I would like this feature added also.  I'll admit, I'm not a CAD expert.  I'm an electrical engineer, but I do sometimes need to design parts to fit with the PCBs that I also design in Fusion 360.  On the electronics design side of Fusion there is cursor coordinates and I've come rely on them.  It would make it much easier for folks like me that are very skilled in the electronics design side to be able to apply similar design thinking on the object design side.  

[TheCADWhisperer]

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@david_m_bean wrote:

... very first question I had was "why do I have to manually count grid lines to position things?".  Makes no sense.

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@david_m_bean 

You are right, manually counting grid lines makes no sense - there is a much easier way.

I turned off the grid in 1987 in my second CAD class.

[jpopoca1961]

I'm currently looking for dynamic mouse positioning as well; not sure it will help, but my learning path has brought me to it as being a possible solution. I get lost when sketching in 3d. It would be nice to maintain a frame of reference with respect to the drawing's point of origin, and possibly the last position. There may be a strategy for maintaining a drawing perspective that will assist in orientation during 3d scetching, which as of yet, have not been discovered by me.

The perspective of the orthogonal relationships between each of the three axis that appear at each successive point of a sketching, is a little too disorienting at this level of learning. It's like when you are trying to pin the tail on a donkey while wearing a blindfold.

I have a solution, if one dosn't exist at this point. Its disclosure would take a free lifetime subscription to all that autodesk, and or affiliates, have to offer.

Additionally, I have also noticed that when the audiance wants to show someone the light, while a direct suggestion is in the dark, it begins by trying to rationalize away from a direct solution to the question.