Apply decal to joint surface of an assembly

[raven.zino]

This is weird and I'm having a similar problem as this one: https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-360-design-validate/add-a-decal-or-canvas-to-a-linked-componen...

A bit further to that to put it in perspective:

F360 allows changing the appearance of linked components, this is good as naturally you won't care of the paint job before putting everything together. But to put a decal on, F360 forces you to do so at the very early stage of your design flow... This doesn't make sense... This is like, you apply a decal, and then do the paint... a bit counter-intuitive isn't it?

Putting this into a different scenario and you'll see some bigger problem:

You create multiple components, and assembled them together, and wanted to put on a large decal. For example, a plane (assembly) consists of multiple sections (linked components), and some large logo/slogan is supposed to be applied on the joint surface. Naturally you would only apply decal/image on it once the assembly is done, and more than likely the decal will cover multiple sections/components. Now with F360, you can't... you'll probably have to cut the decal into small pieces and apply them separately onto each individual component, which is quite impractical if not entirely impossible in some cases...

So I think my questions are:
1. given that post is more than 2 years ago, is this still a feature yet to see or there's now a way to achieve that?

2. If the former, does anyone have any idea if F360 dev team has any plan to address this? Or what's the best way of getting their attention on this? I tried to post on the Feedback Forum, but it seems I'm too new to be allowed to post there...

[jeff_strater]

No, you cannot apply a decal at the top-level assembly, across multiple linked components.  Decal is considered a design change, not an "override", so requires editing the linked design.  Fusion does now support "Edit in Place" which just makes it easier to edit a linked component in context, but that does not help in the cross-component scenario.  And, no, this is not in our current plans to address.  It just does not come up often enough to warrant raising the development priority at the moment.

Re: Feedback Hub:  The fact that you cannot post there has nothing to do with how new you are - only internal Autodesk people are allowed to post there. It is not meant as a replacement for the IdeaStation, but instead is a way for Fusion product managers to request feedback on individual, planned projects.

[raven.zino]

Thank you Jeff.

In this case F360 as a product designing tool, can't present a final state of a product design is a little bit disappointing, leaving needs unfulfilled. I'm not sure the limitation of F360 software architecture and how much effort would it take to implement such a feature, but if the scenario I described is seemingly legit to the dev team too and there's indeed no workaround, it might be worthwhile to give it some level of consideration, or put it into the plan even.

As I searched the forum, I understand the IdeaStation is no longer exist. So do I need to bring this to some specific forum/thread, or this post itself is good enough?

[jeff_strater]

@raven.zino - this is good enough.  I've recorded it, but no promises about any delivery timeframe, unfortunately.

[raven.zino]

Totally understand. Thank you Jeff.