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BUG: Assembly not redrawing properly after rolling timeline back then forward

Scoox
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BUG: Assembly not redrawing properly after rolling timeline back then forward

Scoox
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I'm designing a ceiling-mount exercise bar and I'm experiencing the bug described in the attached screen cast. I've tried reproducing the problem using a simpler assembly to try to pinpoint the exact cause of the bug but wasn't able to, so I have shared my project for analysis (https://autode.sk/3tL5iBj)

 

Forgot to mention this mention in the screencast but just panning or zooming doesn't get the assembly to re-draw properly, it always requires me to move the assembly.

 

Since this forum basically makes it IMPOSSIBLE to insert a bloody screencast, here is the link to it:

 

2021-05-14 Joined components not drawn properly

 

I've just wasted literally half an hour trying to insert the screencast into my post by pasting the screencast URL and also by picking it from the My Screencasts list. These don't work. This trick used to work but no longer does. The screencast URL generated by the screencast recorder app is not recognized, either. Autodesk, please fix your bloody forum!!

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jeff_strater
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your model is not marked to allow download, so I cannot test it myself, but I suspect the issue is here:

Screen Shot 2021-05-14 at 3.51.06 PM.png

 

your model is in a "Capture Position Pending" state - meaning:  some components have been moved, but their positions are not captured in the timeline.  Timeline rollback, roll forward does not preserve these pending positions.  Before you roll back, if you capture the position, I suspect you will get much better results.

 

If you want to export your design and share it here, we can try it out.

 


Jeff Strater
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Scoox
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@jeff_straterI shared the project using File > Share > Public Link, now I realise I'm supposed to export and attach the file (see below) since "Allow item to be downloaded" is not a feature of the free version (off-topic but personally I think this is a rather absurd limitation since files can be exported and shared using Dropbox, email or whatever anyway).

 

I understand what you say about Capture Position Pending state, but IMO it doesn't look like that's the problem here, since so much as clicking the assembly causes the previously assembled parts to jump to where they are supposed to be. Furthermore, once two components are assembled, any previous Capture Position operations that affect those components can be deleted to clean up the timeline without consequences (unless the joint is deleted or disabled, which is not the case here).

 

While we are at it, you may notice the attached file is at version number 15. Essentially none of the previous 15 save operations are worthy of being a version. They were all intended as regular "save" operations just in case Fusion 360 might crash. There really needs to be a way to have a "working version", stored on the server in this case, that is overwritten when Ctrl+S is pressed. When the user decides the design has progressed to a point that it is ready to be considered a version, he/she can commit a version to the server. Having tens of versions that are automatically created whenever it is very hard to locate the version you intentionally saved and name among an endless littering of versions named "User Saved". Just saying.

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