[BUG] Joint origin does not take parameters the first time.

[TrippyLighting]

Yep, I know this has been reported a number of times including by your's sincerely.

It is tiring and frustrating having to do this over and over again!

I was trying to use a dimension (d3, the diameter of the pipe feature) as a parameter in the joint origin dialogue so it would always be in the correct spot when that diameter changed. No such luck. the dialogue only converts the parameters into a numerical value when placed into the floating fields.

Wen placed into the UI window files that also has to be done twice.

Can I get this to work ? Of course.

How do I explain this to an excited Fusion 360 newcomer ?

This is not rocket science!

[karina.harper]

Hi @TrippyLighting 

Can you clarify this as a screencast?

From what I understood, I wasn't able to reproduce. d1 worked as an entry in the modeling window for me. 

Cheers,

Karina

[jeff_strater]

@TrippyLighting , I was all set to believe you, because I know that there are still places in Fusion where the equation is not captured.  So, I found the original bugs on this (FUS-21005 and a duplicate FUS-30219), which reference forum thread litte-joint-origin-ui-bug.  But, those bugs have been marked closed as of Dec 2018.  So, I just tried this out for Joint Origin, and it seems to be working OK.  So, maybe your workflow is a bit different than mine, if so, a screencast would help.

[TrippyLighting]

For a moment I thought I am starting to loose my mind but I did a bit more diggin'

Edit the joint origin and you shall see (insert evil laughter).

[jeff_strater]

Ah, OK, Edit Joint Origin.  Got it.  Bug is filed as FUS-47947

[jeff_strater · Accepted solution]

follow-up:  This bug has now been fixed in the current production build

[TrippyLighting]

Great! Thanks for the feedback!