Draft analysis dialog layout "bug" and info / help

[hoegge]

Hi

The parameter boxes for entering angles in the draft dialog are too small to show the whole numbers in most caese. The size should be increased so you can see it all. A little bit sloppy design 😉

 

If you increase the dialog size the number boxes stay small:

Furthermore, it would be good to add some info on how to read the colors and using tolerance zone too. There seems to be no documentation neither in the info box nor on the reference web site.

Thanks

[masa.minohara · Accepted solution]

Hi @hoegge,

This is a known issue and logged with the development team. (the ticket ID is  FUS-34224 just for your reference) I apologize for the inconvenience and hopefully it will be fixed sometime soon.

I'll pass your feedback to the development as well. Thank you for reporting the issue!

[hoegge]

@masa.minohara - thanks - is the color bug also part of that? (flickering and wrong color of e.g. 90 degree planes)

[masa.minohara · Accepted solution]

No, it's not part of FUS-34224 so I logged it as a new one. (FUS-37841)

Thank you for reporting another issue!

[Anonymous]

Dear team...

I am working with Fusion build version 2.0.11183

It seems that this "bug" is still existing and there also still is no decent documentation on how to use draft analysis, how to handle plus/minus angles, how to use tolerances, what the "High Quality" does, what colors mean etc. Boxes are still too small and display values oriented towards the last decimal didgits instead of the left of the value so that often you only see ".00 deg" because the left doesn't fit into the box.

Is this REALLY so (after THREE years still??) or am I simply too stupid to find the explanations?

In my case:

• I have a lot of 3° draft angles.
• I set the draft analysis to [0.00 deg] - [3.00 deg].
• I turn off the tolerances.
• My 3° surfaces are displayed in RED even though they should be prefectly fine.
  
• Even when I turn on tolerances and set them to [-0.50 deg] - [0.50 deg] nothing changes, even though now those exactly 3° should be within the tolerance.
  
• But maybe tolerances are handled not IN ADDITION TO the actual values but AS the actual values?
  So I set the top tolerance to [3.50 deg] - but nothing changes, still...
  
  
  
• Only when I set the top draft angle to [2.90 deg] do I see a different behavior - which still baffles me...
• With tolerances OFF, now my faces turn green
  
• Tolerances ON, I see yellow faces
  

Note: After every change to a setting I have made, I always close the dialogue with [OK] in order to be sure that the new settings are activated. Screenshots above have all been made after re-opening the dialogue in order to take that screenshot.

Honestly... it is very well possible that I simply can't find the right answers neither on the "open" web, YouTube or the Fusion 360 documentation. But I would expect the in the dialogue to lead me to the correct documentation entry.

This is what I find:

                

I am sorry if a harsh comment might hurt anyone, but THIS is simply NOT ACCEPTABLE as a documentation! Especially not AFTER THREE YEARS of the issue being known.

I could now start making assumptions that what the dialogue labels "Draft Angle" actually should be considered the no-go zone of forbidden angles and that the DESIRED draft will need to be above or below the specified zone. Also, even with this interpretation, I find it bewildering that not even the exact 3° are then accepted.

But SHOULD users make guesses or assumptions on what a software does? - I'd say NO.

Would someone from Autodesk please shine some light on this?!
After all, draft is probably THE most important thing for all injection molded parts...

Thank you!
Thilo