Fusion froze so I waited a while and then forced it to close - recovery file not available

[Camrennie]

I lost an hours work on a drawing after trying to copy a view to another sheet (selected view, Ctrl+C, navigated to other sheet, Ctrl+V).  Fusion froze (spinning cursor) and so I ended the task after about 20 minutes of no response.  I hoped for a recovery file when I reopened but no luck.

Why doesn't Fusion keep the last recovery file saved?  Is there a way to copy a view to another sheet?

Thanks,
Cam

[ClintBrown3D · Accepted solution]

Hi @Camrennie 

Right now, we do not have a feature for copying views between sheets. On our public roadmap, we have a project listed where we plan to duplicate the entire sheet, including all views tables, dimensions etc. Every customer request that we get, from meetings, emails, forum posts etc. gets collected and categorised in my PM backlog. This information is used to prioritise the features that we build next. I've added your request to the backlog, so that it is accurately updated with your request for Copy/Paste drawing views.

To explain what probably happened to your instance of Fusion, I have put together an animation showing how copy/ paste works right now. We support some copy/paste operations, like text for instance. Whatever was copied to your OS's clipboard before your Ctrl+C on the drawing views was probably what Fusion was attempting to paste to the other sheet. In the animation below, I first copy text out of Notepad, then do a Ctrl+C on some drawing elements, followed by a Ctrl+V. The result is that that text from Notepad is placed on the drawing.

I hope that this makes sense. If you're up for it, here is a link to my calendar, please book a session with me, I can show you what our plans for "Duplicate Sheet" look like over Zoom. We can chat about how you use 2D drawings, and I can give you a sneak peek at some of the upcoming projects that we are working on.

 

[Camrennie]

Thanks, Clint. I have a few other features to suggest that would make detailing drawings much more efficient. I'd love to chat! Here are the ideas I have so you have a headsup:
- For railings like the one pictured, I give running dimensions.  Maybe I haven't found the easy way but right now I'm using the Baseline Dimension tool, dragging each dimension value to the edge so that the arrows go to the outside and the line disappears, then arranging the dimensions.  Needless to say this is quite tedious 😆 and if I think I've put one of the dimension values too close to the line (as an aesthetic consideration) and I move it, the dimensions lose their arrangement and I have to select them all again.  I've often got other details nearby so using the selection box to grab the dimensions isn't usually an option.  I would suggest a running dimension tool that produced the same results but gave the option to select all the leading edges within a selection box - maybe the body edges closest to the side one starts drawing the selection box.  That way one could make the first dimension and then use the running dimension tool to grab all of the edges of stanchions, crossmembers, etc.

- I'm figuring out how to better arrange my component tree from the get-go so that I can find operations when I need to modify things in the models but it would be nice to be able to filter/search the timeline.  

- Right now I'm using Excel to make bills of materials and then copying that into each sheet.  It would be nice to be able to pin a corner of the table to a point on the sheet so if I modify the size of the table by stretching and shrinking columns, it stays put.  Just another little thing that ends up eating my time.  The ability to sync a table from a spreadsheet would be neat too.

- I've been working on models and then prints including tons of bar grating which takes a while to render in a view.  When I go to change the scale of a view, Fusion will try to render it again when I start typing the "7" in "7/16".  It then takes forever to render the view again so I have to wait for that before I can finish my value.  A bit of a lag on re-rendering or maybe a button to apply the new scale?

- An option to update all sheets would be nice.  Right now I click one, let it take it's 30 seconds to update, click the next, etc.  It's fine on simple views but again, a sheet with lots of grating can take a while.  

That's all I can think of for now.  Thanks for your response!  I've had a lot of fun and frustration learning to model and produce shop drawings with Fusion!

Cheers!
Cam