Fusion
@Phil.E I can confirm this rather annoying behavior.
Seems to be happening much more on my work computer than on my home computer, both up-to-date OS Windows machines.
@karina.harper
FWIW, been having this issue pretty much non stop.
Also, and I don't know when this happened, but in one of the more recent releases, the cursor itself has change (at least on the Mac side). I'm almost 60, post cataract, and generally have a tough time seeing the thing in general. At the OS level I've beefed up the size and the colors to make it easier to spot.
That doesn't help in fusion though as while it respects the cursor size (least as far as I can tell) what it doesnt' do is make the "micro icons" that indicate the snap type any easaier t see:
That pretty much vanishes on a 4K display and it's lack of color contrast makes it almost impossible to spot, let alone recognize amidst a mess of busy geometry in a semi complex sketch.
Is there any way possible to either up the size (and preferably change the color) somehow? Or if not that is there a cursor resource file we could edit to change the various cursors to make the snap type indication more pronounced?
Thanks.
@Technilamp wrote:
... in the early stages of fusion the software looked promising however the software became more unstable with every new update.
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I cannot say that I experience this. Actually I find it quite the opposite!
I use Fusion every day for and have done so for almost a decade (it will be a decade in November).
Fusion has gotten substantially more stable over the years. For example I don't even remember when it crashed the last time!
I have been able to stop the constant hourglass icon, I will assume it is the same as a spinning cursor, is to open the Data Panel and simply pass my cursor over the Refresh icon at the top.
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@Technilamp wrote:
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Do you know of a way to remove all updates as I think this might have something to do with my problem.
You can delay updates, but just to a certain point. I agree that this spinning cursor problem (happens on macOS and Windows) is very disruptive!
When a new update is pending, you can select Update Later.
I have not yet tried that, so I don't now what the result of clicking the button is:
@Technilamp wrote:
The program used to be so easy and a pleasure to work with.......
Aside from the spinning-cursor icon, what are your particular complaints?
If you can share those, that would probably help. I quite often report bugs and also limitations and misbehaviors, when I encounter them and often help other users with that.
1. We already covered the spinning cursor. Agreed, this is very disruptive.
2. A main complaint has been in the past that Fusion remains in-focus during "heavy calculations".
That was "fixed" and now it moves to the background. I hope this is only a temporary fix until a better solution is available!
This doesn't only happen during sketching, and in my work happens frequently. But it's not nearly as annoying as the spinning cursor.
3. That sketch is indeed complex. I personally reduce filleting, patterning, and mirroring in sketches to the absolute bare minimum. I use solid features to model this. If you are interested in sharing the part when done I can demonstrate how this can be modeled faster and more robust with a much simpler sketch.
