Touch screens break fusion 360

[Bajicoy]

I have been designing a hand console out of my 4800U mini PC to have a handheld Windows 10 and Fusion 360 tool but there is a list of graphical glitches that occur I can sum up to using the touch screen. Because there is no space for a mouse, I have to rely on a mini track pad or the touch screen for panning, zooming, and orbiting. Unfortunately, some buttons on the Fusion screen do not trigger to touch, the side menu can be accidentally zoomed breaking fusion, every other orbit causes the mouse pointer to disappear until fusion is restarted, and every other orbit does not orbit the model but you can still see the orthographic cube in the top right rotating forcing fusion to be restarted. I cross checked these errors with a 5700XT and found the same problems so it is not because of the integrated graphics. Creating a macro to disable or physically disconnecting and reconnecting the touch screen do nothing after breaking Fusion. Bios and graphics drivers are up to date. The only solution is to not use the touch screen at all and stick to using a mouse on a desk which really defeats the flexibility of using Fusion 360 away from a desk.

Oh, and Fusion does not scale well to 150-175% especially when a smaller screen is docked to a larger screen. This could be a TV or a normal 1080p monitor. Pop up menus for measurements, projections, extrusions, etc are warped, do not scroll, and do not scale, hiding buttons so the only way to execute commands is to blindly type a dimension and hit enter or squint at the model to see if a number appears. There just isn't a check if the screen is scaled properly for the display it is on.

As for the downside for using an iGPU I found some material textures when playing with appearances show as extremely pixelated. No problems with a 5700XT and Quadro M2000. Overall, tolerable, but not being able to use a touch screen without breaking fusion 360 in seconds is really frustrating.

Let me know if any of you also experience the same problem or how you solved it. Thanks!

[lance.carocci]

Hi @Bajicoy, thanks for reporting these issues.

We are working to improve the touch input experience, but there is still some more testing to do before this reaches you.

As for scaling, have you tried the High DPI Scaling feature under our Preview options within Preferences? This will not affect scaling of icons at this moment, but should greatly improve legibility of text and graphics quality of modeling canvas - be sure to also enable High Resolution Graphics for the canvas under Graphics preferences, after enabling the preview.

Lastly, depending on your screen and device configuration, please ensure that your device is set to a minimum resolution of 1366x768, or an equivalent DPI scale. Resolutions smaller than this, or DPI scales larger than this, are not supported by the Fusion 360 UI.

Please let us know of any feedback after trying these experiences!

[Bajicoy]

Hi @lance.carocci! Thanks for your response. I checked my preferences and high DPI and high resolution graphics are are checked and probably enabled by default when I downloaded Fusion. I ran Fusion at a minimum of 1080p and will note not to bring it to 760 or lower, thanks. Do you mean the 150% scale breaks Fusion? If there is anything else I can try, I am happy for the suggestions 🙂

[lance.carocci]

Hi @Bajicoy, just letting you know that we should have some improvements to the Windows touchscreen experience coming in a future update.

[Bajicoy]

Thanks! Looking forward to testing the update out. Fusion doesn't notify me of updates, when should I look for changes?

[lance.carocci]

I think you will have a chance to experience it in early 2022. It will be called out in What's New!