Maintain references to multiple mechanical states for design

[billyoz]

It's critical for many mechanical designs to study the design in various mechanical states.   A device may have open, closed, assembling, various actuations of doors or other mechanical elements.   Being able to quickly snap  to the various mechanical states is critical in designing parts that must operate in each of the states.
Creo Elements/Direct Modeling does this with configurations.   I can't imagine it being too difficult to store the positional information for the various components/bodies for different states.   It's a must for me to be able to adopt Fusion.

[paulallan.osborne]

Agreed, I have missed this greatly in Fusion over other CAD. The proposed workarounds such as making new toplevel assemblies don't work when you start getting into complicated models.

[PTERRY]

One freelance partner I work with wont use Fusion for exactly this reason.

[billyoz]

Here's a solution:

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/community/screencast/1b977202-0707-4b0e-9d68-c139906a0f82

[paulallan.osborne]

Here is a third party app that does what you guys are looking for: 
https://apps.autodesk.com/FUSION/en/Detail/Index?id=3718751314935592084&appLang=en&os=Win64