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Play button

Play button

I have lost countless time by trying to step through my timeline and accidentally clicking the play button.  Please move, hide, or remove this button until you provide some way to stop or cancel the playback.  PLEASE!

13 Comments
Willa1980
Advocate

The most annoying button in Fusion...: Sometimes, I accidentally click on it (because it is so close to the 'go to end of design history' button. Then, I have to watch for about 15 minutes how Fusion plays back the whole design history, without any possibility to cancel it.

Please remove this button it is so useless. Or add a command to cancel the playback. Thanks....

Anonymous
Not applicable

Wow - Hadn't realized you couldn't exit mid play!

 

Voted for it. I think the concept of the "play" button in Fusion 360 shoudl be standardized across the various workspaces to offer more consistency.

 

At a minimum the ESC key should exit history playback.

 

Using the Simulate function in the CAM workspace also brings up a different set of play controls. The UI is inconsistent in that you need a mouse to invoke, but a keyboard to to exit (esc key). It's bad design.

 

Autodesk should standardize on play controls that YouTube and any video editing product uses. Space Bar for toggling between play and pause. The ability to click into the workspace to exit. The ability to jump back into play at the place you left off. The ability to jump into full screen with a text overlay telling users how to exit.

 

- Stephen

Anonymous
Not applicable
I got 7 stitches on my arm from a stupid coffee cup.
Anonymous
Not applicable
It is a lot more time Consuming than using Revit.
haughec
Autodesk
Status changed to: Gathering Support
 
haughec
Autodesk
Status changed to: オートデスク今後検討
 
haughec
Autodesk

Merging a duplicate idea with this one.

 

I can definately understand the frustration.  We are looking into this now.

 

Thanks,

Charles

JamieGilchrist
Autodesk
Status changed to: オートデスク審査落選

we agree that the current implementation is sub-optimal.

 

so we have logged the following solutions:

 

  • support pausing/interupting calculations (this is a very heavy technical implementation on our side and while we know we need to do it, it's not likely to happen quickly)
  • providje a warning where large models (anything that will take linger than 1 minute to re-compute) we'll warn you and allow you to back out before the "play" starts.
  • having a minimized playback control state that shows only the forward and backward stepper.
  • fixing the position of the play button so it is the control in the middle of the controls (common to other media playback controls layouts).

we'll be prioritizing the last three on this list fix for future updates.

 

hope this helps,

 

Jamie.

 

Anonymous
Not applicable

Not sure the last idea (positionning the button between back and forward) is going to fix the problem, same thing will occur.

 

Maybe increase the width of the toolbar?

core2kx
Explorer

"having a minimized playback control state that shows only the forward and backward stepper."

 

This is the correct answer.  Hide the button and come back to it later.

 

dunderhead
Advocate

"having a minimized playback control state that shows only the forward and backward stepper."

 

"This is the correct answer.  Hide the button and come back to it later."

 

Yes, just get rid of it for now, please. An issue not worth spending time on in my opinion.

 

And of course -- needless to say -- make keyboard shortcuts for the two super-duper-essential step buttons.

 

Anonymous
Not applicable

Another vote to hide the play button for now via a default minimized playback control state.  The time costs are too expensive for hitting the play button.

keqingsong
Community Manager
Status changed to: Implemented

We moved the play button to the middle of all the controls so that it's more universal. We are also working on a stop/abort feature for the April update: http://www.autodesk.com/products/fusion-360/blog/march-1-2017-update-whats-new/

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