View and selections

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In this lesson, we're going to talk about view and selections.

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After completing this lesson, you'll be able to: Create a named view and create an associated named view.

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In Fusion 360, we want to work with our fsae rim front setup.

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At this point, we've had to rotate this design around quite a bit.

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And you'll notice that when we go back to our home view, everything is sort of upside down.

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So we're constantly having to rotate things around and get back to a view that makes sense.

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I want to talk about ways in which we can create views that help us simplify this process.

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So we're going to start by first resetting our home view.

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Now this is a global setting and it's going to apply to the design in general.

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Which means that if we are continuing to work with this design and working with it in the Design workspace,

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we might want to consider doing something else besides recreating that home view.

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But for this purpose, I'm going to go into my Drop-down menu under the viewcube and I'm going to set my current view as home with fit to view.

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This means that even though front and side and left and all of these different views are upside down,

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when I hit home, it's going to go back to this orientation.

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Another thing that we can do is we can create what's called a Named View.

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So if I have a specific orientation, such as zoomed in to this area on the design that I want to capture, I can go up to my Named View folder.

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I can right click and create a new Named View.

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I can then rename the view by selecting it and clicking on it second time,

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and I can call this one Zoom Spoke, that way I remember exactly what I'm doing.

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I can rotate this around and any time I double click on this Named View, it'll allow me to go back to that orientation.

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We can also update this at any point in time.

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If we want to be zoomed out farther, we can select Update Named View.

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Another way that we can do this is by associating these views with specific operations.

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For example, when we're working on the 2D contour, if we want the view to be oriented a certain way and zoomed in,

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we can right click on the operation and we can create an Associate Named View.

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So we're going to select New Named View.

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It's automatically going to create it based on the name of our operation.

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So if we renamed this at some point, then the new named view would be that whatever that new name is.

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So if we rotate this around again, double click on it, it's going to go back to that view.

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We also have the option to break that association, so we can remove the association if we wish.

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We still have the view but it's no longer associated directly with that operation.

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We right click, notice that we don't have that option to re associate it.

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It's just simply there to remove the association.

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So these are ways in which we can quickly make the selection process a bit easier,

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either by creating these Named Views, resetting our home view or by making these associated views based on the operations.

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Especially when you have a big or complex part that's often hard to see our selections, it can be great to make these Named Views,

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to make it quick and easy for us to get back to those positions any time we need to make those selections or adjustments.

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Let's minimize the Named Views folder.

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And I'm going to minimize my pattern.

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Going to go back to my home view and then I'm going to save this before moving on.