Adjust your Fusion display settings

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To control the view of your Fusion design, use the tools in the Navigation Bar or ViewCube.

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From the Navigation Bar, select Display Settings, and several categories show to help you customize the way your design appears.

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Click through the menu and toggle the options on and off to see how they affect your model.

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Try adjusting the Visual Style to control the way shading and edges display in your design.

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You can display it shaded without edges, with edges, or as a wireframe.

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Next, adjust the Environment to one of the preset themes to complement your design,

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or make it easier to see details as you work.

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In the Effects options, you can choose to show or hide the Environment Dome, Ground Plane,

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Ground Shadow, Ground Reflection, Object Shadow, Ambient Occlusion, and Anti-Aliasing.

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You can also control Object Visibility, as a group or individually, for objects like Planes, Axes, Points, Sketches, and Joints.

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To change your point of view of the model, you can adjust the Camera to display in Orthographic,

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Perspective, or Perspective with Orthographic Faces.

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Note that Perspective with Orthographic Faces shows a perspective view of your design while in a 3D view,

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but when you switch to an orthographic view like Right, you see an accurate, orthographic representation of your design.

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You can also adjust the Ground Plane Offset.

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By default, this is set to Adaptive and adjusts automatically as you work.

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However, when you deselect Adaptive, you can drag the Ground Plane Offset up or down to suit your needs.

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Click Grid and Snaps to view all the options you can use to adjust the grid.

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Turn the Layout Grid on or off, and toggle the Layout Grid Lock and Snap to Grid options.

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From the Grid and Snaps menu, select Grid Settings.

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This opens the Grid Settings dialog.

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By default, the Grid Settings are set to Adaptive,

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so the spacing and subdivisions adjust as you zoom in and out.

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Select Fixed.

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Now, you have the option to set Major Grid Spacing, Minor Subdivisions,

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and Reference Numbers that will remain the same as you navigate your design.

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Close the Grid Settings dialog.

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Back in the Navigation Bar, click the Grid and Snaps menu, enable Incremental Move, and then select Set Increments.

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The Set Increments dialog opens.

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Again, by default, this is set to Adaptive, so the linear and rotation increments adjust as you zoom in and out.

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Enable Fixed.

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Now, you can set the Linear and Rotation Increments to remain the same as you navigate your design.

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Click OK.

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To see how this works and move an object incrementally, press M, and then select a part of the assembly.

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Then, toggle ON Incremental Move.

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Drag the part and notice how it moves along the grid according to the set fixed increments.

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Toggle OFF Incremental Move, so that you can move it without regard to the set increments.

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This time, the part moves smoothly.

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Now, from the Navigation Bar, select Multiple Views.

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The canvas splits into four standard viewports: Front, Right, Top, and Isometric.

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You can control the orientation of each view separately.

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From the Multiple Views flyout, select Reset Views to reset all four viewports to their original configuration.

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You can also enable Synchronize Views, which lets you zoom in on one view, and the others zoom along with it.

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From the ViewCube menu, switch the Camera view to the three settings that are also available in the Navigation Bar.

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You can also set your current view as Home, Front, or Top view, or reset them.

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Save custom Named Views to help you navigate your design more easily.

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In the browser, right-click the Named Views folder and choose New Named View.

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Your custom view will appear at the bottom of the list, where you can rename it.

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Adjusting display settings in Fusion lets you customize the way you view and navigate both the workspace and your model.