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# Good Practice

Helpful Habits for Fusion

### Timeline Organization

 At the bottom of the design workspace, for most files, you should see a timeline of all of the things added to the file. This is not the same thing as an edit history, instead, think of it more like the series of instructions the software is using to generate your objects. If your file does not have a timeline, for instance, if it's an imported file, you can create one by right-clicking the parent component in the tree and toggling timeline capture.

![](https://370187167-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-Lqahbu4tnjGDOT6t3lN%2F-MW0TaxLq6u2mGV2a54J%2F-MW0XmThLE0mxZ8MY1_Y%2Fimage.png?alt=media\&token=5e725fa2-4065-4ba4-a1eb-898ac5c4a37d)

![Clicking the gear in the bottom right and checking "Color Swatch" allows for color coordination of parts.](https://370187167-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-Lqahbu4tnjGDOT6t3lN%2F-MW_S4WZFG5mQ2i9PROn%2F-MW_VuqTihVFnpdsCIfu%2Fimage.png?alt=media\&token=29023b32-e23f-46b4-8aa3-40c0561dc407)

### Redundant/Excessive Sketches

### Projections/Arbitrary Definitions

### Line Colors/Overlapping Lines

### Design Resiliency 

### Component Nesting

### Commit Messaging

### Shortcuts

In Solid workspace:

* S - shortcut menu (search for tools)
* I - measure
* J - joint
* F - fillet
* M - move
* E - extrude

In Sketches:

* S - shortcut menu
* L - line
* R - rectangle
* C - circle
* P - project
* D - dimension
* O - offset
* T - trim
* M - move
* I - measure

### Naming Convention