topic Re: Change default background color in Fusion Design, Validate & Document Forum

Change default background color

michaelpgeyer — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 03:38:21 GMT

Can we change the default background color to blue or anything other than gray? A watermark for Fusion360 would be great too. It's really difficult to tell one 3d modeler from the next and this could be a great way to get some in product branding and identiy.

Re: Change default background color

schneik-adsk — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 04:28:42 GMT

There are some basic settings to change background by changing environments. These are found in the navigation tools and view settings center bottom of screen.

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schneik-adsk — Fri, 19 Jul 2013 17:55:41 GMT

In the toolbar along the bottom you can change the environment to one of 4. Grey (Default) Blue White Black

Re: Change default background color

Anonymous — Thu, 16 Jun 2016 15:22:42 GMT

excuse me, i am a new designer who getting the first time to use the fushion 360. And i have a problem that annoy me for some days. That is my backround color is dark which make me can not anything i draw. so how can i change it, like white. hope u help me soon. many thanks. Please contact and give a some advance by Gmail: nguyenducsanggttp@gmail.com

Re: Change default background color

Anonymous — Thu, 16 Jun 2016 15:40:23 GMT

Hello @Anonymous

As the earlier posts indicate, you can change the background color in the bottom toolbar...see pic:

This is on the toolbar in the bottom center of the Fusion screen.

Good luck!

Re: Change default background color

Anonymous — Fri, 17 Jun 2016 02:30:22 GMT

Hi, Autumn. It is very glad when you give me solution for my problem. But when i carried out, it did not work. That color was still dark like the follow picture. I suppose that maybe the reason is the version of fusion 360 i using is trial version. I hope that there is any way to solve my issue. Hope you read and reply me soon. Thanks a lot!

The color of background i hope i can see in my fusion 360 is white like that so i can what i drew.

Re: Change default background color

Anonymous — Mon, 19 Sep 2016 09:04:54 GMT

Hello,

Is it possible to change the background colour to plain white? And by plain white I mean completely white, not light gray as in the 'photo booth' environment. And the same question regarding drawing background.

Thanks in advance,

Roberto R

Re: Change default background color

kshea9RNL8 — Mon, 19 Sep 2016 09:56:12 GMT

Henry Ford said with regards to his Model "T" "You can have any color you want as long as it's black"

Sadly, Fusion 360 with all it's incredible abilities has expanded very little beyond Henry's selection of his Model T colors for backgrounds.

My "other" Cad has spoiled me in that regard, pretty much full control over back ground, line colors, styles and weights.

In time no doubt..............

Am surprised you have not tried Display Settings >"Infinity Pool" which brings you the white back ground you are after, or as white as your monitor allows.

Re: Change default background color

Anonymous — Mon, 19 Sep 2016 12:51:57 GMT

Duh..., I thought I'd tried them all... 🙂
This should work. Thanks!
Roberto

Re: Change default background color

Anonymous — Sat, 01 Oct 2016 06:17:06 GMT

any of those options under Environment does not work in my Fusion

Re: Change default background color

kshea9RNL8 — Sat, 01 Oct 2016 12:25:41 GMT

This seems to be the sequence to fix issues that are not internal bugs.

1) Cold reboot PC and try again

2) Check that display adapter has latest drivers and update if not. (Open Graphics diagnostic from the help menu)

3) Clean Uninstall / reinstall of Fusion 360.

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/design-validate-document/how-to-uninstall-and-reinstall-fusion-360/m-p/5465141#M5003

good luck!

Re: Change default background color

Anonymous — Sun, 02 Oct 2016 15:27:07 GMT

Hey everyone,

One last comment. I first sent a message in this group because I thought none of the environments had a white background, including 'Infinity pool', which is in fact white. The reason was that although I had set 'infinity pool' I had the 'ground plane' (under 'Effect's) active as well. Depending on the camera angle, the background seems to be gray. That was what confused me, but once I unchecked ground plane, the background is always white. I hope this might help. Cheers, Roberto R

Re: Change default background color

Anonymous — Thu, 24 Nov 2016 12:44:12 GMT

Thanks Roberto, that was a not altogether unimportant addition! Many thanks!

Re: Change default background color

Anonymous — Wed, 04 Jan 2017 10:32:44 GMT

my problem like u but i dont anderstand wt the anser

Re: Change default background color

Anonymous — Sat, 25 Nov 2017 09:19:28 GMT

I'm having the same problem, I've changed background to infinity pool and turned off ground effects but still nothing changes. Is there anything else I can try?

Re: Change default background color

kshea9RNL8 — Sat, 25 Nov 2017 13:21:40 GMT

Try closing and re-starting Fusion 360, infinity pool and ground plane on seems to have issues when toggled, on this particular PC/Monitor/Video card re-starting seems to fix.

Re: Change default background color

dpgilber — Tue, 27 Aug 2019 14:36:21 GMT

Can Fusion please make it so that we can change the background color to any color? "Other" CAM packages allow us to change basically everything about the program. Colors, line widths, shading, brightness, etc.

Best-

Dan

P.S. We need hotkeys for changing views

Re: Change default background color

Anonymous — Thu, 21 Jan 2021 01:00:04 GMT

this dosnt work, i have the same problem and ive tried the "solution". when i make an object and its not selected, its the same color as the background so i can not see it.

Re: Change default background color

oksoyl — Wed, 24 Mar 2021 07:47:33 GMT

Does anyone know if there are any kind of plans to add more 'enviroments' , background colours in Fusion 360, design mode? I miss the Inventor default 'light blue' as background, so much nicer to my eyes than 'photo booth white' which I find hard to stare at for hours in front of the screen. I have turned down my screen light intensity some notches, which helped a little bit. Another solution is trying some sun glasses) 'Grey room' is too dark again in many cases. It might be very complicated programing to put up a 'Custom enviroment' setting with RGB colour palette. But maybe in the future one will get there.

Re: Change default background color

kshea9RNL8 — Wed, 24 Mar 2021 13:23:38 GMT

These things don't sell the packages, consequently are ignored from what I have seen in any updates. Part of me understands that of course but not all of me, that's for sure.

This and other visual enhancements/options are wayyyyy past due, but I wouldn't hold your breath even though these same complaints are 8 years old and growing older, no excuse for Autodesk in my worthless opinion.