topic Re: Part designs open, but won’t show the actual part on screen in Fusion Design, Validate & Document Forum

Part designs open, but won’t show the actual part on screen

wildperformance570 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:03:37 GMT

I’m having trouble opening design projects in fusion 360. When I open one it opens fine but dosent load the design

Re: Part designs open, but won’t show the actual part on screen

jhackney1972 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 16:20:42 GMT

This is probably a graphics issue. Change your Graphic Driver in Fusion Preferences. You must close and restart Fusion after changing graphic driver. It also would help to attach a screen capture of what your Fusion screen looks like including the Browser if this does not do the trick.

Re: Part designs open, but won’t show the actual part on screen

Drewpan — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 23:53:32 GMT

Hi,

If it isn't an actual graphics issue as suggested by @jhackney1972 it might be

a positioning issue. Sometimes the Origin of the imported part is way off, and

I have seen some that you have to zoom out a very long way to see them. Have

you tried simply clicking onto the ViewCube? This will centre the Origin but it

will also zoom so that the Design is also shown. Simple thing but may be your

problem.

Cheers

Andrew

Re: Part designs open, but won’t show the actual part on screen

johnsonshiue — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 15:53:01 GMT

Hi! This could be a corruption. Please try exporting it as f3d or f3z. Then share it here. The forum experts can help take a further look.

Many thanks!

Re: Part designs open, but won’t show the actual part on screen

lauri_barnhart — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 16:15:32 GMT

Greetings, @wildperformance570.

Welcome to the community and thanks for posting your question! Just checking in to see if you saw the outstanding request from johnsonshiue about the f3d or f3z file. If you have managed to resolve your issue, please let us know by commenting here.

If the reply by jhackney1972 or Drewpan helped resolve your issue, please consider clicking on the 'Accept Solution' button. This will help others visiting the community with the same or similar issues find a solution quicker.

Thanks!