topic Re: Fusion360 Shutting Down when after I click on "New Electronics Library" in Fusion Electronics Forum

Fusion360 Shutting Down when after I click on "New Electronics Library"

Anonymous — Thu, 29 Apr 2021 06:13:07 GMT

Hi,

when I click on ""New Electronics Library", I get the error in the attached screenshot. After I click okay Fusion360 shuts down immediately.

I can open an Electronics Design without any issue but the problem is when I try to create a new Library it suddenly shuts down. This was working fine but I suspect it started happening after Fusion360 locked up when I was working on creating a new Library part.

Any help would be much appreciated as I cannot proceed until I can create a new part for this design.

Thanks,

Paul

Re: Fusion360 Shutting Down when after I click on "New Electronics Library"

panpan_fan — Thu, 29 Apr 2021 06:58:03 GMT

Hi @Anonymous

I hope you are doing well!

Today we release Fusion 360 V2.0.10148, would you mind updating Fusion 360 to see if you can still reproduce the issue?

If you still meet the crash, please leave your comment and let us know, thanks a lot!

Regards,

Panpan Fan

Re: Fusion360 Shutting Down when after I click on "New Electronics Library"

Anonymous — Thu, 29 Apr 2021 07:05:37 GMT

Thanks. Apologies, but I'm relatively new to Fusion 360, but how do I actually update it as I don't see any icon on the software to install updates?

Re: Fusion360 Shutting Down when after I click on "New Electronics Library"

panpan_fan — Thu, 29 Apr 2021 07:11:20 GMT

Hi @Anonymous

You can click the icon in the screenshot.

Then you restart Fusion 360, you can get the latest build.

Please have a try, thanks!

Regards,

Panpan Fan

Re: Fusion360 Shutting Down when after I click on "New Electronics Library"

Anonymous — Thu, 29 Apr 2021 07:19:37 GMT

Hi,

your image refers to two icons where I clicked on those icons "Extensions" and "Job Status", but I don't see an option to update. I don't see an option to update.

Re: Fusion360 Shutting Down when after I click on "New Electronics Library"

panpan_fan — Thu, 29 Apr 2021 08:40:43 GMT

Hi @Anonymous

You can click the Job Status icon and click Restart Fusion 360.

And after Restart, you can check the '?' icon -> About to check the Fusion 360 Version

Please have a try, thanks!

Regards,

Panpan Fan

Re: Fusion360 Shutting Down when after I click on "New Electronics Library"

Anonymous — Thu, 29 Apr 2021 18:57:12 GMT

Hi @panpan_fan ,

I don't have that option to update to a later version of Fusion360. See my screenshot attached.....

Has anybody else had this issue where Fusion360 is shutting down when you click on "New Electronics Library"?

Re: Fusion360 Shutting Down when after I click on "New Electronics Library"

jorge_garcia — Thu, 29 Apr 2021 22:23:47 GMT

Hi @Anonymous ,

I hope you're doing well. This is very unusual, could you provide us some information about your hardware configuration. The issue seems like it's related to your hardware.

Let me know if there's anything else I can do for you.

Best Regards,

Re: Fusion360 Shutting Down when after I click on "New Electronics Library"

Anonymous — Mon, 03 May 2021 20:01:29 GMT

Hi @jorge_garcia , this issue seems to be happening after Fusion 360 crashed and wasn't happening prior to that so I'm not sure if it's the hardware that is causing the problem. I'm using a pretty new (3 months old) Dell Latitude Laptop with an I5 Core processor with 8GB Ram and 500GB of SSD disk space.

I have uninstalled Fusion 360 and re-installed it but the issue is still happening. Unfortunately, I cannot finish the project I'm working on and the customer is looking for the Gerber files to manufacture the PCB.

Have you any suggestions how I can fix this issue?

Re: Fusion360 Shutting Down when after I click on "New Electronics Library"

Anonymous — Mon, 03 May 2021 20:21:45 GMT

I've managed to figure out what was happening. After one time Fusion 360 crashed, when I re-opened Fusion 360 it was missing the menu section when opening the schematic. I checked the Forum for a solution and one person had suggested to add a new environment variable QT_OPENGL under System and Security setting in Windows. This did fix my menu issue.

It seems introducing that variable has caused this issue. I have since removed that variable and that has gotten rid of the error message I was getting when creating a new library. Apologies, and thanks for your help.