topic Re: Prevent untitled from showing when starting Fusion 360 in Fusion Electronics Forum

Prevent untitled from showing when starting Fusion 360

infinite.machinery — Fri, 07 Feb 2020 18:14:18 GMT

Whenever I start Fusion 360 it always starts with the untitled document. How do I keep this from happening? Usually I just want to open a project from the data panel.

Re: Prevent untitled from showing when starting Fusion 360

jeff_strater — Fri, 07 Feb 2020 18:25:22 GMT

There is no way to do this today, unfortunately. Fusion always starts with an empty design. It is a valid request (maybe "open last project" would be a good option), but today you can't do that.

Re: Prevent untitled from showing when starting Fusion 360

jiggermole — Fri, 10 Jun 2022 10:41:18 GMT

well its 2022 can i do it now?

Re: Prevent untitled from showing when starting Fusion 360

jorge_garcia — Fri, 10 Jun 2022 18:42:59 GMT

Hi @jiggermole ,

Can't do it now but we are actually pretty close.

Best Regards,

Re: Prevent untitled from showing when starting Fusion 360

silvio3105 — Sun, 12 Jun 2022 17:51:11 GMT

It would be nice to see something like home page, like AutoCAD has.
Also, please limit width of document's tab.

Re: Prevent untitled from showing when starting Fusion 360

ahmetfatihyilmaz — Thu, 29 Dec 2022 17:36:49 GMT

Hi everyone, I just opened a title including stupid problem given below. 2 years passed and nothing updated, shame on you team! Why do you advertise this program then 'it's cloud based'. Why didn't you take action for two big years?

I am an educator in university and teaching also cam module. Have lots of students and everyone is not happy. What is the actual reason, if we need we can open a new tab by clicking ''+''. Why it's starting with two tab? No sense, no logic. Please fix this problem immediately guys, I am leaving on my programme from catia to fusion and the team is not taking action.

It's up to you, I will tell everywhere!

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-360-design-validate/2-pieces-of-tabs-are-opening-at-startups-tabs-management/m-p/11647118/highlight/false#M288250

Re: Prevent untitled from showing when starting Fusion 360

matt.berggren — Fri, 30 Dec 2022 17:10:44 GMT

(tlDr below)

As I mentioned in the other thread (linked in post) I can't give you a concrete timeline, however work is happening on this front and is being done to resolve these sorts of things. It is important to stress that Fusion is a platform with very different "vertical teams" (mfg, modeling, electronics, etc) internally and externally. ...Each trying to ensure their users get the best experience while also ensuring they can find the software familiar anytime you explore other areas. I dont think anyone expected this to take much time given their use-case, but each user-persona has a somewhat different "ask" of those Fusion 360 vertical teams and as an end to end Platform, we wanted to examine each unique use-case to understand the implications.

Fusion's origins are no doubt 3D modeling and most other workspaces in Fusion are downstream of that. Yet an electronics user authors a completely new set of base-data and has a completely different intent / workflow, until they intersect with 3D & mechanical modeling / ID & CAD-CAM-CAE for MCAD. Someone interested in manufacturing may want to start with a model they had open previously, could be the same in PCB design, but perhaps not. An ME may want to start with the assembly? The parts + assembly? Pushing this flexibility on the user is easy, but comes with the cost of complexity. Easy to do, hard to explain, slows everyone down... And I know this sounds like a lame excuse, but I am just hoping to communicate that we hear you and we do care about getting these things "right". If there is someone to blame it is guys like me who are picky about the result and meddle to ensure we dont screw things up for anyone else.

That said...(tlDr;)

We are working on a 'First Launch' experience that will be geared for each of the user personas but chose NOT to introduce anything "new" until we had this worked out and each team is looking after their users' interests.
We want to avoid changing the workflow for anyone time and time again.
We also dont want to impact one user positively and negatively impact another. I know this seems like an 'easy' change but we are trying to balance the changes with the frequency / severity of disruption. It is coming but it is going to take a bit longer to finalize.

The university use-case is a good one because this also raises questions of "what if this isn't 'my' computer...does the SW come up with the previous model? Does it come up clean? Does it load the last student's schematic and PCB file? Should Student A ever be able to see Student B's data? What if they are in the same class and the team (in Fusion) is defined at the class / semester / syllabus level?" ...This is something having taught, I had a lot of concerns about. Classrooms are a mix of collaboration followed by isolation / examination. ...All this to say that I fully agree with you in spirit - we could have communicated with you better, but it's a bit of Bloom's Taxonomy -- we have gathered information, we wrote code, weren't completely happy with it...evaluate, feed that back into the machine and iterate until we are satisfied. This is FAR easier with feature development than with Platform changes. @jorge_garcia

Best regards,

matt - Autodesk

Re: Prevent untitled from showing when starting Fusion 360 - home page exists, but can't interact.

mslizys7435 — Thu, 25 May 2023 20:42:40 GMT

This is extremely confusing, I don't know if I'm understanding what the issue is. When I open F360 it takes me to an untitled document. When i press the "X" button, it closes, MOMENTARILY shows the home screen (where I could press "Open" and "Projects" and such), then open a new untitled document. It seems to me as if you just put in a tiny piece of code at some point that essentially presses the "new" button for us.

I have created an unlisted youtube video to express what I see. It almost seems as if this sequence is like teasing us. The home screen page exists, I'm just not allowed to interact with it....

https://youtu.be/9Q4_4sfjwFs

Re: Prevent untitled from showing when starting Fusion 360

jorge_garcia — Fri, 26 May 2023 17:38:41 GMT

Hi @mslizys7435,

I hope this message finds you well. This is a default behavior of Fusion 360 and not strictly related to electronics. Basically, Fusion always requires a design to be open at all times.

To make progress leave the untitled design open and then go to the home tab and open your design. Once your design is open then you can close the untitled design.

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

Best Regards,

Re: Prevent untitled from showing when starting Fusion 360

lilthumper — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 10:16:57 GMT

It's 2024 any update on the issue?

Re: Prevent untitled from showing when starting Fusion 360

jorge_garcia — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 17:50:39 GMT

Hello @lilthumper ,

So Fusion still requires something to be open at startup. However, now you can choose whether it's a mechanical design or an electronics design.

If you only ever do PCB design or if it's the majority of your work like it is for me setting it to default to an Electronics design helps a lot.

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

Best Regards,

Re: Prevent untitled from showing when starting Fusion 360

freire.federico — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 16:42:02 GMT

Happy 5th year to this very basic and much requested feature. It's 2025 now. How close are we?

Re: Prevent untitled from showing when starting Fusion 360

grenier4 — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 01:20:10 GMT

Also looking for this capability

Re: Prevent untitled from showing when starting Fusion 360

jorge_garcia — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 22:38:24 GMT

Hello everyone,

This is a general behavior in Fusion, so something that has to be handled by the larger team not just electronics. With that said the general Fusion org is aware of this.

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

Best Regards,

Re: Prevent untitled from showing when starting Fusion 360

liivane_lord — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 21:04:04 GMT

How difficult is it to understand that when I launch Fusion, it opens a new empty document, BUT if I click on a .stp file, which launches Fusion for the first time, then Fusion skips opening a new document and automatically loads the file I opened? 99,9% of times I open file, not starting new project.

I know I can click every time somewhere to get rid of something, but why do I have to do it every single time when I start using Fusion? Give that small choise for users and dont delete this choice in future.

@liivane_lord - this post has been edited due to Community Rules & Etiquette violation.