topic Re: Drag and drop not working anymore for uploading files in Fusion Support Forum

Drag and drop not working anymore for uploading files

timonsku — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 20:57:48 GMT

As the title says. It just stopped working for me. I can only upload files by going via the select file menu but draging a file into the drag and drop area does not upload it.

Re: Drag and drop not working anymore for uploading files

jhackney1972 — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 21:27:10 GMT

What environment exactly are you trying to drag and drop? A360?

Re: Drag and drop not working anymore for uploading files

timonsku — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 23:36:14 GMT

The upload dialog in Fusion 360

Re: Drag and drop not working anymore for uploading files

jhackney1972 — Fri, 04 Sep 2020 16:41:59 GMT

I do not find any issues with Drag and Drop feature in the Upload dialog box. It works as expected.

Re: Drag and drop not working anymore for uploading files

timonsku — Wed, 09 Sep 2020 09:56:10 GMT

Great but not really helping me 🙂

Re: Drag and drop not working anymore for uploading files

TheCADWhisperer — Wed, 09 Sep 2020 10:51:59 GMT

What file type are you attempting to drag and drop?

What license type do you have?

Re: Drag and drop not working anymore for uploading files

timonsku — Wed, 09 Sep 2020 14:23:41 GMT

Both a free license for hobby work and a commercial license for work.
I tried uploading a step file. Uploading that file works absolutely fine
via the browse button. Just the drag and drop action is not working.

Re: Drag and drop not working anymore for uploading files

TheCADWhisperer — Wed, 09 Sep 2020 16:26:55 GMT

Can you Attach an example file here that does not work (create a simple dummy file if your actual file is proprietary).

Re: Drag and drop not working anymore for uploading files

timonsku — Wed, 09 Sep 2020 23:25:33 GMT

Again, the file itself makes zero difference. The action of hovering a file over the field is not detected any more for me in Fusion. The file upload works perfectly and the exact same files that I tried to upload have worked before via drag and drop. This is a UI code issue, it has nothing to do with the file.

This is not something that can be fixed by a community member or by doing something differently. Something with my system setup seems to cause this bug.

This is how it looks if I drag a file over to the field (had to make a photo, screenshots on windows dont capture cursors)

Re: Drag and drop not working anymore for uploading files

jmendezfl — Wed, 20 Apr 2022 23:42:24 GMT

I know it's been a long time since this was posted, but I didn't see an accepted answer. I recently completed Kevin Kennedy's class and I had the same problem during one of the projects. It turns out that I just needed to make sure that the timeline marker was at the end of the timeline when I was trying to reorganize the components in the Browser. He explains that is due to "Fusion 360 been a parametric modeler, which means that the order in which features are created matters, as they reference existing features in the timeline."

Re: Drag and drop not working anymore for uploading files

owen.fouraker — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 12:36:41 GMT

I have the same problem

Re: Drag and drop not working anymore for uploading files

lhen12000 — Sat, 03 Sep 2022 04:46:10 GMT

I have found that if the files which you desire to upload via drag and drop is within a .ZIP folder then you cannot upload them, but if you were to extract the contents from the .ZIP folder and upload them again then it should work.

Re: Drag and drop not working anymore for uploading files

timonsku — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 13:03:40 GMT

No this was not a zip file, I was trying to upload a step file.

This is still a problem btw. it never resolved, I always have to choose files via the file dialog.

Re: Drag and drop not working anymore for uploading files

Linus_Follinger — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 06:33:27 GMT

I have had the EXACT same problem for 2 years, it worked before that.
i have Re-installed, Repaired Fusion, several times, to no differeance.
as you say, the file type does not matter.
i havent tried to re-install windows yet.

it does work for my collage that have the exact same PC components.

Re: Drag and drop not working anymore for uploading files

1494454 — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 02:37:51 GMT

I have also recently gotten this problem after only a few days of use
it's very annoying to deal with

Re: Drag and drop not working anymore for uploading files

timonsku — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 02:43:31 GMT

The problem only went away after I reinstalled Windows with my upgrade to Windows 11 unfortunately