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Fusion keeps jumping back to the front of the other applications when trying to change to a different one

crueby1 — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 00:13:04 GMT

Okay, I've reported this (as have others) in mutiple other threads, keeps being ignored, and I was asked to create a new thread. I know I'm not the only one seeing this. If you are on Mac and seeing related things, please keep them in other threads since it appears to blind Autodesk to the problem on Windows - thanks. If you are seeing this on Windows, please chime in!

This is on Windows 10, paid version of Fusion, everything is up to date. Working away in Fusion, with a windowed app (not fullscreen, not running from a browser like Edge or any others, the normal Fusion application). If I try and change to another application by clicking on its tab in the Windows taskbar at the bottom of the screen, the other application will come forward for a second then Fusion jumps back to the top of the stack again. Click on other appliction again, same thing happens.

Only way around it once it starts happening is to click on the descktop background, THEN click on the other application. Then it behaves. Till I go back to Fusion, and then try to bring another application forward again. At that point, same bug, Fusion pops itself back to the top.

This all seemed to start happening when Fusion tried to fix the opposite problem (which is still happening too, once in a while), where Fusion would send itself to the back behind another application when doing an operation that takes a few seconds.

It does not happen all the time, but seems to start doing it once I've been working for a while. REALLY annoying once it starts, breaks up the work flow severely.

Re: Fusion keeps jumping back to the front of the other applications when trying to change to a different one

crueby1 — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 00:40:24 GMT

Just brought up fusion, and went back in to the drawing I had been working on earlier. Managed to capture a screen video of this bug happening four times in a row. Don't know if being in Drawing mode has anything to do with this bug, its just what I was doing when it poped up again. What I did was move the cursor down to the taskbar and clicked on the file explorer to bring it forward. As soon as I move the mouse back up, it brough Fusion back forward all by itself, NO more clicking by me. Did this four times in a row in this video capture. It does not matter what other application I try and go to, it does the same thing!

Re: Fusion keeps jumping back to the front of the other applications when trying to change to a different one

darren — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 14:20:27 GMT

Getting this problem as well on Windows 10 ive found if you open and close the browser tab on fusion it can sort it out for a minute or 2.

Re: Fusion keeps jumping back to the front of the other applications when trying to change to a different one

lance.carocci — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 15:58:00 GMT

Thanks for the recording. If you can keep an eye out to confirm/deny that it is happening in other workspaces, that would be helpful. In the meantime I am trying to reproduce this on my end.

I notice you are using Open-Shell - it's probably not a factor, but have you tried disabling it once just to rule it out?

Re: Fusion keeps jumping back to the front of the other applications when trying to change to a different one

crueby1 — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 16:03:48 GMT

At the moment I am mainly working in the Drawing workspace, and see it there all the time. I'll do some tests in Model too, I don't think it happens there as much. Drawing, all the time.

Just turned off Open-shell, and that made no difference to the problem, still happens.

Re: Fusion keeps jumping back to the front of the other applications when trying to change to a different one

lance.carocci — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 16:23:54 GMT

Oh man, I see it - something is aggressively pulling focus back to the cursor in this workspace.

Thanks for the report!

Re: Fusion keeps jumping back to the front of the other applications when trying to change to a different one

crueby1 — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 16:39:29 GMT

Glad you are able to reproduce it!! Hope they can get this fixed in next release!

(old movie (mis)quote: Every time I think I'm out, they puuuullll me back in! )

Re: Fusion keeps jumping back to the front of the other applications when trying to change to a different one

crueby1 — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 20:19:23 GMT

Just for the record, still doing this bug after installing todays release update.

Re: Fusion keeps jumping back to the front of the other applications when trying to change to a different one

lance.carocci — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 05:24:06 GMT

We will announce in What's New when this specific issue is addressed. Thanks for your patience.

Re: Fusion keeps jumping back to the front of the other applications when trying to change to a different one

eerier_bleach0f — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 13:01:56 GMT

Is this just going to be fixed in the drawing environment? It happens in manufacturing/model environment without doing sketches as well. Pretty annoying.

Sometimes it's the whole program sometimes it's just one of Fusion's dialogue boxes.

On MacOS. Been like this for the past 6 years on both Intel and Apple Silicon

Re: Fusion keeps jumping back to the front of the other applications when trying to change to a different one

rochester_rabbit — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 13:50:30 GMT

I have this even on a fresh paid install on a new computer running win11pro. It seems to even affect the ability to type in the fusion search bar or rename files when a drawing was the last interaction with fusion

Re: Fusion keeps jumping back to the front of the other applications when trying to change to a different one

lance.carocci — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 15:02:26 GMT

Thanks for the report, @rochester_rabbit. I am following up on this issue, logged internally as FUS-103182. As a paid user, you are eligible for product support, and I recommend submitting a request so that they can associate your case with our engineering ticket.

Re: Fusion keeps jumping back to the front of the other applications when trying to change to a different one

crueby1 — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 15:13:04 GMT

I recently updated my machine from Windows 10 to Windows 11, and the problem is still there, so it is not definitey not just a Win-10 issue (when I first posted on this issue I was on 10). Really hope it gets fixed soon, been putting up with this for a LONG time.

Re: Fusion keeps jumping back to the front of the other applications when trying to change to a different one

F_M_1234 — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 11:48:02 GMT

Issue is still occuring.

It's not an exhaustive list of where exactly this is caused, but I can always instigate the issue by clicking 'dimension' on a drawing and then when fusion is asking for a line to be clicked, alt-tab to chrome/edge whatever, and wave your mouse over where the parts would be underneath the top level window and fusion will jump back to being on top.

Infuriating issue.

Re: Fusion keeps jumping back to the front of the other applications when trying to change to a different one

F_M_1234 — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 15:13:31 GMT

@lance.carocci Is there any update on this issue? Thanks. Coming up on 2 years since this correct thread was opened....

Re: Fusion keeps jumping back to the front of the other applications when trying to change to a different one

crueby1 — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 15:17:00 GMT

Yes! Still happening, should not be THAT hard to fix!!

Re: Fusion keeps jumping back to the front of the other applications when trying to change to a different one

lance.carocci — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 17:36:40 GMT

You should be able to test a fix for the drawings focus-stealing in the latest Insider release. If you aren't part of that program, please hang tight for the next major release.