topic Gcode not posting in Fusion Support Forum

Gcode not posting

Anonymous — Tue, 20 Mar 2018 09:32:11 GMT

I'm not sure if this is a windows issue or not. I purchased a brand new surfacebook 2 15" so I can design on the go. Fusion sometimes works and then sometimes doesn't. I have to go into my my appdata and messing around with the executable.

The kicker is.. (and not just this machine). When I write gcode it does not save the file. I tried on a usb, desktop, another drive. NO GO! Help!

Thanks in Advance.

Re: Gcode not posting

kate.raskauskas — Tue, 20 Mar 2018 14:26:59 GMT

Hi @Anonymous,

I'm sorry to hear you're not able to save your GCode! Can you please make a screencast showing what happens when you try to save it?

Re: Gcode not posting

Anonymous — Tue, 20 Mar 2018 15:55:48 GMT

The weird thing is, this is happening on two other machines. I'm not sure what gives. I read that Windows 10 (I believe creators edition) and some issues with WIndows Defender interfere with Fusion 360. I disabled Windows Defender but the problem still persists.

I do have one computer that I will give away to my daughter and it seems to post fine there. I still have a week to return this Surface Book 2.. lol.

Re: Gcode not posting

Anonymous — Tue, 20 Mar 2018 15:56:59 GMT

Not sure if the screen cast sent in my previous post.. it should be here.

Re: Gcode not posting

kate.raskauskas — Tue, 20 Mar 2018 20:06:44 GMT

Hmm, so no error or anything else out of the ordinary. Fusion 360 isn't freezing after you try this, right?

Could you please post your diagnostic log files? You can get those as a zip file by going to Help (question mark) in the upper right corner of Fusion and selecting Diagnostic Log Files. Before you do this though, please close out of Fusion 360, and when you reopen it just open one file with already-created toolpaths you can post. Try posting those and then collect the diagnostic log files-- this will create a log file of that session with just the information about the post processing attempt.

Thank you!

Re: Gcode not posting

Anonymous — Wed, 21 Mar 2018 14:34:13 GMT

Here ya go... hope this helps. For some reason this is happening across several PCs. Thanks for the help... the forum is awesome. Very quick responding.

Re: Gcode not posting

kate.raskauskas — Wed, 21 Mar 2018 18:00:57 GMT

Thanks for the logs!

I wasn't able to find anything in there that would indicate a problem--it looks pretty much identical to my log from a successful post. Do you have any programs that are on the computers where posting doesn't work but are absent on your daughter's (future) computer? Or do they use different antivirus software?

Also, just to double check-- does this happen with other post processors, and does uninstalling with the uninstaller tool then running the installer as Administrator allow you to save your GCode?

Re: Gcode not posting

Anonymous — Tue, 08 Jan 2019 13:59:51 GMT

was there any solution to this problem, I have the same thing. I post the gcode, then try yo load in mach3 mill and nothing is there

@Anonymous wrote:

I'm not sure if this is a windows issue or not. I purchased a brand new surfacebook 2 15" so I can design on the go. Fusion sometimes works and then sometimes doesn't. I have to go into my my appdata and messing around with the executable.

The kicker is.. (and not just this machine). When I write gcode it does not save the file. I tried on a usb, desktop, another drive. NO GO! Help!

Thanks in Advance.

Re: Gcode not posting

Anonymous — Tue, 08 Oct 2019 07:44:25 GMT

I had the same problem.

Just installed Brackets and set it as External editor in Fusion 360 under Preferences->General->Manufacture.

Now posting works as before.