topic Re: "Failed to select tool for operation" in Fusion Support Forum

"Failed to select tool for operation"

rhetths — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 03:29:39 GMT

i just tried to select a tool from my cloud library that i have selected hundreds of times in the past in order to create a toolpath and it says "Failed to select tool for operation".

I tried selecting other tools from my cloud library and got the same error. I tried tools from my local library and same error message. I then copied and pasted my tool libraries into my hub library (whatever that is) and still got the same error message.

My business income is shut down until this is fixed.

Re: "Failed to select tool for operation"

seth.madore — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 12:40:24 GMT

Please, can you share a video of this happening or the document in which it happened? If you can't share your file to the public forum, you're more than welcome to send it to me:

seth.madore@autodesk.com

What sort of tool, what sort of operation?

Re: "Failed to select tool for operation"

lauri_barnhart — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 09:44:10 GMT

Hello @rhetths,

Just checking in to see if you saw the follow‑up request from @seth.madore. Are you still needing help, or were you able to find a solution?

If you’re still running into issues, screenshots or a short screen recording would be very helpful for the community to assist further.

Regards,

Lauri | Community Manager

Re: "Failed to select tool for operation"

rhetths — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 06:48:12 GMT

I did some googling and found this issue has cropped up numerous times in the past. It was posted that closing Fusion and reopening it temporarily fixes the problem, and that worked for me, and the issue hasnt arisen again.