topic Re: Ability to change drawing reference in Fusion Support Forum

Ability to change drawing reference

joeBR6SX — Fri, 30 Dec 2022 16:08:07 GMT

I currently have a tool designed and spent a lengthy amount of time creating a drawing for it. Now I would like to make a slight design change to the tool and save it as a different file name. I saved both the tool and the drawing as a different file name, but the newly saved drawing is still referenced to the original tool.

I tried downloading the file from the web and saving it with a new name in a different folder, but when I open it in Fusion, the drawing does not open with it.

It would save a lot of time to simply be able to change the reference file of the drawing.

Re: Ability to change drawing reference

HughesTooling — Fri, 30 Dec 2022 16:16:38 GMT

What you need to do is download the 2d drawing. You will get a f3z file containing the 3d model and the 2d drawing, just upload the f3z file to a different folder and you'll have an independent version of the new files.

Re: Ability to change drawing reference

jhackney1972 — Fri, 30 Dec 2022 18:01:03 GMT

Here is a Blog Article and Video showing the process that @HughesTooling has recommended.

Re: Ability to change drawing reference

joeBR6SX — Thu, 05 Jan 2023 18:20:45 GMT

Hi John,

Yes, this worked. The video was most helpful. I did not upload it through the data panel. Instead I tried to open it from the folder location and I got an error.

Thank you so much for the help!

Re: Ability to change drawing reference

MK_Tech — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 21:48:53 GMT

Is there still a video on how to do this?

Re: Ability to change drawing reference

jhackney1972 — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 22:12:36 GMT

The Blog Article I listed has been removed. I quickly created a video that outlines the same thing the Blog Article showed.

If this answers your question, please select the "Accept Solution" icon on my post. If you have further questions, please ask.

(view in My Videos)

Re: Ability to change drawing reference

MK_Tech — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 22:52:17 GMT

Thanks John, that was extremely helpful