topic Re: Crash while doing "Save as mesh" in Fusion Support Forum

Crash while doing "Save as mesh"

jlsETV6B — Mon, 11 Oct 2021 05:08:00 GMT

Attempting the "Save as mesh" fails.

Rough reproduction:

1) Right click on component

2) Save as mesh

3) Dialog pops up asking about mesh format/etc, click "OK"

4) Nothing happens for a bit, the program still seems mostly functional(*)

5) Fusion 360 crashes.

(*) Before the crash and after clicking "OK" in the save as mesh dialog, the context menu when right-clicking on items in the browser (where origin/bodies/etc are listed), no context menu appears.

Demo: https://youtu.be/mt_L0Y4-hSA

Re: Crash while doing "Save as mesh"

HughesTooling — Mon, 11 Oct 2021 14:44:42 GMT

I've seen something similar if the last save to directory's no longer available. Try the fix in this post or a clean uninstall using the tool here.

If those don't work, there was a bug a while ago where a STL thumbnail viewer installed by another program caused Fusion to crash. This should be fixed though, are you using the most up to date version of Fusion?

Mark

Re: Crash while doing "Save as mesh"

jlsETV6B — Mon, 11 Oct 2021 17:36:12 GMT

Nice catch! Your link fixed my issue -- I commented out LastDirectoryOptionId in %APPDATA%\Autodesk\Neutron Platform\Options\NMachineSpecificOptions.xml and started Fusion 360. I can now export meshes 👍

Re: Crash while doing "Save as mesh"

jlsETV6B — Mon, 11 Oct 2021 17:38:24 GMT

Digging a small bit, the option had this setting:

Doing some googling on `//tsclient/` path, this likely got used as the last directory because I used Remote Desktop once to do some modelling a few months ago.