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Can we see the time spent on a Fusion 360 project

Anonymous — Thu, 10 Dec 2020 10:36:00 GMT

Hello,

Can we see the time spent on a Fusion 360 project, if so how can we see them,

Thanks

Re: Can we see the time spent on a Fusion 360 project

wmhazzard — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 02:49:48 GMT

Fusion does not record the time that a project is open, only the save time is recorded.

Re: Can we see the time spent on a Fusion 360 project

jmorenosXYNZM — Fri, 16 Jul 2021 19:55:47 GMT

It has been literal years (oldest thread I saw was in 2013) with multiple people asking for this feature in multiple threads and no basic implementation yet as far as I know. 😞

Re: Can we see the time spent on a Fusion 360 project

mitakadan — Tue, 18 Jan 2022 11:10:38 GMT

Yes! I so would like to see that finally come to life! It's simple things like this that can make the product much more valuable!

Re: Can we see the time spent on a Fusion 360 project

ellenson.mike — Sat, 21 Jan 2023 14:33:50 GMT

its 2023 and still waiting for this....

Re: Can we see the time spent on a Fusion 360 project

luborkensa — Tue, 28 Feb 2023 13:09:59 GMT

také bych tuto možnost rád využíval.

I would also like to use this option.

Re: Can we see the time spent on a Fusion 360 project

krzysztof0kozal — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 19:38:01 GMT

As well I would love to see this feature.

Re: Can we see the time spent on a Fusion 360 project

UCB1_0 — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 08:20:03 GMT

I have the same question. Very frustrating such a basic feature that does not appear to exist!

Re: Can we see the time spent on a Fusion 360 project

TrippyLighting — Sat, 06 Jan 2024 11:18:38 GMT

In the 30+ years I've worked with CAD professionally I've not seen a single CAD or other 3D modeling product attempting to implement such a thing. There might be a reason for that!

Re: Can we see the time spent on a Fusion 360 project

wmhazzard — Sat, 06 Jan 2024 12:39:42 GMT

There you go, STOP all innovation now. @TrippyLighting has declared that if he hasn't seen something in the last 30 years, no one needs it. Good thing no one listened to the old draftsmen who never used CAD and never saw any use for it.

Re: Can we see the time spent on a Fusion 360 project

TrippyLighting — Sat, 06 Jan 2024 13:29:50 GMT

@wmhazzard wrote:

There you go, STOP all innovation now. @TrippyLighting has declared that if he hasn't seen something in the last 30 years, no one needs it. Good thing no one listened to the old draftsmen who never used CAD and never saw any use for it.

My response was aimed this being a "basic feature". When I need to record hours for freelance work I occasionally do, I use an iPhone App called HoursTracker. That app has innovative features as they pertain to time tracking.

It would be silly trying to integrate that into a CAD app!

I have seen this request only a couple of times over a period of more that 9 years on this forum, so it isn't hotly requested at all.

What would take much higher priority is to get those "innovative" features finished that are already present in some form in Fusion 360. Still, today, a design I started 14 years ago and build several times since then stretches the limits of Fusion 360 to the breaking point.

That single design has helped to fix at least a hundred Fusion 360 bugs. We (EE's ) were asked if we had designs that could help test the Configurations functionality before it was released. I submitted this design. It approximated configurations using timeline trickery, derived assemblies etc.

When configurations finally were released I refactored it using Configurations. Again, this design was able to highlight several bugs and limitations.

I'd much rather have the Fusion 360 teams focus their work on finishing the functionalities they have already started than innovative stuff that is of limited use for the vast majority of professional users.

Re: Can we see the time spent on a Fusion 360 project

TheCADWhisperer — Sat, 06 Jan 2024 17:05:14 GMT

Hey Siri, start stopwatch.

Hey Siri, end stopwatch.

Re: Can we see the time spent on a Fusion 360 project

timothy.MooreWB2U2 — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 11:57:10 GMT

This feature was available in auto-cad. in the teaching environment it would be useful.

Tim

Re: Can we see the time spent on a Fusion 360 project

awilliamwright — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 23:26:58 GMT

How has no one else brought up the fact that a person can approximate this time by looking over the version save time indexes? If I can do that, which will be annoying but doable, why can’t the software just take a “file open time” snapshot, then do all that math automatically? We’re not talking about a full feature, just ONE piece of extra data a handful of bytes long and one math equation.

Re: Can we see the time spent on a Fusion 360 project

Naureka — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 11:13:32 GMT

@TrippyLighting
There are some huge features that need a total rebuild of the package, and need months or years to implement (such as configurations). But there are also some really small, easy things in the UI that require very little effort to develop but change a lot from the user perspective. Those low hanging fruits often are for some reason outside the scope of interest of Fusion dev team.

Example: for me the most important feature from the last update was adding "show in location" feature in the Data Panel search. Lack of this fundamental functionality was driving me nuts for years, making the data search absolutely useless. I really don't understand why we had to wait 10 years for that.

I could list a dozens of similar small inconveniences that have not been addressed for years.

Re: Can we see the time spent on a Fusion 360 project

TrippyLighting — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 11:50:17 GMT

@Naureka wrote:

I could list a dozens of similar small inconveniences that have not been addressed for years.

Same here 😉

But if I would have to prioritize, this time keeping feature would be in the bottom half of the list.

The "show in location" feature was near the very top of the list, along with many others that fall under the category "complexity management", which haven't been implemented yet.

Re: Can we see the time spent on a Fusion 360 project

bradford.gorea — Sat, 24 Aug 2024 22:22:58 GMT

I would really like to see this feature so I know what hours I've spend on any particular project or drawing, to help track time to value. Please implement this!

Re: Can we see the time spent on a Fusion 360 project

sja1 — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 14:28:06 GMT

its 2025...... still waiting 😂😭

Re: Can we see the time spent on a Fusion 360 project

danijel_ruskan — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 10:41:59 GMT

guys, this is free software so don't complicate it...
wait, isn't it free? Oh yeah... just don't complicate it...

integrating a stopwatch into software is probably unimaginably complicated... oh, wait it's not? however irrelevant...

Re: Can we see the time spent on a Fusion 360 project

mgriffin1 — Sat, 03 May 2025 21:39:27 GMT

It would be a nice feature, but I assume it would be hard to implement. What is considered "working" time? I have drawing open sometimes all day and only work on it for an hour of real time. Being able to track when you are actually working would be difficult without something constantly checking if you are moving the mouse or if the drawing is the active page. That probably adds a lot of needless overhead and complexity. I am sure it would be simple to just have a counter from time opened to time saves to be working time, but then everyone would complain its not accurate 🙂