Ouch, just lost a few hours of work because "Import New Version"

[Anonymous]

I have been using Fusion 360 CAM for the last 2 weeks and am super impressed.  This is the first real oops I ran into. 

Since my historical designs are in Solidworks, I have been importing the designs and then using Fusion 360 to do the Cam operations.

When I “imported a new version” all my cam operations that I spent a few hours to get perfect were lost without a warning. Ouch.

Part A suggestion:

• A Warning a message like “Operations done since previous import will be lost. Do you want to proceed?”
• Provide an option to create a backup.

Part B suggestion:

My SolidWorks files are stored in Dropbox.  Dropbox (business version) provides automatic historical copies.  So even if I do something silly, or if SolidWorks misbehaves, I have plenty of versions to go back to.

Some paranoid people like me, have backups of dropbox.  This gives me the comfort of backups of backups of my work.

My part B suggestion is for Fusion 360 to save locally historical versions of all files being worked and allow the user to specify this location. This way, even if an Oops occurs, the user can have a backup.

Regards,

[HughesTooling]

I don't know if this will help but what do you get if you right click on the i. I've not tried it after Import new Version but normally it should give you all the old saved versions.

[HughesTooling]

 I really need to learn my left from right. I meant what do you get if you left click the i.

For the way you're working might want to uplaod your model, start a new design and use Insert in current design. I think that's the only way to keep your CAM setup and import an updated version of your model.

Mark

[charegb]

I agree with Mark's suggestion. I think this workflow you are looking for is:

1) Upload your SW file as D1

2) Create a new Fusion design called F1 that references D1 and do all your CAM work in F1.

Now you can update D1 using upload new version and your CAM setups in F1 should update with the changes.

Can you try that workflow?

Thanks,

Bankim

[colin.smith]

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