Dimensions, Trouble

[Anonymous]

Hi,

I am just starting.

I cant get the dimensions tool to work at all, not even on a simple sketch. It seems like the tool is not activated.

[PhilProcarioJr]

Honestly I would suggest starting on these videos and see if they help you.

http://www.autodesk.com/products/fusion-360/learn-training-tutorials

[jeff_strater]

I suspect that you are not in sketch mode.  See this other thread sketch-dimension-never-highlighted.

You need to edit a sketch for the dimension tool to be active.

Jeff Strater (Fusion development)

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the advice, I had been watching the setup vids, & trying to follow the tutorial.

It seems to me that the program was not fully functioning on my Acer Aspire 5713 Laptop.

Therefore some of the functions were not working properly.

There was a message came up "graphics card may not be optial to run Fusion 360"

I tried to update the driver & went through the proccess of optimising settings on 360.

I also recently upgraded to Windows 10 and increased Ram to max of 4 plus 4 =8GB (7.8GB usable)

there is some improvement, which is good, but i think not fully funtional yet.

My graphics system in my laptop is in the main proccesor, rather than a graphics card, so I cannot upgrade.

The proccessor is a Intel CPU 976 1.3Ghz/1.3GHZ

with intel HD Graphics.base freq  (350MHz 1Gh max Dynamic).

Do you think it might be made to run properly, on my laptop, or should I give up & buy a new one?

Its a bit frustrating trying to determine if I am making progress with learning, if the programme is not fully funtioning.

Thanks

Rowland

[innovatenate]

What is the driver date on your system?

How much GPU RAM is on your system? 

You can find out pretty quickly by selecting Graphics Diagnostics in the drop down menu.

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The Fusion 360 System Requirements call for at least 512 MB of graphics memory. Does the system meet this requirement?

When you went to update the graphics driver, were you able to successfully able to download  and install a new version? Intel drivers can be a bit tricky to update. If you weren't able to update the driver, manually identify the chipset using the instruction on the below link.

http://www.intel.com/support/graphics/sb/CS-009482.htm

Then you can manually identifiy a newer driver to install on the below website.

https://downloadcenter.intel.com/

The below link has some good information on how to work around error that you may run into running the update utility or the manually installing a newer driver.

http://www.intel.com/support/graphics/sb/CS-022355.htm

If all else fails, you can try using the Diret X 9 option in the Fusion 360 preferences. This won't improve performance, but may help with stability. 

I hope that helps!

Thanks,