Drawing

[Anonymous]

Hi.

I teach design at secondary school.

The boys I teach have trial versions of Fusion 360 but dont seem to be able to use the drawing function. Is this disabled because it is a trial version? How do I get around it?

J

[baribak]

Hi,

To answer your question yes drawings should be working even in the trial.

Can you tell us a little bit about:

1. What type of installation is this? Local? Global? Lab environment?
2. What did you download and use to install Fusion 360?
3. What error message or behavior are you seeing when trying to use Drawings?

Thanks!

Regards,

[HughesTooling]

To make a drawing you have to have a 3d model saved then use New Drawing - From Design and select the saved design. The 2d drawing workspace is not a drawing package like autocad, Fusion projects views from a 3d model and you just add dimensions and annotations.

Mark

[Anonymous]

Hi Kevin.

This group of students is working in a lab but they have individual accounts and are using the free down load trial  (30 day version) from the net.

They select New Drawing- From Design-Create drawing-Ok and the fusion model will highlight in a blue colour and the rainbow wheel (apple) will do its thing and nothing happens.

Fusion will then lock up and not respond to inputs and have to shut down and opened again.

I have other boys who have been using fusion for a while and have student accounts for which this isn't a problem.

Cheers J

[Anonymous]

Thanks for that.

I do use the system. It does work on my account but does not for my students for some reason.

J

[baribak]

Hi,

Thanks for the info. It sounds like you are running on a Mac? If so, did you originally install from the Mac Apple Store or from autodesk.com for your account? And was the location the students installed from the same? I'm wondering if you installed from one location and they installed from another?

Also, you mentioned some systems are running Drawings fine. Are these systems the same as the one with problems? Were they all installed from the same source as you?

If you're using the AppStore version, I wonder if you're account is an admin account and theirs are standard users? It may be that when they try to run the Drawings it's trying to access files their accounts don't have rights to? Or if the Drawings module is trying to access files in your account's folder structure they can't.  

If you want to run Fusion for multiple users you will need to install it globally using the admin account. If you wnat to run it locally (the default) then the other accounts on the system will require admin access rights.

Thanks for your patience as we try to figure out what's going on.

Regards,