Fusion 360 osx upgrade necessary for existing users?

[sricci.design]

Hello,
I don't think this is a direct design question but t relates to my design output efficiency. I am an existing fusion 360 user and I saw on the May update that fusion will no longer support 10.8.5. My question is, does this apply to all users existing and new ? If I choose to not ugrade my osx (because of all other problems with Yoshimite) will fusion 360 stop working on my current mac? This is problematic for me because I have an older mac an fusion runs great on it now and I would hate to see performance drop due to being forced to upgrade.

[joel.palioca]

Hi Donsmac,

Looking at the SpeedTest results you provided and the potential size of your model that is being uploaded, the amount of time it took to upload isn't all that surprising to me.  Since you mentioned that your model is of a Galleon, I am guessing the file is of a decent size, and with your upload speed at 120Kbps it can take some time...  That being said we are currently looking at ways to continue improving the upload speed.  They are a work in progress so I cannot give you a specific date on when improvements will be seen, but it is something that is being work on.

Obviously resolving the decrease in your network speed would be the fastest way to see improvements, that may be a bit outside of my control :).

And to add my 2 cents on some of the conversation that has been happening, SSD is awesome.

Cheers,

[donsmac]

OK I did the same test with my wifi turned off.

1- Turned off wifi

2- Started Fusion360- opened in 11 seconds

3- Opened the Galleon model- took 15 seconds to open

4- added a sphere and clicked Save- took 20 seconds to save

5- quit fusion360 -no problem

Big difference: 20 seconds to save offline, compared to a hour to save while online.

My computer specs are:

27" imac late 2012

OSX 10.9.5

3.4 GHz Intel Core i7

16GB 1600Mhz DDR3 

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX 2048 MB

Serial-ATA Device Tree: APPLE HDD( 1TB) with APPLE SSD (121 GB)

Next test I will bypass the Wireless router and plug directly into the modem. When I turn wifi back on, I'm sure its going to take an hour to upload that change I did to model.

The model is huge, I'm amazed I can still work on it. Timeline is off, I make parts in seperate files and copy and paste them into the big model.

I have some screen shots in the gallery https://fusion360.autodesk.com/projects/galleon-revenge-1577

[Pedro_Bidarra]

That's a very impressive model. Good job!

[donsmac]

Thanks hezog for your comment 🙂

I have completed a fare bit more of the model since the last uploaded pic.

Regarding the slow upload speed, I've tested a couple more times. It's after 1:00 am. Each time the save (upload) took only about twenty minutes, which is a third of the time as before. This time I watched the upload using Mac's Activity Monitor utility. The first showed an upload of 171megs and the second showed 136 megs uploaded. No idea why there's a 35 meg difference between the two. I don't know what the actual file size is but I exported it to my harddrive as an archive.f3d file and it's 98 megs.

A couple questions: is the file that is opened in Fusion an .f3d file? how do I find the actual file size?

Previously when the upload took an hour to upload (or save) I wonder how many megs of upload I would have seen in the Activity Monitor if it was running? I'm guessing packets were being dropped like crazy during that time? Upload speed according to the Speedtest.net was the same whether it took an hour or twenty minutes.