Fusion 360 simulation in background

[pawelwod]

Hi there,

Sorry if this was answered before but could not find any reasonable "up-to-date" answers so re-posting some questions about working with simulations.

Background:

I have 2 socket x 12 PH core machine with a lot of RAM and decent GPU. Currently evaluating Fusion 360 as my primary CAD software.

1. If I run simulation locally, how to move it into background so I can continue my work.
2. Is there a way to run parallel simulations locally?

3. Will Fusion 360 utilize my GPU for simulation?

Thanks

[shekar_sub]

Hi pawelwod,

>1. If I run simulation locally, how to move it into background so I can continue my work.

We do not provide any mechanism to do this. 
>2. Is there a way to run parallel simulations locally?

I'm not aware of any. We only allow to queue one local solve at a time.

>3. Will Fusion 360 utilize my GPU for simulation?

No. However some parallelization is done for meshing solves.

A solution for these issues is to do Cloud solves. You can  send multiple solves at a time which are spun up on different machines and they run in parallel. 
For Generative(understood your question is not about this) solves we use the GPU on the cloud and there is no local solve for Generative. Thanks

Best regards

shekar 

[pawelwod]

@shekar_subThanks for response. Please see additional questions:

>>1. If I run simulation locally, how to move it into background so I can continue my work.

> We do not provide any mechanism to do this.

Is this planned to be added in some reasonable future? I know you are earning money on cloud service here but this looks to me as too artificial limitation. I have only one license and simulating one part will disable me from working on other parts. From other side burning cloud credits just for coarse simulations is insane.

>>2. Is there a way to run parallel simulations locally?

> I'm not aware of any. We only allow to queue one local solve at a time.

Can I expect that at least queuing more than one simulation will be allowed? As in bullet 1. it would awesome if I can queue e.g.: simulations for two parts I've been working whole day so I have results next day I'm back in office?