How to copy drawing(s) too when copying design (or Save as ...)?

[hoegge]

If I make a copy of a design, either by copy or save as, it seems I loose the drawing(s) I've made, since they are connected to the original design. How do I copy the drawings too and have them connected to the new copy of the design?

[boneill]

I can confirm that the method HughesTooling described works to create linked copies of the model/part.

Brendan

[hoegge]

Hi @HughesTooling and thanks for the tip. Will try that, although it seems like it takes forever to create the archive - has been "calculating" something for minutes and minutes now. Has looked for this for almost half an hour and no-email in inbox:

[HughesTooling]

How did you upload the F3Z file, I guess you used the data panel in Fusion and not the online dashboard. Can you open the drawing in Fusion?

Mark

[HughesTooling]

Reading your message again, are you trying to download? What happens if you select download from the file list in the online dashboard before going to the viewer. Although now I've just tried this I'm not sure how you ended up with a F2d file.

Mark

[hoegge]

I just asked to see the drawing on the web by clicking the 2D drawing: 

and that hangs forever. Downloading by using the download icon on the web interface works. It finally came through and I uploaded the archive file to a new folder and it seems to work. Not it works. Thanks.

It is kind of crazy, though, that you can't just duplicate a design from inside Fusion.

[hoegge]

HI @HughesTooling this workaround works - thanks. @nick.ni and @zhixin.ni will you ensure there is a case to fix this at some point. The workaround is not really a great solution - but a great because it is a workaround for something very basic that any other program can do - even MS Paint 😄

kr

Hoegge

[info7JY2S]

Too bad this doesn't work if you want to make a mirror version of a component.

You have to do the whole drawing, annotation, dimensioning, balloon adding etc. from start for the mirrored part....

at least autocad lets you mirror a complete drawing....

[tonySWCR2]

@HughesTooling 
Is this still the only way to do this? 

Will your method copy drawings of parts in the assembly as well?

[Anonymous]

This works okay but waiting to be emailed a link to download the archive file is ridiculous and very annoying and time consuming at work.

Also I really need to create an archive where two different drawings are attached to the same design is there any work around for that?

[Anonymous]

I downloaded the folder (part and annotation) and got a .zip -> so I renamed it to .f3z. Uploaded it again (online dashboard and one further try within fusion data panel). There is the .f3z file, but I cannot work with it (it cannot be opened. If I double click, it will open in the online dashboard as a fusion-archive, but nothing more.)

[dieselguy65]

I do not believe you can just rename the file by changing the extension and
expect it to work.
You should, extract the files from the zipped folder, and the upload
those.

[HughesTooling]

 @Anonymous  Downloading a folder will not give you anything useful, this is the message that flashes up when you try downloading a folder of project.

Download only downloads files that are not fusion designs, f3d\f3z files stored in a project would be just archive files you've downloaded then reuploaded but not translated into fusion designs. 

Fusion's online file handling is very poor and gives you no tools to copy whole project\folders at all. All you can do is download a top level design and it will drag down all of its dependencies (Note a 2d drawing of an assembly would be the top level.).

Mark

[hoegge]

Maybe you can't import f3z files on the free version of Fusion anymore? Are you using the free version?

[HughesTooling]

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@hoegge wrote:
Maybe you can't import f3z files on the free version of Fusion anymore? Are you using the free version?

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Yes you can. What @Anonymous  did wasa download a folder as a ZIP file then changed the extension to fz3 and that isn't going to work!

Mark

[Anonymous]

Thanks for answers.

If I extract the zip-folder it ends up with an empty folder. So I tried renaming it (see https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-360-design-validate/how-do-you-open-fusion-360-zip-files-creat...)...
(I also tried download with different browsers. It gives me always a zip folder.)

Just downloading a drawing does not help as I want to have a copy of part AND drawing, so that the copied drawing has dependency to the copied part (and not the original one).

No, I have not the free version.

[HughesTooling]

Have you actually downloaded the 2d drawing from the online hub?

If you do you will get a fz3 file that contains the 2d drawing and 3d design. Downloading a folder is pretty useless as it only downloads files in the folder that are not native Fusion designs.

Mark

[HughesTooling]

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@Anonymous wrote:

Thanks for answers.

If I extract the zip-folder it ends up with an empty folder. So I tried renaming it (see https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-360-design-validate/how-do-you-open-fusion-360-zip-files-created-by-someone-else/td-p/7932018)...
(I also tried download with different browsers. It gives me always a zip folder.)

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What's going on in the link above is just a red herring. The file was being downloaded from a web page and it's extension got changed from f3d to ZIP in the process. 

The option to download a project or folder in the online hub is useless, don't know why Autodesk bothered with it, it does not let you download any native Fusion data from the folder or anything useful. Fusion's online storage is pretty useless when you need to make copies of whole projects, there no equivalent to pack and go like you get with other MCAD programs.

Mark

[Anonymous]

Thanks a lot - this works! Didn't know that I get both documents when downloading only the drawing.

[sjahnGL3GH]

Is there no solution yet?

[EDukeCNC]

Did this method work for you? 

Has fusion not fixed this implementation still? 

I have a lot of parametric items, crates for example, that i would love to save within the job we created the build for but the accompanying "drawing" doesn't follow it. I would be willing to utilize this workaround if i can get it figured out.