Model Not Visible

[Anonymous]

I'm about 6 hours into modeling a nutcracker, and Fusion 360 won't show any of the bodies or components on the screen. I'm able to export all but one of them as STL's, but that doesn't help me finish the design. I've restarted the program, backed up steps on the timeline on the bottom, changed view preferences, restarted my computer, etc. All bodies and components are turned on, however don't show up in the modeling environment. Is there any way I can get back to editing?

[Phil.E]

Hi,

I'm not sure how you got into this state, but it appears that your grid is 64 kilometers square. Are you designing a really big nutcracker? 🙂

If there is a decimal in the grid number, I can't see it.

See below.

[Anonymous]

I pressed "zoom to fit", and it still didn't show up. However when I zoomed in manually it showed up again. I feel pretty dumb for not noticing, so thank you for pointing that out!

There seems to be something wrong with "Body 2", if you look at the screenshots below. Also whenever I hit home or "zoom to fit", it zooms way out for some reason. Any idea on how to fix these?

[Phil.E · Accepted solution]

This is what's going on:

Zoom to fit fails: This means your model is at least 32 km across. So zoom to fit is doing exactly that, it's showing you the entire model.

• Body 2 includes some geometry that is very far from the model.
• This geometry may be hard to find if it's smaller than a pixel when it's "in view" after zoom fit.

Try this:

Roll the timeline back to the creation of Body 2. Move the marker one step forward, zoom fit. Repeat and do so until you find the offending operation. It still may be very hard to find the geometry, but at least you can narrow down what happened and when.

If it's a move operation, you will probably need to delete it.

Please let us know what you find.

[Anonymous]

I found the step that messed things up. It was an extrude operation, but a strange one that referenced other geometry. Thank you for the help Phil! Here's what I've got so far. I'm pretty happy with it.

[Phil.E]

Thanks for the update. I had to mark this as solved because it's a crisp clean problem/solution thread and others might face the same thing. I hope you don't mind.

The model looks awesome. YOU MUST RENDER IT AND POST THE PICTURE. 🙂 🙂

Thanks,