My Fusion 360 models turn black....

[Lifeisriding]

My models turn balc after working on them for a random amount of time. 

THis was a major problem when I started using Fusion and seemed to have gone away in the past month or so but no is back. Does anyone  else have this issue? Is there a solution? 

I just restart the program so that I can keep working but doing that all the time is a major pain in the ****. 

Here is a screen shot so you can see what I am talking about if you don't already know. 

[innovatenate]

Thanks for posting about this issue and welcome to the Fusion 360 community. Historically this issue is related to graphics. Can you tell us more abou the operating system, and video card you are working with? If you are on Windows, when is the last time you updated the graphics driver for your video card?

You may try the suggestions in the below URL's to see if they can helpl with this issue.

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/fusion-360/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/How...

and..

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/fusion-360/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Poo...

I hope this helps!

Thanks,

[Lifeisriding]

Hello Nathan! 

Thanks for the quick reply. I am loving Fusion 360 otherwise so far! I see why people are called evangelists, I have been converting many of my engineer friends over from solidworks. 

I am running it on a 2012 Macbook. 

10 Gigs of Ram, 

250 Solid State HD

Intel HD Graphics 4000 1536 MB

I don't seem to have any "slowness' or lagging problems. 

Even when the modle turns completely back I can still orbit around , click on parts of it and zoom in with out issues. 

Just all the surfaces and sketchs go compleltely black so you can't really see what you are doing. 

I have googled around about it and haven't seen anyone else referenceing the model going black so far. 

[ChristophUnbescheidt · Accepted solution]

Hello !
sometimes i got the same problem with my iMac 5k 4gb gpu...

So it can not be a graphic card issue.
My advice is to cahnge between MODEL and RENDER mode and it mostly dissapears 🙂

Hope that hepls!

[Lifeisriding]

Thanks for the sugestion Christopher. 

Unfortunetly switching the desktop modes doesn't seem to make a difference. The model stays black acrross all the different work spaces. 

[chengyun.yang]

Hi,

I suppose you are not running a Windows OS on your Mac machine, right? If you are not, then one possible reason I can think of is some temporary shader/texture files used by the rendering are deleted somehow on your machine, probably some regular system disk clean up tool. A couple of questions:

1. Did you see this problem after you put the machine in the sleep mode for a while and then wake it up again?

2. When this issue happens, you can simply fix it by restarting Fusion. Is it correct?

Thanks

Chengyun

[Anonymous]

Same problem here.

Windows 10 64bit

8gb Ram

Intel 4000

Intel i5

[ChristophUnbescheidt]

Just switch between differnt Modes llike render and model... if that doesnt help go to preferences, gaphics, and switch to better performance 😉

[ChristophUnbescheidt]

Is this surface a patch surface? If it is you can go to patch mode and swicth normal and see if something changes 😉