opening a f3z file

[Anonymous]

I had downloaded an f3z file but i cant open it in autodesk fusion 360. please help

[ian.byrne]

On a mac - High Sierra - I had to add the extension .f3z to the file in Finder before it would work correctly in the data panel.

As downloaded it would fail to unpack and though it uploaded, I couldn't get any options to work with it within the program, with the file extension added it worked exactly as it should, i.e. expanded into components and let me open or insert into design

That was with a file from the myhub.autodesk360.com site

[TrippyLighting]

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@ian.byrne wrote:

On a mac - High Sierra - I had to add the extension .f3z to the file in Finder before it would work correctly in the data panel.

As downloaded it would fail to unpack and though it uploaded, I couldn't get any options to work with it within the program, with the file extension added it worked exactly as it should, i.e. expanded into components and let me open or insert into design

That was with a file from the myhub.autodesk360.com site

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What exactly do you mean with "work correctly" ?

I've been working with Fusion 360 for several years and never had any  problems uploading .f3z files or working with them "correctly".

The correct way is yo upload them through the data panel as described earlier in this thread.

[rogercaplan]

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@ian.byrne wrote:

On a mac - High Sierra - I had to add the extension .f3z to the file in Finder before it would work correctly in the data panel.

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What's the name of the file when it's downloaded (before you manually add the .f3z extension)?

this all works fine for me on High Sierra btw, so I suspect this is an issue with your browser or email client.

[ian.byrne]

I'm using Firefox 61.0

It definitely comes in without an extension on my system.

link from email...

Get info shows there is no file extension....

Uploaded into data panel...

Doesn't display correctly...

[rogercaplan]

try renaming the file (in the myhub.autodesk360.com data panel) so it has no spaces in it...

[ian.byrne]

vs

extension manually added....

[ian.byrne]

Seems it is just a Firefox problem as with Chrome it comes with the correct extension and behaves exactly as it should, so pretty random and can probably be removed unless you think it will help someone else.

Cheers

[rogercaplan]

I think this is actually a bug with the myhub.autodesk360.com file download functionality; the "Content-Disposition" http header it's returning does not properly quote the file name.

For example, when requesting a file named "foo bar.f3z", it returns:

Content-Disposition: attachment;filename=foo bar.f3z

when it should return (according to https://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec19.html#sec19.5.1😞

Content-Disposition: attachment;filename="foo bar.f3z"

[TrippyLighting]

@James.Youmatz could you look into that last post before mine and relate that to the team that AD that deals with this ?

[James.Youmatz]

HI @TrippyLighting,

Thanks for the tag, as always! Yea, I've seen this before with the downloads and I vaguely remember it being a firefox specific issue. 

Let me bring this up to the team to investigate. 

Thanks,

[rsz90182]

I did exactly this and the file F3Z file uploaded fine.

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@HughesTooling wrote:

After selecting the fz3 file and clicking Upload you should see a dialog box like this, there's also a progress meter at the bottom of the data panel.

Mark

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[liamrcresswell19]

I am having The exact same issue..... and have no idea how to resolve it.

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[TheCADWhisperer]

Can you Attach your *.f3z File here?

[liamrcresswell19]

 here

[TheCADWhisperer]

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@liamrcresswell19 wrote:

 here

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Where?

Do you see it attached here?

You must use the web browser interface to Attach, not email.

You might need to zip the file first and then Attach the *.zip file.

[rhetths]

Yesterday i saved some files and they saved as f3z which i did not choose and has never happenned before.  Now i cant open them from my computer.

[rhetths]

Actually it just opened, but it took a million years, massive productivity hit.  When it saved it didn't seem like i had the choice to save it as a f3d file.  I just looked again and i cannot save it as a f3d, why not?  When are they going to stop wrecking the program?  It is like being connected to a mental asylum.

[TheCADWhisperer]

@rhetths 

You have an external reference.

*.f3z file should first be uploaded in the data panel before opening.