Removing design version from a design project

Removing design version from a design project

Matthew0x
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Removing design version from a design project

Matthew0x
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Hello,

it is my first post, I hope I didn't really miss any rules.
The question is theoretically simple, how does one remove a version from the versioning system tracker (v1, v2, v3...).

I have been working on a part for a device I build and I wanted to modify the offsets for parts that connect.
I first accidently created a new version that for some reason lacked like 60% of the parts I made (why? I don't know... a bug? missclick? aliens?)

Either way. I created a new version and there are 2 problems:

1. You can't really (?) save the new version if it's based on say version N-1 and you already created version N, unless you create a new design (why? This was my only option as the version N+1 based on N-1 was read-only, when N (that I couldn't remove) already existed)
2. You ... can't remove the old versions?

I don't use Fusion360 much, it's basically a hobby thing to me and I have spent half an hour or an hour trying to find this fundamental feature?

I might be missing something, but I don't want to remove the whole design. I just want to remove the specific version.

When I got into my version tracker, I can see the history of design versions, but all I can do is just to open them, which makes little sense if this were to be a true version tracker.

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wmhazzard
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You can't remove a version but you can open an older version, right click on the top level in the Browser and select save as latest. 

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stiller.design
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If you want to delete the version history you can do that by: SAVE AS

then it will start at V1 again

hope that helps

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Matthew0x
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So effectively the only way to override the version is to restore an older one beforehand?

I will remember the next time, and it won't cost me much work at all this time, but if somebody selected a version N from the panel then spent an hour or two designing changes just to discover that they can't be saved...

it would be annoying, wouldn't it.

Nonetheless, your hack has worked. I will keep that trick in mind.
Thank you.


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wmhazzard
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It's not really a hack, it is the way Fusion is designed. If you opened a previous version with the intention of modifying it and saving it, you should see at the top of your screen a warning saying that a newer version exists prompting you to either update to the latest or save that version as the latest. Also, never work on Fusion for 2 hours without saving, that is a recipe for disaster. 

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