Saving Assembly as .F3D

[Anonymous]

Hi,

I'm working towards uploading a .F3D file for the Design for Autodesk project that's running - I have an assembly where most of the components were referenced parts (with the chain icon beside their name in the tree) but can't save this assembly as a .F3D file. Has anyone found a way to overcome this?

I've tried breaking the links - that didn't help, and exporting from A360 - that gave me a .f3z file.

If anyone could help that'd be great!

Thanks

Stephen

[James.Youmatz]

Hi Stephen,

So a .f3z file is actually a zip file that contains all the data within your assembly, including all of the .f3d files used in the assembly. Once you export the .f3z file, just open the file up and you should see all of the corresponding .f3d files within it.

Let me know if this answered your question. If not, feel free to ask me more questions or for me to clarify further. I'm more than happy to help!

Thanks,

[schneik-adsk · Accepted solution]

What you want is an f3z. This contains the assembly and all the references files. When another user uploads the f3z they will get an exact copy of the entire design and all the links. Think of f3z like pack and go. 

[James.Youmatz]

Hi @Anonymous,

Hopefully the information that either @schneik-adsk or I provided helped clear that up for you. If so feel free to accept either of our solutions as answers so that way others can benefit from this thread as well. If you have any other questions, please feel free to let me know. I'd be more than happy to help you!

Thanks,

[Anonymous]

Hello,

stephen_colbert can you tell how exactly you have solved this problem, because unfortunetely I don't get schneik solution...

Thanks,

Kacper

[Anonymous]

I am also having difficulty with the exporting. I exported my assembly to a .f3z file and saved it to my desktop. It does not look like a .zip file though and I wasn't able to open it with AutoDesk Fusion 360. When I click on the file, Autodesk Fusion opens a blank design. It does not open my assembly. I also tried to upload it to my dashboard and download it from there but it wouldn't upload. If I upload this file to the Design for Autodesk project will Autodesk be able to read it?

[James.Youmatz]

Hi @Anonymous,

Welcome to the Fusion 360 Community!

I just double checked as to what the project submission format is and it seems that you can only submit .f3d files. The reason you have a .f3z file is because you have referenced components in your original design/assembly. What you will need to do is break the links of these referenced components in order to be able to save the file as a .f3d. Just know that once you break the link, that component will not be externally referenced anymore and any changes you make to its original file will not be updated. To break the link, right-click the component in the browser tree that has what looks like a chain-link next to it and select the "break" option.

I hope this helps and let me know if you have any more questions or would like more clarification. I'd be happy to help!

Thanks,

[Anonymous]

Hello Mr. Youmatz,

Thanks for getting back to me so quickly. I followed your instructions and submitted my project. I hope Autodesk can get some use out of my feedback.

Thanks,

Brian McCann

[schneik-adsk]

Here is a detailed description on how to move distributed designs.

Start Fusion and in the data panel find the item you want to export.

Click the "i" next to this item and in the area that expands click the link to open details in A360.

Once the web page loads click the toolbox icon and select export. It will default to F3Z. I like to put in the comments a short explanation of what i'm doing.

After a few moments you can close the details by click the, "x."

A blue button will appear saying 1 new post. If you refresh you can see the activity feed will have an event where you can download the results of the cloud translation. The download will be an F3Z file. Save it to your desktop or another convenient place.

Return to Fusion and in the side data pane navigate to the new project where you want to put the copy ( it must be a new project ).

Click upload and select the F3Z file you downloaded.

You will not that after a few moments the upload dialog will list all the distributed files and will recreate the items and relationships in the new project.

Finished!

[Anonymous]

Hello!

I resigned from breaking the links between components, because it would be too time consuming, however I figured out that I can use a simple "winrar" or "zip" program to "unrar" or "unzip" .f3Z to seperated .f3D files. And when you upload this .f3D to your account you can open it via A360 website.

Hope I could help somebody.

Cheers!

Kacper

[Aadithya01]

how to import a .f3z file

[HughesTooling]

You just upload through the data panel in Fusion, click the cloud icon. Make sure you pick a project for the file to extract into, there's an option to pick a project\folder on the upload dialog.

Mark

Edit, you need to be in a project for the upload cloud icon to show.

[Aadithya01]

hey I am not able to open .f3z file from a local folder into fusion 360 . Could you share any extraction procedure to import the .f3z file containing .f3d files into fusion 360

[HughesTooling]

@Aadithya01 Create an new project or folder open the project in Fusion's data panel then click the upload icon, select your file click UPLOAD on the dialog and it should upload and extract into the folder you select,

Mark

[Anonymous]

Thank You, this solution seems to be the most logical..... It worked for me...