Working on a .dwg model brought into Fusion
Really you should have used Upload in the browser so the file is translated automatically into a Fusion design. You are just seeing it in a viewer in your pictures.
What you can do now is Right click on the DWG in the browser and select Create Fusion Design.
When you open the design in Fusion you might want to enable history so you can use the timeline. Right click top folder in the broswer.
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First, please don't attach pictures, just paste them into your message.
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Thanks, but none of your suggestions were available whatever or were ever I went. Reloaded Fusion then in browser re uploaded model then dragged it into browser. Fine except it is not responsive to any commands. My autocad model was constructed with 3D shapes or faces all arranged on and controlled by layers. I selected a component and try to delete, nothing only option is to cancel.
So I am still missing a step to what 'explode' my model into Fusion compoentes? Stuck, so much promise, so difficult to even get started
You should just open the design from the data panel if you want to edit it. Your picture shows you inserted it into another design. You can edit inserted designs in place but I don't think that's the best idea here.
This icon shows you have an inserted design.
If you used Upload in the data panel you should have the option to open the design after its uploaded and translated into a Fusion design.
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It shows open at the top of the menu?
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yes I did use open and ended up very similar: selected components (single then selection set, but delete would not respond:
It looks like somehow you are using anycad so the design is opening as a linked design. So can you create a new project with no designs in it, then upload the design using the data panel in Fusion.
This is what I've done here and it works perfectly and yes it should work with the trial version while the trial is still active.
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Just did another test and just using Open from the file menu should open DWG files. Just make sure you select open from my computer not from a cloud project.
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Solid modeling programs like Fusion use imported blocks as components, so creating blocks in Autocad will be your best bet for organisation in Fusion. Then there are some selection tools to help. EDIT. Note you can have blocks within blocks to create components with sub components (sub assemblies).
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Are the bodies in a component with the block's name?
One way to see what Fusion needs would be to crate a model in Fusion with components and subcomponents and export as a DWG, then open in AutoCad to see the structure. I don't have Autocad but I have used Rhino and a script that turned layers into blocks then exported to DWG and that worked. Also received assembly files from several solid modelers and found I needed to use explode blocks to layers to go the other way when exporting from Fusion, Inventor, Solidworks etc.
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