Fusion 360 does not respect dimensions I type in

[adafirq16]

Hi everyone,

I am experiencing a lot of frustrating sessions on Fusion 360 lately.

And it starts as soon as the very first steps at drawing a sketch.

Basically Fusion 360 ignores totally the dimensions of whatever I want to draw.

Say a line that I want 50mm long, I type in 50 mm, but Fusion 360 decides to apply a totally random dimension, inferior or superior, with decimals. Really upsetting.

I am no expert, but not totally beginner either, I have designed many parts already. 

So why am I not in total control of the dimension inputs?

Am I missing something? Any configuration setup option to check for?

Thank a lot in advance for your help, before I kick the hell out of my computer.

Cheers

[HughesTooling · Accepted solution]

This sounds like you're using Windows 7 that's not supported anymore. There is a workaround if you set Fusion to run in compatibility mode but I found that made Fusion run slow. If you want to try it, right click Fusion's start icon pick properties then set compatibility to Windows 7.

Mark

[g-andresen]

Hi,

take a look here (#5)

günther

[mickey.wakefield]

HughsTooling has it right....this is a well-known issue with people that are running Windows 7, which Microsoft has end-of-lifed....resulting in us having to stop support for it as well. (As Microsoft no longer supports it, we cannot get files we need from them to keep Fusion running on it either.)

While there are plenty of folks running in compatibility mode - in truth, the only good suggestion I can give you is to update your operating system. Fusion is not the only software you are running that will have problems with Win 7, as basically no one will be able to continue to support it. 

Also - Microsoft generally has some pretty good deals to allow you to upgrade to a new OS. This is what I would recommend.

[adafirq16]

SOLVED !  You made my day. Thank you soooo much guys.

It is a pitty that Microsoft acts like this. Say I switch to Windows 10, that will be the same story in 5 years time. It´s never ending. When you purchase a Windows licence, it is supposed to be forever, and the OS should be garanteed to work for life as well. Anyway, back to designing, it works again.

Thank you for your help.

[mickey.wakefield]

Glad this helped!

Wanted to add that I have understanding why Microsoft does this. While we might agree that 5 years is too short a life for this particular software, I think it would be a bit unreasonable to demand that MS make their software work forever. After all - it was created for the hardware of its day, and as the years pass, it would become nearly impossible to keep it working for newer hardware with different architectures and different tasks.
Indeed - even we do this. Every so often we retire support for older versions of Autodesk software...this is never done lightly, and it’s never nice for the people it hits - but it is necessary....

[Anonymous]

Thanks, this fixed it for me too.   Talk about frustrating!   

I know updating to Windows 10 is the best solution... but my situation is that I have a great desktop with Windows 7 running with a large amount of great programs running flawlessly, with nearly 90% of my hard drive filled with files and data.     Since the computer is nearly 8 years old, but still performs perfectly in my network, should I roll the dice and update my OS, with the risk of now having all sorts of compatibility problems with all the software I am currently running?       I think we know the answer.... Unplug this windows 7 computer form the internet to preserve it's state and prevent nefarious intruders while I run the legacy programs.... and get a new desktop to run the newer versions of the programs with the newest version of windows.   Sigh.... IIWII