Personal use active document limits

[sjenkinson12345]

I am still confused what  10 active and editable Fusion 360 documents actually means. Is it 10 top level documents with unlimited components?

[jhackney1972 · Accepted solution]

Shown below is an explanation of the 10 Active Document limit taken from this webpage.

[sjenkinson12345]

Thanks John, I now understand.

[kevinwilcox46]

Sorry to be dense but today was the first time I got a documents used flag and, still being at a relatively early stage of learning (and starting to like) F360, it got me worried about whether all this effort may be in vain. I'm never going to be using F360 professionally, strictly as a hobbyist, and over the course of my current project I'd expect to generate maybe 100 - 200 designs. However I doubt I'd ever need more than 2 or 3 open simultaneously. Does the limit rule just mean I can only have 10 editable designs on the go at any one time but can switch docs from read only to editable and vice versa at will, i.e. the limit will only be a minor inconvenience if that, and it won't lock me out of editing something classed as read only. (I think that's what it means but feel I ought to make sure).

[seth.madore · Accepted solution]

You can have as many files as you want in your storage, the limit is on how many can be "live" at one time. That limit is 10, so you will have to archive and un-archive as needed.

[kevinwilcox46]

Thanks Seth, that's what I was hopingto be the case; so, no more than a very minor thing and one I'm quite happy to accept if it keeps the product (which I'm appreciating more and more by the day) free to use.

[Anonymous]

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[jhackney1972]

When you use the term "drawings", are you talking about Fusion 360 2D drawings of a model or are you really talking about model files?  You can change the use state in a number of places, one of the main being the Data Panel.  Please provide a bit of clarification along with some screen captures and/or Screencast.

[Anonymous]

Help!!!!

Sorry this may not be the right string but I cannot get the dropdowns to work so i can change an editable doc to a read only doc.  I'm at the 10 doc limit now and can't do any editing. 

Ken

[Anonymous]

I'm  having the same issue as kmmechtel. The drop downs in the data panel for edit/ read only do not work. 

[Anonymous]

It's very disappointing that Autodesk has to frustrate free users with a 10 document limit. What's the point if you can swap between editable and read only? Just to trip us up and make life harder? As a hobbyist I will never subscribe to such an expense product. It just makes me want to pursue open source to avoid this type of game as I feel Autodesk will pull other tricks in the future to pressure for more subscriptions. Make a hobbyist subscription for $5/month and make it less crippleware please.