Pls create a reasonable Fusion Update schedule

[jackX2B6R]

We love Fusion..but you're kill us with the 'random' updates.

We have a meeting to review our designs - and 'POP' from nowhere there is a Fusion Update. So now I have a room of people sitting around for 20 minutes for a Fusion Update to occur.

1. This does not reflect well on Fusion for those considering it...you don't try to start your car to go to work and have to wait for a software update...

2. Our CAD designer - could update their fusion - then our conference computer version is out-of-date so we cannot open the model : This is Cloud - you should preserve the model in some method in the earlier version.

3. They are very frequent of late and seeming occurring randomly.

4. We are not having problems with our current Fusion version - so the wait does not seem justified for us. understanding that the update corrects issues across the board - but we dont use the CAM package so we dont need that update.

my thoughts

[g-andresen]

Hi,

All you have to do is ensure that the updates cannot be started by the persons involved before a certain time.

günther

[RajkumarIlanchelian]

@jackX2B6R We are certainly working on how to expose an update a bit in advance so that customers know that it is coming.

We do allow you to "snooze" an update. If you are a personal user the snooze is for 3 days and any other license type is for 14 days. Do you consider that option especially during times like you described today? 

[RajkumarIlanchelian]

@jackX2B6R Also, when you see the message an update is available and you accept, the download starts in the background. You can continue to use the product and only after the download is complete AND on the next restart does Fusion go into the latest version. For none of this you have to wait for update to complete. 

[jackX2B6R]

You cannot 'Snooze' and update when the model by another co-worker has updated and 'revised' the model under the new version.

You cannot open models between updates....Which is also quite odd and 'unacceptable' as it is an 'update' and not a 'Version' change?

Autodesk, needs to have a more formal implementation policy on 'updates' and 'versions'...

As a customer: I expect an 'update' to be minor....and not break the ability to open models already created.

Since this is all on the cloud - it would be in the best interest of the customer to maintain the models in every 'version/update' until ALL the users for the company update...

So again, I'd not sitting in a meeting with 15 people watching Fusion update...because I cannot open a model unless the opening version of Fusion is = to the model version...

Please keep in mind - Autodesk is inflicting this on us...not the other way around...

[jackX2B6R]

Gunther,
Thats a laudable goal...how exactly is that to be implemented ...when we don't know when is 'update/ version' change is pending.

Also, the 'update/version' dialog is quite ominous and in some instances I recall, reports your access to your cloud models will be 'limited' until you perform the update.

So it is not really an option?

PS: Our company has gone away from Solidworks [Solidwaste] mainly because of this 'version' issue with drawings and their terrible licensing scheme.

Microsoft has been able to support Word, Excel and Power point files in nearly a decade of application versions. So this is laziness and game-playing...

[g-andresen]

Hi,

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@jackX2B6R  schrieb:

Gunther,
Thats a laudable goal...how exactly is that to be implemented ...when we don't know when is 'update/ version' change is pending.

Also, the 'update/version' dialog is quite ominous and in some instances I recall, reports your access to your cloud models will be 'limited' until you perform the update.

So it is not really an option?

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This is easy to organize by creating rules for the behavior of update notes.

Günther