UI Theme Preview (dark mode) - Feedback & Discussion

[keqingsong]

*March 25, 2025 - Fixed for March 2025 Product Update: 
• Timeline scroll bar is no longer missing.
• Highlight colors for activated component are now correctly themed.
• “Read Only” or “Editable” drop down menu in document thumbnail is now correctly themed.
• Version icon is now consistent across themes.
• Activated and inactive Simulation Study and Load Case highlight colors are now correctly themed.
• Render On Save text is no longer missing.
• Command dialog slider arrows in Render are now more visible. Render Viewer dialog is now correctly themed.
• Render Settings dialog is now correctly themed.
• Text highlight color in Save version, Save As, and other dialogs is now darker.
• Timeline tooltips on hover are now correctly themed.
• Text in Dialogs for New / Edit Plastic Rules are now correctly themed.
• Text for “Pin to Toolbar” and “Pin to Shortcuts” flyout text are now more visible.
• The “No components in design” dialog is now correctly themed.
• Activated Fluid Conditions highlight colors are now correctly themed.
• Document type icons (design, electronics design, PCB, and Schematic) in Data Panel are now dark theme compatible.
• Close, Search, Update, Refresh, Open, and Milestone icons in Data Panel have been updated to dark theme compatible versions.
• NC Program dialog experience is improved and now correctly themed in dark mode.
• NC Program dialog is no longer missing border space around the edges of the dialog.
• NC Program dialog layout is now correctly aligned in dark mode.
• Fixed an issue where the Expression Editor dialog made the toolpath dialog go blank.
• Icon for Manufacturing Assistant is now clearly visible in dark mode.
• Process order number column header now has correct colors on Windows machine when Dark Blue theme is active.
• CAM setup name in the browser is now more visible in light gray mode.
• Machine Library dialog experience is improved and is now correctly themed in dark mode.
• Hole Template Editor experience is improved for dark mode. 
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If you try the UI Theme Preview (dark mode) and see any weird behaviors or issues, please report them here. Screenshots are highly encouraged. Our developers are watching and engaging with you; what you submit will help us prioritize future improvements.

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Many of you have been wishing and waiting for dark mode for a long time, so we hope you'll be excited to know the rumors in the community are true: UI Theme (aka dark mode) is finally coming to Autodesk Fusion.

We’ve been working hard to get you the ability to switch themes in Fusion and we’ll soon be making it a preview feature, available to try as part of a staggered rollout. This means that not everyone will get access to the preview at first, but more and more of you will eventually get access as we continue to mature the experience.  This way we can ensure the functionality is working in tip-top shape when it becomes available to everyone.

To check if you have access, Go to your Preferences > Preview Features > UI Theme. If you see the UI Themes Preview option, checking it and then clicking on “Apply” will turn the option for you to change themes. Navigate to General section of your preferences. You should now see a Theme option. Change from Fusion Classic to Dark Blue and click “OK” and you should be ready to go. 

 

Note: If you previously changed the Display Settings Environment to a different canvas color, your previous settings will be retained.  To have the canvas color follow your chosen UI Theme, go to Navigation Bar > Display Settings > Environment and select Theme (default).

We’re still actively developing this feature, and we want your feedback

As stated above, theme switching is not done; we are actively improving the experience. Due to the expansive nature of Fusion and all the workspaces, we’ve primarily focused on fleshing out the Design workspace and the most common workflows. We want to make sure dark mode works well for every aspect of Fusion, across macOS or Windows, and with whatever machine you’re on.

If you try dark mode and see any weird behaviors or issues, please report them here. Screenshots are highly useful. Our developers are watching and engaging with you; what you submit will help us prioritize future improvements.

Thank you for your help and support! 

 

 

 

[keqingsong]

Ok gotcha. This may be a known issue, but we'll make sure to have it captured. As for the display environment, I was referring to this. I believe you have it set at Photo Booth, but if you want your environment to match the dark blue, you can set it to Theme (default). The reason why it didn't do this automatically is because Fusion honors your existing display environment setting if you explicitly changed it to Photo Booth or other environments that is not Theme. 

[jonathandsmith]

I'm not sure what you mean by photo booth. I don't have anything like that. My system is fairly locked down. I tried searching, but there's nothing in windows referencing that option/feature. I'm running Windows 11 24H2 without any custom OS updates.

[keqingsong]

Not Windows, I mean in Fusion, in the navigation bar at the bottom of the Fusion application window, like the screenshot I shared in my previous post.

[justin_o_nie]

Text in sketch.  Icons for "Typeface" hardly visible.  If there is a box around "Text" field it is not visible.  

[jonathandsmith]

Sorry, I missed that post. I set that, then set it to blue, it still occurred; however, on reloading the app, everything looks good now. Thank you for that work-around. 🙂

[jonathandsmith]

What about the actual design space being dark instead of white? Is that also coming?

[eblackstone3MHNG]

To do that you need to go just above the timeline at the bottom and select display settings-> Environment -> Theme (default) or River Rubicon.

[keqingsong]

Hey all, just wanna update you and share the list dark modes fixes that made it into the March product update. You should see these fixes in the latest version of Fusion now. More fixes and improvements will come in the May 2025 update. Thank you all for your continued support! If you continue to see wonkiness or new issues, please continue to share they here.

Fixed for March 2025 Product Update: 
• Timeline scroll bar is no longer missing.
• Highlight colors for activated component are now correctly themed.
• “Read Only” or “Editable” drop down menu in document thumbnail is now correctly themed.
• Version icon is now consistent across themes.
• Activated and inactive Simulation Study and Load Case highlight colors are now correctly themed.
• Render On Save text is no longer missing.
• Command dialog slider arrows in Render are now more visible. Render Viewer dialog is now correctly themed.
• Render Settings dialog is now correctly themed.
• Text highlight color in Save version, Save As, and other dialogs is now darker.
• Timeline tooltips on hover are now correctly themed.
• Text in Dialogs for New / Edit Plastic Rules are now correctly themed.
• Text for “Pin to Toolbar” and “Pin to Shortcuts” flyout text are now more visible.
• The “No components in design” dialog is now correctly themed.
• Activated Fluid Conditions highlight colors are now correctly themed.
• Document type icons (design, electronics design, PCB, and Schematic) in Data Panel are now dark theme compatible.
• Close, Search, Update, Refresh, Open, and Milestone icons in Data Panel have been updated to dark theme compatible versions.
• NC Program dialog experience is improved and now correctly themed in dark mode.
• NC Program dialog is no longer missing border space around the edges of the dialog.
• NC Program dialog layout is now correctly aligned in dark mode.
• Fixed an issue where the Expression Editor dialog made the toolpath dialog go blank.
• Icon for Manufacturing Assistant is now clearly visible in dark mode.
• Process order number column header now has correct colors on Windows machine when Dark Blue theme is active.
• CAM setup name in the browser is now more visible in light gray mode.
• Machine Library dialog experience is improved and is now correctly themed in dark mode.
• Hole Template Editor experience is improved for dark mode. 

[jordan783ZS]

The update seemed to reset my theme setting back to Fusion Classic.
I noticed that upon first applying the dark theme again after the update that the top corner buttons (file, data panel, save, extensions, etc) all remained white, but with the light icons. Restarting fusion fixed this.

The linked component icons and component context menu icons are still very hard to make out.

A lot of the command icons are still very washed out; the emboss command in particular has very little contrast.

Overall, though definitely a lot of great improvements in the new update.

[keqingsong]

Hey yes, we are tracking the white QAT (quick access toolbar) color issue. Thanks for letting us know!

[eblackstone3MHNG]

I am still unable to see/select cycle component color on the 4k monitor.

Also when changing appearances of faces/bodies it is very hard to see which faces have been selected.

Thanks!

[FrodoLoggins]

Pretty difficult telling the difference between browser items and the background. Very similar colors:

And like with all the other rushed releases this button becomes unclickable after a while:

No I didn't click and drag my mouse to move this item in the browser. No I can't click the escape key to exit out of the move:

Now it's just stuck in limbo lol:

And now in the manufacturing environment: At least it's not stuck maybe I can drag it off screen or something:

@keqingsong if you have screen sharing enabled can I just drag it to your screen?

4 bugs in 5 minutes. My work day is 450 minutes. 360 bugs a day seems a bit excessive for a multiple industry standard fortune 500 company. 

I have work to do can you guys stop rushing every update out? If it's not easily reproducible it doesn't get logged. Which means this program keeps getting buggier.

[FrodoLoggins]

Sorry @keqingsong can't send it. It's stuck again:

[FrodoLoggins]

This is probably too transparent. Makes the text hard to read:

And IDK if this is supposed to look all gargled up or what:

[eblackstone3MHNG]

Maybe don't use preview features if you can't deal with bugs.

[FrodoLoggins]

Why are these two darker:

[FrodoLoggins]

The 4 bugs I talked about exist when literally turning every preview feature off. They just also exist with the new UI theme alpha

[FrodoLoggins]

When hovering my mouse over something in the browser it looks like the expected behavior is for the item to change to a slightly darker color like so:

But sometimes when selecting items in the browser it'll stay that color instead of this color that it's supposed to be:

Happens either when selecting just one item in the browser but also when selecting multiple items in the browser; The last item will be the slightly darker blueish grey, not the more blue grey it's supposed to be.

[FrodoLoggins]

When renaming things in the browser the old text can be seen:

[FrodoLoggins]

Text tool:

No text box + typeface options not dark enough, difficult to see:

Typeface options only stick when moving mouse away: