Unable to open or unzip f3z files using web app

[tconnollyBL75R]

My students are using the web app with their Chromebooks. They are unable to open an f3z file or unzip it. I have tried numerous mechanisms including having them download the file and reuploading it and not having any success. I made a short screencastify video showing the problem. We have been struggling with this for days now and I really need some help! https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rIqeF_CSrFxEPVKLS78H-0a7R4pBJEIG/view

[gmelantoni]

Hi, the easy answer should be to upload the F3Z into Fusion Team (since you open Fusion Team on a browser in your own machine and get access to your local drive). That said, right now the only way that an F3Z gets translated into F3D is by loading from local drive. It's a limitation on Fusion 360 that I'd love to see go away. 
In the meantime, the only workaround I can find is for you to do upload of F3Z from a local machine that you might hopefully have, and convert to F3D. Then you save that F3D on your classroom's hub and ask them to copy and open that file. This will work. Not ideal but at least it will unblock you. 

[HughesTooling]

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@gmelantoni wrote:

Then you save that F3D on your classroom's hub and ask them to copy and open that file. This will work. Not ideal but at least it will unblock you. 

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Does this actually work with an assembly? What I've seen in the past is if you copy all the files in an assembly you get new copies of all the designs but the top level assembly design is still linked to the original designs, not the new designs in a different project\folder. The hub really needs some better file handling when it comes to copying distributed designs. There is an option to move projects between team hubs (never got it to work though) but no option to copy!!

You run into the same problem with drawings. You can't create a copy of a design and it's 2d drawing without downloading as an f3z then uploading through Fusion's data panel.

Mark