Basic Saving Question

[jburickJUFQ4]

Hi there! I have a student who was working on their design on Monday, April 12th and is back in class saying that all of his work/changes from Monday are gone, specifically in the manufacturing workspace - all but one of the changes in the design workspace are there and simulation workspace changes are still there.  Is it possible running a simulation impacts the manufacture workspace?  

When he checks the versioning, the only work shown is from the April 8th, yet the work he did in the simulation workspace on the 12th is still there.

Otherwise, he will need to redo his layout and toolpathing, which isn't the end of the world but it would be nice to figure out what happened.  He  closed out Fusion 360 and let it save automatically.

[Phil.E · Accepted solution]

The best way to capture design information is to use the save button. It gives you a chance to label your changes and make a historical version.

If someone closes Fusion in order to force a save, and then shuts the computer lid or puts a desktop machine to sleep while Fusion is saving the design data (which could take a while if you have a mode/sim/cam data to save to the cloud) this would interrupt the uploading. Sometimes students do this in the classroom and are surprised when they open Fusion on another computer to find the information is not yet saved (it's stuck on the sleeping machine for instance). Do you think something like that happened?

To answer your questions: Simulation will not affect CAM. At the end of the day, the things that happen in the cloud (sim or cam) are handled independently. The situation you describe is not one I'm familiar with, having some new information associated with an older saved version, but with the workflow of shutting Fusion to force a save (and whatever happens to the machine after that like closing the lid) might be involved. Let me know if anything like this happens again and if possible get a shared public link of the design so I can look at the data. The new/old associated data should be apparent in that case.

[jburickJUFQ4]

That all makes sense to me - and, yes, it wouldn't surprise me at all if he just closed the lid of his laptop, although this is one of the more conscientious student that I have.  I'll be able to check with him tomorrow and I'm guessing that it is related to that.  Thank you so much!  I just wanted to make sure there wasn't some other basic thing I was missing.  

[Phil.E]

I know it's not clear this is related to your case, but just to clarify, the uploading is intended to continue if the user opens the same computer again. It would be a bug - in the case of upload failing after the student opens the same machine and starts Fusion again. The Job Manager (little clock icon menu) should show the upload progress after restarting Fusion.