[BUG] Manufacturing - Tools library is draining your battery

[christophepersoz]

Hi there,

I'm experiencing in the last versions (I can't remember when this bug appears for the very first time) a bug on the toll library which drains the battery of my computer due to an anormal usage when this window is open.

I'm currently working on adding my tool collection which involve to keep this window open for a long time - I think you can't notice this if you just select a tool inside.

I just upgrade my computer and have a fresh reinstall of Fusion 360, and it's the latest version available (2.0.10148) running under macOS 10.15.7 (19H1030) - Catalina.

How to reproduce it:

1. Start Fusion ( no need to open a design)

2. Start your Activity monitor - Fusion should normally have a 0 to 3% of CPU usage

3. Go to Manufacture, and click on Tool Library (under Manage)

4. Suddenly the CPU usage raise to 93% and even to 98% - no matter what you are doing in the Tool library window.

This is the case even if you just let the window open

5. To lower your CPU usage, just close the Tool library window. CPU usage goes down instantly to 3%

I assume that there is something that goes wrong in this window 😉

Have a great day and thanks a lot for this great software!

Christophe

[seth.madore]

On my desktop, I'm not seeing a huge spike in CPU, only going up to 13%. What are your system specs?
I've flagged the Tool Library team on this issue, fwiw.

[christophepersoz]

Hello,

Thanks for your reply.

I'm running a fresh install of the latest F360 version on a MacBook Pro 13" with Dual Core i5 3.3GHz with 16Gb.

The macOS version is also freshly installed and it is macOS Catalina 10.15.7.

You will find a video attached that shows the behaviour - the graph to not respond as fast as the main Monitor window but it give a good idea.

I hope it will helps,

Christophe

[jeff.pek · Accepted solution]

Thank you for this report. We've been able to confirm this behavior, and have a fix in place to reduce the CPU load. This fix will be included in the next update.

Jeff

[christophepersoz]

Great! That's a really good news. Thanks a lot for this quick fix!

Cheers,

Christophe