Combine, uncombine and save'ing in Fusion 360

[Anonymous]

Hey All,

I am new to Fusion 360 and have been running into some problems lately with my savefiles when combining bodies in Fusion 360. Maybe someone here might be able to help..!

I am working on a design where I combine all bodies before I export a STL file for 3D printing. I make sure to uncombine(redo) the design before I save, after I export my STL file. But whenever I reopen the file after closeing Fusion 360, the design reverts to a totally combined design, making it very hard to work with. 

I am literally losing my mind when I discover that I need redo all that work. I'm a little puzzled by the fact that I can't uncombine/split the desgin into the orignal components and bodies. It seems so nonsensical that I now strongly assume that there is something big here that I am not getting.

Any help would be greatly appreciated..!

Kind regards 

[HughesTooling]

All you need to do is scroll to the end of the timeline and delete the combine feature. 

And talking about the timeline I don't thick you've grasped how if works. At one point in your timeline you have a large amount of moves where you just move bars back and forth, you do realise you can just edit the move feature rather than create more and more? Better still create the parts where you need then, I never use move in my designs at all.

Screencast from your design of some of the unneeded moves, really not sure about what you think you're doing here and I don't think you understand the timeline.

Mark

[HughesTooling]

Also you might want to uncheck Automatic version on save in your preferences so you can just open a design, combine, export then just close the design without creating a new version.

Mark

[HughesTooling · Accepted solution]

I took a quick look at those parts you were moving around. Going back in the timeline you have probably 50 of more moves and press\pulls. You could have achieved the same is you'd gone back and edited the sketch and edited the extrude to the correct thickness.

If you fully dimension the sketch and reference to your other parts you'd find this a lot easier.

Mark