Drawing template can't be found

mbostonsprint
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Drawing template can't be found

mbostonsprint
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I have a custom drawing template that I have been using successfully as lately as the past two weeks. I tried to make a drawing using that template and Fusion is now telling me it can't find the template. I haven't done anything to cause this that I know of; the selection is available in the initial drawing dialog box when I start a new drawing, but it can no longer find the template. I see this from all of the computers I use with Fusion.

What is best course of action to recover? Thanks --

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wmhazzard
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Are you in the same project that you saved the template in? Templates don't cross over from different projects. 

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g-andresen
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Hi,

If the template is saved in the Datapanel in a project (folder) you can select it.

However, you must know in which folder it is located.

 

günther

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g-andresen
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Hi,


@wmhazzard wrote:

 Templates don't cross over from different projects. 


I have templates stored in one place and can access them from all projects.

 

günther

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mbostonsprint
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I'm (finally) coming back to this topic, and have noted your responses. Since I don't spend all day/every day working in Fusion creating dwgs, this is somewhat sporadic for me. That said:  The template(s) that I created were created and stored in whatever manner was dictated by Fusion at the time of creation, specifically July 2019. I had been using the templates, one of which was a week later in creation/modification than the other, and both of them were accessible for a long period of time. Then at some point, the newer of the two was no longer accessible by Fusion, although it was still in the Create Drawing setup dialog drop-down menu. When I ran into that, the older one was still accessible and usable, and I didn't have time to worry about it. Now, neither template is accessible by the software.

I note that there is a project folder called "Libraries", which says it contains assets used by Fusion including templates (etc...). I think this appeared at some point perhaps more recently, maybe within the last year or so. Is this meant to be a common storage location for user-created templates? I scanned through it quickly and didn't see anything that looked like my templates hiding there. And, if it is meant for user-created templates, I would assume all project folders can see this(?)

In any case, can someone point me to whatever storage location is allegedly used by user-created custom drawing templates? And, has this storage protocol changed within the last year or so?

As a final note, all my systems that run Fusion are running W7 Pro. I hope that I'm not going to hear that I must upgrade all my operating systems to W10.... Any assistance welcome. Thanks --

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mbostonsprint
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As a new note, I did some searching, and found the templates in question. They are indeed within the same project folder, one where I have a broad variety of models and dwgs separated into folders, but the templates are within that main project.  So the big question is why Fusion is unable to see them.

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g-andresen
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Hi,

please show the process in a screencast

 

günther

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