Fusion 360 Toolbar Icons Disappeared After April 2021 Update

[dan62Q5E]

Good afternoon. Since the update, I cannot see the icons in the Application Bar, Tool Bar, or the Timeline. The bars themselves are visible as grey strips and the functions are *there* and can be clicked even though they are not visible. I'm using a PC with Windows 10 Pro, 32GB RAM, and a GeForce 1660 6GB graphics card.

It just so happened that my Hobbyist/Personal licence expired today. I renewed it and the licence shows it is now valid until 2022. I don't *think* it's the cause but I thought I'd mention it in case I'm wrong about that.

So far I've tried a number of things to correct the problem but have met with no success. Things I've tried:

1. Restart Fusion 360.

2. Restart my PC.

3. Log out of Fusion 360 then Log back in. This caused the program to get stuck at the launch screen but I was able to correct that by logging into the Autodesk Desktop App and then launching Fusion 360.

4. Uninstall/reinstall Fusion 360.

5. Update my Nvidia GeForce driver to the latest version.

6. In Fusion 360, changed my video driver from DirectX 11 to DirectX 9 and even tried the OpenGL driver.

7. Uninstall/reinstall Fusion 360 using Fusion 360 Cleaner uninstall tool.

I've attached a Screencast capture of my dilemma to illustrate the problem. I'm not sure what else to try and would be grateful for suggestions.

Thanks,

Dan

[livitabre]

No, I didn't last time, but I have now. It works. I thought that I should only add system variable and not change user variable. 
Is it fine for the other applications if I modify user variable? 

[MauriceP1234]

Works for me, thanks Maurice

[jeff.pek]

The user variables will supersede the system variables, so for you, since you already had that set, that's the appropriate way to apply the change.

Jeff

[borodati.dedKYQG5]

После выполнения действий по Вашей инструкции всё заработало!

[lance.carocci]

@livitabre,

@jeff.pek is correct here - you have both a User and System-level entry for the same variable, in which the User-based one will win over System. In this case, Angle is actually the new default, so it is in essence not changing anything. Changing this User entry to software or simply deleting it should fix this.

[livitabre]

@lance.carocci @jeff.pek 
Guys, 
Thanks a lot for the solution and the update!!!
Have a great day!

[Gorenc2]

It works for me too! 🙂
Thank you very much for your help!  

Martin

[Anonymous]

I got nothing i tried the GL thing and it still crashes at startup

[autodesk.ben]

Thank you so much for this! Nothing I was trying worked. 3D modeling is just a hobby for me, but it was still annoying me.
Rebooted several times
Updated GPU drivers
Tried forcing Fusion 360 to use the Intel HD630
...
I should have come here sooner, so thank you!

[HughesTooling]

@lance.carocci  Is this setting the same as setting the display driver in preferences to OpenGL? Only reason I ask is I don't have any problem with Fusion but the screencast utility is showing a problem while uploading.

Mark

[stevelovellU439C]

In case Autodesk are looking at this forum, me too.

It's been driving me insane. I've uninstalled, used the cleaner, deleted further files as suggested and reinstalled several times. My graphics driver has not been changed and I've checked that it's up to date. I've thrown several hours at this now, and although I'm only a hobbyist, I desperately hope this can be remedied soon.

Looks like I'd better find something else to work on this weekend.

***Edit. Oh.

There was a workaround that works. My mistake for not reading the "solved" part. This has stressed me out for 2 days.

[HughesTooling]

@stevelovellU439C  Did you try the fix in post #29?

Mark

[g-andresen]

Hi,

Relax!
@lance.carocci  has both, given hints of a workaround and stated that a solution is being worked on.
That's all he can do at the moment.

günther

[stevelovellU439C]

I hadn't noticed there was a workaround that works. My mistake for not reading the "solved" part. This has stressed me out for 2 days. 

Thanks.

[stevelovellU439C]

Yep, I hadn't looked properly. I've used the workaround. Stress subsiding. 🙂

[lance.carocci]

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@HughesTooling wrote:

@lance.carocci  Is this setting the same as setting the display driver in preferences to OpenGL? Only reason I ask is I don't have any problem with Fusion but the screencast utility is showing a problem while uploading.

Mark

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It's a subset of the OpenGL preference configuration. QT_OpenGL is going to apply to most Qt-based applications looking for this flag at startup - an unfortunate side-effect of this workaround.

That said, I know the Screencast team is also working to update their framework, so if you experience similar behavior down the road with the same device, keep this post in mind.

[Anonymous]

Same problem here. Running still on Windows7.

After several unistallations and installation (cleaned with the cleaner app) fusion is blocked on the startup screen.

[Anonymous]

I´ve just reviewed the whole post and this did it for me:

One potential workaround is to force Fusion 360 to use software rendering by setting a system Environment Variable

I´ve also had ad message that python37.dll was missing.. But now all looks ok again.

[dennish2001]

It's waiting for you to login.

The boxes are invisible.

Download and install Autodesk Desktop App to login.

[Anonymous]

dediğinin yönergeleri tamamladım ancak sorun çözülmedi 😞