Announcements
Autodesk Community will be read-only between April 26 and April 27 as we complete essential maintenance. We will remove this banner once completed. Thanks for your understanding

Fusion window changes size and location every time it opens

crueby1
Advocate Advocate
339 Views
3 Replies
Message 1 of 4

Fusion window changes size and location every time it opens

crueby1
Advocate
Advocate

Something that I and others have posted about before, with no fixes yet: the Fusion window changes size and location from the last time it was closed when run again. This is on Windows 10, single monitor system, running the application as a seperate window not full screen. Windows and driver are all most recent versions.

 

Behavior is easy to show in my case: just run Fusion, make mental note of where it is on the screen, and shut down fusion (X in corner). Then, start Fusion again - window is taller and farther down the screen than before. Doing this multiple times in a row, the application window quickly winds up off the bottom of the screen, behind the taskbar at the bottom, and top of the window winds up at the top of the screen.

 

I did this a number of times in a row, not moving or resizing the window, and also captured copies of the NLastDisplayedLaout.xml file each time after shutting down the application. What I notice is that the workspace position values in the fourth line of the file keep changing. Here is the sequence from one run to the next:

 

<Area Contents="Workspace" Placement="Absolute" Rect="211,1889,1004,513" Visible="True">

 

<Area Contents="Workspace" Placement="Absolute" Rect="211,1891,1036,513" Visible="True">

 

<Area Contents="Workspace" Placement="Absolute" Rect="211,1893,1068,513" Visible="True">

 

<Area Contents="Workspace" Placement="Absolute" Rect="211,1895,1100,513" Visible="True">

 

<Area Contents="Workspace" Placement="Absolute" Rect="211,1897,1132,513" Visible="True">

 

As you can see, the second and third numbers both go up by two every iteration. No windows were dragged or resized, so they should come up the same each time.

 

One other experiment I did was to change those numbers up or down by 100 then start Fusion again, and the numbers went back to where they were (plus 2), ignoring the changes. That makes me wonder if Fusion is pulling its starting location from somewhere else entirely??

 

Either way, WHY does the window not remember its last size and location correctly? It used to work properly in the past (this behavior started several months ago).

 

Also, to others, PLEASE dont chime in with whether it works on Mac properly, or suggest running fullscreen, etc - lets keep this thread focused on this one issue - thanks.

2 Likes
340 Views
3 Replies
Replies (3)
Message 2 of 4

Swarfmaker
Advocate
Advocate

I see the same behaviour, and it is a recent phenomenon.  F360 sometimes opens with a window larger than the screen and no longer opens reliably on the same monitor of a two screen setup.  Not a stopper but annoying!

1 Like
Message 3 of 4

mlatcha
Contributor
Contributor

I get the same behavior, most definitely annoying.

Start Fusion, resize and drag the window to where I can see it, start working.

 

I don't understand why this isn't a 10 second fix. 

Lord knows there's an(other) update coming the next couple of days, can we get this on the list??

0 Likes
Message 4 of 4

crueby1
Advocate
Advocate

This problem keeps going, every time the Fusion window opens in a different place and always larger than when the was closed. Many times the window is larger than the screen, off the top and bottom, have to move the window and resize it to see the whole app window. Windows 10, latest versions of everything including drivers. Started several releases ago, never happened before that. VERY annoying bug - PLEASE fix this, a waste of time every startup. Am running the app as a seperate window, not maximized since I need to see data from other windows when designing. Single screen desktop system.

 

Keep reporting this, never a single reply from Autodesk. I'm a fully paid user.

0 Likes