How to purge old versions of design (again)

[dieter.menne]

I am a private user of Fusion 360, and would like to clean up my workspace before the 10-document limitation is activated. I have dozens of old versions lying around, most of them I cannot delete because it is used in some old revision I do not care about.

Is there a way to download or keep only the last version of a project? I know this question has been asked before, but that was some time ago (about 2017), so I hope things have changed. Can't I download my current version with all active dependencies, close down my account and start from scratch after re-uploading it? 

While most items cannot be deleted, I also successfully have deleted elements that really were required and never understood this. And why is "used in" only displayed in the web view, not in the desktop version?

[dieter.menne]

I just found a more recent link. Has anyone tried this?

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-360-support/unable-to-delete-unused-files/m-p/9642520/highligh...

[HughesTooling · Accepted solution]

If you download the top level design you will get an f3z file containing the assembly file and all the designs it's linked too. You could then delete the top level design on the cloud and all it's linked designs the upload your f3z to a new project.

Another option that should work is use Save Copy As to create a new top level design and delete the old one, this should free up and old unused linked designs no longer in the latest assembly. It gets a bit more complicated if you've created 2d drawings. You can download the 2d drawing as an f3z and it'll bring all dependent designs with it, then upload to a new project and delete the old. This will not work if you've created several 2d drawings linked to one design.

Mark

[Louis.Demers]

But what happened to the drawings referring to this design. My guess is that you loose all your drawings referring to this design !

Start from scratch all the drawings !😡