Insert a part into assembly

[jmorphet]

I was midstream in learning Fusion 360 when the change happened. I am at the part where I am learning assemblies. My book says to right click on the part in the data panel and click "insert". There doesn't seem to be an insert command in the context menu. Did this command go away in the free version? Is there an alternate way to design an assembly?

[g-andresen]

Hi,
Insert means you have already a new (saved) active design.
Then you can „insert into current design“ or use drag & drop.

günther

[jmorphet]

günther

I did save the new design. The new design was called assembly. It is at the
top of the data panel and open on my desktop. I tried drag and drop. That
didn’t work either.

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

I think it's because the part was imported/uploaded as a .f3d Fusion archive file. The software doesn't detect it as a part file. You can try opening the part file and see if fusion can recognise it as a part file rather than an archive file

[jmorphet]

These were sample files that came with the book I am reading. I uploaded
them to the cloud, and unable to insert them into the assembly or open them.
I deleted them on the cloud and reuploaded them using the data panel. This
time I was able to select a drawing in the data panel and insert into the
assembly. The first time, I uploaded the entire folder using the web
browser. That may have caused them to be treated as an archive. I can see
from the icons in the data panel that they were treated differently. See the
before and after pictures below.

Thanks for your help.

JPM



Before





After Upload from Data Panel