Names of bodies in a design are changing next time I open the project.

steve.hoover · ‎03-06-2023

Not sure what's going on, This started happening about two weeks ago. A project I'm working on designing different components (bodies) are named accordingly after I'm finished with each component or at a stopping point where I need to design the next component to make sure each part has clearance. Anytime I open the program and the saved file from last session on same project, The components I created or modified during my last session will have changed their names back to Body#### or switch names with other components. For example I just opened the program, and a part I had named for a sensor cover front and back and a couple screws to hold the parts together were named Screw1 and Screw 2. But as I just opened the program, One of those screws are named sensor cover front, The other one is named Body3850, The one I had named Sensor cover front has changed it's name to a old component I had deleted.

Clearly something is going on with my files from the time I save and close the program and open the program to start working on project again. It's getting a little ANNOYING having to go through and waste time correcting the names each time I open the project instead of working on the project.

I've given no permission or access for anyone else to work on my files but since I cant keep MY FILES on MY DEVICE I dont really have full controll over my files. I've cleared the Cache Data, Corrected the names early yesterday and closed the program waited about 10 minutes to open the program and everything was correct but after that I actually did more work on the project, saved it lastnight then opened it today and that's when I noticed the names of everything I worked on lastnight had changed From the time I saved and closed the program

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steve.hoover · ‎03-06-2023

I posted a couple screenshots to better explain the issue. f360-1 was taken just after I saved before closing the program. I had CR_TouchF OldStyle highlighted. Then I closed the program down. opened it back up, and F360-2 shows the difference in bodies names, and I selected the same body name but it shows a different object highlighted. Also CR_TouchR OldStyle adn CR_LED is no longer listed under Bodies. In F360-2 screenshot, The body highlighted when I selected CR_TouchF OldStyle is actually what I had named CR_LED when I saved and closed down the program. The actual objected I had named CR_TouchF OldStyle prior to saving, after I closed and opened the program back up, has the name of another object I had deleted prior to saving.

TheCADWhisperer · ‎03-06-2023

Do you have Bodies that probably should be in their own Components?

Do you have Capture Design History enabled?

steve.hoover · ‎03-07-2023

No I have capture design history disabled. It's happening constantly every time I safe the program and re open it but only affecting the most recent parts I design or when modifying existing parts. It's a 3D printer Im designing parts for, so it's not a huge project.

I'm definately not a professional with Fusion 360 ;-). I've only been using Fusion 360 for about a year. I just design each piece/part (body) and organize each in folders/subfolders. I havn't missed with or utilized any of the component functions/options. I just refered to Components in the physical sense. I just didn't know how else to describe this issue as it has me baffled.

Not sure if it's related or the cause. but I originally started to experience issues after usign the Fillet and pull feature trying to shape an object but those tools wouldn't give me the desired outcome so I backed up a few times using the undo option and I had a couple bodies that were created during those failed attempts and when I backed up using undo function to start over and try a different way. A couple bodies that should have been removed but they remained. I was unable to view or delete or select those bodies. they remained after a restart. So I went back to a earlier savepoint, then resaved the project with a different name. and that's when I started to notice this issue. Not sure if this is related to having those 2 bodies remain after undoing and not being selectable in the list of bodies or if some coincidence that I had that issue and now it's corrupted somehow. I dont know. I just know when I save a file it should re open the file in the state I had saved it when last working on it.

I worked on this project lastnight and opened it a few minutes ago and I see 2 bodies with the same exact name which you cant do. It by default if you try to do this will add a (1). I've included a screen shot. It's just acting as the project is somehow corrupted. I've got many hours invested in this project and getting tiresome trying to remember the last steps I took the previous time I worked on this to go back through and correct the naming of bodies repeatedly. And I just realized I had made some changes to one of the bodies lastnight and when I opened the project back up it's as if It didn't save those changes. I've got lots of time invested in this project and many more hours required to finish and I have 0 confidence in this program due to the recent behavior of not fully saving the progress I've made. as if it's saving current progress on some things but reverting back on progress reguarding other aspects. I only have the free hobbie liscense so to my knowledge it's not like I can just save the parts I designed and start a new project adding the parts I've completed and the ones I'm still working on.

steve.hoover · ‎03-08-2023

Lastnight I saved the project under a new name, selected work offline and saved it again, Then I opened up the project a few minutes ago and didn't notice any difference in progress/naming. Everything was how I had saved it. Tonight I'll go online and save it and see if issue persists when saving online or not.

TheCADWhisperer · ‎03-09-2023

@steve.hoover wrote:
1. No I have capture design history disabled.
2. I'm definitely not a professional with Fusion 360 ;-).
3. I have 0 confidence in ...

@steve.hoover

1. I recommend that you enable Capture Design History and start over. Attach your new attempt here after each and every sketch/feature for guidance.

2. See #1. This is especially important for non-professionals to capture design history.

3. See #1. I have zero confidence in any work where the work is not preserved. (Remember how our school math teacher always said to show your work?)

steve.hoover · ‎03-09-2023

(Remember how hour school math teacher always said to show your work?), This makes sense when doing math homework where the teacher needs to see how you came to your answer. 😉

Not sure if you seen my last post where I stated that I had went offline, saved the project under a new name and opened it up the next day and seen no issues or loss of progress. And after I posted that I opened up the file went online, saved it. Left it open a short while but did nothing to the project, I saved it while "online" then closed the program. waited a few minutes, then opened Fusion 360 back up and opened the same project and seen that names had changed. multiple "bodies" had the same name. I corrected the names, went offline. and saved the project while offline. Closed the program, opened it back up a bit later and it was as I had saved it. Sounds to me that something is happening while saving the project to the "cloud" that is corrupting the data. I've tried with another project that I had not worked on in a while, that I had no issues with last time I worked on it. I created a couple random shapes, Saved it while online, Closed the program then opened it back up and noticed the same thing. It wasn't how I had saved it. The old stuff was but the random shapes I created were there but not as I had named them. I did the same steps while offline and everything was as I had saved it. So it's sounding to me like is some type of sync issue when saving to the "cloud"

I did get a Fusion 360 update just before I started experiencing these issues. and this is the only project I've worked on since that update. I'm using the Preview, Beta, cant remember what it's called but the early unreleased version for testing.

Fusion 360 2.0.15509 x86_64
Active Plan: Personal
Windows 10 Pro 22H2 (22621.1265)

cant remember if there was another place to report issues for that. As now I'm starting to think this issue is somehow a result or related to that update as I recalled getting an email alerting me of update just before experiencing this issue. I've been up all night testing different scenarios and comfirming this consistently only happens while "online" and saving. I even created a new project and made some random shapes changing default names from body#, to save both while online and offline with same results. I'm going to uninstall Fusion, and try installing the latest official released version signing out of the early preview program and see if issues persist.

steve.hoover · ‎03-11-2023

Here's a youtube video to better demonstrate the issue. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling but it's still doing the same thing. To show my work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=di8WH1DmBbI

TheCADWhisperer · ‎03-11-2023

@steve.hoover

I have no interest in anything other than history-based actions which are as precise, robust and predictable as mathematics.

Good luck with your Fusion endeavors.

steve.hoover · ‎03-12-2023

Well, I have no interest in starting my project over with your suggestion to ensable some irrelevant feature and start from scratch. AS in mathmatics, starting over would be changing the variables which wont help me with this issue on this project which is what I'm on here requesting asssistance with. The "mathmatics" has nothing to do with why Fusion 360 isn't saving my projects in the same state as I save them when I close the program to Autodesk cloud storage yet has no issues when I go offline and force it to save my project locally. As the mathmatics of how I model the object are irrelevant to autodesk saving process.

dougsautodesk · ‎10-10-2023

Hi steve.hoover

I'm having exactly the same issue. were you able to solve it?

steve.hoover · ‎10-10-2023

I copied the project and renamed it. It's been a while and if I remember right that helped.

dougsautodesk · ‎10-10-2023

Ok thanks