Collaborative editing
Collaborative editing isn't included in Fusion for education at this time. Scroll down to How can I tell if I have collaborative editing? to check if you have it.
What is collaborative editing?
Collaborative editing is a broad term that signifies significant improvements Autodesk is making to Fusion data management. These changes make it easier for you to collaborate with teammates, see concurrent changes in real-time, manage versions and part numbers, and more.
Enhanced Bill of Materials
- Edit properties: Edit properties inside the Bill of Materials. These updates are saved to the cloud and are immediately visible to teammates working on the same components. Changes are tracked in design history.
- Override properties: change properties in the Bill of Materials without affecting the design. Changes can include overrides of quantities, physical properties, and estimated costs.
- Override BOM structure: With BOM global overrides, you can hide child components so that they are treated as a consolidated part of their parent in the bill of materials. All quantities and physical properties are combined. You can also remove a part from all BOMs, so that it and its children are excluded from this and any other BOMs (present and future) that might reference it.
- Remove from this parent: Use this to exclude the child of a part from the BOM.
- Compare the bill of materials: Use this to compare the BOM to its corresponding assembly. This is useful when working with overrides. It's also helpful when working with shared part numbers (also a collaborative editing feature), since the BOM always shows primary part numbers, even if the assembly is using secondary part numbers.
Editable properties
Similar to editable properties in the Bill of Materials, you can make changes in the Properties panels of the Fusion web client and Fusion. These are also immediately saved to the cloud and visible to your teammates. Changes are tracked in design history.
Custom properties (Fusion Manage)
Use custom properties with Fusion Manage to extend the standard information tracked for components in Fusion. This enables you to capture additional business-specific information beyond the default fields provided by the system.
Shared part numbers
Shared part numbers enable you manage multiple variations of a model under one, shared part number. Use this single part number to keep track of one Bill of Materials and all properties associated with the models.
Versioning
Versioning has been aligned with conventions more common in the industry. What used to be called milestones in Fusion are now versions, and what used to be called versions are now changes. These changes are tracked in the history dialog every time you save your design. When you are ready to mark a design state as a significant iteration, you create a version.
History
Design History is easier to navigate and view. It's also more granular, showing property and BOM changes.
Hub merge
Merge one hub into another to consolidate your work.
See: Hub merge.
Search
You can now search projects for matching component properties. Use the Search box at the top of Fusion Home to do this. See Search Fusion projects.
How can I tell if I have collaborative editing?
Use the Fusion web client to check if you're working in a collaborative editing hub.
Next to the hub name at the top left of the Fusion web client window, check for the collaborative editing icon
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If the icon is there, the hub supports collaborative editing.
Tip: You can access the Fusion web client directly at https://www.autodesk.com/fusion-team.