Milestones and versions
Milestones are used in Fusion and the Fusion web client. They are not available for single-user storage accounts. Milestones are not the same as process management revisions, which are a feature of the Fusion Manage extension.
A version of a design is created every time the design is saved. Not all saves are done at important stages of the design’s development.
Milestones are used to identify that the design’s stage of development is important. For example, you are creating a part. After several saves, you have added all features in the part. Create a milestone to indicate that this version is the original version. Then you can continue to make changes for alternative designs. Then you could create a second milestone to represent the first alternative design. Milestones make it easy for multiple users to work on the same project. When milestones are used on components and subcomponents, one user can work on a subcomponent and save work during the design process. When the subcomponent is ready for sharing a milestone is created. The upper level component is then triggered as being out of date. Others working on the components can then update the design once, rather than each time a small insignificant change is made.
When you insert a part file with a milestone into a design, the design only gets updated when the milestone of the part is updated. Normal saves do not trigger updates to the second design.
In the previous example, the component Cover only triggers an update to the design Mold when a new milestone is created for the Cover.
Once out of date components are updated, components with milestones have a flag icon on them, indicating the design is using a milestone version.
In the previous example, the Cover component is using the latest Milestone version.
The milestone versions also have priority when inserting them into a design. They are inserted even though there are more recent versions of the design.
Historical milestones
Every time you save a newer version of your design with a milestone, the existing milestones become historical milestones.
The historical milestone icon is gray compared to a black icon for a milestone. The color of the icon changes in all places the milestone marker exists.
The pages in this section describe how to work with milestones and file versions in both Fusion and the Fusion web client.