Collaborate with project members in an assembly

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In Fusion, you can collaborate with other project members concurrently in the same assembly.

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While you and other project members open and edit external components in the same assembly,

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you can see which member has each design open, as well as whether a member is editing a design in real time.

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This facilitates collaboration on the same assembly while preventing design conflicts.

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Design Reservation is a key collaboration feature in Fusion that implicitly reserves designs

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—while you and your project members edit them—

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to prevent design conflicts in your projects.

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By default, Design Reservation is active for teams with two or more members.

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In the Fusion web client Team Settings, a team administrator can select or deselect Design Reservation.

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Each project member in Fusion is represented by an avatar,

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which is a set of initials in a colored circle.

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Avatars help you see which project members have which designs open in an assembly.

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When you open a design, your avatar shows on the part item in the Data Panel.

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When other project members open designs, you see their avatars both in the Data Panel and on the active document tab.

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While you are editing a design, a Reservation Badge, or a white dot, is applied to your avatar as soon as you make a savable change.

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You also see an asterisk next to the design name on the active document tab.

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This enables all project members to know when you are editing a specific design,

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so that they can be aware of your changes and any effects on the assembly.

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When you edit a design, it is reserved by you until you save the design or close it without saving.

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Upon saving your changes, the Reservation Badge is removed 15 seconds after the save and upload process is complete.

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If you close without saving to discard your changes, the Reservation Badge is removed immediately.

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A practical example can help illustrate this process.

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In this design, you are working on an assembly, with the Saw Body opened.

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You see another project member also has the Saw Body and Safety Button open, with the Safety Button edited and now reserved.

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When placing the pointer over the avatars in the Data Panel,

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you can see that the other project member is Mark.

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While Mark is editing the Saw Body, you can add a decal to the side of the same part.

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With the Saw Body active, on the Design workspace toolbar, Solid tab, expand the Insert menu, and select Decal.

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In the Insert dialog, select the Saw Warning Label image, then click Insert.

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Orient, scale, and position the decal on the side of the Saw Body between the vent slots, and then click OK.

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Since you made a savable change, Fusion automatically reserves the design.

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The avatar is visible in the Data Panel and in the Browser, with the Reservation Badge applied to it.

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When Mark saves his changes, his Reservation Badge is removed after 15 seconds.

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His avatar remains in the Data Panel and on the active document tab while he still has the design open.

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When Mark closes the design, his avatar is removed from the Data Panel and the active document tab.

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Because Mark saved his changes to the design called Safety Button,

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and that design is linked as an external component within the Reciprocating Saw design,

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the external component is now out of date.

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The out-of-date icon shows on the Application bar, in the Browser next to the default component,

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and in the Browser next to the external component itself.

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You can accept the changes that you and Mark made by clicking the out-of-date icon on the Application bar to get all the latest changes.

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You could also right-click the default component and select Update External References.

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To update an individual component, right-click the external component directly and select Get Latest Version.

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For this example, click the out-of-date icon on the Application bar.

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The canvas updates, and the icon is removed.

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The changes show up in the context of the assembly while you are still editing the design.

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You can incorporate these changes in real time and continue working uninterrupted.

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Once you save your changes to the design, the Reservation Badge is removed 15 seconds after the save and upload process is complete.

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Then, when you close the design, your avatar is removed.