Reference and Troubleshooting#

This section holds the lookup material and fixes you will return to. The reference pages are a commands index, a glossary, a FAQ, keyboard shortcuts by workspace, marking menu and customization, learning resources, and what's new and version history.

The troubleshooting pages cover performance tuning, crashes and cache clearing, sign-in, licensing and sync problems, and timeline and feature failure recipes. A personal use versus paid comparison covers documented limits. It is for all levels, and is best used for lookup rather than read in order.

Pages in this section#

1. Keyboard Shortcuts by Workspace (beginner): Default Fusion keyboard shortcuts and mouse navigation, organized by workspace.
2. Marking Menu and Customization (beginner): Use and tune the right-click marking menu, assign your own keyboard shortcuts.
3. Commands Index (beginner): Alphabetical index of Fusion commands with the workspace.
4. Glossary (beginner): More than 150 Fusion and CAD terms defined in plain language.
5. Performance Tuning (intermediate): Make Fusion faster: hardware priorities, graphics settings, display options.
6. Crashes, Bugs, and Cache Clearing (intermediate): A structured approach to Fusion crashes, freezes, and display glitches.
7. Sign-In, Licensing, and Sync Problems (intermediate): Diagnose and fix Fusion sign-in loops, missing features from licensing.
8. Timeline and Feature Failure Recipes (intermediate): Symptom-to-fix recipes for failed or broken features: red and yellow timeline items.
9. Frequently Asked Questions (beginner): More than 60 short answers to the questions Fusion users ask most.
10. What's New and Version History (beginner): How to read Fusion's release notes, how builds are numbered.
11. Personal Use vs Paid Fusion (beginner): A practical comparison of the free personal-use license and paid Fusion.
12. Learning Resources (beginner): Where to keep learning Fusion: official documentation and training.

Before you start#

The hardware figures on the performance page are general industry guidance, not Autodesk data. Autodesk documents the cache reset through the built-in Service Utility (Help > Support and Diagnostics > Service Utility). On macOS, Ctrl becomes Command and Alt becomes Option for most system shortcuts, but not all.

Confirmed vs not confirmed#

Not confirmed in Autodesk's documentation: several personal-use details (such as which workspaces are paid-only), manual deletion of cache folders, customizing Design-workspace shortcuts or toolbars, modifier-click behavior, update frequency and rollback, and the dates of earlier milestones.