Instructions on how to use the Design PC Units in Design Room 2
- If students are going to work on the Design PCs, they must invite either of the Design Fusion 360 generic accounts, don.atello@sts.ab.ca (Design PC 1) and leo.vinci@sts.ab.ca (Design PC 2) to their team. Then, make those accounts a Team Administrator of your Team.
To invite either of the generic accounts, go to the browser version of your Fusion 360 Team Hub (http://login.autodesk360.com/) and login with your STS email address and Autodesk password.
- Once logged in to the link above, click on your account icon. Then click the Admin button. Please see screenshot.
*JonSab Team will act as your own Fusion 360 account team on this instruction.
- The page will redirect you to the admin page of your Fusion Team. Click on Members And Roles -> PEOPLE sub-category. Then, click on the Invite butto
- Invite to your Fusion 360 Team the accounts don.atello@sts.ab.ca, if you are going to use Design PC 1, and/or leo.vinci@sts.ab.ca for Design PC 2 usage.
*Please send one invitation at a time.
** Invitation only needs to be done once. Instructions on how to de-activate and reactivate the generic accounts on your Fusion 360 Team can be found at the end of this article.
- Once the invitation to join your Fusion 360 Team has been successfully sent to the generic Fusion 360 accounts(don.atello@sts.ab.ca and leo.vinci@sts.ab.ca), PLEAE SEND an email to itsupport@sts.ab.ca so we can accept the invitation make the generic Fusion 360 accounts part of your Fusion 360 Team.
Natively, any newly invited member of any team will have the role of a “Team Member”. For ease of use, just change the role of the don.atello@sts.ab.ca and leo.vinci@sts.ab.ca in your team to a Team Administrator. This will provide access to the generic Fusion 360 account on the Admin Project folder of your Fusion 360 Team.
This can be done by going back to the Admin settings of your Team (shown in Step a. above). Then, on Members And Roles tab again. This time, it will now show the invited generic Fusion 360 account. Now, click on their role and change it to Team Administrator.
*Ensure that all the designs you will be working on in the Design Room2 computers are in the Admin Project folder your own Fusion 360 Team.
2. After the invitation has been accepted and roles have been changed, the generic Fusion 360 accounts (don.atello@sts.ab.ca and leo.vinci@sts.ab.ca) will now be part of your Fusion 360 Team. Hence, your Team should show up now as a selection on the top left corner of the Fusion 360 application in the Design Room 2 computers.
On the screenshots above, you will see that the account logged in to the Fusion 360 app is one the generic Fusion 360 account, don.atello@sts.ab.ca, but on the Team selection, it has the JonSab Team option and has access to its Admin Project folder.
- Lastly, after using the Design Room 2 computers, ensure that you deactivate the generic Fusion 360 accounts from your Fusion 360 Team. This is to prevent tampering by the next users of the Design Room Computers on the design/project you are working on.
Additionally, if you will be using the Design Room 2 computers again, you don’t have to do the invitation process again provided that generic Fusion 360 accounts have already been invited to your team. Those generic Fusion 360 accounts can just be reactivated on your Fusion 360 teams on the same location where it can be deactivated.
To deactivate and reactivate the generic Fusion 360 accounts on your Fusion 360 Team,
- go back to the Member and Roles tab in the Admin settings of your Fusion Team Hub online (http://login.autodesk360.com/).
- Under PEOPLE sub-category, click on the “Show” drop-down menu and change it to “ALL”.
- To activate/deactivate people that are already invited in your Fusion 360 Team, just click on the Down arrow then, click activate or deactivate depending on the status of the user.
