{"id":25846,"date":"2021-11-11T09:15:23","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T17:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/?p=25846"},"modified":"2024-03-18T18:52:44","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T01:52:44","slug":"collaborate-in-fusion-360-design-reservation-avatars-reservation-badges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/collaborate-in-fusion-360-design-reservation-avatars-reservation-badges\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Collaborate in Fusion 360: Design Reservation,\u00a0Avatars, and\u00a0Reservation Badges"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In this article, you’ll learn how to collaborate in Fusion 360<\/a> with other project members in the same assembly by using Design Reservation, Avatars, and Reservation Badges. We\u2019ve also included an accompanying video below that you can use to follow along. Please let us know if you find the video helpful by leaving feedback on our Self-Paced Learning site<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

How to Collaborate in Fusion 360<\/h2>\n\n\n

When you and your project members open and edit external components in the same assembly, you can see who has each design open and who is editing each design in real-time. This visibility makes it easier to collaborate on the same assembly while preventing design conflicts. There are three key terms you need to understand before we get started: Design Reservation, Avatars, and Reservation Badges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What is Design Reservation?<\/h2>\n\n\n
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Design Reservation is a collaboration<\/a> feature in Fusion 360 that implicitly reserves designs while you and your project members edit them to prevent design conflicts in your projects. Design Reservation is on by default for teams with two or more team members. A team administrator can toggle Design Reservation on or off in Fusion Team, under Collaboration<\/strong> in the Admin > Team Settings<\/strong> section. <\/p>\n\n\n

What are Avatars?<\/h2>\n\n\n
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An Avatar <\/strong>is a set of initials in a colored circle representing a project member in Fusion 360. Avatars <\/strong>help you see which project members have which designs open in an assembly. When you open a design, your Avatar <\/strong>displays on the thumbnail in the Data Panel. When other project members open designs, you see their Avatars in two places: <\/p>\n\n\n\n