topic Re: How to reference a feature by its name? in Fusion API and Scripts Forum

How to reference a feature by its name?

luca.giorcelli — Sun, 17 May 2020 12:01:47 GMT

I'm sure it's incredibly simple, but I've been searching for hours and haven't figured it out yet.

I just want to suppress a feature named "myFeature" in timeline using the Feature.isSuppressed Property

In API reference I find the following

feature_var.isSuppressed = True

Where "feature_var" is a variable referencing a Feature object.

QUESTION
What the right way to reference a Feature by its name? I suppose something like this...

getFeatureByName("myFeature").isSuppressed = True

Please can you tell me the right syntax?

Re: How to reference a feature by its name?

JeromeBriot — Sun, 17 May 2020 14:48:19 GMT

Hello,

Try something like this :

features= rootComp.features myFeature = features.itemByName('myFeature') myFeature.deleteMe()

Re: How to reference a feature by its name?

luca.giorcelli — Sun, 17 May 2020 18:11:05 GMT

@JeromeBriot thanks, it works!

Re: How to reference a feature by its name?

JeromeBriot — Sun, 17 May 2020 19:44:10 GMT

Sorry, I should have posted a complete code:

import adsk.core, adsk.fusion, traceback def run(): app = adsk.core.Application.get() ui = app.userInterface try: design = app.activeProduct rootComponent = design.rootComponent features= rootComponent.features myFeature = features.itemByName('myFeature') if myFeature: myFeature.deleteMe() except: if ui: ui.messageBox('Failed:\n{}'.format(traceback.format_exc()))

Re: How to reference a feature by its name?

luca.giorcelli — Tue, 19 May 2020 12:14:37 GMT

itemByName seems to works only if the feature belongs to root component. But I'm not able to reference a feature inside a child component.

In the example below I unsuccessfully try to suppress featureB inside childComponent:1

The code used is the following

import adsk.core, adsk.fusion, traceback def run(context): ui = None try: app :adsk.core.Application = adsk.core.Application.get() ui :adsk.core.UserInterface = app.userInterface design :adsk.fusion.Design = app.activeProduct rootComp = design.rootComponent features = rootComp.features features.itemByName("featureB").isSuppressed = True except: if ui: ui.messageBox('Failed:\n{}'.format(traceback.format_exc()))

The error I get is the following one

Instead, everything works well if I try tu suppress featureA (belonging to root component) using the same code above.

Is there some syntax to reference features inside subcomponents? E.g. something like "childComponent1:/featureB".

Re: How to reference a feature by its name?

JeromeBriot — Tue, 19 May 2020 18:11:32 GMT

Hello,

You can iterate through all the components in the current design:

import adsk.core, adsk.fusion, traceback def run(context): app = adsk.core.Application.get() ui = app.userInterface try: design = adsk.fusion.Design.cast(app.activeProduct) allComponents = design.allComponents for component in allComponents: features = component.features feature = features.itemByName('featureA') if feature: ui.messageBox('{} - {}'.format(component.name, feature.name)) feature.deleteMe() feature = features.itemByName('featureB') if feature: ui.messageBox('{} - {}'.format(component.name, feature.name)) feature.deleteMe() except: if ui: ui.messageBox('Failed:\n{}'.format(traceback.format_exc()))

Re: How to reference a feature by its name?

luca.giorcelli — Sat, 23 May 2020 19:40:02 GMT

Thanks! It works

Re: How to reference a feature by its name?

luca.giorcelli9CG7C — Thu, 28 May 2020 11:37:29 GMT

I've run the script with a more complex design. The differences are as follows:

nested components (on multiple levels)
shared designs
sheet metal bended components.

While iterating trough components, I get this error:

I cannot understand the meaning. Some advice? Thanks.