topic Re: Edit Sketch via API in Fusion API and Scripts Forum

Edit Sketch via API

scottmoyse — Fri, 08 May 2020 06:06:01 GMT

It looks to me like this isn't possible. But I would like to be able to loop through a heap of sketches, then once I find one with a specific attribute, 'select' it for manual editing by the user.

But it looks like in most cases you can't call native Fusion commands on objects you have selected via the API... or am I missing a trick here?

Re: Edit Sketch via API

BrianEkins — Fri, 08 May 2020 07:02:29 GMT

You can start ANY command using the API. However, most commands don't use the current selection or need additional input besides a selection so just starting the command doesn't cause anything to happen except for the command dialog to pop up, waiting for input. There are a few commands that don't require any input or they do use the active selection and that's enough for them to do whatever they do without requiring any additional input. The edit sketch command happens to be one of these. Here's an untested example of how it would work.

sk = root.Sketches.ItemByName('MySketch') ui.activeSelections.clear() ui.activeSelections.add(sk) skCmd = ui.commandDefinitions.itemById('SketchActivate') skCmd.execute()

Re: Edit Sketch via API

scottmoyse — Fri, 08 May 2020 07:40:17 GMT

Legend. Thanks. I'll give that a try.

Re: Edit Sketch via API

yosef.ali.omar — Mon, 14 Mar 2022 18:45:21 GMT

when following this code i get this error the rootLogger object has no occurrence ItemByName I am wondering where I want wrong here is what i used

sk = root.sketches.ItemByName('Sketch1') #Activating SKETCH #choose the section sketch as active ui.activeSelections.clear() ui.activeSelections.add(sk) skCmd=ui.commandDefinitions.itemById('SketchActivate') skCmd.execute()

Re: Edit Sketch via API

kandennti — Tue, 15 Mar 2022 00:57:54 GMT

Hi @yosef.ali.omar .

This is due to the fact that the first letter of the method name is capitalized.

sk = root.sketches.itemByName('Sketch1')

Re: Edit Sketch via API

yosef.ali.omar — Tue, 15 Mar 2022 20:26:22 GMT

Thank you, yes that fixed it