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Text string in sketch that takes component name

JYZMT — Thu, 20 Dec 2018 18:10:21 GMT

Is it possible to run a sketch which pushes a file name and component name into a text string within a sketch?

So say there was a sketch with a string in it of VWXYZ. When the script is run, it searches for that string, and replace it with "file name_component name"? Or something?

Maybe there is a better way. But I don't know of a way of getting the script to know which bit of text to over ride?

Any thoughts on this would help, Thanks

Rob

Re: Text string in sketch that takes component name

JesusFreke — Thu, 20 Dec 2018 18:22:49 GMT

I think something like this should work (note: untested code 🙂

for component in adsk.core.Application.get().activeProduct.allComponents:
    for sketch in component.sketches:
        for sketchText in sketch.sketchTexts:
            if sketchText.text == "REPLACE_ME":
                sketchText.text = "some other string"

Re: Text string in sketch that takes component name

JYZMT — Thu, 20 Dec 2018 18:29:56 GMT

Ok, thanks. I'm assuming there a bit I need to put in the

"some other string"

which is:

[get file name ] concatenation [get component name]

But clearly not written as the above, but written in a way the scripting language understands.

Thanks so much for your help so far.

Re: Text string in sketch that takes component name

JesusFreke — Thu, 20 Dec 2018 18:54:37 GMT

You can get the name of the active document from adsk.core.Application.get().activeDocument.name, and the name of the component from component.name. If you need help building the string, see, e.g. here.

Re: Text string in sketch that takes component name

JYZMT — Thu, 20 Dec 2018 18:54:48 GMT

Thanks, I'll mess about with the above, see how I get on.

Re: Text string in sketch that takes component name

JYZMT — Fri, 21 Dec 2018 13:05:18 GMT

Thanks for this. Is there a way to get

adsk.core.Application.get().activeDocument.name

to drop the version number v1, v2 etc from the end?

Re: Text string in sketch that takes component name

JesusFreke — Sat, 22 Dec 2018 01:56:26 GMT

I think this is what you want

adsk.core.Application.get().activeDocument.dataFile.name

Re: Text string in sketch that takes component name

jackalopes — Sat, 03 Oct 2020 15:46:55 GMT

I'm looking to do this also, but I am new to coding within Fusion360. Where would I place this code and how would I call in within a User Parameter?

Re: Text string in sketch that takes component name

rounoff — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 14:43:00 GMT

Found this thread while looking for the solution I had on my previous install of Fusion360. There is now a plugin called ParametricText that does allow this!

https://apps.autodesk.com/FUSION/en/Detail/Index?id=2114937992453312456