topic Export dialog path in Fusion API and Scripts Forum

Export dialog path

Anonymous — Wed, 26 Jul 2017 16:27:57 GMT

Hiya all!

I'm new to the Fusion 360 api, but I was hoping to change some of the default properties on the Export dialog (specifically the "Save to my computer..." path).

It seems like I should be able to catch the export command somewhere, and then modify the command inputs, but I haven't worked out a way to do that (I tried adding my own CommandStarting handler, but couldn't find a way to get/modify inputs in there).

Any suggestions would be helpful!

(Fallback is to create my own export dialog, but I'd rather not...)

Cheers,

Geoff

Re: Export dialog path

marshaltu — Thu, 27 Jul 2017 07:15:36 GMT

Hello,

Unfortunately there is no API to support to customize the export dialog. Instead you can create export dialog by yourself and make use of ExportManager to do export.

For example: the following codes show how to show save file dialog and export file as f3d.

import adsk.core, adsk.fusion, traceback
 
def run(context):
    ui = None
    try:
        app = adsk.core.Application.get()
        ui = app.userInterface
        
        filedlg = ui.createFileDialog()
        filedlg.initialDirectory = '/Users/tum/Downloads/'
        filedlg.filter = '*.f3d'
        if filedlg.showSave() == adsk.core.DialogResults.DialogOK:
            design = adsk.fusion.Design.cast(app.activeProduct) 
            option = design.exportManager.createFusionArchiveExportOptions(filedlg.filename, design.rootComponent)
            design.exportManager.execute(option)
 
    except:
        if ui:
            ui.messageBox('Failed:\n{}'.format(traceback.format_exc()))

Thanks,

Marshal

Re: Export dialog path

Anonymous — Thu, 27 Jul 2017 16:29:23 GMT

Ah, well that makes sense, thank you!