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Any plan to provide 2d drawing API in Fusion360

mycad2016D8W4P — Wed, 12 Jul 2017 12:50:07 GMT

Any plan to provide 2d drawing API in Fusion360? Thanks.

Re: Any plan to provide 2d drawing API in Fusion360

ekinsb — Wed, 12 Jul 2017 16:30:37 GMT

There is a desire to provide API coverage for all of Fusion 360's functionality, which includes drawings. However, we are not currently actively working on exposing an API for drawings and there is no schedule.

Re: Any plan to provide 2d drawing API in Fusion360

isocam — Sat, 27 Oct 2018 07:48:23 GMT

Can I please ask if, after a year or so of waiting, is there any plans now to implement API coverage for all of Fusion 360's functionality, which includes drawings???

Is it possible to have Autodesk write a custom API for me whereby I will pay for the service provided?

I need to create a PDF file directly from a drawing so it can be called from Python.

Many thanks in advance!!

Darren

Re: Any plan to provide 2d drawing API in Fusion360

goyals — Tue, 30 Oct 2018 07:01:01 GMT

Thank you for posting your request. Unfortunately there is no schedule for adding drawing API at present. We will update you in case if there is any change.

Re: Any plan to provide 2d drawing API in Fusion360

Anonymous — Fri, 20 Dec 2019 01:44:42 GMT

Hi,

I love the product and the scripting is very powerful. However, I was wondering if there were any plans to open up the drawing API? I don't mean to push; I know that this question has been asked before, but its been a little while since the last query.

Thanks!

Re: Any plan to provide 2d drawing API in Fusion360

rbackman07 — Mon, 23 Dec 2019 20:12:57 GMT

Yes please!! I love python integration but the API coverage needs some serious focus. I know that the team is busy with other features, but unlocking things like this will let the community develop new features to extend Fusions capabilities so it can be competitive with more mainstream CAD programs.

Thanks for all the hard work Fusion team

Re: Any plan to provide 2d drawing API in Fusion360

johan.svensson6BXFK — Fri, 01 Apr 2022 14:31:33 GMT

I have now ideas for at least 2 new plugins which require a 2D drawing API.

Isn't it time now to release a full featured API in order for the community to be able to thrive and Fusion functionality to grow?

Re: Any plan to provide 2d drawing API in Fusion360

mlui5NPBT — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 13:51:33 GMT

Is there an update on this? You're leaving out an enthusiastic group of logistical designers out of program for versatility. We're at a bottleneck with the turtling speed of manual exporting and modifying based on design logic that having this programmable API would greatly speed up efficiency of work. Thank you.

Re: Any plan to provide 2d drawing API in Fusion360

BrianEkins — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 19:22:01 GMT

I don't know about specific plans for a drawing API, but it would be helpful to know specifically what kinds of workflows you are trying to automate. Some things will be difficult to support in the API, and others shouldn't be too hard. Knowing more specifics about what people need will help the team to prioritize. Hopefully, providing some easy things will meet most people's needs.

Re: Any plan to provide 2d drawing API in Fusion360

mlui5NPBT — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 00:28:35 GMT

Starting with the basics, let's get the opportunity to add / select text in the drawing sheet, as well as traversing through each drawing sheet. Most of the time it's small text changes that take up the most time like changing the text to today's date in the layout frame.

Re: Any plan to provide 2d drawing API in Fusion360

BrianEkins — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 22:48:49 GMT

This is good stuff and probably fits in the easier-to-do category. What does everyone else need?