topic Re: Shaded/Wireframe Shortcut Macro in Fusion API and Scripts Forum

Shaded/Wireframe Shortcut Macro

Anonymous — Tue, 23 Feb 2016 08:29:30 GMT

Could someone please help me with a Macros to toggle between Shaded view and Wireframe view with a shortcut key?

Re: Shaded/Wireframe Shortcut Macro

marshaltu — Wed, 24 Feb 2016 05:35:45 GMT

Hello,

Unfortunately there was no API to support setting shortcut key. I would like to recommend you log a request in our ideastation and then our product management team could review the requirement and other users could also vote on that.

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/ideastation-request-a-feature-or/idb-p/125

Thanks,

Marshal

Re: Shaded/Wireframe Shortcut Macro

ekinsb — Wed, 24 Feb 2016 16:14:36 GMT

As Marshal said, Fusion doesn't currently support custom shortcut keys, from either from the user-interface or the API.

It's not a shortcut key, but I wrote a simple add-in that creates a new button next to the "Display Settings" command that toggles the display between wireframe and shaded. You can get the add-in here.

After a bit of research it looks like it might be possible to catch the keyboard events at a low level and react to that, which would essentally allow you to implement shortcut keys on your own. Here's one post I found that discusses this, (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9817531/applying-low-level-keyboard-hooks-with-python-and-setwindowshookexa). However, this is Windows specific. There were also some posts for OSX, but it looks like it would have to be a different implementation for Windows and Mac.

Re: Shaded/Wireframe Shortcut Macro

Anonymous — Thu, 25 Feb 2016 11:16:05 GMT

Hi @ekinsb!

Perfect, it can be used with autohotkey and gives the wanted result.

Autohotkey code:

F1::
IfWinActive, Autodesk Fusion 360 
{
  Send, s
  SendInput toggle{Enter}
  return
}

By pressing F1 it toogle view.

Thank you for your add-in, I accepted your post as solution.

Sure it requires a builtin customizable shortcut feature in fusion 360.

Re: Shaded/Wireframe Shortcut Macro

lian_xie — Wed, 18 May 2016 20:50:52 GMT

Hi Brian,

Is it possible to create an Add-In for Inventor to toggle the display settings?

If so, could you please show an example?

Thanks a lot, Lian

Re: Shaded/Wireframe Shortcut Macro

Anonymous — Wed, 07 Sep 2016 14:26:34 GMT

Hello,

İ have a problem like this.

I want to display a sphere at wireframe mode but the program does not do it as desired. when I want to the sphere more detailed, program displays just a circle. How can I solve this problem?

Please help me, thanks.

Re: Shaded/Wireframe Shortcut Macro

Anonymous — Wed, 07 Sep 2016 14:31:53 GMT

okey, i solved it. 🙂

Re: Shaded/Wireframe Shortcut Macro

polygrinder — Mon, 31 Jul 2017 14:31:49 GMT

Brian,

This is a great Add In. However, I am wanting to be able to toggle between "Shaded" and "Shaded with Wireframe". I tried to modify your Add in to but to no avail. I just don't have the coding knowledge. Would it be too much to ask for you to modify and post a version that would accomplish that task.

Thanks,

Micheal

Re: Shaded/Wireframe Shortcut Macro

Anonymous — Wed, 07 Mar 2018 18:40:03 GMT

What is the icon at the end? It looks like a white sideways christmas tree.

Re: Shaded/Wireframe Shortcut Macro

Anonymous — Thu, 27 Sep 2018 04:35:48 GMT

In case you're still wondering about turning on hidden edges with Brian's add-in, change the if statement in MyCommandCreatedHandler.notify to:

        if currentStyle == 2:
            # Set to wireframe.
            app.activeViewport.visualStyle = 1
        else:
            # Set to shaded with visible edges.
            app.activeViewport.visualStyle = 2 # Is actually shaded with visible edges only.

The comments might be completely meaningless, as the docs are wrong and this was figured out with trial and error. Broken docs here: https://help.autodesk.com/view/fusion360/ENU/?guid=GUID-b821dca0-874b-49ca-8c37-59f7b22bfc6f