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Fusion 360 API Reference manual for offline viewing

Anonymous — Fri, 25 Sep 2015 04:15:59 GMT

Can Fusion 360 API Reference manual be made available in .chm for offline viewing? Or some similar format...

Re: Fusion 360 API Reference manual for offline viewing

ekinsb — Fri, 25 Sep 2015 05:59:33 GMT

Here's a link to a chm version of the help. Hopefully it will help. To get it to work correctly you'll probably need to access the Properties dialog for the file and click the "Unblock" button, as shown below. The file works fine on Windows and there are chm viewers for Mac but I haven't tried them.

Re: Fusion 360 API Reference manual for offline viewing

Anonymous — Fri, 25 Sep 2015 06:22:42 GMT

Thanks a lot. Will be of great help.

Re: Fusion 360 API Reference manual for offline viewing

soswow — Thu, 08 Oct 2015 12:02:57 GMT

Is there way to get some other, more multi-OS format like PDF? I tried to convert chm but with no luck =( using online multi-iframe browesing so painfull =(

Re: Fusion 360 API Reference manual for offline viewing

ekinsb — Thu, 08 Oct 2015 21:06:54 GMT

The primary format for publishing the help is the online version. The fact that the chm is available is just by luck. The same help system that is used to product the help for Inventor was enhanced to also allow it to be used for Fusion's help. Inventor requires a chm file so we end up getting that for free and weren't using it at all until I posted it here. To do some other format would likely require quite a bit of work which I don't anticipate happening anytime in the near future.

Re: Fusion 360 API Reference manual for offline viewing

ekinsb — Mon, 16 Nov 2015 22:53:16 GMT

I've posted a new version of the API help that corresponds with the Fusion update that went out this past weekend (Nov. 15, 2015). The link is the same as in my initial response.

Re: Fusion 360 API Reference manual for offline viewing

Cotral.RD2 — Mon, 13 Aug 2018 07:32:44 GMT

@ekinsb The Link you provided doesnt seem to work anymore. can you update it ?

Thanks

Re: Fusion 360 API Reference manual for offline viewing

BrianEkins — Mon, 20 May 2019 21:19:47 GMT

I want to update this post. The original link doesn't work because the location it references no longer exists. I've since made the chm available directly on my website.

Re: Fusion 360 API Reference manual for offline viewing

rodwyll — Mon, 14 Dec 2020 21:56:24 GMT

Thank you very much for making this available.

Re: Fusion 360 API Reference manual for offline viewing

BrianEkins — Tue, 15 Dec 2020 01:43:54 GMT

Here's another update. The chm file is now updated and made available for each Fusion 360 release. The link is on the "Welcome to the Fusion 360 API" help page, as shown below, and here a direct link to download the chm.