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Interface with Fusion from outside the application

niklas_hinte — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 09:29:59 GMT

Hey,

I'm new to Fusion and hope I post at the right place here. 🙂

I wonder if it is possible to interface with Fusion 360 from outside the application.

An example could be a console application that

1. Attaches to or starts a Fusion 360 session

2. Loads a part

3. Reads the parameter tree

4. Changes some user defined parameter

5. Lets Fusion recalculate the part based on the changed parameters

Are there any APIs that would make this use-case possible? More classical CAD Applications expose these functionalities via COM usually.

Thanks for your help,

Niklas

Betreff: Interface with Fusion from outside the application

felix85SA3 — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 10:45:29 GMT

There is a similar post on this topic from just a few days ago https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-360-api-and-scripts/integrate-fusion-360-with-winforms-application/td-p/12013697

Re: Interface with Fusion from outside the application

niklas_hinte — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 11:51:50 GMT

I found another post here that describes the limitations quite well for anyone having the same issue:
: https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-360-api-and-scripts/using-fusion-api-from-outside-fusion/m-p/11142796

Re: Interface with Fusion from outside the application

Jorge_Jaramillo — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 00:06:16 GMT

Hi,

Maybe this link could help you some how.

I had succeed sending some instructions with an interprocess communication library, but it is something tricky, due to the fact that Fusion's API calls can only be calling inside the main thread, and a synchronization is needed to avoid it to crash.

Regards,

Jorge Jaramillo

Re: Interface with Fusion from outside the application

Jorge_Jaramillo — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 00:05:44 GMT

Hi,

Maybe this page could help you some how.

Regards,

Jorge Jaramillo