topic Re: "Open" & "Save" Silently Using A Fusion 360 Python Script in Fusion API and Scripts Forum

"Open" & "Save" Silently Using A Fusion 360 Python Script

isocam — Fri, 01 Oct 2021 08:03:07 GMT

Can anybody help???

Using a Fusion 360 API script, is it possible to "Save" or "Open" a document silently?

"Save"

I want to be able to save a "Assembly", "Part", or "Drawing" silently.

"Open"

I want to be able to "Open" a Fusion 360 "Part" and get its attributes.

Many thanks in advance!

Darren

Re: "Open" & "Save" Silently Using A Fusion 360 Python Script

kandennti — Fri, 01 Oct 2021 09:24:14 GMT

Hi @isocam .

Saving is done by the save or saveAs method of the Document Object.

https://help.autodesk.com/view/fusion360/ENU/?guid=GUID-54a08742-92b2-4831-b9e6-4161b89f6e1e

Open is the open method of Documents Object.

https://help.autodesk.com/view/fusion360/ENU/?guid=GUID-29580a5e-995a-489e-9ea0-9753c1e11ac0

The Application Object has documentOpened and documentSaved events for documents, but the events are not fired when the document itself is saved or opened, but when the command itself is completed.

https://help.autodesk.com/view/fusion360/ENU/?guid=GUID-7209c4c7-bc58-4388-9e20-036410459094

This makes it very difficult to know when to get the attributes after the document is opened.

Here is an example of monitoring the timing of f2d opening using a text command.

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-360-api-and-scripts/drawing-pdf-export-how-to-access-the-new-export-manager/m-p/9945794#M12167

Please respond occasionally.

Re: "Open" & "Save" Silently Using A Fusion 360 Python Script

BrianEkins — Fri, 01 Oct 2021 19:08:42 GMT

I think you need to define what you mean by "silently".

Re: "Open" & "Save" Silently Using A Fusion 360 Python Script

isocam — Sat, 02 Oct 2021 09:17:22 GMT

By "Silently" I mean that you do not physically see anything happening. It is all done in the background.

Re: "Open" & "Save" Silently Using A Fusion 360 Python Script

BrianEkins — Sat, 02 Oct 2021 23:49:41 GMT

Many of us are used to using a program to start an application or connect to an instance that's already running and then interacting with the application using it's API. And doing this all invisibly. This type of functionality is natively supported by an application that uses COM (Microsoft's Component Object Model). Fusion does NOT use COM and doesn't support access to the API from an external process, so what you described is not currently possible.