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Parameter I/O Difficulties

Anonymous — Mon, 11 Nov 2019 09:40:02 GMT

I'm going to try to make this brief, will provide more details if needed. I installed the add-in and exported no problem. Importing not so much, I have checked that it is a "true" .csv file and reduced the file to only include absolute numbers ie: cabWidth,in,24 in . But I can't even re-upload the original exported .csv file. I am trying to to be able to clean up my parameter list, however right now I'm just trying to import a very brief and simple list into a "new design" to no avail.

Thanks in advance

Re: Parameter I/O Difficulties

jhackney1972 — Tue, 12 Nov 2019 01:07:55 GMT

I am only guessing your are talking about this Fusion 360 Add-In.

If so, and you are trying to add values to the CSV table using Excel, this will violate the application and will cause failure. The CSV file lines are indexed (counted) during the creation from the existing parameter table. If you add parameters to the CSV file directly you violate this count so read-back will fail. If you want to use the Add-In, just create a master file to create your CSV export adding to it as needed.

You also can not skip this Add-In and use the Derive command to export and import parameters between files.

Re: Parameter I/O Difficulties

Anonymous — Tue, 12 Nov 2019 07:42:44 GMT

Thank you for the reply, and yes that is the add-in I was having trouble with but I think I sorted the problem. The .csv needs be formatted with all 4 "rows" as in: <parameter name>,<unit>,<value>,<comment> . As seen in my above comment "ie: cabWidth,in,24 in " it needed a third comma ie: cabWidth,in,24 in, . You could add a description after the comma if you like but just the last comma creates the format the add-in needed. I also had to rearrange a few of the parameters that used equations as to not call out a parameter before it is created ie: boxSideWidth,in,cabDepth - ffThick, in this case both "cabDepth" and "ffThick" have to be in the list above "boxSideWidth". And no <space> in the parameter name. I use google sheets for manipulation of the .csv. Again thanks for the reply and I just wrote all that out to hopefully help someone else out.