topic Re: it possible to use an Inventor add-in in Fusion? in Fusion Support Forum

it possible to use an Inventor add-in in Fusion?

simon.dyer — Thu, 26 Apr 2018 01:00:26 GMT

I'd really like to generate feed scroll shapes, like this:
Feed Scroll Generator for Autodesk Inventor
http://www.k-cheats.com/feed-scroll-generator-for-autodesk-inventor-create-visually-appealing-animations/

Is there a tutorial to convert Inventor add-in to Fusion, or is Fusion 360 not capable and I should learn Inventor?

Re: it possible to use an Inventor add-in in Fusion?

asiteur — Thu, 26 Apr 2018 06:47:37 GMT

Hi there,

Whether Fusion 360 is capable of doing this probably depends on the way this is handled in the background. There's probably a way to do this. But no there are no conversion tutorials; why, because if you want to program for Fusion 360 then you must use C++ or Python and Inventor addins are always VB.Net, so the language difference makes that such tutorials are pointless. In addition, the whole API structure is very different, as Fusion is setup in a different way.

Re: it possible to use an Inventor add-in in Fusion?

simon.dyer — Wed, 02 May 2018 20:52:05 GMT

So no is the answer @asiteur ? Is Fusion capable of running such a script.
Or should I ask, is Inventor a more capable/mature app that I should move to?

Re: it possible to use an Inventor add-in in Fusion?

asiteur — Wed, 02 May 2018 21:01:34 GMT

Hi there,

Well, if you are programmer and you have the source of the app you link to than it maybe worth looking into the possibilities. You can run scripts in Fusion and that's pretty powerful. It's just that the program itself has less posibilities that Inventor.

If you just need the functionality then yes,... go get and learn Inventor

Re: it possible to use an Inventor add-in in Fusion?

TrippyLighting — Wed, 11 Jul 2018 11:51:43 GMT

If this sort of design is what you need, you need to move to Inventor.

Yes, Inventor is a more mature CAD app. At $1935 for an annual subscription it's also vastly more expensive.

Re: it possible to use an Inventor add-in in Fusion?

TheCADWhisperer — Wed, 11 Jul 2018 13:48:14 GMT

@TrippyLighting wrote:
... it's also vastly more expensive.

Should pay for itself on work like this in short order.

I haven't checked, but I guessing that add-in isn't inexpensive either.

Oh wait a minute, it says that it is free? Somehow I don't believe that it is "free". I'll wait on someone else to download, test and report back.

I hope that I killed the page before it downloaded anything to my computer.

I should have known better than to click on a link like that.