Activating a referenced component product

[SaeedHamza]

Hello everyone,

I'm trying to activate the product that contains a referenced component. This is what I want to do :

I want to select a referenced component (linked) from a design that it was imported into, and open the original design of that component.

What I want to achieve here is simply make the original design (product) of that referenced component the current active product in the app, so that I can edit with a single script both files, the original design of the referenced component and the one it was imported into.

I made a lot of research regarding this, but I just can't seem to change the active product to be the referenced component original file, because I want to script to go back and forth between both designs while running.

I have no issue if I have to at least manually open the original design of the referenced component, but I need to change the active product as mentioned above back and forth between both products.

Any help would be much appreciated!

Thanks.

[kandennti · Accepted solution]

Hi @SaeedHamza .

The attached f3z file looks like this.

The following script will open the external component and create a new occurrence in the root component of both documents.

# Fusion360API Python script

import traceback
import adsk.core as core
import adsk.fusion as fusion

def run(context):
    ui = core.UserInterface.cast(None)
    try:
        app: core.Application = core.Application.get()
        ui = app.userInterface

        # active document
        parentDoc: fusion.FusionDocument = app.activeDocument

        # Get document for the first external component
        childDoc: fusion.FusionDocument = get_external_component_document()
        if not childDoc:
            return

        # This method is slow
        # app.documents.open(childDoc.dataFile)

        # Since it is already loaded, simply activate it and it will appear
        childDoc.activate()

        # Create a new occurrence in the root component of each document
        create_internal_component(parentDoc)
        create_internal_component(childDoc)

    except:
        if ui:
            ui.messageBox('Failed:\n{}'.format(traceback.format_exc()))


def create_internal_component(
doc: fusion.FusionDocument) -> None:

    doc.activate()
    doc.design.rootComponent.occurrences.addNewComponent(
        core.Matrix3D.create()
    )


def get_external_component_document(
) -> fusion.FusionDocument:

    app: core.Application = core.Application.get()
    des: fusion.Design = app.activeProduct
    root: fusion.Component = des.rootComponent

    occ: fusion.Occurrence = None
    for occ in root.occurrences:
        if occ.isReferencedComponent:
            return occ.documentReference.referencedDocument

    return None