API to Extrude a specific Profile from an existing Sketch, and Join to all other bodies

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Need to Extrude one specific Profile from an existing Sketch ( contains 2 profiles ) and Join to all other bodies.

So :

1. how to identify the Profiles in an existing Sketch ? Is there some list that can be loop'd thru to display the Profile names / item numbers, and then thru trial & error, identify the Profile that I want extruded ( and then modify the code to Extrude only that profile ) ?

2. How to either :

a) set the Extrude to 'Join', or

b) after the Extrude, Combine all Bodies in the design

Regards

[j.han97 · Accepted solution]

Hi,

1. If you know where your sketches are, you can locate them using API. Let's say they are at under rootComponent, you can access them with:

sketches = rootComp.sketches #Access the list of sketches in rootComponent
sketch = sketches[0] #Get the first sketch
profile = sketch[0] #Get the first profile

 You can loop through the list of sketches/profiles and filter them using your own criteria.

2. a) The specific line of code you want should be:

operation = adsk.fusion.FeatureOperations.JoinFeatureOperation

 This will set the operation mode of the extrude function to be 'Join'. For more information, please read this example for the steps of defining an extrude operation: Fusion 360 Help | Extrude Feature API Sample | Autodesk

b) If the extrusion 'touches' the bodies, I believe the extrude operation will join them together automatically. If not, you can use the Combine Feature here: Fusion 360 Help | CombineFeatures Object | Autodesk. The steps to setup a Combine Feature are very s...