December 2020 Product Update - API "Export a Drawing as a PDF"

[isocam]

Can anybody help?

In the December 2020 Product Update, you can now using API, export a PDF file.

Can somebody at AutoDesk post a sample "script file" to show how to do this?

Many thanks in advance!!

Darren

[kandennti]

Hi @isocam .

Here is one that I made with the wrong meaning of the question.

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-360-api-and-scripts/drawing-pdf-export-how-to-access-the-new-e... 

Make the active document (Draw) a PDF file.

[BrianEkins]

Here's a script that will export the active drawing as PDF.

import adsk.core, adsk.drawing, traceback

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

        drawing = adsk.drawing.Drawing.cast(app.activeProduct)
        if not drawing:
            ui.messageBox( 'A drawing must be active.')
            return

        exportMgr = drawing.exportManager
        exportOptions = exportMgr.createPDFExportOptions('C:/Temp/PDFExportText.pdf')
        exportOptions.sheetsToExport = adsk.drawing.PDFSheetsExport.AllPDFSheetsExport
        exportOptions.useLineWeights = True
        exportMgr.execute(exportOptions)
    except:
        if ui:
            ui.messageBox('Failed:\n{}'.format(traceback.format_exc()))