Edit Sketch via API

[scottmoyse]

It looks to me like this isn't possible. But I would like to be able to loop through a heap of sketches, then once I find one with a specific attribute, 'select' it for manual editing by the user. 

But it looks like in most cases you can't call native Fusion commands on objects you have selected via the API... or am I missing a trick here?

[BrianEkins · Accepted solution]

You can start ANY command using the API.  However, most commands don't use the current selection or need additional input besides a selection so just starting the command doesn't cause anything to happen except for the command dialog to pop up, waiting for input.  There are a few commands that don't require any input or they do use the active selection and that's enough for them to do whatever they do without requiring any additional input.  The edit sketch command happens to be one of these.  Here's an untested example of how it would work.

sk = root.Sketches.ItemByName('MySketch')
ui.activeSelections.clear()
ui.activeSelections.add(sk)
skCmd = ui.commandDefinitions.itemById('SketchActivate')
skCmd.execute()

[scottmoyse]

Legend. Thanks. I'll give that a try.

[yosef.ali.omar]

when following this code i get this error the rootLogger object has no occurrence ItemByName I am wondering where I want wrong here is what i used 

        sk = root.sketches.ItemByName('Sketch1')
        #Activating SKETCH
        #choose the section sketch as active
        ui.activeSelections.clear()
        ui.activeSelections.add(sk)


        skCmd=ui.commandDefinitions.itemById('SketchActivate')
        skCmd.execute()

[kandennti]

Hi @yosef.ali.omar .

This is due to the fact that the first letter of the method name is capitalized.

sk = root.sketches.itemByName('Sketch1')

[yosef.ali.omar]

Thank you, yes that fixed it