Export dialog path

[Anonymous]

Hiya all!

I'm new to the Fusion 360 api, but I was hoping to change some of the default properties on the Export dialog (specifically the "Save to my computer..." path).

It seems like I should be able to catch the export command somewhere, and then modify the command inputs, but I haven't worked out a way to do that (I tried adding my own CommandStarting handler, but couldn't find a way to get/modify inputs in there).

Any suggestions would be helpful!

(Fallback is to create my own export dialog, but I'd rather not...)

Cheers,

Geoff

[marshaltu · Accepted solution]

Hello,

Unfortunately there is no API to support to customize the export dialog. Instead you can create export dialog by yourself and make use of ExportManager to do export. 

For example: the following codes show how to show save file dialog and export file as f3d. 

import adsk.core, adsk.fusion, traceback
 
def run(context):
    ui = None
    try:
        app = adsk.core.Application.get()
        ui = app.userInterface
        
        filedlg = ui.createFileDialog()
        filedlg.initialDirectory = '/Users/tum/Downloads/'
        filedlg.filter = '*.f3d'
        if filedlg.showSave() == adsk.core.DialogResults.DialogOK:
            design = adsk.fusion.Design.cast(app.activeProduct) 
            option = design.exportManager.createFusionArchiveExportOptions(filedlg.filename, design.rootComponent)
            design.exportManager.execute(option)
 
    except:
        if ui:
            ui.messageBox('Failed:\n{}'.format(traceback.format_exc()))

Thanks,

Marshal

[Anonymous]

Ah, well that makes sense, thank you!