Finding associated Drawing Files from a Design

[josh.aeronavics]

Hi, I have an assembly and I am trying to check if all of the individual externally linked parts in the assembly have a drawing associated with them. After looking at the documentation and doing some testing I can not work out what the mechanism is that links a drawing to a design and how to use that via the API. I am writing the script in Python.

[kandennti · Accepted solution]

Hi @josh.aeronavics .

The DataFile.parentReferences property contains the Datafile of the related f2d file.

https://help.autodesk.com/view/fusion360/ENU/?guid=GUID-50503941-32BF-4D11-8248-D3F46096E716 

If you change the f3d of a part and need to find all the f3d/f2d files that need to be updated, you can do so by traversing the DataFile.parentReferences property back to the top level.

I took advantage of this and created this add-in.

https://github.com/kantoku-code/Fusion360_GOKOTAI 

All in Japanese.

[josh.aeronavics]

@kandennti That will work great. It would be ideal if you could get the data file of an external component directly from the component object in the assembly, but going via the dataFile.parentReferences tree is a good alternative.