How can access fusion addin from other application

[ho-kou]

Hi, 

i want to access a fusion addin from other application , for example Excel macro or a web like the link.

 Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks.

https://help.autodesk.com/view/fusion360/ENU/?guid=GUID-8A2C4ECD-7D82-4E56-AFE8-4FA72464AE66 

[kandennti]

Hi @ho-kou .

It is probably not possible to access Fusion360 from the outside.
On the other hand, it is possible that the Fusion360 API can access Excel.

[BrianEkins · Accepted solution]

There's nothing built-in to the Fusion API to support this.  What you're talking about is inter-process communication, which you can read about more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter-process_communication.

That article lists many different methods, but what's feasible depends on the specific situation.  The simplest one mentioned is the use of a file.  The add-in could periodically, check a location for a specific file and if the file exists, it reads data from it and performs some action.  The Excel macro could write this file.

I've also heard of other people doing some things with sockets.  Neither of these has anything to do with the Fusion API but are features of the programming language and OS.

If you're add-in is watching for something in the background, you probably want to read this article from the API User Manual. https://help.autodesk.com/view/fusion360/ENU/?guid=GUID-F9FD4A6D-C59F-4176-9003-CE04F7558CCC