How to interact with Fusion 360 from a localhost web app or standalone application?​

[guillaume_debregeas]

Hi all,

I'm trying to interact with Fusion 360 from a local web application or standalone app. Specifically, I want to allow the user to select a surface in Fusion 360 and then retrieve information about that surface (such as its area, normal vector, or geometry data) to display in my app.​

I've found some older projects like Fusion360-SocketIO-Drive-Parameter and fusion-remote, but they haven't been updated in years.

Does anyone have tips, examples, or GitHub projects that demonstrate this kind of interaction? Even a minimal example of transfering data outside fusion360 would be incredibly helpful.

Thanks in advance!​

[guillaume_debregeas]

Up, any help ? 🙂

[corbin3]

I'd guess I would start by writing an AddIn that exposes the functionality I wanted via my own API. You'd have to create your own IPC (Interprocess Communication) protocol that your 3rd party external app could then call into your 1st party Fusion plugin/addin. There are lots of ways to do that, but they probably become more platform dependent, and assumes you have some IPC experience.

Or, you could probably toss a basic Python web server into your Addin and call it via HTTP. Web servers are pretty easy to implement...heck, I've done one on an Arduino. 

Just a few ideas for you to start with.