Interface with Fusion from outside the application

[niklas_hinte]

Hey,

I'm new to Fusion and hope I post at the right place here. 🙂

I wonder if it is possible to interface with Fusion 360 from outside the application.

An example could be a console application that

  1. Attaches to or starts a Fusion 360 session

  2. Loads a part

  3. Reads the parameter tree

  4. Changes some user defined parameter

  5. Lets Fusion recalculate the part based on the changed parameters

Are there any APIs that would make this use-case possible? More classical CAD Applications expose these functionalities via COM usually.

Thanks for your help,

Niklas

[felix85SA3]

There is a similar post on this topic from just a few days ago https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-360-api-and-scripts/integrate-fusion-360-with-winforms-applica...

[niklas_hinte · Accepted solution]

 I found another post here that describes the limitations quite well for anyone having the same issue:
: https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-360-api-and-scripts/using-fusion-api-from-outside-fusion/m-p/1...

[Jorge_Jaramillo]

Hi,

Maybe this link  could help you some how.

I had succeed sending some instructions with an interprocess communication library, but it is something tricky, due to the fact that Fusion's API calls can only be calling inside the main thread, and a synchronization is needed to avoid it to crash.

Regards,

Jorge Jaramillo

[Jorge_Jaramillo]

Hi,

Maybe this page could help you some how.

I had succeed sending some instructions with an interprocess communication library, but it is something tricky, due to the fact that Fusion's API calls can only be calling inside the main thread, and a synchronization is needed to avoid it to crash.

Regards,

Jorge Jaramillo