Now available: Fusion 360 plugin for Intellij IDEA/PyCharm

[JesusFreke]

I've put together a little plugin for IDEA to add support for developing Fusion 360 python scripts. It allows you to launch and debug fusion scripts in IDEA, similarly to the bundled Spyder IDE.

You can find the plugin at https://github.com/JesusFreke/fusionIdea. It should be available in IDEA's built-in plugin repository soon, it's just pending approval.

You'll also need to install a small add-in in fusion 360, to help facilitate launching scripts from within IDEA. You can find more info in the README

[JesusFreke]

I wrote up some instructions at:

https://github.com/JesusFreke/fusionIdea/wiki/Getting-started-with-PyCharm-(Windows)

[Anonymous]

First of all, awesome plugin 🙂

In case anyone else wonders about this, here's a tip:

To open multiple PyCharm projects in the same window, simply press the "Attach" button after opening another project. After that you need to go to File->Settings->Project:"Name of your primary project"->Project Dependencies and add a dependency of the primary project to the child project. This makes the Fusion360 executable apply to the child project as well.

[riik_b]

hey,

the plugin stopped working. i wanted to create a new file so i needed to create a new file configuration. when opening the window for this action i can see the option for a new fusion configuration but i cant select them. furthermore i cant edit the current fusion configurations.

I tried disabling and restarting the plugin but now the entire plugin isn't displayed by the framework settings.

when i run old scripts with the old configurations it works fine, even-though i cant edit the configuration.

in the last two weeks i did have a few issues with getting the hash-key in order to connect pycharm to fusion

i hope you can help me with this.

likely irrelevant information but i am quite displeased with the performance of my laptop, if i have to guess the source of the problem then it is firefox/RAM related. after a while videoplayback comes through an halt (audio continues fine). but sometimes the entire latop becomes really slughish whilst firefox is closed

[riik_b]

Found a solution!

Due to multiple issues with windows i reinstalled my os from scratch, this didnt fix the issue so after a day of troubleshooting i borrowed an old laptop from someone and installed everything on that laptop. after installing all the windows updates I installed pycharm on that computer and it worked inmediatly.

the weird part was that it installed a 2021 version of pycharm which had only access to the version 0.65 branch of the plugin. This made wonder if i could "fix" the issue by rolling back my pycharm version, and it did. This is very easy to do since the maker of pycharm has a dedicated launcher for version control named Jetbrains Toolbox. You can just install it and have multiple version of pycharm (if you need that). Takes less then 5 mouse clicks and around 5 minutes time inc download & installation.

as stated above i did had problems in the last two weeks with the connection terminal not popping-up and there is a shortkey to force this dialog venster to pop-up: [alt + 4]

p.s. i had some throuble with my network driver and it seemed that this addin cant connect when im not online, it doesnt need an internet connection after it has connected once. Why does it need an internet connection and is it safe to run this program on public / foreign networks??

lastly, thanks for creating this amazing plugin