The Autodesk Fusion 360 dependency DLL files are not present in the installed path

[Itsautodesklicense3]

We are trying to open a file in the Fusion 360 application using our C# library. For this, we need to reference Autodesk.Fusion360.Addin, Autodesk.Fusion360.Core, Autodesk.Fusion360.Document and Autodesk.Fusion360.Application. However, we are unable to find these DLLs in the installed path. How can we reference the necessary DLLs?

[RajkumarIlanchelian]

@Itsautodesklicense3 Checking with our development team on this. 

[RajkumarIlanchelian]

@Itsautodesklicense3 Checking with the team if you are writing an add-in the recommendation is to use C++ or Python (https://help.autodesk.com/view/fusion360/ENU/?guid=GUID-A92A4B10-3781-4925-94C6-47DA85A4F65A) and these are the programs that will give you all the access you need. 

[Itsautodesklicense3]

Hi Autodesk Team,

We are developing an add-in using C++ but haven’t found any sample code for opening, saving, and closing file. Ultimately, we intend to use the C++ plugin from C# code. Could you please provide us with sample code to communicate with Fusion 360 from C# to perform these operations using the add-in?

[jeff.pek]

@Itsautodesklicense3 - In order to be able to use C# as part of add-in, you would need to have a bridge project in C++/CLI. This bridge project would communicate with the C++ API in Fusion, and with the C#. See this article. You can't communicate directly to the Fusion API from C#.

Jeff

[Itsautodesklicense3]

@jeff.pek, You mentioned some article to read, but I don’t see the link. Could you please add it? Also, if possible, could you provide sample code links for opening, saving, and closing file from c++? Thanks

[jeff.pek]

Apologies. This was the article I had intended to link:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/dotnet/dotnet-programming-with-cpp-cli-visual-cpp?view=msvc-17...

Jeff

[jeff.pek]

There are lots of samples, in both C++ and Python, on the Fusion API Help pages.

  Jeff