Add Custom entries to the Make Menu

[Le_Bear]

I have not yet written any API script for Fusion, but I would like to create customized 3d Print choices to the Make menu, for 2 reasons:

1. 
   Ability to send to different slicers depending on the design, without having to manually select which one each time .
2. 
   Open a File Dialog, to be able to give a meaningful name to the STL, better than "a5c26275-a94d-4eb5-aea2-3fa63e5aa5a3.stl", for example 🙂
   
   Maybe I am wrong, but I tend to believe this would not be too difficult to do. But, as I have no experience with Fusion 360 API, I would be very thankful to get some pointers, maybe an example of something close, to make it easier for me to start this project.
   
   Thanks you!
   Bernard

[marshaltu]

Hello,

You can probably refer to "AddInSample" in "Scripts & AddIn" dialog for how to add entries to Make Menu. The id Make menu is "SolidMakePanel" in model workspace and "SurfaceMakePanel" in in patch workspace. Also you can refer to following sample for how to show a file dialog. 

http://help.autodesk.com/view/fusion360/ENU/?guid=GUID-d5163350-6d2f-11e7-8c44-3417ebc87622

Have a good luck.

Thanks,

Marshal

[Le_Bear]

Thanks, I appreciate! How about exporting the model as STL? Is there an API for this?

[marshaltu · Accepted solution]

Hello,

Please refer to the following code samples.

http://help.autodesk.com/view/fusion360/ENU/?guid=GUID-ECA8A484-7EDD-427D-B1E3-BD59A646F4FA

Thanks,

Marshal

[Le_Bear]

Thanks so much, that's exactly what I needed.