Import CSV and convert into Matrix

[uw115]

Hi All, 

I was wondering if anyone could help me in finding a way to import a CSV file into the Fusion 360 API. The CSV is of a 5x5 matrix generated on Matlab which I need to feed into my API in order to perform further logic in generating a design. It requires me to perform some array indexing, the best way I know how is to use Numpy but I am unsure how to go about installing Numpy. 

Thanks in advance

Usman

[goyals · Accepted solution]

Fusion comes with its own python installation with some standard packagaes and I do not think you can install any new module there. But you can append the path of the locations where numpy is located on your machine using

import sys

sys.path.append(path to numpy)

I understand numpy comes with very good functionality to works with Matrix but if you want to consider, standard python installation comes with csv module to read csv files so you can use that like

import csv

csv.read

[uw115 · Accepted solution]

Thanks for this, in the end, I changed the format of the data coming from my csv file to read the list numbers like a matrix. It would be great to have some more inbuilt functionality in Fusions version of Python that allows us to utilise the greater mathematical computing provided by numpy, but a workaround was found for now. 

Thanks