Open files direct from the Web or hard drive.

[HughesTooling]

Fusion has a demo script OpenFileFromWeb that does exactly what it says. If you find the script's folder on your hard drive there's an html file that allows you to open\insert files directly into Fusion. If you copy the html file to a directory that doesn't change when Fusion updates you can open the file in Chrome and run any time. I'll put a version of the file in the next post in this thread you can test. If you paste the link below into the imput field in the post below and click Open in Fusion the file is opened without going through the trouble of manually downloading.

https://forums.autodesk.com/autodesk/attachments/autodesk/453/1012/1/temp.f3d

  If you want to open\insert files from your hard drive you need to paste the full path and file name.

Mark

[HughesTooling · Accepted solution]

URL or full path to a local file:


Open in Fusion 360

Insert in Fusion360

Insert in Fusion360 without move

Insert in Fusion360 without fit

Insert in Fusion360 without move or fit

[daniel_lyall]

very good Mark it start fusion as well

[HughesTooling]

Here's a copy of the html file for anyone who'd rather run it from their hard drive so it's always available. Extract the html file and save to your hard drive then a double click should open it in your browser.

Mark

[Anonymous]

Can it only be accessed by hard drive.

[HughesTooling]

The file is just an html script. Where do you want to use it, you could incorporate it in any web page.

[Anonymous]

A hard drive matters a lot when we talk about data recovery or backup.

[Anonymous]

Dear Mark, 

I tried several times with a file on my desktop and several errors appeared, as " not correct zip file" or other which made so that I can't open any local file using this kind of path :

C:/Users/Desktop/interieur_boitier_videv1.f3d 

Would you have any help for that ?

Thanking you by advance,

Alex

[TrippyLighting]

Which OS and browser are you using ?

[Anonymous]

Hi,

Windows 7 - 64 bits and crhome browser

[TrippyLighting]

You may be better of asking this in the API section o the Forum. I am wondering if Windows 7 supports that.

I've personally tested that this works on mcOS Sierra with Chrome and Safari and on Windows 10 with Chrome and Edge.

Here's a link to the documentation the describes this in detail. Make sure your HTML is encoded properly. The little utility at the end of the documentation page is very helpful in getting that done.

[Anonymous]

Very informative thread.