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Author: Adam Nagy

  • Export profile sketch points to CSV

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    There is a Python script part of the Fusion 360 installation that can import points from a CSV file into a spline:We could use the source code of that as a starting point to implement the reverse: export the points of a spline. In this case, however, I’m changing it to export the points of…

  • Level Of Details in next Inventor release

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    As Garin mentioned in this post, one of the new features the team has been working on is Model States. This might have an effect on some of the Level Of Details related functions, events, and properties in the API. If you are using any of those, the best thing to do is join the…

  • Switch to latest VS Code Python extension

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    In the past, you had to stick to a given version of the Python extension in Visual Studio Code in order to edit and/or debug Fusion 360 add-ins with it. Now I've just run into the opposite problem in case of the latest update of Fusion 360: when using that version of the extension (i.e.…

  • Stricter call checks in Fusion 360 API

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    Last time it was the Python compiler that got stricter, in the latest update it's Fusion 360 that got stricter on API calls. Previously, you could get away with trying to set a read-only property – it had no effect but did not cause an error either. This change is good because now you'll get…

  • Fusion 360 JavaScript API support ending this December

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    We stopped fully supporting the JavaScript API a few years ago, but your existing add-ins using it kept running. Not anymore. In December they will stop running, and you need to migrate your add-ins to another programming language: either C++ or Python. See post from product management: Notice: Javascript API is being fully retired Edit:…

  • Generate flat pattern for 3d folded sheet metal files

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    I vaguely remember now seeing this before, but could not recall it when someone asked about it the other day, that Inventor can generate flat pattern for any folded sheet metal model, without having to first create all the related sheet metal features (bend, flange, etc) by hand. In this case I started with opening…

  • Get Named Face of iPartFactory

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    One enhancement in Inventor 2019 was the ability to Assign Name to objects – see iLogic Enhancements I wrote about how you could automate that in Automate creation of Named Geometry This feature is something that you could also use to mark objects in an iPart factory and use that later on to find them…

  • Has higher version than referenced assembly

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    Some assemblies might be relying on a specific higher version of Autodesk.Inventor.Interop.dll than the one your project is referencing. That’s the problem I ran into with Autodesk.iLogic.Core.dll in case of the project talked about here: Get iLogic Form information from Inventor documents My project was working fine, but when I installed the latest Inventor 2020…

  • iMates based shelving unit

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    I wrote about using iMates a few times already, but I thought it could still be worth sharing this model as well that I’m using for a Design Automation API for Inventor sample talked about here. I have 90cm and 180cm corner posts and mid-section posts, and 90cm and 120cm wide shelves to select from:…

  • Reference Key Manager

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    Brian has a very detailed article on Reference Keys (exposed through the ReferenceKeyManager object) and as I was playing with them I thought it could be useful to have a tool for that. So I created an add-in that lets you create Key Contexts and Reference Keys for the various objects, and binding them back…