Category: Fusion
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Fusion 360 Affiliate Program
Are you a huge fan of Autodesk Fusion 360? Do you have a robust community or following that trusts your opinion on software (and other things)? The Fusion 360 Marketing Team has a lucrative proposal for you: join our affiliate program! Affiliate marketing is a process by which an affiliate earns a commission for selling…
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Important info if your add-in uses pyc files
Fusion 360 is migrating to a newer engine of Python and it will make your add-in fail if it's relying on compiled Python files (*.pyc) For more info see https://help.autodesk.com/view/fusion360/ENU/?guid=GUID-36B1FFB5-5291-4532-8F11-90E912769B34 -Adam
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Export driven joint values
In certain workflows, it can come handy to get the values of joints at multiple states of the model.This way you can use those values downstream to drive (or at least help set up) a real-life model. In the user interface, you can drag components to drive the movement of the model, or use e.g.…
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Log debug messages in Fusion 360
The usual way to debug your Python add-in is to start it from Visual Studio Code, and use print() to write messages to the Debug Console: However, sometimes you might just want some insight into what’s going on inside your add-in without starting a debugging session. One obvious way is to write information into a…
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Export profile sketch points to CSV
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…
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Switch to latest VS Code Python extension
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.…
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Stricter call checks in Fusion 360 API
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…
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Fusion 360 JavaScript API support ending this December
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:…
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Fusion 360: JavaScript API is being fully retired
By Sajith Subramanian The end of support for the JavaScript API was announced a couple of years ago. However, so far any scripts or add-ins that were written using the JavaScript API have continued to run. Please note that this is set to change, and as of the December release of Fusion 360 they will…
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Using Entitlement API from Fusion 360
<?xml encoding=”UTF-8″>By Sajith Subramanian If you have an app on the Autodesk App Store then you might want to check if the user actually paid for and downloaded your app from the store or just copied it from someone else’s computer. This what the Entitlement API can help you with. This article will focus on…
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