Hi I’ve made a suggestion on a autodesk forum and am looking for support - it is for an enhancement to do boxes natively in fusion 360
Fusion 360 - Looking for votes
Sounds good.
I’d rather have the nested DXF export though. That would be dead handy!
You should try contacting the author of http://www.makercase.com/ and ask him if he would transform the tool into a fusion360 plugin.
Unfortunately the Fusion API documentation is not accessible anymore and I can’t find any references online otherwise this would have been a really nice project for building a plugin
Edit: I found the documentation or its back up. Pretty interested in trying to write a plugin if you want to work together. First for me will be to start learning a bit of python and try to build a simple plugin
Thanks, I’ll have a look at that.
Now it’s just extracting the dxfs that’s a real pain. I have been doing a lot of design for laser cutting recently on a range of workshop tooling, and pulling the profiles as dxfs takes ages. At least with the metal bits my laser cutting contractors can worry about doing the nesting!
This is the api documentation
http://help.autodesk.com/view/fusion360/ENU/?guid=GUID-A92A4B10-3781-4925-94C6-47DA85A4F65A
What you looking for is a script that export dxf from sketch
So a good starting point for script
http://help.autodesk.com/view/fusion360/ENU/?guid=GUID-9701BBA7-EC0E-4016-A9C8-964AA4838954
And if I remember correctly I might I’ve seen something to do automatic export in the sample http://help.autodesk.com/view/fusion360/ENU/?guid=GUID-DE98632B-3DC0-422B-A1C6-8A5A15C99E11
note: it might be for bodies to STL but with a bit of tweaking you might be able to loop through the body select the sketch with a specific naming convention e.g. “dxf_blabla” and convert to dxf
there are add in’s but they are clunky and resource intensive in my view and experience
Nice Box for the box and map boards for nested stuff are the best I have found to date
however for reliability and performance reasons I feel that these belong in fusion itself i.e natively hence logging it on there (autodesk’s) site
I found this useful for kerf adjustment: https://apps.autodesk.com/FUSION/en/Detail/Index?id=7634902334100976871
It doesn’t create the finger joints for you though.
I think you are missing the point of user created plugin, they would allow you to get what you need much faster and demonstrate that other are using the feature. Yes performance is questionable but that’s not the MVP (minimal viable product) performance is never the MVP of a feature.
Furthermore they also define specific use case that Autodesk product owner can relate to, in relation to the roadmap of feature to be implemented. So if the plugin or script is widely use and there is high number of vote for the feature to be implemented natively this will support your request otherwise it’s tough bet to take on.