This is a work in progress and mostly serves as a scratch pad for my work.
Use it at your own peril!
It provides a mechanism to export all bodies within the open project to STL files.
Incomplete and untested (I think you get the gist now...)
It will create a folder at the path specified and write all objects to this folder.
Appends a common prefix to all output file names. This is useful for multiple exports of parameteric models eg:
- 50x50_
- 30x30_
- Super_Final_last_version_
As above. Appends a common suffix to all output file names
Will rename bodies with a default name Body1, Body2, etc based on the name of the parent component. If the component with the name SomePart only has a single body, the output file name would be SomePart.stl (assuming there are is no prefix or suffix). If there is multiple bodies, a number will be appended after the name SomePart_1.stl SomePart_2.stl
Overwrites any body names with those of the parent component name. Workflow is then identical to Rename Default bodies
n.b. The incremental number applied to each component name is removed, :1 :2 :3 etc. This means, if you have multiple copies of the same name in your design, these will overwrite each other
When enabled, any pre-existing files in the output location with the same file name will be overwritten
Ignore hidden bodies, Ignore hidden components
With these enabled, you can restrict the output by toggling component visibility. This means you can quickly select which parts you want to export by toggling the 'light bulb' at the component or body level.
Particularly useful for sassemblies with multiple configurations, tool bodies or other projections that you may not wish to export.
It also facilitates exporting all bodies in a parametric design whilst keeping the view less congested by turning off some of the generated bodies.
- Download this repo and unzip it somewhere.
- In Fusion, goto TOOLS > ADD-INS > Scripts and Add-Ins (or just hit Shift+S)
- Next to "My Scripts", hit the green plus icon
- Select the folder where you unzipped it
- "Exporter" should now appear under "My Scripts"
- Goto Scripts and Add-Ins
- Select Body Exporter from "My Scripts"
- Hit Run. It will take a second to display the options panel as it is fetching your list of projects.
After selecting your options and hitting okay, your fusion360 instance will be unusable. The script will be potentially opening and exporting a lot of bodies. It will do this as a background process though.
This is my first fusion360 so I hope these notes help anyone else getting started with generating or modifying a plugin You will need VSCode installed to modify and debug Fusion360 plugins
- Goto Scripts and Add-Ins
- Select Body Exporter from "My Scripts"
- Hit Edit. This will open the script in your editor and attach a remote debugger automatically. You can then launch the script with breakpoints by pressing 'F5'. It can be a little flakey though Detailed documentation on the API, including sample code can be found here: https://help.autodesk.com/view/fusion360/ENU/?guid=GUID-A92A4B10-3781-4925-94C6-47DA85A4F65A
This program actively generates files based on several naming levers. There is a risk of overwriting files, or bodies being skipped if they share an identical name with another body
There is also a bug with components nested inside other components.
It is not doing any modifications to component features, sketches or parameters.
Andrew Van Dam https://MOAMindustries.com
Based on the work by aconz2 https://github.com/aconz2/Fusion360Exporter