The help system for Fusion 360 was recently temporarily offline and as a result many of you saw the 404 message displayed above. For those of you using the API, you know how critical access to the help system is. When I was responsible for creating the Fusion 360 API help, the help system that …
There was a recent question on the Fusion 360 Customization forum about using an RGB value to set the color of a body. Fusion 360 only allows you to assign an appearance to a body, occurrence, or face. You can’t just assign an RGB value but you can assign an appearance that is the color …
Some of you may know that I’ve been writing the Shaper Utilities app that allows you to export Fusion 360 designs to be used with the new Shaper Origin router. For those of you not familiar with the Shaper Origin router, it’s a new handheld CNC router that is unique in the power tool marketplace. …
In the December 2017 update of Fusion 360, a capability referred to as “Temporary B-Rep” was added to the API. This is one of those features that when you first see it you might say, “why would I ever use that?”. It is a feature that’s not used very often but when you do need …
Unlike Inventor, Fusion 360 doesn’t support the ability to create a spline based on an equation. However, using the Fusion 360 API you can create close approximations of equation curves. You do this by creating a spline through a series of points. You write code that uses the equation to define the X, Y, and Z …