Is there a way to translate a Fusion 360 model to Inventor without creating an App?

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I assume that the above steps are to be followed to translate a Fusion 360 model to an Inventor model.

I find it very inconvenient to create an App for the sole purpose of translating a Fusion 360 model to Inventor. I would like to avoid creating such an App.

Is there a way to translate/export a Fusion 360 model to Inventor without creating an App or without using the interactive web interface? If there is, can you please answer with the steps and/or point to a place where I can find that information?

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited Aug 23 '16 at 23:04

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There is a confusion here - the Autodesk Forge API is not meant to translate from Fusion360 to Inventor today (as August 22nd, 2016). We may add this possibility later, but Fusion360 can import from/export to Inventor native. Checkout this post for more details, it contains a lot of details on how to import or export as well as the format supported. Hope that helps,

edited Aug 23 '16 at 23:04

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answered Aug 22 '16 at 21:26

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That seems to be an interactive process. Is there a way to do that using a script? – R Sahu Aug 22 '16 at 21:34
Fusion360 has a C++/Python/Javascript API. I am not very familiar with the Fusion360 API, so I'll ask my colleague to come back with an answer – cyrille Aug 24 '16 at 11:16
That will be great. – R Sahu Aug 24 '16 at 17:05

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 25 '16 at 17:25

Unfortunately, converting a Fusion 360 model to Inventor file format is only possible interactively on the A360 website at the moment.

Fusion 360 does have an API (see ExportManager object) but it only exposes those file formats which the desktop app can convert to directly, and are available through File >> Export:

Converting from Fusion 360 to Inventor file format might be possible through the Forge API's later on, but still, you'd have to register an App on the Forge developer site in order to use it.

Is there a way to translate a Fusion 360 model to Inventor without creating an App?

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