Fusion 360 Cloud API

Interact with Fusion 360 through Autodesk Platform Services APIs.

Authentication

import requests

# OAuth 2.0 authentication
def get_token(client_id, client_secret):
    url = "https://developer.api.autodesk.com/authentication/v2/token"
    data = {
        "grant_type": "client_credentials",
        "client_id": client_id,
        "client_secret": client_secret,
        "scope": "data:read data:write"
    }
    response = requests.post(url, data=data)
    return response.json()["access_token"]

Data Management API

import requests

headers = {"Authorization": f"Bearer {token}"}

# List hubs
response = requests.get(
    "https://developer.api.autodesk.com/project/v1/hubs",
    headers=headers
)

# Get project contents
response = requests.get(
    f"https://developer.api.autodesk.com/data/v1/projects/{project_id}/folders/{folder_id}/contents",
    headers=headers
)

Model Derivative API

import requests

# Start translation job
job_payload = {
    "input": {"urn": base64_urn},
    "output": {
        "formats": [{"type": "svf2", "views": ["2d", "3d"]}]
    }
}

response = requests.post(
    "https://developer.api.autodesk.com/modelderivative/v2/designdata/job",
    headers=headers,
    json=job_payload
)

Design Automation API

# Create work item for Fusion operations
work_item = {
    "activityId": "YourApp.YourActivity+prod",
    "arguments": {
        "inputFile": {"url": input_url},
        "outputFile": {"url": output_url, "verb": "put"},
        "params": {"width": 100, "height": 50}
    }
}

response = requests.post(
    "https://developer.api.autodesk.com/da/us-east/v3/workitems",
    headers=headers,
    json=work_item
)

Download/Upload Files

# Download file
response = requests.get(download_url, headers=headers)
with open("model.f3d", "wb") as f:
    f.write(response.content)

# Upload file (signed URL)
with open("model.f3d", "rb") as f:
    requests.put(upload_url, data=f)

Rate Limits

• Standard: 100 requests/minute
• Burst: 500 requests/minute
• Handle 429 responses with exponential backoff