Menu option and capability in Manufacturing Workspace

[hcb1968]

Hi,

I'm doing CNC machining of various parts from sheets of plywood.

I use the Fusion 360 arrange command to lay out the parts on the sheet. I would then like to create a sketch over the plywood sheet and project the outlines of all the parts for locations. Then I can create text objects and thought I could use the {_.component} parameter to extract the component name.

This works in Design but not in the Manufacturing workspace as there is no menu item.

I can't use the design workspace as there are over 250 components which would require a sketch for each...

Would it be easy enough to add it to the Manufacturing workspace?

Thoughts?

[thomasa88]

Hi,

I did a quick test by adding a keyboard shortcut to the menu item, but the dialog failed on the Manufacturing workspace not having user parameters:

My general impression is that the Design workspace has been the focus for add-in support from Autodesk. However, who knows?
How do you create a sketch with a text in the Manufacturing workspace? I have never used it.

I see that CAM (which seems to be the name for Manufacturing workspace in code) has support for "attributes", which the add-in uses for storing the text parameters. One thing that is a bit worrying is that I don't see "Components" being accessible from CAM in code, which I think is needed to have Sketches and in turn SketchTexts.

[magnus863]

Hi Thomas88
Parametric text was working in the cam workspace but stop working about a year ago when autodesk did a update to fusion.
I also used a keybord shortcut then to start parametric text in cam workspace .
I do a lot off serial numbers engrave so today i use parametric text but have to go bethen design and cam workspace...