About the Example Project API
This page, addresses the following:
- What is this API?
- What can it do?
- Who is it for?
- Scope and limitations
- Link to Terms of Service
The following example is from the Fusion Data API. Customize the page with information for your own API. Guidelines are available here: https://wiki.autodesk.com/x/P-7yUQ
The Fusion Data API allows developers to read, write, and extend product design and manufacturing data that is stored in the cloud. These capabilities enable cloud-based workflows that react to data changes, without the need for desktop authoring applications like Fusion 360 or Autodesk Inventor. This GraphQL API exposes queries and mutations to access built-in and custom properties in designs saved to the Fusion Cloud Information Model.
The Fusion Cloud Information Model is your manufacturing design data stored in the cloud, in a granular and accessible way. Through the Fusion Data API, you can read, write, and extend subsets of your design model through cloud-based workflows. All this without the need for desktop authoring applications like Fusion 360 or Autodesk Inventor. Fusion Data adopts similar concepts to the Fusion 360 client API but within a cloud environment.
Common Uses
With the Fusion Data API, you can programmatically access manufacturing information and achieve a variety of cloud-based functionality, such as:
- Navigating hub project folders, through files, all the way down to component properties, and sharing just the right data with collaborators.
- Request only the Fusion cloud data you need through tailored GraphQL queries
- Retrieving the entire model hierarchy at once, eliminating the need to fetch children of an assembly one level at a time.
- Accessing the Bill of Materials of a design, traversing the hierarchy of parts within the model for integration with enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems using unique part identifiers.
- Managing compliance by tracing the latest design data related to engineering workflow approvals, for example: change orders, release data, and automated part numbering.
- Subscribe to specific Fusion cloud data events and be notified via Webhooks when data changes.
Next Steps
- Get started with the Step-by-Step Tutorials .
- Explore Code Samples to discover how the API is used in fully functional applications.
Terms of Service
Fusion Data API is subject to Autodesk Platform Services Terms of Service.
