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AnyShortcut

AnyShortcut is an Autodesk® Fusion 360™ add-in for easily assigning keyboard shortcuts to commands where it is not usually possible to assign a shortcut*. It also has some built-in commands for Fusion 360™ commands that cannot easily be capture and run without some extra tweaking (e.g. Look At Sketch).

If you get any problems, please check out the section on Fusion 360 quirks.

Built-in Commands

The built-in commands are always visible in the AnyShortcut menu. Assign shortcuts to them in the usual way.

Built-in commands include:

• Look At Sketch
• Look At Selected or Sketch
• Activate (containing) Component
• Move history marker backwards/forwards
• View orientation
• Repeat last command

Recording

When enabled, the add-in records the resulting commands of actions that the user performs and collects them in the AnyShortcut menu. The commands in the menu can then be assigned shortcut keys in the regular way.

If not stopped, the recording stops automatically after a number of commands, to avoid any performance degradation when the user is not setting up shortcuts.

* Not all actions in Fusion 360™ result in "Commands" and some commands are not usable on their own. For example, Pick Circle/Arc Tangent does not generate a "Command" and Roll History Marker Here is triggered when clicking rewind in the history, but rewind actually first selects an item and then rolls.

Usage

To set up a shortcut:

• Click Start recording and then perform the command you want to create a shortcut for
• If you are lucky, the command will now have appeared at the bottom of the AnyShortcut menu.
• Find the command in the menu and click the three dots to assign a shortcut as usual.

To remove a shortcut, follow the same procedure. Hint: You can press the shortcut to trigger the command to be run and make it appear in the recorder.

Fusion 360 Quirks

Be aware of the following quirks in Fusion 360™.

• Even though you've added a shortcut, it might not show up next time you restart Fusion 360™. However, the shortcut still works and you see it if you open Change Keyboard Shortcut. (You can also verify using KeyboardShortcutsSimple)

• Fusion 360™ cannot handle all key combinations. Forget Alt+Left to rollback history, because Fusion 360™ cannot save this combination and it will be broken next time you start Fusion 360™.

• Menu items in sub-menus are not always clickable (bug). However, you don't need to be able to click the commands to map a shortcut!

Supported Platforms

• Windows
• Mac OS

Installation

Download the add-in from the Releases page.

Unpack it into API\AddIns (see How to install an add-in or script in Fusion 360).

Make sure the directory is named AnyShortcut, with no suffix.

The new menu TOOLS -> ANYSHORTCUT is now available.

The add-in can be temporarily disabled using the Scripts and Add-ins dialog. Press Shift+S in Fusion 360™ and go to the Add-Ins tab.

Ideas for commands to map

Here is a table of some commands that can be interesting to map.

Command	Notes
Rename, in the timeline	Let's you select an item in the timeline and press F2 to rename it. I have not found any way to do this in the browser.
Look at (bottom toolbar)	Select a face and orient the view normal to it. I have not found any way to tell it to "Look at" the current.
Isolate
Find in Browser
Find in Window
Activate Component	Works in the Browser and in the 3D space, but you must have selected a component in 3D space, not a body or a face.
Remove	Opposed to Delete, Remove appears as a timeline feature.
Simulate or other workspace	Easily switch to a workspace.

Finding out what keys you have mapped

See KeyboardShortcutsSimple.

Reporting Issues

Please report any issues that you find in the add-in on the Issues page.

For better support, please include the steps you performed and the result. Also include copies of any error messages.

Author

This add-in is created by Thomas Axelsson.

License

This project is licensed under the terms of the MIT license. See LICENSE.

More Fusion 360™ Add-ins

My Fusion 360™ app store page

All my add-ins on Github

Changelog

• v 1.1.2
  • Fix selecCmd error for Look At commands. #12
• v 1.1.1
  • Fix disabled Record button after Fusion 360™ update.
• v 1.1.0
  • New custom icons for Look At, Activate and timeline actions.
• v 1.0.3
  • Promote Record/Stop button to toolbar. Remove no-op AnyShortcut button.
• v 1.0.2
  • Enable Run on Startup by default.
• v 1.0.1
  • Fix issue #1: No options under AnyShortcut in the plugins tab on Mac
• v 1.0.0
  • Fix Autodesk® app store review items
    • Promote menu to top-level
    • Icons that show intent
    • Fix Activate Component for root-level entities
  • Rename Tracker to Recorder
• v 0.4.2
  • Change license to MIT
  • Avoid creating a settings file (not used)
• v 0.4.1
  • Fix Repeat command
  • Avoid getting commands picked in Repeat command
• v 0.4.0
  • Restructured menus
  • Repeat last command
• v 0.3.0
  • View orientation commands
  • Fusion quirks info