Doge - Fusion 360 Dogbone Generator Plugin

Doge is a Fusion 360 plugin designed to automate the generation of dogbone features in your CAD models. It has the ability to update created dogebones, when the design or parameters changes.

Motivation?

Fusion 360 has an experimental custom feature API, which would be right tool to do the job. It's broken since it's announcements and is not moving in any direction. As I'm bored of re-creating features, every time I update the model or change the tool diameter, I created this add-in to explore alternative ways of achieving dogbones that update when the design changes.

Usage

Create Dogbones

Press s on the keyboard an type dogebone. Select Create Dogebone. Alternatively use the button in the modify panel
Select relevant faces and enter the tool radius. Expressions are supported as well, so you can dynamically change the radius of the tool.
Click okay

Update dogbones

Whenever the design changes or parameter changes, Fusion won't update the Dogebones by itself.

Press s on the keyboard and type dogebone. Select Update Dogebone and see your design updated.
Be lucky

Installation

To use Doge in Fusion 360, follow these steps:

Install Github to Fusion 360 script
Run the script
Enter https://github.com/it-ony/doge as location

Old fashioned way

Download the latest release.
Unzip to a location, that you'll not delete
Open the add-ins and script panel
Go to add-ins
Click the plus sign
Select the directory where the content is unzipped

Credits

The structure of this code was adapted from Florian Pommerening's Fingerjoint Plugin.
The dogbone algorithm is based on Peter Ludikar's Dogebone Plugin, with contributions from various authors. See the list of contributors.

License

This project is governed by the MIT License. For a comprehensive understanding of the terms and conditions, please refer to the LICENSE file.

You are welcome to utilize, adapt, and distribute this code in your projects while adhering to the MIT License provisions.

it-ony/doge