Power Tools for Fusion is an Autodesk Fusion add-in that improves team productivity when working with cloud data and assemblies. The Related Data add-in lets teams create parallel workflow documents that reference a single source design — without locking, modifying, or duplicating it.
- Autodesk Fusion with a Team Hub (Commercial, Education, or Start-Up entitlement).
- The add-in installed and loaded in Fusion.
- A templates project and folder set up in your Team Hub. See Create Related Data — Setup.
Note: AnyCAD workflows (referencing non-native files such as SolidWorks) require a Team Hub and a Commercial, Education, or Start-Up entitlement. Personal (free/hobby) entitlements do not support AnyCAD.
Select Related Data Folder is a setup command that registers the cloud folder where your start parts and templates must be located — along with its owning Autodesk Fusion Team Hub and project — with the add-in. Run this command once per hub, per machine.
Run Select Related Data Folder and use Fusion's cloud folder picker to browse to the folder that contains your start parts or templates. The owning hub and project are resolved automatically. No manual ID lookup or JSON editing is required.
Hub configuration is stored in hub.json at the add-in root. Multiple hubs are supported, and the folder must be selected once for each hub. Re-running on a hub that is already configured lets you re-point it to a different folder. To remove a hub, edit hub.json directly.
Location: Quick Access Toolbar → File menu → PowerTools Settings flyout
Create Related Data copies a template from your configured hub's templates folder and inserts the active source document as an external reference inside the new document. The result is a related document — a separate file linked to the original that can be opened, edited, and managed independently.
Key capabilities:
- Select from a list of
.f3dtemplates stored in your hub's templates folder. - New document is auto-named as
<source name> ‹+› <template name>. - Auto-naming can be disabled to provide a custom document name.
- Templates are cached locally after the first run for faster load times.
- The new document is saved in the same folder as the source document.
Location: Design Workspace → Create Panel (Assembly tab and Solid tab)
The add-in is composed of two commands that share a common configuration store.
C4Context
title System Context — Power Tools Related Data Add-in
Person(user, "Fusion User", "Runs add-in commands from the Fusion toolbar")
System_Boundary(addin, "PowerTools Add-in") {
System(configHub, "Select Related Data Folder", "Registers a Team Hub, project, and folder in hub.json")
System(relatedData, "Create Related Data", "Creates a new document from a template with an external reference to the source document")
}
SystemDb(hubJson, "hub.json", "Local configuration file — stores registered hub IDs, project IDs, and folder IDs")
SystemDb(cache, "Template Cache", "cache/[hub-id].json — local cache of available templates per hub")
System_Ext(fusionTeam, "Autodesk Fusion Team", "Cloud data management — hosts hubs, projects, folders, and .f3d documents")
Rel(user, configHub, "Runs once per hub")
Rel(user, relatedData, "Runs to create a related document")
Rel(configHub, fusionTeam, "Browses cloud folders; resolves the owning hub and project")
Rel(configHub, hubJson, "Upserts hub entry by hub id")
Rel(relatedData, hubJson, "Reads hub configuration")
Rel(relatedData, cache, "Reads or writes template list")
Rel(relatedData, fusionTeam, "Fetches templates (cache miss); saves new document")
- Create a templates folder in your Team Hub. See Create Related Data — Step 1.
- Select the related data folder. Run Select Related Data Folder and pick your templates folder in the cloud folder picker. See Select Related Data Folder.
- Create a related document. Open the source document you want to reference and run Create Related Data. See Create Related Data.
This project is released under the GNU General Public License v3.0 or later.
Copyright (C) 2022-2026 IMA LLC.
The shared library at lib/fusionAddInUtils is vendored byte-for-byte identically across all nine PowerTools add-ins. It mixes code under different terms: general_utils.py, event_utils.py, and attributes_utils.py are based on Autodesk, Inc. sample code (distributed under its own license terms — see the source headers); cache_utils.py, date_utils.py, log_utils.py, and upload_utils.py are part of this project (IMA LLC, GPL-3.0-or-later). See each module's source header for details.
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