Autodesk-Fusion-360-for-Linux: FUSION_IDSDK doesn't work anymore *Solved*

@alextrical That .desktop looks decent to me though I haven’t had the chance to try that part myself. Perhaps try quoting the path with spaces following wine. That solved it.

We have lift off 🚀, Mime type desktop definition is now up and running ^_^

Complete code Proof Of Concept (Minimal clean code, re-run does a clean re-install/update, customize install location by changing the top line, but No UI) to get a Working up to date install with Login below, Tested to work on Ubuntu, running Wine 9.0 (you need at least 8.14, the script will check and warn, though it should probably raise an error to stop the install in the future)

export env ROOTFOLDER=~/.fusion
mkdir {$ROOTFOLDER,$ROOTFOLDER/wineprefixes,$ROOTFOLDER/Downloads}
rm -r $ROOTFOLDER/wineprefixes/default
export env WINEPREFIX=$ROOTFOLDER/wineprefixes/default
export env WINEDEBUG=fixme-all #Hide the fixme messages intended for Wine developers
SP_FUSION360_INSTALLER_URL="https://dl.appstreaming.autodesk.com/production/installers/Fusion%20Admin%20Install.exe"
SP_WEBVIEW2_INSTALLER_URL="https://github.com/aedancullen/webview2-evergreen-standalone-installer-archive/releases/download/109.0.1518.78/MicrosoftEdgeWebView2RuntimeInstallerX64.exe"

#Wine version checking, warn user if their wine install is out of date
WINE_VERSION="$(wine --version  | cut -d ' ' -f1 | sed -e 's/wine-//' -e 's/-rc.*//')"
WINE_VERSION_MINIMUM=8.14
if (( $(echo "$WINE_VERSION < $WINE_VERSION_MINIMUM" | bc -l) )); then
    echo "Your version of wine ${WINE_VERSION} is too old and will not work with Autodesk Fusion. You should upgrade to at least ${WINE_VERSION_MINIMUM}"
fi

#Install required Font, the Navigation bar will not work without this font.
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Winetricks/winetricks/master/src/winetricks -O $ROOTFOLDER/Downloads/winetricks
chmod +x $ROOTFOLDER/Downloads/winetricks
$ROOTFOLDER/Downloads/winetricks arial
wine winecfg -v win10

#Remove tracking metrics/calling home
wine REG ADD "HKCU\Software\Wine\DllOverrides" /v "adpclientservice.exe" /t REG_SZ /d "" /f
#Navigation bar does not work well with anything other than the wine builtin DX9
wine REG ADD "HKCU\Software\Wine\DllOverrides" /v "AdCefWebBrowser.exe" /t REG_SZ /d builtin /f
#Use Visual Studio Redist that is bundled with the application
wine REG ADD "HKCU\Software\Wine\DllOverrides" /v "msvcp140" /t REG_SZ /d native /f
wine REG ADD "HKCU\Software\Wine\DllOverrides" /v "mfc140u" /t REG_SZ /d native /f

cat > $ROOTFOLDER/Downloads/NMachineSpecificOptions.xml << EOL
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16" standalone="no" ?>
<OptionGroups>
  <BootstrapOptionsGroup SchemaVersion="2" ToolTip="Special preferences that require the application to be restarted after a change." UserName="Bootstrap">
    <driverOptionId ToolTip="The driver used to display the graphics" UserName="Graphics driver" Value="VirtualDeviceDx9"/></BootstrapOptionsGroup>
</OptionGroups>
EOL

#Download and install WebView2 to handle Login attempts, required even though we redirect to your default browser
wget -N $SP_WEBVIEW2_INSTALLER_URL -P $ROOTFOLDER/Downloads
wine $ROOTFOLDER/Downloads/MicrosoftEdgeWebView2RuntimeInstallerX64.exe /install #/silent

#Download latest Admin Install, only if the file has changes since last time we connected to the server
wget -N $SP_FUSION360_INSTALLER_URL -P $ROOTFOLDER/Downloads

#Extract the icon from the installer, this will give the latest icon without breaking any distribution licenses
wrestool -x --output=$ROOTFOLDER/Downloads/Fusion360.ico -t14 "${ROOTFOLDER}/Downloads/Fusion Admin Install.exe"

#Install the application, the UI doesn't work for us, so install in the background. Could do with tracking folder size to get a progress bar for the user here
wine $ROOTFOLDER/Downloads/Fusion\ Admin\ Install.exe --quiet

mkdir -p "${ROOTFOLDER}/wineprefixes/default/drive_c/users/$USER/AppData/Roaming/Autodesk/Neutron Platform/Options"

cp $ROOTFOLDER/Downloads/NMachineSpecificOptions.xml "${ROOTFOLDER}/wineprefixes/default/drive_c/users/$USER/AppData/Roaming/Autodesk/Neutron Platform/Options"

#Disable Debug messages on regular runs, we dont have a terminal, so speed up the system by not wasting time prining them into the Void
sed -i 's/=env WINEPREFIX=/=env WINEDEBUG=-all env WINEPREFIX=/g' "$HOME/.local/share/applications/wine/Programs/Autodesk/Autodesk Fusion.desktop"

#Cleanup any shortcuts created we dont want, though they seem to work well now
#rm -f "$HOME/.config/menus/applications-merged/wine-Programs-Autodesk-Autodesk Fusion.menu"
#rm -rf "$HOME/.local/share/applications/wine/Programs/Autodesk/Autodesk Fusion.desktop"

#Create mimetype link to handle web login call backs to the Identity Manager
cat > $HOME/.local/share/applications/adskidmgr-opener.desktop << EOL
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=adskidmgr Scheme Handler
Exec=env WINEPREFIX="$ROOTFOLDER/wineprefixes/default" wine "C:\Program Files\Autodesk\webdeploy\production\99249ee497b13684a43f5bacd5f1f09974049c6b\Autodesk Identity Manager\AdskIdentityManager.exe" %u
StartupNotify=false
MimeType=x-scheme-handler/adskidmgr;
EOL
xdg-mime default adskidmgr-opener.desktop x-scheme-handler/adskidmgr

@cryinkfly Working proof of concept to get the latest Fusion installed and allowing logins. Still need to get the link association working for the link callback. Thank you for making me aware that Wine had fixed the bug we reported. It looks like Wine 8.14 or above are all safe to use (Currently I’m using Wine 9.0)

Edited: to fix Mimetype issues, Fully working install script and login

export env ROOTFOLDER=~/.fusion
mkdir {$ROOTFOLDER,$ROOTFOLDER/wineprefixes,$ROOTFOLDER/Downloads}
rm -r $ROOTFOLDER/wineprefixes/default
export env WINEPREFIX=$ROOTFOLDER/wineprefixes/default
export env WINEDEBUG=fixme-all #Hide the fixme messages intended for Wine developers
SP_FUSION360_INSTALLER_URL="https://dl.appstreaming.autodesk.com/production/installers/Fusion%20Admin%20Install.exe"
SP_WEBVIEW2_INSTALLER_URL="https://github.com/aedancullen/webview2-evergreen-standalone-installer-archive/releases/download/109.0.1518.78/MicrosoftEdgeWebView2RuntimeInstallerX64.exe"

#Wine version checking, warn user if their wine install is out of date
WINE_VERSION="$(wine --version  | cut -d ' ' -f1 | sed -e 's/wine-//' -e 's/-rc.*//')"
WINE_VERSION_MINIMUM=8.14
if (( $(echo "$WINE_VERSION < $WINE_VERSION_MINIMUM" | bc -l) )); then
    echo "Your version of wine ${WINE_VERSION} is too old and will not work with Autodesk Fusion. You should upgrade to at least ${WINE_VERSION_MINIMUM}"
fi

#Install required Font, the Navigation bar will not work without this font.
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Winetricks/winetricks/master/src/winetricks -O $ROOTFOLDER/Downloads/winetricks
chmod +x $ROOTFOLDER/Downloads/winetricks
$ROOTFOLDER/Downloads/winetricks arial
wine winecfg -v win10

#Remove tracking metrics/calling home
wine REG ADD "HKCU\Software\Wine\DllOverrides" /v "adpclientservice.exe" /t REG_SZ /d "" /f
#Navigation bar does not work well with anything other than the wine builtin DX9
wine REG ADD "HKCU\Software\Wine\DllOverrides" /v "AdCefWebBrowser.exe" /t REG_SZ /d builtin /f
#Use Visual Studio Redist that is bundled with the application
wine REG ADD "HKCU\Software\Wine\DllOverrides" /v "msvcp140" /t REG_SZ /d native /f
wine REG ADD "HKCU\Software\Wine\DllOverrides" /v "mfc140u" /t REG_SZ /d native /f

cat > $ROOTFOLDER/Downloads/NMachineSpecificOptions.xml << EOL
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16" standalone="no" ?>
<OptionGroups>
  <BootstrapOptionsGroup SchemaVersion="2" ToolTip="Special preferences that require the application to be restarted after a change." UserName="Bootstrap">
    <driverOptionId ToolTip="The driver used to display the graphics" UserName="Graphics driver" Value="VirtualDeviceDx9"/></BootstrapOptionsGroup>
</OptionGroups>
EOL

#Download and install WebView2 to handle Login attempts, required even though we redirect to your default browser
wget -N $SP_WEBVIEW2_INSTALLER_URL -P $ROOTFOLDER/Downloads
wine $ROOTFOLDER/Downloads/MicrosoftEdgeWebView2RuntimeInstallerX64.exe /install #/silent

#Download latest Admin Install, only if the file has changes since last time we connected to the server
wget -N $SP_FUSION360_INSTALLER_URL -P $ROOTFOLDER/Downloads

#Extract the icon from the installer, this will give the latest icon without breaking any distribution licenses
wrestool -x --output=$ROOTFOLDER/Downloads/Fusion360.ico -t14 "${ROOTFOLDER}/Downloads/Fusion Admin Install.exe"

#Install the application, the UI doesn't work for us, so install in the background. Could do with tracking folder size to get a progress bar for the user here
wine $ROOTFOLDER/Downloads/Fusion\ Admin\ Install.exe --quiet

mkdir -p "${ROOTFOLDER}/wineprefixes/default/drive_c/users/$USER/AppData/Roaming/Autodesk/Neutron Platform/Options"

cp $ROOTFOLDER/Downloads/NMachineSpecificOptions.xml "${ROOTFOLDER}/wineprefixes/default/drive_c/users/$USER/AppData/Roaming/Autodesk/Neutron Platform/Options"

#Disable Debug messages on regular runs, we dont have a terminal, so speed up the system by not wasting time prining them into the Void
sed -i 's/=env WINEPREFIX=/=env WINEDEBUG=-all env WINEPREFIX=/g' "$HOME/.local/share/applications/wine/Programs/Autodesk/Autodesk Fusion.desktop"

#Cleanup any shortcuts created we dont want, though they seem to work well now
#rm -f "$HOME/.config/menus/applications-merged/wine-Programs-Autodesk-Autodesk Fusion.menu"
#rm -rf "$HOME/.local/share/applications/wine/Programs/Autodesk/Autodesk Fusion.desktop"

#Create mimetype link to handle web login call backs to the Identity Manager
cat > $HOME/.local/share/applications/adskidmgr-opener.desktop << EOL
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=adskidmgr Scheme Handler
Exec=env WINEPREFIX="$ROOTFOLDER/wineprefixes/default" wine "C:\Program Files\Autodesk\webdeploy\production\99249ee497b13684a43f5bacd5f1f09974049c6b\Autodesk Identity Manager\AdskIdentityManager.exe" %u
StartupNotify=false
MimeType=x-scheme-handler/adskidmgr;
EOL
xdg-mime default adskidmgr-opener.desktop x-scheme-handler/adskidmgr

Latest Fusion install as of 4th Jan 2024 on Wine 9.0

The only thing left to do is get the .desktop file setup for the Mime Type association, something like this, but still not working quite right

cat > $HOME/.local/share/applications/adskidmgr-opener.desktop << EOL
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=adskidmgr Scheme Handler
Exec=env WINEPREFIX="/home/alextrical/.wfusion360/wineprefixes/default" wine C:\\\\Program\\ Files\\\\Autodesk\\\\webdeploy\\\\production\\\\99249ee497b13684a43f5bacd5f1f09974049c6b\\\\Autodesk Identity Manager\\\\AdskIdentityManager.exe %u
StartupNotify=false
MimeType=x-scheme-handler/adskidmgr;
EOL
xdg-mime default adskidmgr-opener.desktop x-scheme-handler/adskidmgr

Autodesk can’t even update fusion without problems…

I still hold out hope - and do my own tinkering to solve the various issues when I can. Fuion360 is the only reason I still use Windows, and this project lets me untether from that sometimes, which I deeply appreciate.

Somehow I can’t shake the feeling that every workaround that the community and I find here to get this program running under Linux will be invalidated with every new update. When I imagine how well the program ran at the beginning or when it was founded with this project here on Github and what was broken by all these updates… It’s kind of a shame… Because it just takes more and more time…

Maybe someone should write a temporary warning in the README of this project so people trying to install f360 don’t go through the pain I went through

But all in all I’m so glad this community exists that’s fighting the idiosyncrasy of MS

Victory! I have the latest 2024 release running (v.2.0.18220).

(Disclaimer: All of these shenanigans can break easily on different systems. Things mentioned here may be outright incorrect for your system, so you may have to fiddle around ~a bit~ a lot.)

There are three potential problems along the road to getting the new login flow (AdskIdentityManager) to work, which come up in this order:

1. Lack of support for the legacy CAPIPRIVATEBLOB in the bcrypt.dll implementation in older Wine versions
2. Issues with Edge WebView2
3. Passing the “login response” base64 value from the web-based login interface back to AdskIdentityManager.exe

1. CAPIPRIVATEBLOB

Symptom: You click the login button in the Autodesk Fusion GUI, but absolutely nothing else appears except for the text near the button telling you to look at your web browser.

Resolution: Use a Wine version that is new enough to include this commit.

When resolved: A small dialog now pops up telling you that Edge WebView2 is not installed when you click the login button.

2. WebView2

Symptom: The small dialog tells you that Edge WebView2 is not installed. You try to use the Evergreen Standalone Installer from Microsoft’s website, but the newest version (121.0.2277.98 currently) hangs indefinitely on the “installing” phase.

Resolution: Use version 109.0.1518.78 of the Evergreen Standalone Installer, from before Microsoft broke something around fall 2023. It should hopefully run and succeed.

When resolved: A web browser (native Chromium for me!?!) should pop open with the login window upon clicking the login button in the Fusion GUI.

3. Login response

Symptom: Clicking the button in the browser that is supposed to “return you to the Fusion application” after login does nothing.

Resolution:

Right-click on that button in the browser, copy the URL, and notice that it’s a custom protocol which is meant to be handled by AdskIdentityManager.exe. It has the format adskidmgr:/login?code={bunch of base64}.

Usually, the Windows registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\adskidmgr\shell\open\command would tell the system to invoke AdskIdentityManager.exe and pass it that exact URL as an argument. But since this link is in a native Linux browser (at least for me), of course xdg-open has no idea what to do with the custom URL protocol.

The proper way to handle this is to use a .desktop file to define the adskidmgr: protocol, and get xdg-open to start up Wine for AdskIdentityManager.exe. In my case, to quickly prove that it works, I just manually-executed AdskIdentityManager.exe with that copied URL, while Fusion was open and waiting for the login to complete.

This looked something like the following:

"C:/Program Files/Autodesk/webdeploy/production/99249ee497b13684a43f5bacd5f1f09974049c6b/Autodesk Identity Manager/AdskIdentityManager.exe" "adskidmgr:/login?code={bunch of base64}"

When resolved: The open Fusion GUI window instantly changes to the logged-in splash screen when you run that AdskIdentityManager.exe command “behind its back”.

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Footnote: I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where applications install a whole 100MB+ web browser just to make some call that pops open an existing browser installed on the machine…

Alright so it turns out that the .desktop file that @alextrical made doesn’t work, so to login I inspected the login button and got the URL:

adskidmgr:/login?code=kfeIty8io0Wr-SCPg7Pi2sXFbNkCCHXj0XxQOKvc&state=VzRPelVCUnJDVXRsVlJJZ0FSYnY1clJJS01IZTdkWHAuM3hURTF2dW5sbWJueWRCeS1MdElBQWh5VEFaN0FqM3pSRlh1LUswV29Lby51c2VyLXByb2ZpbGUlM0FyZWFkJTIwdXNlciUzQXJlYWQlMjB1c2VyJTNBd3JpdGUlMjB2aWV3YWJsZXMlM0FyZWFkJTIwZGF0YSUzQXJlYWQlMjBkYXRhJTNBd3JpdGUlMjBkYXRhJTNBY3JlYXRlJTIwZGF0YSUzQXNlYXJjaCUyMGJ1Y2tldCUzQWNyZWF0ZSUyMGJ1Y2tldCUzQXJlYWQlMjBidWNrZXQlM0F1cGRhdGUlMjBidWNrZXQlM0FkZWxldGUlMjBjb2RlJTNBYWxsJTIwYWNjb3VudCUzQXJlYWQlMjBhY2NvdW50JTNBd3JpdGUlMjBvcGVuaWQlMjBkZXZpY2Vfc3NvLnVzZV9hbHRlcm5hdGl2ZV9wcm9kdWN0X3BhdGg=

Which i then manually ran adskIdentityManager.exe with:

env ROOTFOLDER=~/.fusion360 WINEPREFIX=/home/farouk/.fusion360/wineprefixes/default WINEDEBUG=fixme-all wine /home/farouk/.fusion360/wineprefixes/default/drive_c/Program\ Files/Autodesk/webdeploy/production/99249ee497b13684a43f5bacd5f1f09974049c6b/Autodesk\ Identity\ Manager/AdskIdentityManager.exe “adskidmgr:/login?code=kfeIty8io0Wr-SCPg7Pi2sXFbNkCCHXj0XxQOKvc&state=VzRPelVCUnJDVXRsVlJJZ0FSYnY1clJJS01IZTdkWHAuM3hURTF2dW5sbWJueWRCeS1MdElBQWh5VEFaN0FqM3pSRlh1LUswV29Lby51c2VyLXByb2ZpbGUlM0FyZWFkJTIwdXNlciUzQXJlYWQlMjB1c2VyJTNBd3JpdGUlMjB2aWV3YWJsZXMlM0FyZWFkJTIwZGF0YSUzQXJlYWQlMjBkYXRhJTNBd3JpdGUlMjBkYXRhJTNBY3JlYXRlJTIwZGF0YSUzQXNlYXJjaCUyMGJ1Y2tldCUzQWNyZWF0ZSUyMGJ1Y2tldCUzQXJlYWQlMjBidWNrZXQlM0F1cGRhdGUlMjBidWNrZXQlM0FkZWxldGUlMjBjb2RlJTNBYWxsJTIwYWNjb3VudCUzQXJlYWQlMjBhY2NvdW50JTNBd3JpdGUlMjBvcGVuaWQlMjBkZXZpY2Vfc3NvLnVzZV9hbHRlcm5hdGl2ZV9wcm9kdWN0X3BhdGg=”

And finally it worked !!

Thanks to @alextrical you’re great

I’m currently rebuilding the script! 😅

Update: @alextrical I have added your code in an adapted form! 🥇

And then the whole thing flows into the Python installer version.

Somehow, Wine was complaining a nonsense error (saying that WINEPREFIX wasn’t an absolute path, while it definitely was). I ended up changing the mime-type association to just Exec=echo %u, and start my browser in a console, so that I could see the argument passed to AdskIdentityManager.exe. Then I started the latter by hand with that argument. Worked like a charm!

@cryinkfly Credit also should go to @aedancullen without their posts I wouldn’t have been able to create the proof of concept script.

I’m glad that you where able to use that as a basis to merge into the main repo

Good point, Possibly an idea to put in the discussion, some sort of health check when the install is run, for when outages like this inevitably happen again in the future.

Edit: I’m pretty much of the M$ platform, at least for personal use and collaborative community projects (I work with M$ Azure for a Day job) The only tools left that keep me using a remote workstation in the loft running Server 2019 (was Fusion 360) Some data recovery tools, the odd hardware/HDD configuration tool that only works with windows, STL repair tools such as Prusa Slicer(For repair via Autodesk Netfabb) and Photoshop, on the days I cant quite get Kritta to behave for my needs. (still trying to move over to fully FLOSS aplications)

Hi there, I’m trying to make it work with the link provided by fusion 360 : https://developer.microsoft.com/fr-fr/microsoft-edge/webview2/?form=MA13LH#download So far, I’ve copied the Evergreen Standalone Installer x64 in the winepath, and tried running the following:

WINEPREFIX=/home/myuser/.fusion360/wineprefixes/default wine 'C:\Users\myuser\Downloads\MicrosoftEdgeWebView2RuntimeInstallerX64.exe'

But I’m stuck with a WebView2 Runtime waiting screen, endlessly…

Any tips?

Its not going to work due to this crap is trying to download something and it fails to do so. I am trying to integrate cab version but have to recreate register entries.

Imagine 273mb installer which still needs to download something while cab is litter smaller and theoretically have everything. Only microsh*t can do stuff like that.