I heard you need the SDK for it,but autodesk doesn't seem to provide one for VS2017.....or do you not need it to load and render fbx models?

This article from Microsoft seems to indicate it should work as 2017 is binary compatible with 2015 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/porting/binary-compat-2015-2017

Mileage on this might vary though because MS sometimes does break compatibility even within a VS release cycle.

You could also quit the SDK and use libraries like Assimp to do the work

Assimp doesn't work well with FBX files

22 hours ago, NightCreature83 said:

This article from Microsoft seems to indicate it should work as 2017 is binary compatible with 2015 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/porting/binary-compat-2015-2017

Mileage on this might vary though because MS sometimes does break compatibility even within a VS release cycle.

So it works just fine ?

21 hours ago, ongamex92 said:

Assimp doesn't work well with FBX files

Maybe you could elaborate? I've been using it without any major issues.