#InventoriLogic

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iLogic: Export Flat Patterns of iPart Members to DXF

iLogic: Export Flat Patterns of iPart Members to DXF

By Bhavik Suthar I have written an iLogic utility to export the flat patterns of all the members of an iPart to DXF. The code automates the process of creating DXF flat patterns, saving the DXF with the instance member name as the file name in the same location as the original iPart. Here is the iLogic Code: 'iLogic code By Bhavik Suthar 'Originally posted on https://clintbrown.co.uk Dim oDoc…

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25 iLogic Routines to Speed Up Drawing Creation

25 iLogic Routines to Speed Up Drawing Creation

Creating engineering drawings can sometimes seem tedious, but drawings are one of the most important parts of any design. In fact, your drawing is the contract with the manufacturer, an agreement that contains all the specifications and key dimensions that your product will be manufactured to. That is a great reason to automate workflows making drawings easier and faster to create. Over the last…

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iLogic: Export Custom iProperties Of All iPart Instances

iLogic: Export Custom iProperties Of All iPart Instances

By Dutt Thakar I recently found a question on the Autodesk forums, where a user wanted to export the custom iProperties of all iPart instances to an excel document. I have found two ways to do this this. The first, is to scan the iPart Author table, get the data from it and then copy this to an Excel file. This method is faster because Inventor just needs to capture the data from the Excel…

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iLogic Quick Tip: Get IP Address

iLogic Quick Tip: Get IP Address

I have a Vault server on my laptop, I connect to it via a second PC or via the Vault mobile App. I tend to use the IP address as the server name, because it works well with the mobile app. The problem is that my IP address changes each time I reboot the laptop. Firing up the command prompt and typing in “ipconfig” every time is tedious, so I wrote an iLogic utility to get the IP address and copy…

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Best Wishes & A Loft Feature

Best Wishes & A Loft Feature

By Jelte de Jong I wish you all the best for 2021. I hope that we can go back to normal life this year. Today I have a iLogic rule for you that creates an “I” similar to the image above.  Nothing that you can’t find anywhere else on the internet. Just some profiles on a sketch that are extruded. Except for the loft in the Inventor logo. While I was creating this model, I discovered that you…

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Export Flat Patterns iPart: Get Name, Export, Repeat

Export Flat Patterns iPart: Get Name, Export, Repeat

By Jelte de Jong I’ve recently seen several questions from people looking to save or export files automatically.  Questions like “How to perform ‘save a copy as’ PDF for a list of Inventor drawings from an excel?” and “Automate iPart flat pattern export to DXF”. That is why I wrote this post, explaining how you can write your own iLogic export rules. In this post I will try to explain my…

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iLogic - File Open Timer

iLogic – File Open Timer

I thought I’d share an update to an old timer that I wrote a few years back, it was designed to show the difference between opening a file saved on a network drive, versus one stored locally. The original idea, being that using Vault will give a user a much better experience when opening large datasets. But it’s also useful in other cases, for example for checking time savings on large assemblies…

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iLogic Quick Tip: File Open Dialogue

iLogic Quick Tip: File Open Dialogue

If you’ve ever written code that needs to open or import another file, you may find this useful.

When building product configurators, I like to use XML files as a means of storing all of the parameters for a specific “build” of a product, the benefits are that I don’t have to store and manage thousands of files, for the same reason I like to use PDF’s as a snapshot of the drawings, have a look…

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Run iLogic Rules from the Ribbon

Run iLogic rules from your ribbon with this FREE new app for Inventor

I’m extremely excited to talk about a new FREE app that allows you to add iLogic rules to your ribbon in Inventor. The app is called “Button Constructor” and has been built by a regular contributor to this site, Jelte de Jong.

Simply put, you can add your EXTERNAL iLogic rules to your ribbon in Inventor. The app has a simple interface which allows you to add your rules to pretty much anywhere…

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Quick Tip: Run “Before Save” Rule Only Once in Assemblies

Quick Tip: Run “Before Save” Rule Only Once in Assemblies

By Jelte de Jong

In some cases, you want to have a rule that is triggered by the “Before Save” event trigger. For example, to check if the iProperty “Part number” was set. Something like this;

If you do this, you may get unexpected or unwanted results when you save an assembly with lots of parts that are changed. You could end up with many message boxes. One for each part that gets saved in…

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Using Barcodes with Vault Mobile App

Using Barcodes with the Autodesk Vault Mobile App

The new Autodesk Vault mobile app has a built in Barcode Scanner with is really handy. You may be wondering what exactly you can use it for.

I’ve found that the app works with QR codes and Barcodes. Barcodes are really easy to implement into your workflows, as certain types of barcodes are fonts.

In the image below, I am using that 3 of 9 barcode font on my Inventor template file. By using…

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iLogic Quick Tip: Remove Assembly Appearance Overrides

iLogic Quick Tip: Remove Assembly Appearance Overrides

I adapted an API sample to work with iLogic. This utility removes assembly appearance overrides in your assemblies, as shown below.

Here’s the code:

Public Sub RemoveAssemblyOverrides() ' Get the active assembly document. Dim asmDoc As AssemblyDocument Set asmDoc = ThisApplication.ActiveDocument ' Iterate through the objects that have an override. Dim obj As ComponentOccurrence For Each…

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Get Control Definition Names – iLogic Tool

Get Control Definition Names – iLogic Tool

By Jhoel Forshav

For this blog post I thought I’d share the code for an iLogic tool I’ve written to easily find the names of control definitions. I’ve seen on the Inventor Customization Forum that users from time to time ask about the these names in order to execute them through the CommandManager (ThisApplication.CommandManager.ControlDefinitions(”ControlDefinitionName”).Execute).

 So,…

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iLogic Quick Tip: Delete Sick Dimensions

iLogic Quick Tip: Delete Sick Dimensions

Have you ever wanted to delete orphaned or unattached dimension on an Inventor drawing? The good news, is that it’s really easy to do, and Autodesk have provided a sample VBA program to do this in the API help files.

I’ve converted this to work with iLogic, see the GIF below:

Here’s the iLogic code

'This version of iLogic code by @ClintBrown3D, Adpated from the Inventor API samples 'This…

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Autodesk Open Up Access to 5 Previous Versions

Autodesk Open Up Access to 5 Previous Versions

Starting November 2, 2020, Autodesk is expanding access for all customers (on subscription and maintenance plans) to the latest release and up to 5 versions back.

Check out the full details here. 

Please Note: Although Autodesk are expanding access to 5 versions back, only the current and 3 versions back will be eligible for Autodesk technical support.

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iLogic: Supress Constraints & Ground All Components

Several months back, I created an iLogic routine that will delete all mates & joints in an assembly, and ground all of the components.I was asked if I could do something similar for a client. The requirement was to supress all mates and joints, then ground all of the components in the assembly. The second part of the request was the ability to un-ground and unsupress all of the constraints/joints.