By Dutt Thakar I’ve written 2 iLogic utilities that I hope you will find useful. The first one rotates a section line at a specified angle. To get it to work, you simply need to edit your section sketch, then add in an angled dimension. In my example this dimension is controlled by parameter “d0”. … More iLogic: Rotating Section Views – Guest Post
You may come across instances where Inventor will not load an add-in or a DLL, this is sometimes manifested in an error message, or a function just not working. When installing Inventor, it should always be done with the UAC turned right down, with the user logged on as an Administrator, and with the anti-virus … More Run Inventor As Administrator
If you’ve ever copied an Inventor assembly using Vault, or other methods, you may have noticed that your iLogic code no longer works as expected. This is most likely because the file names of the component instances have changed in the browser. In the image below, I have a small assembly (left), it has been … More iLogic Normalise Browser Nodes – With Code
I saw a forum post in the Inventor Customisation forum and I thought I should share some iLogic code that I use for the getting and setting user parameters. It’s pretty simple, but really effective. The code adds all user parameters to an Array, which it then presents to the user in the form of … More iLogic: Get & Set User Parameters
I needed a quick way to suppress and unsuppress mates and joints, or constraints and joints in assembly files, so I wrote a quick utility to do just that. Below is an animated GIF showing the code in action: The iLogic code checks that it is in an assembly file, then presents the user with … More iLogic: Toggle Mate & Joint Suppression
I was asked if it was possible to format the BoM export from Inventor’s assembly environment, similar to the way that parts lists are formatted in drawings. I wrote some code to do this, below is an animated GIF showing the code in action: My solution was to build an iLogic utility that does the … More Export Formatted Parts List with iLogic
I’ve been doing a bit of work on an iLogic configurator and I thought it would be useful to share some code that I have been using for quite some time. Often when creating configured products, the dimensions on the sheet move, and need some tidying up. This iLogic utility centres all of the dimensions … More iLogic – Centre & Arrange Dimensions
I was recently asked if it is possible to set the precision of the dimensions in a drawing, using iLogic. I did a quick search through the Inventor API and found that there was a sample that provided this functionality. With that in mind, I tidied up the example, and added an array with an … More Setting Dimension Precision with iLogic
I realise that I don’t often explain how specific iLogic code works, so I thought I’d offer a bit more of an explanation in this post. I’ve written a simple iLogic rule that opens the drawing of a model in Inventor. This iLogic utility uses a nested “Try, Catch, End Try” statement. If you are … More iLogic: Using Try – Catch to Open Drawings
A client recently asked me if I could help them with a request from an end user. They wanted to see the mass of their part and assembly files in Vault. A secondary requirement was to see this same information in the Vault web client. I figured a simple iLogic rule would suffice. However, a … More Vault: Display Mass – Client or Web
