Virtual components are one of Inventor’s hidden gems. In an Assembly file, you are able to add these “empty” virtual components into your assembly. The reason you would do this, is that you may have components that you cannot model, which are needed on your BOM, such as grease. These virtual components are fully contained … More Understanding Virtual Components
This blog post is a direct result of a discussion on Twitter! the request was to automatically assign a random colour to a face in an Inventor part. I wrote a little bit of code, loosely based my previous blog post, looking at generating random numbers to create colours. This specific code simply assigns a random … More Set Random Face Colours With iLogic
This is admittedly a bit of a random idea! This blog post shows how to flip a coin using iLogic in Inventor. The idea came from my previous blog post, looking at generating random numbers to create colours. Initially I thought it would be interesting to create a form and to use an enabling parameter … More Heads or Tails in Inventor with iLogic
I ran across a really interesting thread on the Autodesk Inventor ideas station. The feature request is to have a visual style in Inventor that sets every component in an assembly to a unique colour. A comment by Tanner Dant included some VBA code, which creates a new view representation called “Unique Colors” and … More iLogic – Set Every Part to A Different Colour
Have you ever needed to convert a point cloud to mesh data in Autodesk Inventor? While Inventor can import point clouds from Recap, point clouds can be un-usable in some workflows, especially when actual geometry is required to work with. Converting a point cloud to a surface model is currently not possible in 1 piece … More Convert Point Cloud Data to Mesh
As part of my AU London class this year, I am building an electric guitar using the Autodesk Product Design and Manufacturing Collection. For the Class, I have already built the guitar, sculpting the body with hand tools. The initial design starts with a PDF, which is imported into AutoCAD, this geometry is then used … More My First CAM Project in Inventor
Have you ever wanted to automatically create a drawing note on your Inventor drawing based on a pre-defined text file? Look no further, I have written some iLogic code that will place a drawing note on your drawing in a pre-defined position. The note will contain the contents of a text file that you you … More Automate Drawing Notes with iLogic
The “Migrate Settings” tool in Inventor 2020 does a really good job of pulling through most of the settings that you need from Inventor 2019 (or earlier), but it does not bring over any custom iLogic Snippets that you have created. The good news, is that this is really easy to do manually. From any … More Migrate iLogic Snippets Between Versions
Source: Autodesk Inventor 2019.4 is an update that lets you work with others who are on Inventor 2020. This update also makes some changes to the Constraint command. AnyCAD for Inventor Reference Future (newer) Versions of Inventor Part and Assembly Files You can now reference an Inventor 2020 part or assembly file in Inventor … More 2019.4 is live – Open Inventor 2020 files in 2019
Vault 2020 is now available, this release features updates to the Vault Sync tool, as well as Copy Design and some improved functionality around PDF’s. Below are 3 videos highlighting the new features: New features in Project Sync: New Features in Copy Design: 2020 PDF Enhancements:
