This blog post a bit of a throwback to a few years ago, it’s based on a very old unit converter that was hosted on Autodesk’s website. The idea of this blog post, is an iLogic rule to fire up the unit converter inside of Inventor, as shown in the animation below. To make this … More iLogic Unit Converter
Following on from my last blog post about progress bars, I thought it would be appropriate to create something that uses a progress bar. This progress bar journey started when I first played with the Inventor API sample for exporting 3D PDF’s. When converted to iLogic, there is no progress bar, and because the 3D … More iLogic – Export 3D PDF with Progress Bar
I’ve previously shared a blog post on how to hack the Inventor Progress bar in iLogic. But sometimes this can be quite a lot of work (to code), or the process that you are showing a progress bar for, does not have any steps to iterate through, which makes the official progress bar tricky to … More Simple iLogic Progress Bar
Back in 2015, I wrote a blog post detailing some best practice around calculating assembly surface areas for paint or coatings, sadly this post has disappeared from the interwebs, but I did include a reference to it in my AU London class “Need for Speed: 102 Productivity Hacks for Inventor” The Area iProperty of an … More Assembly Surface Areas & an iLogic Hack
If you have been looking to automate the export of BoM’s from Inventor to Excel, or CSV, you’ve come to the right place. I’ve adapted the Inventor API sample to work with iLogic, and added a few tweaks to give the user some input around the export. When the iLogic code is run, it checks … More Enhanced BoM Export With iLogic
Guest Post by M Veldkamp Last time I talked about iLogic and Forms. This time I want to discuss errors and error handling. Like I’ve mentioned before, I made a rule that grew and grew and grew. Right now it’s over 1900 lines and it’s getting hard to track which user makes which errors sometimes. It … More Let’s Talk About iLogic Errors (& GDPR?)
Have you ever wanted to export all work points in a part file out to CSV or TXT file? Well look no further! This is some pretty old code that I have had kicking about for some years, the reason I had not released it until now, is that it contained a small bug, … More Export Points to CSV or TXT with iLogic
I wrote 2 iLogic utilities to help users with the creation of mirrored part files, and their accompanying drawings. The first iLogic utility creates a mirrored version of a part file, and saves it with the suffix “_Mirror” (to the same location as the original). It works quite well and handles multi-body solids too. … More Mirror Part and Drawing with iLogic
It is really easy to download CAD files from the internet, and it’s even easier to copy and paste iLogic code from online forums. For the most part this is generally not an issue, however, there is a chance that malicious code could be embedded in iLogic rules, or in code that automatically launches when … More iLogic Security: Are You Safe?
A few months back I created an iProperties Tool-Tip for Inventor Assembly files. The tool sets the selection filter to “Part Priority” and then displays a set of iProperties for that part. The original blog post can be found by clicking on the image below: New and improved: I recently found myself working on a … More IMPROVED: iProperty Tool-Tip with iLogic
