I was fortunate enough to visit Autodesk University in Las Vegas this year, and I had a really good time networking with industry peers, meeting my new colleagues from our European teams, and catching up with a few key Autodesk folks. My favourite classes and meetings at AU, are always the ones that I can’t … More Autodesk University 2018 Review
There are some really good blog posts out there by Shaan Hurley and Paul Munford with tips for attending AU, please give them a read. This blog post, is my top 3 survival tips. If you are lucky enough to be travelling to Autodesk University in Las Vegas this year, you may want to include the … More 3 Tips to Survive Autodesk University
Quick Sunday Morning blog post! The title is not very snappy, but conditional suppression in Inventor is really powerful. Any feature in an Inventor Part file can be suppressed, based on the value of a parameter. To set the suppression, simply right-click on the feature that you wish to control, then choose “Properties”. In the … More Conditional Feature Suppression in Autodesk Inventor
I found some code on a forum showing how to handle mouse events in iLogic. Using the mouse selection code, I decided to write a bit of iLogic to show iProperties, for parts selected in an Assembly file. In the code, I have set the selection filter to “Part”, the default is “Component”, this means that … More iProperty Tool-Tip with iLogic
Any flat face in Inventor can be exported directly to DXF (or DWG), with a right-click. This makes the creation of parts like gaskets very simple, or if you need to quickly create a DXF for laser or water jet cutting. Your sketches used to create features can also be exported as DXFs. In a … More Inventor: Quick DXF Export From Faces & Sketches
Quick Tip: To change the zoom direction in Autodesk Inventor, simply click “Tools” > “Application Options” > “Display” then toggle the check box under “Zoom Behaviour” to set the direction of zoom.
Quick Sunday blog on forcing, or setting your Inventor document units, with iLogic. Last week, I spent some time with Autodesk Inventor users, who have had a few issues with imported files, or files supplied by others. This can be anything from the wrong units, to a preference for Grams over Kilograms on Metric files. … More Force Unit Type with iLogic
I’ve written some code to automatically create drawings from Autodesk Inventor part and assembly files. The idea that I used for this blog post was to have a drawings template file set up with views, and to then simply replace these views with a given model as needed. The GIF below shows how the code … More Automatic Drawings with iLogic
Have you ever wanted to delete all of the constraints in an assembly, and then ground all components? Well look no further, the iLogic code in this blog post does exactly that. You may be wondering why you would want to do this, well the answer is simple. Inventor calculates each relationship between parts (especially … More iLogic – Delete all Mates/Joints & Ground
I had a browse through the Inventor API documentation, and came across a sample for using the new “Browser Search” functionality. I converted it to iLogic and made a few tweaks. When used in conjunction with a user parameter and an iLogic form, there is some nice functionality that you can use with Inventor. The … More Inventor: Search with iLogic
