I’ve written an iLogic rule that gathers the names of all of the internal rules in a file, and then shows them on an input list box. The user can run any rule on the list by clicking on the rule in the list. This could be quite useful for users, as it could pop … More iLogic – Run Rules From a List
This is more of a quick tip than a blog post, but it’s certainly worth sharing, as it may save you some time. Have you ever wanted to open the location of the file you are working on? I was about to publish this blog post, when I got an email from my regular guest … More iLogic – Open File Location
Guest Post by M Veldkamp Here’s a solution to a problem that isn’t really a problem. You want to take screenshots of your model for a presentation, but your inventor background is a blue gradient. You can of course go through the hassle of changing your settings manually but why bother if you can do … More iLogic – Quick Background Toggle Rule
If you use AutoCAD, Revit, Inventor, Fusion360, Vault, or pretty much any of the main stream Autodesk products, you will have at some stage used an Autodesk cloud service. To help understand any planned maintenance or outages, Autodesk have created a “Health Dashboard”, which shows the current status of all cloud services, as well as … More Autodesk Cloud Services Up-time Dashboard
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?)
