Guest Post by Jelte de Jong The other day I had a look at the “Inventor Ideas” forum. I came a cross the following topic “Show Changed Dimensions when Opening Drawings”. (link) Last week someone requested this function in inventor but as it turns out that exactly the same function was also requested in 2017. (link) … More Show Changed Dimensions When Opening Drawings
Guest post by Tanner Dant I recently came across a new challenge while working in Inventor. By default, Inventor does not include ASME standard clearances in the hole command, and I needed to use them for my project. A little internet sleuthing showed me a way to add data to the hole command dialog, and … More Setting Up ASME Standard Hole Clearances
Guest Post by Jelte de Jong At the company that I work for, we make products that are almost entirely composed of sheet metal parts. We cut and bend our products ourselves, we export our flat patterns out, to be used in our CAM software. When preparing flat patterns for export, I sometimes get confused, as … More iLogic: Show Flat Pattern Orientation
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Inventor 2020.3 is an update that lets you work with others who have upgraded to Inventor 2021, using Inventors’ AnyCAD engine. In an assembly, you can reference in 2021 part and Assembly files. You must have Inventor 2020.3 installed to support opening 2021 part and assembly files. Inventor 2020.3 can be downloaded via the Autodesk desktop … More 2020.3 is live – Open Inventor 2021 files in 2021
Inventor 2021 now comes with a dark theme. Along with the dark theme, the Inventor API samples were updated with a new code sample for switching themes. I converted the initial VBA code sample to iLogic, and it works really well, the code builds a list of available themes (see my thoughts below about this), … More iLogic Theme Switcher
One of the most dreaded tasks I had, when working in a drawing office was my weekly time sheet. I hated it, and the thing I found most difficult was remembering what I had worked on, and when. Because of this, I have written an iLogic utility to help with time sheets. But before I … More Time Sheet Helper for Autodesk Inventor
Inventor 2021 has had a major overhaul of the way it handles Revit files. The AnyCAD updates to Inventor 2021, mean that Revit files can be referenced into Inventor assemblies, and any changes that happen to the Revit file, are updated in Inventor through the AnyCAD engine. Working with Architectural data is now easier than … More Inventor 2021 – Revit Interoperability
I was looking through some of my old iLogic code recently, and I ran across a utility that I wrote, which places a work point at the centre of gravity (COG), of an assembly model. I believe that the code was broadly based on an API sample for creating a work point based on 3 … More Create a Point at the Centre of Gravity with iLogic
Steve Cox of Amfori and I have collaborated on an open-source Visor Injection mould. The files are all available at the bottom of this post. Please feel free to download the files, share them around and share the results with the community, please get in touch if you make any changes, or get this to … More Open-source Visor Mould
