By Jelte de Jong I wish you all the best for 2021. I hope that we can go back to normal life this year. Today I have a iLogic rule for you that creates an "I" similar to the image above. Nothing that you can’t find anywhere else on the internet. Just some profiles on a... Continue Reading →
Export Flat Patterns iPart: Get Name, Export, Repeat
By Jelte de Jong I’ve recently seen several questions from people looking to save or export files automatically. Questions like “How to perform 'save a copy as' PDF for a list of Inventor drawings from an excel?” and “Automate iPart flat pattern export to DXF”. That is why I wrote this post, explaining how you can... Continue Reading →
2020 Milestones – Thank you
2020 could reasonably be described as an awful year. But there were a few small highlights. This year our site's traffic increased exponentially, we had our first month with over 12 000 views and reached a milestone of 100 000 views in 2020. Considering the content is rather niche (mainly iLogic), I think this is... Continue Reading →
iLogic – File Open Timer
I thought I’d share an update to an old timer that I wrote a few years back, it was designed to show the difference between opening a file saved on a network drive, versus one stored locally. The original idea, being that using Vault will give a user a much better experience when opening large... Continue Reading →
iLogic Quick Tip: File Open Dialogue
If you've ever written code that needs to open or import another file, you may find this useful. When building product configurators, I like to use XML files as a means of storing all of the parameters for a specific "build" of a product, the benefits are that I don't have to store and manage... Continue Reading →
Fusion Lifecycle Quick Tip: BoM Unit Precision
On a recent training course, I was asked if the default display of BoM quantities in the Fusion Lifecycle "Bill of Materials" workspace could be changed. Out of the box, all quantities are displayed with a decimal place, for example 3.0. In this instance the quantities would always be whole numbers, below is the workflow... Continue Reading →
Run iLogic Rules from the Ribbon
I'm extremely excited to talk about a new FREE app that allows you to add iLogic rules to your ribbon in Inventor. The app is called "Button Constructor" and has been built by a regular contributor to this site, Jelte de Jong. Simply put, you can add your EXTERNAL iLogic rules to your ribbon in Inventor.... Continue Reading →
Quick Tip: Run “Before Save” Rule Only Once in Assemblies
By Jelte de Jong In some cases, you want to have a rule that is triggered by the “Before Save” event trigger. For example, to check if the iProperty “Part number” was set. Something like this; If you do this, you may get unexpected or unwanted results when you save an assembly with lots of parts... Continue Reading →
Fusion Lifecycle Quick Tip: Logo Manager
Did you know that you can add your company logo to your Fusion Lifecycle tenant? There are 2 logos that you can add, one that is displayed on all pages, just below the title bar, and a larger logo on the login page. To get to the Logo manager, navigate to "Administration" and "System Configuration"... Continue Reading →
Autodesk Vault: Instant Document Previews
On a recent training course, a delegate pointed out a nifty setting in Vault, which allows for documents to be previewed without having to click on them twice, I thought I’d share it here 🙂 Let me explain… Several releases ago, if you clicked on any file in Vault, if the preview tab was active,... Continue Reading →
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