2019 – A Year in Review

And that's a wrap! 2020 is on the horizon. I wanted to say a big thank you to everyone who has visited the site in 2019, thank you for your support. I run this site as a hobby, generally putting blog posts together on the weekends, usually early on Saturday mornings with a cup of... Continue Reading →

iLogic: Avoiding Errors with LOD’s

If you have ever wanted to suppress a component using iLogic, you may have come up against the error message below. Error in rule: RuleName, in document: XYZ.iam Component.IsActive: Cannot change the suppression state of component ABC:1. The active Level of Detail in XYZ.iam is not a custom Level of Detail. The reason for this,... Continue Reading →

Updated Inventor Starwars Intro

few months back I published the "Creating a Star Wars Intro Scroll in Autodesk Inventor" blog post. This is the updated version, I'm calling it IntroScroller2.0 : In the original post I did not share the files, which a few people have since asked me for, so I thought I would post them, but I also... Continue Reading →

iLogic: Automate Your Print Jobs

Have you ever wanted to use iLogic to print drawings, or create specific printer setups? Look no further, I have converted the Inventor print API sample to iLogic and expanded it to expose additional functions. Using this code you could set up rules for specific print job types, or just for specific printers. The code... Continue Reading →

iLogic – Suppress/Unsuppress and Delete Rules

You may need an easy way to delete, suppress or unsuppress iLogic rules in an Inventor file. Generally you may want to delete internal rules in files, as running rules externally is often better (maybe I'll explain my thoughts in another blog post). Doing this is quite simple, see the line of code below. iLogicVb.Automation.DeleteRule(DocumentName,... Continue Reading →

#AU2019

And that's a wrap. Another AU under the belt. I had such a good time catching up with customers, friends and colleagues from around the world. This year was my 10th, which in itself is mind blowing. I didn't present a class this year, which meant I had a lot more time to enjoy AU.... Continue Reading →

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