Fusion 360 Blog by @ClintBrown3D
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 →
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 →
The new Autodesk Vault mobile app has a built in Barcode Scanner with is really handy. You may be wondering what exactly you can use it for. I've found that the app works with QR codes and Barcodes. Barcodes are really easy to implement into your workflows, as certain types of barcodes are fonts. In... Continue Reading →
I adapted an API sample to work with iLogic. This utility removes assembly appearance overrides in your assemblies, as shown below. Here's the code: Public Sub RemoveAssemblyOverrides() ' Get the active assembly document. Dim asmDoc As AssemblyDocument Set asmDoc = ThisApplication.ActiveDocument ' Iterate through the objects that have an override. Dim obj As ComponentOccurrence For... Continue Reading →
By Jhoel Forshav For this blog post I thought I’d share the code for an iLogic tool I’ve written to easily find the names of control definitions. I’ve seen on the Inventor Customization Forum that users from time to time ask about the these names in order to execute them through the CommandManager (ThisApplication.CommandManager.ControlDefinitions(”ControlDefinitionName”).Execute). So,... Continue Reading →
Have you ever wanted to delete orphaned or unattached dimension on an Inventor drawing? The good news, is that it's really easy to do, and Autodesk have provided a sample VBA program to do this in the API help files. I've converted this to work with iLogic, see the GIF below: Here's the iLogic code... Continue Reading →
Starting November 2, 2020, Autodesk is expanding access for all customers (on subscription and maintenance plans) to the latest release and up to 5 versions back. Check out the full details here. Please Note: Although Autodesk are expanding access to 5 versions back, only the current and 3 versions back will be eligible for Autodesk technical support.
Several months back, I created an iLogic routine that will delete all mates & joints in an assembly, and ground all of the components. I was asked if I could do something similar for a client. The requirement was to supress all mates and joints, then ground all of the components in the assembly. The... Continue Reading →
I recently saw a question, where an Inventor user wanted to open a drawing from a model, using iLogic. The code below will achieve this, the trick here is that your model (.ipt or .iam) needs to be saved first, so that it has a file name for iLogic to use. Here's the code, it... Continue Reading →
Autodesk have now retired Configurator 360, meaning that if you want to configure Inventor files in your browser, you will need to move to Forge, and specifially the Design Automation API for Inventor. To help move you over to Forge, Autodesk have published open source code on Github which will allow developers on Forge to... Continue Reading →
