I ran across a really interesting thread on the Autodesk Inventor ideas station. The feature request is to have a visual style in Inventor that sets every component in an assembly to a unique colour. A comment by Tanner Dant included some VBA code, which creates a new view representation called "Unique Colors" and... Continue Reading →
Convert Point Cloud Data to Mesh
Converting a laser scan to a mesh can be tricky, but there is a great workflow with Recap, Meshlab and Autodeks Inventor.
My First CAM Project in Inventor
As part of my AU London class this year, I am building an electric guitar using the Autodesk Product Design and Manufacturing Collection. For the Class, I have already built the guitar, sculpting the body with hand tools. The initial design starts with a PDF, which is imported into AutoCAD, this geometry is then used... Continue Reading →
Automate Drawing Notes with iLogic
Have you ever wanted to automatically create a drawing note on your Inventor drawing based on a pre-defined text file? Look no further, I have written some iLogic code that will place a drawing note on your drawing in a pre-defined position. The note will contain the contents of a text file that you you... Continue Reading →
iLogic – Delete all Mates/Joints & Ground
Have you ever wanted to delete all of the constraints in an assembly, and then ground all components? Well look no further, the iLogic code in this blog post does exactly that. You may be wondering why you would want to do this, well the answer is simple. Inventor calculates each relationship between parts (especially... Continue Reading →
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