Guest Post by Jelte de Jong Have you ever wanted assign specific profiles in your flat pattern to a custom layer before exporting them to DXF? I have been working on updating an Inventor add-on which we use at work. The tool exports sheet metal flat patterns to our CAM software. I did not write the … More iLogic: Setting Extra Layers In DXF Exports

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 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

Guest Post by Jelte de Jong Maybe you know the situation, you have 2 versions of a part. You changed something but can’t find what it was.  In those situations I spend a lot of time looking for the difference. Just to find the hole that was moved 1mm. Should I have this problem more often, … More Compare Part Geometry with iLogic – Guest Post

Guest Post by Jelte de Jong Over the years, I have created several assemblies containing many parts with various iLogic rules, generally they work perfectly. But sometimes for seemingly no reason, an edge case will not work as expected, and is usually discovered by a colleague. The challenge is that I then need to find … More One Rule to Search Them All – Guest Post