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 →
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 →
iLogic: Setting Extra Layers In DXF Exports
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? Click me for HD version 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.... Continue Reading →
iLogic: Unexpected Results
Guest Post by Jelte de Jong If you have read any of my blogs post before, you'll know that I like to challenge myself to solve other Inventor user's problems. I usually find these problems on the Inventor Customization Forum. A while back, I came across an interesting problem. This user wanted to change the iProperties... Continue Reading →
Show Changed Dimensions When Opening Drawings
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)... Continue Reading →
iLogic: Show Flat Pattern Orientation
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... Continue Reading →
Compare Part Geometry with iLogic – Guest Post
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,... Continue Reading →
One Rule to Search Them All – 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... Continue Reading →
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