Over the years I have written several iLogic utilities for various customers, primarily to force users to fill in iProperties and ensure that model materials are correctly set. The "iProperty Helper", is different, it's a simple dialogue that displays the current iProperties of the model, clicking on a specific iProperty in the list (eg. Part... Continue Reading →

A while back, I wrote a little utility to clear part file appearance overrides. I have since updated the code and thought it was worth sharing again on the blog. The original code ran through the model and cleared overrides as expected, but needed an "Undo Wrapper" to help with undoing the command in the... Continue Reading →

This blog post is something that I have been wanting to share for some time, it is definitely a topic that should be given some serious consideration when creating iLogic configurations. What exactly am I on about? When creating Assembly and Drawing files in Inventor, there is the potential to create several thousand files every... Continue Reading →

I saw a thread on Reddit, where someone asked how to "show both Imperial and Metric steel sizes in a Parts List" I initially replied with a single line of iLogic, but this got me thinking. I've written an iLogic utility that lets users specify an alternative value for each of the members in their... Continue Reading →

Autodesk Inventor's BoM environment is a really useful tool for understanding the composition of Assembly files, but the one thing it does not offer, is the total Mass of the assembly. To remedy this, I have written some iLogic code to create a virtual component, the Mass of the Assembly is written to a custom... Continue Reading →

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 →

I wrote a blog post a few weeks back, talking about Suppressing/Unsuppressing & deleting iLogic rules, and I got asked on Reddit if this could be applied to Assemblies and Components too. The short answer was yes, the tricky part was including some code to handle custom Levels of detail, which I've done in the... Continue Reading →