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This blog post is a direct result of a discussion on Twitter! the request was to automatically assign a random colour to a face in an Inventor part. I wrote a little bit of code, loosely based my previous blog post, looking at generating random numbers to create colours. This specific code simply assigns a random... Continue Reading →
This is admittedly a bit of a random idea! This blog post shows how to flip a coin using iLogic in Inventor. UPDATE: There is a new version that uses a 3D Coin in an Inventor .IPT; available here. The idea came from my previous blog post, looking at generating random numbers to create colours.... Continue Reading →
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 →
Converting a laser scan to a mesh can be tricky, but there is a great workflow with Recap, Meshlab and Autodeks Inventor.
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 →
I often need to update my out of office, based on what I am up to, and generally it is something that gets left to the last minute. The messages are often a variation on a theme, depending on what I am doing, and where I am. With this in mind, I thought I would... Continue Reading →
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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