By Dutt Thakar I’ve written 2 iLogic utilities that I hope you will find useful. The first one rotates a section line at a specified angle. To get it to work, you simply need to edit your section sketch, then add in an angled dimension. In my example this dimension is controlled by parameter “d0”. … More iLogic: Rotating Section Views – Guest Post
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 Tanner Dant I recently came across a new challenge while working in Inventor. By default, Inventor does not include ASME standard clearances in the hole command, and I needed to use them for my project. A little internet sleuthing showed me a way to add data to the hole command dialog, and … More Setting Up ASME Standard Hole Clearances
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
Guest Post by Sarah Manning In this blog post, I’m going to show you 8 ways to access and edit iProperties in Autodesk inventor, I’ve focused this primarily on parts and assemblies, but the concept is very similar across other file types too. Also check out the section at the end for tips on editing your … More 8 Ways to Edit iProperties – Guest post
Guest Post by Sarah Manning Thanks for checking out my first Inventor guest blog, this is a “Quick Tip”, I hope you find it useful. Inventor users might find it difficult to locate specific commands which seem hidden away under drop downs, or expanded menus. For instance the “Move Bodies” and “Bend” commands, are tucked … More Inventor – Expanded Menu Quick Tip
This is more of a quick tip than a blog post, but it’s certainly worth sharing, as it may save you some time. Have you ever wanted to open the location of the file you are working on? I was about to publish this blog post, when I got an email from my regular guest … More iLogic – Open File Location
Guest Post by M Veldkamp Here’s a solution to a problem that isn’t really a problem. You want to take screenshots of your model for a presentation, but your inventor background is a blue gradient. You can of course go through the hassle of changing your settings manually but why bother if you can do … More iLogic – Quick Background Toggle Rule
