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 →

Setting Up ASME Standard Hole Clearances

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... 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 →

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 →

Inventor – Expanded Menu Quick Tip

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... Continue Reading →

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