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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 →
The "Migrate Settings" tool in Inventor 2020 does a really good job of pulling through most of the settings that you need from Inventor 2019 (or earlier), but it does not bring over any custom iLogic Snippets that you have created. The good news, is that this is really easy to do manually. From any... Continue Reading →
If you use "Virtual Parts" in your assemblies, you probably find yourself creating the same parts over and over. This quick blog post shares some iLogic code to create "Virtual Parts" from an Input List Box. The contents of this Input List Box are created from an Array which you can edit to suit your... 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 clear all of the face appearance overrides in a part model? Below is some iLogic code that resets all of the faces an Inventor part model. Here is an animation showing the code at work: Below is the iLogic code: 'Original Code by @ClintBrown3D posted at https://clintbrown.co.uk/ilogic-reset-faces On Error... Continue Reading →
A quick blog post on hacking the progress bar in iLogic
Clint Brown 
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