You may want to run Inventor commands directly in you iLogic code, without having to find and reference them in the API. This is made possible through the "Command Manager" in the API. The Command Manager lets you run any command that is visible in the Inventor interface (and a few hidden commands as well).... Continue Reading →

Autodesk Inventor has an Excellent Bill of Materials (BoM) interface which allows user to create and Export BoM's from the assembly environment. However, if you have an Assembly model that has a mix of normal and sheet metal components, there is no way to distinguish between the 2 part types in the BoM environment. I've... Continue Reading →

Have you ever asked "How do I export all of my iProperties to a text file"? If you have, you've come to the right place. I've written an iLogic utility that will export ALL of the iProperties in an Inventor file to a txt file. Inventor stores 65 iProperties in every file, some of which... Continue Reading →

Some months back, I created the "iLogic Unit Converter" which used an old Autodesk website that is stored on the Internet Archive. It was a nice proof of concept, but was actually not very useful, due to speed issues and the limited number of conversions available. With that in mind, I updated the code to... Continue Reading →

I was looking through some of my site logs, and people have been searching for a way to email their BoM's from Inventor. As I already have the iLogic code for sending emails, and for exporting BoM's this was very easy to put together. I added a small section that allows the user to choose... Continue Reading →

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 →