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With the release of Autodesk Inventor 2020, there is a fresh new user interface. Along with a brighter "skin", all of the icons have been re-engineered, making them sharper on 4K displays. But the highlight has to be that more features are moving to the browser interface, or "property panel UI" In Inventor 2020, Extrude,... Continue Reading →
A nice new feature in Autodesk Inventor 2020 is the ability to customise Section Capping. When creating half, quarter and 3 quarter sections in parts and assemblies, you are now able to change the default grey (concrete looking) section to a bitmap image in your application options. Note that although the feature is called "Bitmap... Continue Reading →
In a previous life, I used to design rotationally moulded fuel tanks for Automotive OEM's. A big part of the job was squeezing as much extra capacity into the tanks. Usually, I would calculate the volume before shelling the model, and then again after shelling the model. The difference between these 2 numbers is the... 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 →
Inventor has a decent set of tools available for checking component interference, but what about running an interference check on the entire model with one click? I have adapted one of the Inventor API samples to work with iLogic, the code iterates through an assembly and highlights the interfering parts. The animated GIF below shows... Continue Reading →
I've written a bit of iLogic code for a rather niche problem in Autodesk Inventor, but it is something that you may come up against at some stage, or something I may need to refer back to in the future! When Inventor drawings are copied, particularly during a "File > Save As > Save Copy... Continue Reading →
Have you ever wondered what the difference between IDW & DWG file formats in Inventor are? Do you have a preference for IDW over DWG? I'm a big fan of the DWG format, and I highlight 3 reasons that I think DWG is better in this post, but I also show the drawbacks.
I have written a tool that generates colours for Inventor based on the RAL, Pantone and Munsell standards. The idea, is that instead of having a full library of all of the colours (over 4000) from these standards, a user can generate the colour needed on demand, and then choose to add this to their... Continue Reading →
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