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I was recently asked if it is possible to set the precision of the dimensions in a drawing, using iLogic. I did a quick search through the Inventor API and found that there was a sample that provided this functionality. With that in mind, I tidied up the example, and added an array with an... Continue Reading →
I realise that I don't often explain how specific iLogic code works, so I thought I'd offer a bit more of an explanation in this post. I've written a simple iLogic rule that opens the drawing of a model in Inventor. This iLogic utility uses a nested "Try, Catch, End Try" statement. If you are... Continue Reading →
A client recently asked me if I could help them with a request from an end user. They wanted to see the mass of their part and assembly files in Vault. A secondary requirement was to see this same information in the Vault web client. I figured a simple iLogic rule would suffice. However, a... Continue Reading →
I converted an Inventor API sample for creating detail views to iLogic. Initially it took me 2 minutes, and I had the code working well, but the sample code is for a detail view with a rectangular boundary, as shown below. I don't use the rectangular version, so I spent a good 30 minutes figuring... Continue Reading →
I was looking through the Inventor API samples and I came across some code for applying "Break Views" in the Inventor drawing environment. The API sample works quite well, so I thought I would adapt it to work with iLogic and add some additional functionality to make it more useful. My code adds in view... Continue Reading →
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 →
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 →
Inventor 2021 now comes with a dark theme. Along with the dark theme, the Inventor API samples were updated with a new code sample for switching themes. I converted the initial VBA code sample to iLogic, and it works really well, the code builds a list of available themes (see my thoughts below about this),... Continue Reading →
One of the most dreaded tasks I had, when working in a drawing office was my weekly time sheet. I hated it, and the thing I found most difficult was remembering what I had worked on, and when. Because of this, I have written an iLogic utility to help with time sheets. But before I... Continue Reading →
I was looking through some of my old iLogic code recently, and I ran across a utility that I wrote, which places a work point at the centre of gravity (COG), of an assembly model. I believe that the code was broadly based on an API sample for creating a work point based on 3... Continue Reading →
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