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Ilogic - Add Standard Virtual Parts From a Text File
Issue:You have a number of standard Virtual parts that you find yourself adding over and over. You'd like to have the ability to add them based on a predefined list.Solution:Here is an example iLogic...
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Inventor HSM Express – The Free CAM Solution for Inventor Users – Beta...
Issue:You're looking for an integrated CAM solution to use with Autodesk Inventor.Potential Solution:Check out the Inventor HSM Express Beta tools.From the Autodesk CAM Team:The Autodesk CAM Team has...
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Ilogic - Add Standard Virtual Parts From an Excel File
Issue:You have a number of standard Virtual parts that you find yourself adding over and over. You'd like to have the ability to add them based on a predefined list.You saw the post about adding these...
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Use 3D Solid Edges for Frame Generator Selection
Issue:You use the Frame Generator tools in Autodesk Inventor all of the time, but you find that creating the base 3D sketch is tedious, time consuming, and doesn't always take edits well. Is there...
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iLogic: How to learn Inventor's Application Programming Interface (API)
Issue:You've been somewhat successful using iLogic code examples that you find online, but you'd really like to learn how to create your own code from scratch. So how do these other people find the...
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Infinite Skills – Autodesk Inventor 2014 Tutorial Series
Are you looking for a video tutorial series for Autodesk Inventor? Infinite Skills has recently released its Learning Autodesk Inventor 2014 series featuring instructor Adam Cooper. I was provided...
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iLogic - Delete Custom iProperties
Issue:You have some custom iProperties in your file that you want to remove. Because you have a lot of files that contain these custom iProperties, you find yourself doing this quite often. You'd like...
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iLogic - TitleBlock Project Data From Excel
Issue:You have a title block that uses prompted entry, and you'd like to fill those fields in from data that is in a spread sheet. You know that the best way to set up a title block is to use the model...
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Inventor 2015 User Interface Is Missing Buttons?
Issue:You've upgraded to Autodesk Inventor 2015 from a previous version and find that some of the tool buttons have been hidden and stacked into grouped, fly-out menus. You've checked with a reputable...
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iLogic: Working with the Active Sketch
Issue:You're working with sketches in some iLogic code and want to be able to find the active sketch name, or active sketch number. Solution:Here are a couple of quick rules that will do this. And...
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iLogic - Dimension Text Scale
Issue:You have some iLogic code to help you setup your drawing sheets and title block size (see this link from Jonathan Landeros for a great example of using iLogic to configure title block and...
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iLogic - Suppress Components in all but the Active Level of Detail
Issue:Your assembly has several Level of Detail Representations set up, which works well. The problem is that when you add a new component to the assembly, you have to go to each Level of Detail and...
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iLogic and the Inventor Project File
Issue:You want to reference the current Inventor Project file within an iLogic rule.Solution:Here is a quick iLogic snippet that will demonstrate how to work with the Project file and path. In this...
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iLogic: Get File Information for the Selected Component
Issue:You want to find the file name or path of a selected component in your iLogic rule.Solution:Here is a quick iLogic snippet that will demonstrate how to work with the selected component file and...
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Disable Automatic PDF Display
Issue:When you use Save As> Save Copy As> PDF, or Export> PDF, Inventor always opens the PDF viewer to show the PDF file after it is published. This can be a bother, due to the delay caused...
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iLogic: Virtual Components
Issue:You have some iLogic code that iterates through all of the components in an assembly and does some something with the file for each. However, if the assembly contains a virtual component then the...
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Inventor Background Color as White: Improved
Issue:You'd like to use a solid white back ground in Inventor because it allows you to take quick screen captures for use in illustrations for a variety of publications (examples: how to videos,...
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iLogic: Adding a Save As Dialog Box
Issue:You'd like to present the user with a Save As dialog box that will allow them to browse for a folder during the execution of your iLogic rule. However, the examples in the iLogic snippets all use...
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iLogic: Batch Output PDFs from an Assembly File
Issue:You'd like to output a PDF file from the drawings of all the components found in an assembly file (if those components have a drawing file created), and you like also create a PDF of the top...
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iLogic Replace Derived Reference
Issue:You wish there was an option in parts created from derived components to replace the derived component.Solution:Here is a quick iLogic rule that will allow you to browse for a new file with which...
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