This is a follow-up on my tutorials on creating an addin. In the 1e part, we created an addin that searches all iLogic rules. We used an inputbox to get input from the user. We used notepad to show the results to the user. We can do this in a more elegant way by creating a custom form (window).
"The transaction functionality is the means by which Inventor keeps track of the timeline of changes made during the course of an Inventor session. Transactions allow the user to perform Undo and Redo operations in Inventor." (Autodesk Inventor help) It's possible to create your own transaction. With those transactions, we can write more robust (and faster) rules.
Just the other day someone on the "Inventor iLogic and VB.net Forum" asked if it's possible to stop a long-running iLogic rule. I guess, in some cases, you want to allow your users to stop an iLogic rule. Out of the box, this is not possible, but there are some functions in the Inventor API that make it possible.
While selecting dimensions is possible with the easy to use command "ThisApplication.CommandManager.Pick(Filter As SelectionFilterEnum, PromptText As String)" it's impossible to distinguish between the dimension line and extension lines. That is precisely what was asked for in this post.
This is a follow-up of my tutorial: "Creating an Inventor Addin". Writing code usually involves a lot of testing. In the case of writing addins this can become a pain. Each time you want to test your addon you need to restart Inventor and maybe open a document.
This is a follow-up of my tutorial: ”Creating an Inventor addin”. In one of the chapters I wrote how to add a button to your addin. But I left out how to add an icon to that button. Because it need some explanation and I did find the tutorial already quite long.
This tutorial is about writing your own addin. There are other tutorials out there. This tutorial is not about doing it the most simple way. There are Visual Studio templates out there that will set up most stuff for you (https://ekinssolutions.com/nifty_addin_template/). In this tutorial, we will set up everything manually. I want to show you all the settings. That has the advantage that you are not limited to specific settings, Inventor/Visual Studio versions or programing language.
I think that many people have a hate-love relationship with the design doctor. Of course, you never want to see that red cross at the top of your screen. But stuff breaks and you need to know about it and solve it. This is where the design doctor should shine. It should help you identify all problems and help you to solve them.
I have now 3 rules on this site to automatically generate dimensions. (Overall dimensions, Hole position and Bend dimensions) At the moment I can't think of any more types of dimensions I can generate automatically. But there is something left that we can generate.
Writing a rule that will generate the dimensions for all bend lines in a sheet metal flat pattern drawing view is not easy. This is a rule that I wanted to write for a long time but did not manage to do till now. The problem is not finding the bend lines nor finding all contour lines. But the problem is how more finding a contour line that is parallel with a bend line and is also useful.
I came across this cool piece of code that draws a bounding box around any part in any orientation. I did improve it a bit but credits should go to the topic starter of this post "a dynamic box?".
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