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25 iLogic Routines to Speed Up Drawing Creation

25 iLogic Routines to Speed Up Drawing Creation

Creating engineering drawings can sometimes seem tedious, but drawings are one of the most important parts of any design. In fact, your drawing is the contract with the manufacturer, an agreement that contains all the specifications and key dimensions that your product will be manufactured to. That is a great reason to automate workflows making drawings easier and faster to create. Over the last…

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iLogic: Export Flat Patterns of iPart Members to DXF

iLogic: Export Flat Patterns of iPart Members to DXF

By Bhavik Suthar I have written an iLogic utility to export the flat patterns of all the members of an iPart to DXF. The code automates the process of creating DXF flat patterns, saving the DXF with the instance member name as the file name in the same location as the original iPart. Here is the iLogic Code: 'iLogic code By Bhavik Suthar 'Originally posted on https://clintbrown.co.uk Dim oDoc…

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iLogic: Export Custom iProperties Of All iPart Instances

iLogic: Export Custom iProperties Of All iPart Instances

By Dutt Thakar I recently found a question on the Autodesk forums, where a user wanted to export the custom iProperties of all iPart instances to an excel document. I have found two ways to do this this. The first, is to scan the iPart Author table, get the data from it and then copy this to an Excel file. This method is faster because Inventor just needs to capture the data from the Excel…

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iLogic Quick Tip: Get IP Address

iLogic Quick Tip: Get IP Address

I have a Vault server on my laptop, I connect to it via a second PC or via the Vault mobile App. I tend to use the IP address as the server name, because it works well with the mobile app. The problem is that my IP address changes each time I reboot the laptop. Firing up the command prompt and typing in “ipconfig” every time is tedious, so I wrote an iLogic utility to get the IP address and copy…

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Best Wishes & A Loft Feature

Best Wishes & A Loft Feature

By Jelte de Jong I wish you all the best for 2021. I hope that we can go back to normal life this year. Today I have a iLogic rule for you that creates an “I” similar to the image above.  Nothing that you can’t find anywhere else on the internet. Just some profiles on a sketch that are extruded. Except for the loft in the Inventor logo. While I was creating this model, I discovered that you…

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Export Flat Patterns iPart: Get Name, Export, Repeat

Export Flat Patterns iPart: Get Name, Export, Repeat

By Jelte de Jong I’ve recently seen several questions from people looking to save or export files automatically.  Questions like “How to perform ‘save a copy as’ PDF for a list of Inventor drawings from an excel?” and “Automate iPart flat pattern export to DXF”. That is why I wrote this post, explaining how you can write your own iLogic export rules. In this post I will try to explain my…

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iLogic - File Open Timer

iLogic – File Open Timer

I thought I’d share an update to an old timer that I wrote a few years back, it was designed to show the difference between opening a file saved on a network drive, versus one stored locally. The original idea, being that using Vault will give a user a much better experience when opening large datasets. But it’s also useful in other cases, for example for checking time savings on large assemblies…

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iLogic Quick Tip: File Open Dialogue

iLogic Quick Tip: File Open Dialogue

If you’ve ever written code that needs to open or import another file, you may find this useful.

When building product configurators, I like to use XML files as a means of storing all of the parameters for a specific “build” of a product, the benefits are that I don’t have to store and manage thousands of files, for the same reason I like to use PDF’s as a snapshot of the drawings, have a look…

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