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16 May 2013

Inventor - Feature Pattern Inside a Boundary
Greetings,I had to share this one with you guys, as it would have saved me a heck of a lot of time in a previous life! Huge credit to Vladimir Ananyev from DevTech for writing some code to allow boun…

14 May 2013

Factory Design Suite - Create Assembly Assets
often think I should make a big list of some of the new functionality in the Product Design and Factory Design Suites, and then unleash my inner 5 year old and draw some lines between various tools t…

14 May 2013

Autodesk Labs Design Checker Tool
Now – those wonderful chaps at Autodesk Labs have released a new downloadable tool called ‘Design Checker’. This may interest you a great deal if you are a CAD manager – there are all kinds of…

01 May 2013

iLogic - Scale Entire Inventor Part
How do you scale an Inventor part while keeping all its sketches, work geometry and relationships between parameters intact? Well it’s a question that I’ve been musing on for a while – and it’s also a…

29 April 2013

Inventor - Cast & Machined Part Drawing View
I’ve been meaning to blog on this topic for a while as it comes up a lot – How can I show the outline of my original cast part in a machined part drawing view (just like I’ve done in the picture abov…

23 April 2013

iLogic - Yes or No User Input
Greetings! Any iLogic users amongst you will know that the standard user input box snippet provided with iLogic is not much cop. The cancel button is misleading, and it can’t actually be used to …

18 April 2013

Inventor Stress Analysis – Highlight Results
Well if you haven't heard, Stress Analysis is going to become even more widely used in the 2014 release, as all subscription customers for Product Design Suite Premium get it included in the box. So i…

10 April 2013

iLogic for Flat Pattern Features in Inventor
Not a common request this, but an interesting one perhaps you agree. Can you control the suppression of flat pattern features on an Inventor sheet metal part with iLogic? Every iLogic fan knows abou…

02 April 2013

View Representations with iLogic – Part 3 – Check
See Previous Blogs to get up to speed with this. So now we’ve got our auto-created view reps and we can run the Update rules to update them whenever we want. However it’d be nice if the user …

27 March 2013

View Representations with iLogic – Part 2 – Update
I’ve pasted 2 iLogic rules below again. When either rule is pasted into an assembly and run, it will look for any view representations that have been automatically created (see above picture for the…