Category: Mod The Machine

There have been some big changes recently, and I am no longer working for Autodesk.  As a result, I want to say goodbye because this will be my last post on Mod the Machine.  This blog started with my first post almost 10 years ago on August 21, 2008.  The time has flown since then…

  I know most of you won’t have an opportunity to attend Autodesk University but you still benefit from the event by having access to the material from previous years.  You can browser the class papers from previous years at AU Online.  Besides the papers, many of the classes were also recorded so you can…

A partner notified me about a problem he had found with my Attribute Helper add-in that I wasn’t aware of. He told me that if you have the new “Interactive Tutorial” and “Attribute Helper” add-ins both loaded, then Inventor will crash when you shut it down with the dialog below. but had a good idea…

The Autodesk Forge DevCon conference, originally scheduled for June 27-28 in San Francisco, will now be held on November 13-14 in Las Vegas. One time. One location. Two great conferences. We received feedback from many of last year's Forge DevCon attendees that it was hard to travel to two Autodesk conferences in a year. This…

There are several new enhancements in this update and a couple that open some new doors on what can be done with the Fusion API. The first of these is the ability to customize the context menu, or as it's called in Fusion, the marking menu. You do this by responding to the MarkingMenuDisplaying event…

Fusion 360 rolled out a new update yesterday and there are quite a few API enhancements.  For a complete list you can go to the Fusion 360 API help, but here are some of the highlights. Getting the Active Length UnitThere’s been a problem since the beginning of the API that we just recently discovered…

Autodesk is sponsoring another Hackathon this year for the new Forge platform and is also including the Fusion 360 client API.  The Fusion 360 Hackathon last year resulted in the development of a lot of great apps.  Most of the learning content from that Hackathon is now available on the Fusion 360 Github site.  This…

There was a recent Inventor question posted on stackoverflow that I thought was interesting and decided to look at.  The question involved being able to project points from a sketch onto a solid.  Below is a picture of a sketch that contains many sketch center points.  In this case they were created by patterning a…

The Forge Devcon is quickly approaching on June 15-16.  However, the day before on June 14, there are some workshops that you’re invited to.  That fact that there are some workshops is a bit hidden on the website so I wanted to point them out so that if you’re coming to conference you can schedule…

There was a discussion on the Fusion forum about being able to create a construction point that’s positioned at a specific X, Y, Z location.  There is also a post on the IdeaStation.  Fusion doesn’t currently support that capability but only supports the creation of construction points relative to existing geometry. When creating construction geometry,…