Category: Mod The Machine

With Sanjay moving onto another job and also some other additional responsibilities, I’ve been very busy lately.  Part of the other work I’ve been doing has involved quite a bit of code writing.  I want to point out a couple of books that I have that I keep going to back to for reference.  You…

Based on some feedback to my previous post, I’ve rewritten the sample so that, (hopefully ), it works correctly now.  If you’ve pulled that code, you should copy it down again.  There’s a comment at the bottom of the post that explains what the problem was and what’s been changed.

I recently received a challenge from an Autodesk dealer that I couldn’t let sit since it seemed like it shouldn’t be too hard to solve. The problem he’s trying to solve is the case where the first sheet of a drawing contains a full assembly which is ballooned.  Other sheets in the drawing contains subassemblies…

My friends from the DevTech group, which support the members of the Autodesk Developer Network (ADN), are helping me out while I’m buried with project work and are providing some content for blog posts.  This one is from Xiaodong Liang who works in the Beijing China office. There are two basic mechanisms for importing non-native…

It’s been too long since my last posting.  Things have been busy here at Autodesk with Autodesk University, the ADN DevDays tours, and putting the final touches on the next release of Inventor.  In the midst of all that Sanjay Ramaswamy, who most of you know, decided to change roles here at Autodesk and has…

I had a couple of requests lately asking about the possibility of using the API to change the colors of the curves in a drawing view to match the color of the parts in the assembly.  Below is a program that does this.  It starts with a selected drawing view and gets the associated assembly. …

For those of you on subscription, the Inventor 2011 Subscription Bonus Pack includes API functionality for AEC Exchange.  (In Inventor it is still referred to as AEC Exchange but the API refers to it as BIM Exchange since it will be called BIM Exchange in the future.)  The API provides the same functionality that you…

I asked a question in a recent post to see if any of you were interested in a series of posts discussing how to migrate your SolidWorks programs to work with Inventor.  Well, there was some interest in the topic.  Rather than break the information up into a series of posts, here’s a document produced…

There’s a question on the Inventor Customization newsgroup that I thought might be of general interest so I’m posting my response here.  The specific question is that they have a cabinet assembly and some of the parts in the assembly represent pieces of molding.  They want to get a total length of all of the…