Category: Mod The Machine

Here is a solution for a problem that can occur with ETO Server with a project that has sub projects. You can get a “No such design” error just using the “Test Application Services" button in the Inventor ETO Server Configurator. When the designs are in one project with no sub projects the error does…

Recently I had a case where using the Vault Designs in Inventor Engineer-To-Order would cause this error and fail: "The invoked member is not supported in a dynamic assembly" I was unable to recreate the problem on my machine. By the process of elimination we found that it was an custom AddIn that was related…

One of the tools you use when setting up an ETO application to use with ETO server is the “Inventor ETO Server Configurator”. The user interface for this utility is under review by engineering. One thing that may not be obvious is that you need to hit Enter after filling out the four fields required…

The DevTech team here at Autodesk is working on becoming experts with cloud and mobile technologies. I am happy to say that recently I was able to spend some time working towards this goal. (For many years we have been mostly supporting desktop applications).  As a training exercise I got an account on Amazon  and…

Here are the VBA examples in this section of samples for parts converted to C#. This group of examples includes an example for an event (TestSelection) that allows you to get an entity from the user using events. It also has some parameter and brep examples. The WorkPointAtMassCenter c# example was already in the help…

Here is another suggestion for Inventor Engineer-To-Order. In some cases using Inventor Studio from Intent (IvStudioRenderedImage) to create an image is not working correctly. A solution is to use the Inventor API. Here is a method that shows how this can be done using SaveAsBitmap() of the active view. Method createReportImage(outputFile As String) As String…

One of the products I am supporting currently is “Engineer-To-Order” (ETO). When I see a good tip or solution that applies to ETO for Inventor I am going to post it here. Here is the first post for this product and it shows a way to create a custom iProperty when the member file is…

So we’re just reaching the end of the day, and the end of a very busy week for the ADN team here in Lake Oswego. Proceedings were capped off by the hugely popular DevLab, which appears to have been very productive for everyone that managed to come along. We were all holed up in the…

Buzz Kross kicked off day 2 (Buzz is Autodesk’s Senior Vice President responsible for all of our manufacturing related products). His keynote address outlined the huge successes the company, our partners and our customers have been having – and all this despite the challenging economic climate we’re experiencing. It’s clear that opportunities for manufacturers and…

Cloud Cloud Cloud! Mobile Mobile Mobile! The message is coming loud and clear that Autodesk is focusing massively on Cloud and Mobile related technologies and the huge opportunities they represent to our customers and partners. This year’s Manufacturing DevCamp, which is taking place right now near our Manufacturing headquarters in Lake Oswego – Oregon, is…