Category: Mod The Machine

I am really excited about DevCamp next Wednesday and Thursday in Portland Oregon. It will be two days of insightful presentations and a great chance to meet other people who are customizing Autodesk manufacturing products. I am also looking forward to seeing colleagues from different geos  flying in from Europe to do their presentations. Other…

An enhancement in the Inventor 2013 API allows you to get strokes for 2d and 3d transient geometry. One reason why you may want to do this is to approximate sketch geometry. The new method is GetStrokes of the CurveEvaluator and Curve2dEvaluator objects. To get the transient geometry (CurveEvaluator) from the sketch entity, use the…

By Wayne Brill Issue I am trying to use PnPXDbDatasource as in the "Data Objects Extensions" example from the Plant SDK 2011 Developer Guide.  I am getting errors about a missing reference to an assembly named PnPCommonMgd for the type Autodesk.ProcessPower.Common.PnPCollectionItem. I am unable to find PnPCommonMgd.dll in the Plant3D SDK where the other assemblies…

Transient B-Rep allows you to define B-Rep data from scratch and one of the enhancements to the Inventor 2013 API allows you to define a new wire body. In the previous release you could only build surfaces and solids. One reason to create a wire body is for input to other modeling operations. New 2013…

There’s less than a month to go till the Autodesk Manufacturing DevCamp being held in Portland June 13-14.  A highlight for me is the DevLab on the 15th.  This is an opportunity for you to bring your code and get one-on-one help.  I hope to see you at DevCamp, DevLab, or both.  Here’s the official…

Autodesk has a program to help developers working with Autodesk technology called the Autodesk Developer Network (ADN).  Members of ADN receive access to software, individual support with their problems, and access to exclusive events each year discussing the new features in the upcoming releases.  You can read more about ADN here.  In addition to those…

The SDK and API Help that went out with Inventor 2013 were found to have a few issues that we want to correct.  SDK The initial SDK that was delivered with Inventor 2013 tried to remain compatible with Visual Studio 2008.  However, to best develop for Inventor 2013 you need to be using Visual Studio…

You may have noticed that the Inventor API help has had some issues over the past several releases.  We were using a commercial product for creating the help that didn’t work very well with the type of API that Inventor has.  It forced us to do things in certain ways that weren’t really what we…

In the previous post in this series I discussed creating sketch geometry.  The last post ended by showing how to create lines and arcs that define the shape of a slot.  It also illustrated that the lines and arcs didn’t behave quite like expected because of missing constraints.  In this post we’ll look at how…

See the latest update for this posted on March 20, 2015. Several years ago I wrote an add-in that creates parameters and iProperties whose values are the length and width of the sheet metal flat pattern.  If the model is updated, the values are also automatically updated to reflect the change.  I haven’t touched the add-in…