Thanks to everyone who participated in the survey. Your input is very valuable to the engineering team. The three tables below have the results for the three main questions on the survey. The survey also has many individual suggestions that are not listed here.
It is apparent that continuing to enhance the API help should be a top priority. I sure agree with this. The 2013 API help file has some welcome improvements but more examples in multiple languages would be great.
Inventor API recommended enhancements:
| Drawings – Creation and edit support for datum symbols | 3% |
| Drawings – Creation and edit support for weld symbols | 3% |
| Drawings – Creation and edit support for hatching | 11% |
| Drawings – Creation and edit support for slice views | 0% |
| Drawings – Creation and edit support for cropped views | 4% |
| Support for auto-balloon | 10% |
| Drawings – Full dimension style support | 19% |
| Part – Creation and edit support for the Grill feature | 1% |
| Part – Creation and edit support for the Boss feature | 3% |
| Part – Creation and edit support for the Rest feature | 3% |
| Part – Creation and edit support for the Snap Fit feature | 1% |
| Part – Creation and edit support for the Lip feature | 0% |
| Part – Creation and edit support for the Rule Fillet feature | 0% |
| Part – Ability to nest work features within a 3D sketch, as you can through the user interface | 5% |
| Verticals – API support for Cable & Harness | 5% |
| Verticals – API support for Tube & Pipe | 5% |
| Verticals – API support for Dynamic Simulation | 5% |
| Verticals – API support for FEA | 4% |
| Verticals – API support for Frame Generator | 18% |
| Improved API support for presentation documents | 9% |
| API support to re-use graphical widgets (such as in the Extrude and Move Face features in Inventor) in custom commands | 8% |
| API support for Pack & Go | 20% |
| VBA Record and Playback capability | 15% |
| API Help – Samples for every method and property | 41% |
| API Help – More samples in languages other than VBA (E.g. C++, C#, VB.NET) | 27% |
| API Help – Improved function descriptions | 25% |
| API Help – More/better overviews | 9% |
| Other, please specify | 24% |
Preferred development tools used with the Inventor API:
| C++ | 18% |
| VBA | 26% |
| Visual Basic 6 | 4% |
| VB.NET – Visual Studio | 40% |
| VB.NET – Visual Basic Express | 24% |
| C# – Visual Studio | 44% |
| C# – Visual C# Express | 6% |
| Other | 8% |
Newest version of Inventor you have used for development:
| Inventor 2010 or previous | 3% |
| Inventor 2011 | 11% |
| Inventor 2012 | 43% |
| Inventor 2013 | 43% |
-Wayne
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