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2013 Inventor API Survey

It’s time again for the annual API survey. Please help us help you by taking a few minutes and filling out the survey. Everyone is welcome to respond. Your answers help us to determine what to work on in upcoming... Continue reading

Posted 5 days ago at Mod the Machine

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Inventor 2014 new API for sketch creation

There are four new API enhancements for sketches. Three of them create sketch curves that could be created from the UI in previous releases. One of the enhancements is new in the UI too. Slots In the 2014 release you... Continue reading

Posted May 15, 2013 at Mod the Machine

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Inventor 2014 API for the new Joint feature

One focus of the 2014 release is “Ease of use”. An example of this is the new Joint command that will definitely make it easier to make relationships between parts in an assembly. This command is on the Assemble tab... Continue reading

Posted Apr 12, 2013 at Mod the Machine

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Control feature creation based on user defined boundary

Thanks to DevTech engineer Vladimir Ananyev for providing this post and great example. Recently we were asked if the Inventor API could help by suppressing elements of holes in a rectangular pattern which are not completely inside a user-defined boundary.... Continue reading

Posted Mar 29, 2013 at Mod the Machine

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Inventor 2014 API Enhancements

Inventor 2014 was officially released yesterday. Here’s a quick overview of the API enhancements for this release. I’ll go into more detail of some of them in later posts. Support for dimension styles. The API previously had minimal support for... Continue reading

Posted Mar 27, 2013 at Mod the Machine

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DevTech Team Meeting in San Rafael CA

I work for an organization at Autodesk named Developer Technical services. (We support the Autodesk Developer Network). This last week the DevTech Americas team had a meeting at one of the Autodesk offices in San Rafael California. (Colleagues from Europe... Continue reading

Posted Mar 18, 2013 at Mod the Machine

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Inventor API Training – Lesson 12

Here is section twelve of the Inventor API training where you see how Apprentice is used to access Inventor Data without having to use Inventor. You also learn about the Inventor viewer control. This is the fourth post with the... Continue reading

Posted Mar 6, 2013 at Mod the Machine

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Inventor API Training – Lesson 2

Here is section two of the Inventor API training where you see how the API is used to create and access Inventor documents. This section also covers iProperties, working with units, and parameters. This is the third post with the... Continue reading

Posted Feb 25, 2013 at Mod the Machine

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Inventor API Training – Lesson 11

Here is section eleven of the Inventor API training. In this section we cover how to use the API to print and translate files. There are 21 sections to this training and we decided that they did not need to... Continue reading

Posted Feb 18, 2013 at Mod the Machine

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ETO 2013 R2 – Add-In template, VS Add-Ins can impact ETO Studio & InventorApplication global rule

Here are a couple of things about ETO 2013 R2 that I have found recently. 1. If you have used the Inventor ETO Add-In template you may find that the ribbon tab for the Add-In does not display properly when... Continue reading

Posted Feb 12, 2013 at Mod the Machine

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Inventor API Training – Lesson 1

Developer Technical Services delivers Inventor API training and we have course material that we use. We thought it would be a good idea to post each section from the course. Here is the first one. (there are 21 sections) If... Continue reading

Posted Feb 8, 2013 at Mod the Machine

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C# Help Examples for General Miscellaneous

This section of VBA procedures converted from the help file are related to various topics. A couple of the VBA examples in this section use an InputBox to get values from the user. The C# code uses a form instead.... Continue reading

Posted Jan 29, 2013 at Mod the Machine

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ETO 2013 R2 now available

The Inventor Engineer-To-Order 2013 release 2 shipped this week and I am excited to started with it. One of the main enhancements is the Visual Studio Add-In called ETO Studio. Using Visual Studio to create Inventor ETO applications will be... Continue reading

Posted Jan 17, 2013 at Mod the Machine

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ETO Potlatch recordings

Over the past several months there have been webcasts on Engineer-To-Order topics. I was able to get the recordings of these sessions and will post them. The focus of the first session is “Frame-Based Positioning” and includes a comparison to... Continue reading

Posted Jan 11, 2013 at Mod the Machine

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C# Help Examples for Sheet metal

Here is another section of VBA procedures from the help file converted to C#. These examples are related to sheet metal. These examples will be helpful if you are getting started using the Inventor API to work with sheet metal... Continue reading

Posted Jan 10, 2013 at Mod the Machine

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Using Inventor ETO Server Configurator –ensure the Design name is correct

In this post you can find a discussion on using the ETO server configurator. Recently I had a case where ETO server was being used and an error “No Such Design” was occurring when AddDynamicChildRule() was called. (One of the... Continue reading

Posted Dec 19, 2012 at Mod the Machine

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C# Help Examples for Drawing Views

Here is another section of VBA procedures from the help file converted to C#. These examples are related to drawing views. There was one example that already had a C# version. You can find details about how the C# projects... Continue reading

Posted Nov 29, 2012 at Mod the Machine

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C# Help Examples for Drawing Annotations, part two

Here is the second section of VBA procedures related to drawing annotations in the help file converted to C#. In this project you will find the rest of the 29 examples in this section. These examples create annotations such as... Continue reading

Posted Nov 25, 2012 at Mod the Machine

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C# Help Examples for Drawing Annotations, part one

There are a many VBA procedures related to drawings in the help file. In this project you will find 14 of the examples related to drawing annotations converted to C#. This section in the help has has 29 VBA demos.... Continue reading

Posted Nov 5, 2012 at Mod the Machine

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Inventor Engineer-To-Order using frame based positioning - rotation example

The most common way used to control the position of parts in ETO is the use of constraints. In some cases however it can be more advantageous to use frame based positioning to control the position. When using frame based... Continue reading

Posted Nov 2, 2012 at Mod the Machine

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Inventor and Inventor View Service Packs now available

Service packs for Inventor 2013 and the standalone version of Autodesk® Inventor® View 2013 have recently been released. If you have an application that uses Apprentice on systems without having Inventor installed be sure to have your users get the... Continue reading

Posted Nov 1, 2012 at Mod the Machine

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C# Help Examples for Assemblies–General & Constraints

Here are two more sections of VBA examples converted to C#. These functions are related to constraints and other demos for assemblies that did not fit in one of the other sections. This is the seventh post with converted Help... Continue reading

Posted Oct 29, 2012 at Mod the Machine

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Inventor ETO Server with Sub projects – “No Such design”

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... Continue reading

Posted Oct 24, 2012 at Mod the Machine

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Inventor ETO with Vault - set “Embed Interop Types” to False for Autodesk.Inventor.Interop

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... Continue reading

Posted Oct 18, 2012 at Mod the Machine

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Inventor OEM now available

Inventor OEM is part of Engineer-To-Order series but now it is available as a stand alone product. See the Tech Soft 3D site for more information. You can try Inventor OEM for yourself with the free evaluation version. http://www.techsoft3d.com/our-products/autodesk-inventor-oem What... Continue reading

Posted Oct 17, 2012 at Mod the Machine

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