Question:
I created a global form manually by iLogic. An XML is generated at C:\Users\Public\Documents\Autodesk\Inventor 2014\Design Data\iLogic\UI. I made a copy of the XML file and renamed the tags of Form and Guid. Finally I restarted Inventor. I thought iLogic can load the copied XML as one more global form. But nothing happened.
Solution:
You can share a global form to another machine.In 2015 and earlier there are two ways to do it. I’d recommend the first way.
First way:
- Right-click on the form in the Global Forms tab and select Copy Form.
- Create an empty part, go to its Forms tab and select Paste Form.
- Save the part, and send it to the other system.
- On the other system, reverse the procedure: copy from the part Forms and paste to Global Forms.
Second way: (this is similar to the procedure you followed)
- On the destination system, create a Global Form with the exact same name as the form you want to copy. This form can be empty: it does not need to have any controls in it.
- Close the form definition. It will show up in the browser.
- Copy the [Form Name].xml and [Form Name].state.xml file from the source system to the destination system. It will overwrite the file(s) for the form that you have just created.