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Drag & Drop file from external application
By Adam NagyYou may want to provide a user control with a list of components that you could drag & drop onto Inventor. In case of .NET it's quite easy to set up. You just have to handle the...
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Add Note for Centerline of Work Feature in Drawing
By Xiaodong LiangThis is a question from a forum post. The customer has the model with some work planes.When he inserts the model to a drawing, the [Display Options] allows to include work feature or...
View ArticleJump Start your Fusion Development
Autodesk recently finished the first ever Cloud Accelerator where several companies were selected to come into the San Francisco office to work on their applications, which use the Autodesk cloud...
View ArticleVersion of DevExpress dlls Inventor uses
By Xiaodong LiangA developer hit a random crash with DevExpress component. The comment from DevExpress is the version might be conflict to what Inventor uses.So we got a list of version of DevExpress...
View ArticleiLogic.ExternalRuleFinder.GetParsedRuleNames missing
By Adam NagyiLogic.ExternalRuleFinder.GetParsedRuleNames was never documented and has been moved to a different class and became internal (no longer public) in 2016. Instead of using that function you...
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Do you want to load this add-in?
By Adam NagyInventor 2016 introduced a new security measure, which makes the Add-In Manager pop up a dialog when it encounters an Add-In for the first time: Here if you click Allow then from then...
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UnInclude WorkSurfaces in a DrawingView
By Adam NagyLet's say we have a drawing view showing an assembly with this structure:If some of the work surfaces are visible and some are not then the context menu will show this - a filled rectangle...
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Copy material to another library
By Adam NagyThis is quite similar to the solution shown here, with the main difference being that instead of adding the material to the document's library, we add it to another external library.Let's...
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Autodesk University Call for Proposals
By Adam NagyThe Autodesk University Call for Proposals will close on May 26th, so there's still time to submit a proposal and get free entry to AU.Visit...
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Suppress folder in assembly
By Adam NagyInside an assembly you can create a folder in the browser and place multiple components in it. You can then control visibility and suppression of all those elements through the folder.When...
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Use GoExcel outside a rule
By Adam NagyIt’s possible to call GoExcel directly, but it’s not documented and we don’t support it. For Excel functionality you can use the Excel COM API directly instead of going through iLogic....
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Use AutoCAD API in DWG file
By Adam NagyWhen interacting with a DWG type drawing document, you can also use the AutoCADAPI in it through the ObjectDBX type library.From the DrawingDocument.ContainingDWGDocument you'll get back an...
View ArticleAutodesk Exchange Apps Store – Publisher Survey
By Virupaksha AithalIt is my pleasure to announce the launch of inaugural Autodesk Exchange Apps Store – Publisher survey. I hope you’ll be willing to give 5-10 minutes of your time to take the survey...
View ArticleFusion 360 App Store
By Adam NagyThe Fusion 360 App Store now has apps using the new APIs as well and yours could be among them too ;)At the moment there is only Python and JavaScript API available, which do not really...
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Is this object supported by the API?
By Adam NagyIf you know how to create a given object through the UI then it's quite easy to tell if it's supported by the API or not:1) Create such an object 2) Select it in the User Interface3) Debug...
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UnInclude WorkSurfaces in all DrawingViews on all Sheets
By Adam NagyThis is a continuation of the article UnInclude WorkSurfaces in a DrawingViewThe only difference is that now we are iterating through all the sheets and all the drawing views on them, and...
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View specific Client Graphics
By Adam NagyWhen you create client graphics, you can also specify in which view they will be visible via the GraphicsNode.VisibleInViews collection.Here is a VBA sample that creates view specific...
View ArticleInventor debugging slowed down by error messages
By Adam NagyMany Autodesk products are using the same .NET components or the UI, and when debugging Inventor from Visual Studio they can make the Output/Debug window quite noisy, and can also slow down...
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Outer edges of tangentially connected faces
By Adam NagyYou may want to get the outer edges of multiple connected faces, i.e. ignore the edges connecting them. In this specific case we'll get all the tangentially connected faces of the selected...
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Crash when creating interaction events for a second document
By Adam NagyThis is something a .NET developer ran into and I thought could be worth sharing. Spoiler alert: the gist of the article is to free objects you do not need anymore. :)If you have a global...
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