Why does this code fragment not work? (Within an active part sketch, with some sketched geometry.)
I'm just trying to close the loops to have valid extrusion profiles.
Dim iCounter As Integer
Dim icounter2 As Integer
Dim oSPoint1 As SketchPoint
Dim oSPoint2 As SketchPoint
Dim xVal1 As Double
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It happens often that a sketch has redundand points or open loops.
I don't want to run the sketch doctor to clean it up every sketch I create.
In the attached avi you can see the few steps that I use to create a sketch. I don't understand why at the end it has problems.
I've created a bunch of lines which are touching each other but I can't seem to close them into a closed polyline area as I am trying to find the area of each individual profile.
I have tried moving the grips away and re attaching them, I have also extended all the lines and attempted to retrim them to ensure that they are closed, but none of this works.
The Fuzz distance is on 0, but I don't know if I am changing the profile in the units of millimeters so I am tentative to change this. But I just can't close the profiles.
I am trying to import a complex curve from autocad lt (in my case an airfoil), to create parts. I have drawn the curve in autocad lt as a polyline. Autocad lt treats the curve as a single object, and seems to understand it as a closed loop.
When I import the curve into Inventor lt, Inventor treats the curve as a series of unconnected line segments. What can I do in either Autocad lt or Inventor lt to get Inventor to treat the curve as a single object, so that I can then extrude it?
I am making some fairly free form sketches using lots of 3-point arcs that ultimately need to be closed loops so that I can extrude them. Although I have always been letting one arc snap to another at the end of the process I seem to have trouble closing the loop. It does not seem very apparent how to find the points that are not properly closed and I wind up struggling with the Close Loop function. Is there an easy way to tell where the problems are in a profile? I have tried showing all constraints, but that doesn't necessarily give me the clues I need.
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I am trying to create a parametric template for a fan guard assembly, complete with drawings.
I am using an arrangement of circles defined using some linear sketch patterns as the cross-section of a revolved feature. Using ilogic/vb, I want to automate the number and spacing of items in the linear pattern, and then update the loops selected for the revolved feature.
I have found code on this forum (courtesy of Curtis Waguespack) that I can use to select all closed loops and create a feature. I can apply this code to create a NEW revolved feature, but I haven't been able to figure out how to use it to UPDATE an existing feature.
I need the feature to UPDATE rather than create new to maintain links in my assemblies and drawings.
Is there a way to design the road profile to use the low point at a certain Roadway station so you can put your storm inlets to line up with property lines. Because when you create a Sag the PVI is not where your low point falls on the profile. It would be nice to be able to drag the low point not the PVI to create the low point where you need it instead of a sort of back and forth dragging the PVI of the vertical curve.
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View 8 Replies View RelatedMaking a part that will have the size as an option to pick. Issue is Ilogic does not like it. I have a list that has sizes like:
3" X 2"
4" X 2"
4" X 4"
But when I put in the code
If Plate_Size = "3" X 2"" ThenParameter("Dim_X") = 3Parameter("Dim_Y") = 2Parameter("Foot_Code") = "A"ElseIf Plate_Size = "4" X 2"" Then Parameter ("Dim_ X") = 4Parameter("Dim_Y") = 2Parameter("Foot_Code") = "B"End If it gives me an error
Error on Line 4 : End of statement expected.and highlight the If Plate_Size ="3" X 2"".I know it has to do with the X but I an't remember what to do having brain fart.
What's wrong with extrusion 15?
I deleted many features since the file was large, and many features got warnings, but extrusion 15 was the only one with warning in the original file.
I wanted to add an extrusion to an asembly. I was able to highlight the required geometry and create the feature, but is not showing up. In the browser, there's a red "up arrow" beside it. Why is it not showing?
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Suggest iLogic code to create cut Extruson (Extents=All) based on the "Sketch1"
First off if I update a sketch block in a derived part, how do I get the sketch blocks to update? Do I have to delete derived item, and rederive it?
Also if I modify a sketch block that is used for a extrusion, how do I get the extrusion to update? Do I have to delete extrusion and rextrude?
I have a multibodied part (roughly 700 parts) and I need to do a cut extrusion. The problem is that when I'm cutting through a hundred or more solids I might miss one if it's close to the edge. I though, no problem I'll just go back to the extrusion command and add those solids I missed. Problem, the program only lets me select one solid and undoes all I had previously.
2013 FDS
I am looking for a way to have the ok and apply button gray out until there is a valid selection made in the UI. How can we control if those 2 buttons are active or not?
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the original extrude cut was "Through All".When do the same cut gving a distance...it mirrors perfectly..
I am working on detailing an assembly that requires two parts to be bolted together and then have a hole bored through both parts. I want to show the assembly without the bore and then with the bore. I do not want to have to create a derived part. There should be a way of toggling this extrusion in the assembly view, but I have not yet found it.
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View 1 Replies View RelatedAll of a sudden, my line tool in sketch mode does not connect segment to segment and each individual line can be dragged wherever. This also means I cannot extrude any shapes I make because inventor does not realize the series of line segments create a closed shape. This happens across all part files, old and new.
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View 2 Replies View RelatedWe've got a lot of pipe added from CC then manually edited the extrusion length (D2) while modeling (not using tube and pipe). Now I want to get pipe lengths from the BOM. Currently the BOM gives the PL parameter as length, which is incorrect.
I know I can rename D2 and mark it as an exported parameter and add that to the BOM.
I think I could also make PL equal to D2 which would also solve the problem.
Both of these solutions would require opening and editing hundreds of parts, taking a LONG time.
We design long overland conveyors that can be kilometers long. In two separate instances, I have extruded a profile along a path that is a few hundred meters long with no problem. However, when the path gets to around 700 meters, the extrusion that worked fine at 600 meters simply falls apart. Does Inventor seriously have a limitation to length of an extrusion?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI'm getting a strange error with my iLogic code running parameters in my assembly. When I have one "if....then..." my rule runs fine. Even two statements work. But for some reason when I get to a certain number of statement I get an error: I've attached some sample code and snapshots of my error screens.
If FLANGE_STYLE_BOTTOM = "2in 150 BFV" ThenParameter("RD FLANGE:1", "OD")="6"Parameter("RD FLANGE:1", "BC")="4.75"Parameter("RD FLANGE:1", "HOLE_SIZE")=".75"Parameter("RD FLANGE:1", "NUB_HOLE")="4"Else If FLANGE_STYLE_BOTTOM="3in 150 BFV" ThenParameter("RD FLANGE:1", "OD")="7.5"Parameter("RD FLANGE:1", "BC")="6"Parameter("RD FLANGE:1", "HOLE_SIZE")=".75"Parameter("RD FLANGE:1", "NUB_HOLE")="4"Else If FLANGE_STYLE_BOTTOM="4in 150 BFV" ThenParameter("RD FLANGE:1", "OD")="9"Parameter("RD FLANGE:1", "BC")="7.5"Parameter("RD FLANGE:1", "HOLE_SIZE")=".75"Parameter("RD FLANGE:1", "NUB_HOLE")="8"Else If FLANGE_STYLE_BOTTOM="5in 150 BFV" ThenParameter("RD FLANGE:1", "OD")="10"Parameter("RD FLANGE:1", "BC")="8.5"Parameter("RD FLANGE:1", "HOLE_SIZE")=".875"Parameter("RD FLANGE:1",
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Is using nullptr (instead of NULL) valid in an Inventor Addin?
(I'm trying to drag myself into the second decade of the 21st century)
I design press tools. Is there any ways in inventor 2012, where I can have only one common sketch in zero height and extrude profiles in different heights. Like plate no 1 @100 to 120mm (in vertical axis. A 20mm thick plate placed at 100mm above zero plane.) and plate no 2 in 150 to 175mm height and so on.
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I reboot my PC at lunch because I was getting other odd errors, lots o' C++ runtime joys. That was some two hours ago, and I had a slew of errors/crashes after that around one. Now, no error messages, but this interesting occasion.
I'm trying to modify the depth of extrusion feature "Extrusion1".
As you can see, it doesn't let me. It only allows the extrusion setting "new solid".
I have just downloaded an educational version of Inventor. Although I can create sketches I cannot extrude the sketch to form a solid. The origin arrow heads appear over size and it seems as if the origin plane is being extruded to form a solid!
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