Okay so i saw a video on how to set up iMate for Vex Robotic parts (circle and square fitting), and i cant get the circle to do a surface extruding. Any reason whats going on? I followed the video's instructions perfectly, and still nothing is working. URL...
View 2 RepliesWhen I am inserting in an assembly two parts with I-mates and the name's of the I-mates are not matching they are acting of the name's are matching. So the two parts are constraint with the not matching I-mates.
View 7 Replies View RelatedI have a bar and I want to place there several clips so that they are only moveable in one direction. Both of the parts have fitting iMates. When I place the first clip it works fine and the iMates get connected. But when I place the second the clip is draw elsewhere. Is it possible to use one half of an iMate more than once?
View 1 Replies View RelatedIs there a way to put a bunch of imates under one line code?
I have imate iInsert:1 thru iInsert:49 I need them all suppressed when an event happens.
I can get it to work one by one but that would be a lot of code.
Tried a few other thing but seems not to work.
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i am trying to add some items in the iMate matchlist. But with the code i use below i recieve a runtime '10' error:
This array is fixed or temporarily locked.
Function PlaceiMates()Dim oApp As ApplicationSet oApp = ThisApplicationIf ThisApplication.ActiveDocumentType = kPartDocumentObject Then Dim odoc As PartDocument Set odoc = oApp.ActiveEditDocument Dim oInsert As Object Dim oInsertiMate As InsertiMateDefinition Set oInsert = ThisApplication.CommandManager.Pick(kPartEdgeFilter, "Pick Edge for Imate") Set oInsertiMate = odoc.ComponentDefinition.iMateDefinitions.AddInsertiMateDefinition(oInsert, True, "0mm", , "Test") Dim ml(1) As String ml(0) = "pl" oInsertiMate.MatchList = mlEnd IfEnd Function
I'm working on a project in wikiHelp under Inventor tutorials, Content Center, Create iMates. When I pull the object up in an assembly I can create an iMate and it will show that I made one. But when i go to the next page (Place Content Manually Using iMates), I can't get the bolt to snap to the iMate inside the object, the bolt just stays in one position the whole time.
View 2 Replies View RelatedWhen I place a part, such as a bolt, from the Content Center, it's immediately looking for the other half of an insert iMate. How do I make a part I created do that? I put an iMate in the part, but it had no effect.
It sure would save a bunch of time if this would work.
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How to derive only referenced imates to the solid from multi body part.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI have a map that I had to scan in 8 parts.
Not all 8 parts came out the same so when I merge them, the parts are obvious.
I once saw a tut where by all photos used the same setting so that onced merged, you can't tell the difference.
What I need is the how-to. I'm so used to dealing with single photos that I can't remember how to save the right setting. I've tried a few things, but when I merged the map, it didn't all look seamless nor the same.
I am trying to replace a custom part - created from a content center part - with a copied part with a different name. (I am using the replace tool in an assembly.) However, Inventor is not replacing the part with the part I pick but rather the content center version of it.
View 3 Replies View RelatedOn the main sheet of my drawing I have the overall Parts List. Shows almost all parts except for the few that we don't want to list. On the second sheet I inserted a Parts List to show only parts that are shown in a detail on that page, made the rest non-visible.
On the main sheet there is an item (#13) that has a QTY of 3. Two of those Three are optional parts. What I'm trying to do is insert a custom part into the Parts List, give it an item number of 13A and put in the description "OPTIONAL", then do an Override in the balloon to show 13A.
I get it in the Parts List, Apply it, close it, save the drawing. Looking at the Parts List, item #13A is there, but item #14 is gone. I go back into the Parts List and 13A is there and there's a blue box around the item # and the description. I uncheck Static Value and number 14 shows up (item # and the description).
Then I go over to sheet two, open that Parts List and it lists 13A at the bottom with all the info I added in sheet one and it's non-visible. Go back to sheet one, open the Parts List and there is no 13A to be found.
I am working on an assembly that is designed around a box (bounding box) that could change size. I modeled the bounding box and placed it in a new assembly file. All other parts have been created within the assembly by referencing that bounding box with starting work plane and project geometry.
The problem comes in when I change the bounding box dimensions. The work planes for each additional part, which were defined by the faces of the bounding box, do not move when the sides move. Also, my projected geometry is not updating correctly. This is a simple box, with all 90° corners. So, all associated parts (at this point) are just rectangles.
My parts list on my idw do not update when I make changes to the model. Specifically, I have deleted a bolted connection on my design and replaced with a different components but the parts list table does not update - all I see is a lightning bolt in the browser next to the parts list but I cannot update it here.
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I was using virtual parts to add nuts and bolts to a drawing in 2013
I can make a VP bolt in the assembly, no problem, set it's size, weight, etc.
In the VP itself, there is no option for number of bolts I want it to emulate. For arguement's sake the weight was 1 pound per bolt (they are big bolts).
I can go into the BOM and say quantity 60, hit done and save the assembly.
If i open the drawing, the parts lists shows 60lbs for the 60 bolts total - which it should when summing the weight.
The problem is the BOM/assembly. If the weight of my assembly (without bolts) is 10,000lbs, the assembly sees the VP weighing 1lb and says the total weight is 10,001 lbs. Am i going to have to pattern a fake part to get this to work right? Shouldn't the total weight take into account the quantity set in the Bom??
Is there a way to display the density of materials that are assigned to varius parts in the parts list on a drawing? I don't need the mass of the parts I just need the material density to show up next to their respective parts.
For example, if I have a part with [steel mild] material assinged to it (no matter the size) I need a column in the BOM on the drawing to show: 490.684 lbs/ft^3. "Worry when there's something to worry about."
I have an assembly with a lot of purchased parts. I need to create a buy out list for purchasing. I've done this many times in the past and have a template set up for this purpose.
So now the problem, In this assembly, I have subassemblies showing up on my parts only parts list.
One of the subassemblies cinsists of two purchased parts. Both parts are set to purchased in the Bill of materials. If I do a parts only list on this assembly, it works as expected, showing two purchased parts. However, if I put that assembly into a higher level assembly, A parts only parts list shows the assembly instead of the individual parts.
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Been working over an idw MANY times due to project lag.Today I opened it up and tried adding balloons to an already ballooned assembly.
The parts list has not changed, and is "structured".But, if I try adding balloons, they tag each part, not the entire assembly.
Also, I verified this by trying to add another parts list, which defaults to "parts only".
I can't show my data set, b/c it's HUGE, plus it's proprietary.
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I have a .idw that I'm trying to make a parts list on. I select parts list and highlight everything. There are two screws that are not showing up on the parts list. I cannot select them manually either. It's acting like they are not there. Even if I do a complete parts list (adding the assemblies parts into one big list), they still don't show up.
How can I select these parts? What is wrong with them that they do not show up in the parts list?
I have been working with an assembly today where it is ideal to mirror parts and have figured out how to reuse the parts rather than create new parts. Now I find that when the parts are mirrored, they ate not retaining the mates. Where do I find the setting so they either retain their mates, or prefferably retain the mirror so that if I move the origional, the mirror moves as well?
View 9 Replies View RelatedBest practices for setting up systems in a lab environment. We have a lab enviroment of about 200 systems that access AutoCad, Inventor, Mechanical and others.
We need to have a customized interface come up when Autocad is opened by students.I have read that you can do this with profiles and workspaces and also with loading a acad.lsp file.
In the past we have just copied the Windows admin profile used to customize AutoCad to the default profile. In AutoCad 2013 that does not seem to grab everything. It doesn't seem to be the best way to do what we need.
We will also be moving to Windows 7 soon which will also cause an issue.I want to find the best way to do this with out having to deal with the Windows profile.
A bit of a strange one. I have a userform for people to configure a new drawing. One of the options they have is to select the Active Standard from a choice of the two company standards.
The template drawing contains both of the standards as does the styles library but the company ISO standard is the default. If the user selects the company ANSI standard the active standard appears correct in document settings but it produces dimensions like its still stuck on the ISO default as the template is saved. Looking in the styles library i can see the standard says ANSI but the Available Styles and Object defaults read as if they are the ISO standard.
First question, am i setting the active standard correctly?
Dim odoc2 As Inventor.DrawingDocument
Set odoc2 = ThisApplication.ActiveDocument
'Get reference to active standard object
Dim oActive As DrawingStandardStyle
Set oActive = odoc2.StylesManager.ActiveStandardStyle
oActive.Name = ComboBox1.Value
I can read a view scale with:
BaseViewScale = oDoc.Sheets.Item(1).DrawingViews.Item(1).Scale
But When I try to use the following line to change the scale, I get a compile error.
oDoc.Sheets.Item(1).DrawingViews.Item(1).Scale = BaseViewScale
What type of variable should BaseViewScale be (single, double, string)?Inventor Routed Systems 2010.
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Is it possible to make a document invisible after it´s open? I would like to keep it in memory but not reachable to the user.
Making the document view(s) invisible is not what I´m looking for. I need to clear/close/delete all views WITHOUT closing the document..
( So it has the same state as if opened through API with the visible parameter set to false, e.g. Document.VIews.Count = 0
I'm trying to set a rule in which i have 2 i parts that i can change the length of . I want a rule where if i change one of them it changes the other to fit with it.
View 1 Replies View RelatedInventor uses a gradient-fill gray background for the 3D views. This has many annoyances, such as parts of the image disappear at certain rotations because they render to the same color as the background. More seriously, when I want to print the orthogonal 3D view, I get the gray background on the printout, which looks profoundly ugly, and obscures some of the critical information I want to see.
Is there a way to either (a) change the background to something other than gray-gradient? (I'd settle for something like light-blue-gradient, for example) and (b) tell the print command to not print the gray background (but if I change it to solid white, this would solve the problem)
I want to change my mouse setting as when I am scroll my mouse it zoom in/ zoom out happens but right now scroll is working in inverse direction like when I am scroll foreword it will zoom in and vice versa.
View 1 Replies View RelatedWhy the paper size won't set to A1.
See attached clip and picture of the printer default setting.
I have been looking around but have not been able to find examples of how (If I can) set the model views via iLogic.
What I am trying to do is to have the view change from "Master" to the view I have created for each part, so when I go to create drawing all I have to select the right view and the part changes to match view.
Any method to set all the Tolerance Types for a GeneralDimension via VBA.
The Tolerance object, accessible via the GeneralDimension object, offers methods to set Deviation, Fits, Limits & Symmetric tolerance types, but I can’t find a way to set other Tolerance types, such as Reference, Basic, Max & Min
I am trying to set the appearance of sub-components in an assembly using iLogic.
Dim oDoc As Inventor.AssemblyDocument = ThisApplication.ActiveDocument Dim oCompDef As Inventor.ComponentDefinition = oDoc.ComponentDefinitionDim oCompOcc As Inventor.ComponentOccurrence 'parts in the assemblyFor Each oCompOcc In oCompDef.OccurrencesoCompOcc.Definition.Document.ActiveRenderStyle = oCompOcc.Definition.Document.RenderStyles("HVGM")Next
I know there's the setting in the Tools/Application Options/File dialogue that allows you to set a system wide setting of which LOD that opens each time you activate an assembly.
But what about a file specific setting where you are able to set a specific LOD that always opens for that specific assembly file? Or will that conflict with the system wide settings?
Granted, I know Inventor will open the last saved LOD (based on that system wide setting), but my client has users that, for a lack of better terms, are not paying attention or being aware of what LOD they are opening and thus editing the wrong LOD, etc.