I am into tracking solar array's. So designing for high winds is paramount. I wonder if Inventor will have a package for analysis of wind loads. It is a different kind of FEA. Call it a 3-D distributed load.
View 5 RepliesI am currently looking into mirroring and arrays and i wondered if it is possible to have some kind of adaptive mirroring activated or used.
The aim is as i change the instance which is arrayed or mirrored i want the objects in the array and the mirrored parts changed too.
If it is´not possible just like that i would want to do a macro or i logic form that updates the array or mirror to have matching parts again.
I'm working on a small design project and creating a program in Inventor that utilizes a 2D Sketch to calculate the forces in a 2D static Bridge.... Although this is Besides the point.
In order to do what I want, I've found it will be easier to use Arrays. Unfortunately I'm having trouble passing arrays through various functions and setting them to each other.
These errors are constantly popping up
Rule Compile Errors in Bridge Stress, in Sketch Test Code.ipt
Error on Line 60 : Number of indices is less than the number of dimensions of the indexed array.
Error on Line 63 : Number of indices is less than the number of dimensions of the indexed array.
Error on Line 69 : Number of indices is less than the number of dimensions of the indexed array.
Error on Line 174 : Number of indices is less than the number of dimensions of the indexed array.
Error on Line 308 : Number of indices is less than the number of dimensions of the indexed array.
Attached you'll find the code I'm using.
Is there a way to declare a non-bound array (dynamic array?) in iLogic?
There are examples of set bounds array:
MyDoubleValues = New Double(){1.2,2.2,3.3}
But doing something like:
Dim MyDoubleValues() As Double ---Or--- MyDoubleValues = New Double()
Results in an error. On the other hand, the following totally works:
Dim MyDoubleValues(1) As Double
Which creates an array with a Ubound of 2
For my first project we had to create a portable wind turbine, so i've designed a turbine (sketch included as an attachment).
I've worked a little bit with inventor in the past but my experience is unfortunately not so great and i stumbled on creating the ' blades' for this turbine. I also included my ipt ant iam files.
- additional info-
one blade makes a total curve of 120 degrees
one blade has a width of about 80 mm
the length of the tube is 700mm
the diameter of the turbine is 300 mm
We created a wellhead stand (top and bottom plates has od of 18" and the body has od of 16.75" thk of 0.5") and ran the stress analysis.
Because we have a cylinder attach vertically to the wellhead stand, so we added the gravity and force (40,000 lb) on the top plate.
Our question is about the wind load. We know there has a software call robot structural analysis but that is not an option yet. And we looked up other pages and knew that we can convert the wind load to pressure. Basically the wind load is on the one side of the hydraulic cylinder (around 13feet tall and od of 6") and rod (around 12 feet tall and od of 4"). But where do we add it to the wellhead stand? on the top plate (flat face) ? or the body (cylinder)?
We attached a sample part. the orange parts = hydraulic cylinder. the green part = top plate. the magenta part = body.
Which is the best way to do a solar panel?
View 9 Replies View RelatedCivil 3D 2014.I want to attach attribute information and/or metadata to my array. Is this possible?
If it is possible, I would also like to be able to explode my array and have my array items acquire the attribute information for exporting later. Can this be done as well?
I'm wondering how to create huge arrays in the best way. I have a circle and want it thousands of columns and tens of thousands of rows. Anytime I start to make this AutoCAD gets extremely slow and I was told that turning some into blocks would be best.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI am currently drawing a lithography mask in Autocad 2013 student version, where I created a lot of arrays. My problem is that I can't seem to align these structures. Some of them need to be aligned along the y-axis and some along the x-axis.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI relatively new at this 3D stuff however I've produced a model in 3D & need to add both realistic sky & sea but don't know how. I managed to add sky as a background but can't get the sea to work. Also I need to add the image of a solar panel onto a solid but can't get it to work either.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI've been trying to figure out if chaining parameters will accomplish what i'm trying to do, which is...
Imagine an elevation of a concrete pier or column showing the horizontal stirrup cage around the vertical reinforcement. If like to be able to use one parameter to control the space between elements (cage c/c) and another to control the total length of the array (height of column or # of cages). Then the actual number of elements would be total length/spacing.
Also, arrays alway seem to have fixed spacing, anyway to make the parameter control the spacing of the array?
I have been attempting to pass a string array contained in a variant to the AutoCAD method AcadPlot.SetLayoutsToPlot. I am using late binding without a Interop assembly because we have several versions of AutoCAD in this company and I would like to support all of them from the same code base.The method wants a variant that contains a string array passed byref. The Microsoft documentation on COM interop from VB.NET makes it sound like the compiler will marshal it correctly by default, but it always throws a COMException (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070057 (E_INVALIDARG)).
The stack trace shows it is trying to anyway:
StackTrace:
at Microsoft.VisualBasic.CompilerServices.LateBinding.InternalLateCall(Object o, Type objType, String name, Object[] args, String[] paramnames, Boolean[] CopyBack, Boolean IgnoreReturn)
at Microsoft.VisualBasic.CompilerServices.NewLateBinding.LateCall(Object Instance, Type Type, String MemberName, Object[] Arguments, String[] ArgumentNames, Type[] TypeArguments, Boolean[] CopyBack, Boolean IgnoreReturn)
But no matter how I code it I cannot get this variant array passed to AutoCAD.I have tried:
Imports System.Runtime.InteropServices
' VB default marshalling
Dim layoutarr = New Object() {"Layout1"}
doc.Plot.SetLayoutsToPlot(layoutarr)
' using a VariantWrapper
Dim layoutarr = New Object() {"Layout1"}
Dim wrapper As New System.Runtime.InteropServices.VariantWrapper(layoutarr)
doc.Plot.SetLayoutsToPlot(wrapper)
[code]...
As intensively as AutoCAD ActiveX uses variant arrays, I know this problem is going to come up again and again for me as I try to migrate code over to .NET.
I am looking for a lisp or vba to calculate solar panel angel / solar light power on any place in the world found 1 that shows sun time on 1 day of the year.
And can the autocad menu's SUNPROPERTIES / GEOGRAPHICLOCATION be controlled by lisp or vba ?
I am trying to make a huge array of circles (4000 x 12000 or so). I work in microfabrication and need this to make a mask for lithography of a membrane. What is the best practice to minimize the memory usage? I.e. arrays, blocks, groups? I tried making an array of circles one row and 4000 columns then making that a block. Then repeating that block down for multiple rows, maybe 100, then making that a block. Repeating this until I have thousands of them. Is this the best way? It bogs down and gets incredible slow which I am hoping to avoid. I realize that it is inevitable that it will get slow with these huge numbers.
View 1 Replies View Relatedhow to use Civil 3D to create a grading plan for a solar PV site or a golf course?
Here is the situation. We have a large 100 acre site that is not flat. We want to do minimal grading to "smooth out the surface". So that maximum slope on the site is 10%. The site does not have to be graded completely flat. We are trying to work with the existing contours and terrain as much as possible.
Is there some functiion or some way for Civil 3D to "smooth out a surface"? We want to work with the existing slopes and contours of the site and just need a grading plan that will smooth out mounds, holes, or high slope areas.
I am trying to create a block that polar arrays the street lamp, but every time i try i just move the grip for it, is there something i am missing?
View 8 Replies View RelatedWhen opening an assembly document via the API (inventorApplication.Documents.Open("path-to-document")), the browser pane and ribbon look like no document has been opened, even though the active environment (inventorApplication.UserInterfaceManager.ActiveEnvironment.DisplayName) is "Assembly".
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have a user that just recently discovered that the add-in manager does not load any more. I has been working fine for some time.
And I mean that we can't even open the add-in manager. The button is non responsive. I have tried to open it from the windows start menu and I get the message " can't create apprentice server".
Of course this effects all of the ad-ins including the CC and the vault.
I can log in as administrator and everything works fine so the install is good. I'm assuming it's got something to do with his user account settings and on that vein I tried to delete his Autodesk settings in both the registry and his user folder but with no luck.
We are running IV2010
Windows 7 x 64bit.
I have a bit of problem. I have created a Addin for Inventor using Visual Studion 2010 Professional.
My Addin Works fine for
Windows XP Professional Service Pack 3 (64-bit OS)
With Autodesk Inventor Professional 2012, 32-Bit Edition
Now I need to Deploy the addin on another Machine with below configuration,
Windows 7 Professional Service Pack 1(64 bit OS)
Autodesk inventor Professional 2012, 64-Bit Edition.
I tried to load my addin, it doesnot load, I tried to load it manually by Goint to Tools->Add-In and selecting my addin and selected "Loaded", Even then its not loading..
I am trying to load CATIA v5 files into Inventor 2013, which works great. However, the materials applied to the object in CATIA are not being imported. Instead the colors from the "Properties" dialog in CATIA are being applied. Is it possible to somehow maintain the materials? Since the constraints aren't imported either, I would have to reapply the materials for every position of this certain object (for renders), because adding the constraints in Inventor is too much work to be doing again.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI recently downloaded the student version of Inventor Professional 2013 (64-bit). I made some parts and ran some stress analysis simulations on the parts. I restarted Inventor after running a simulation and upon the reopen, none of the add-ins on the Environments tab were there and the Add-Ins manager does not open. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the entire program, even tried installing different model years of Inventor; none of the versions load the add-ins and the add-in manager fails to load.
View 9 Replies View RelatedWindows 7 64bit
Inventor 2010
Visual Studio Professional 2010
I have an Addin with several pieces of functionality that I have been working on for over a year now and have had no problems with it loading. Yesterday I was working on a bug in a function and when I set a break point it was not breaking in the correct location. Possably some miss match between the source and .pdb files. I tried a clean build but still could not get the break point to be correctly aligned with my source code.
I tried to unregister and re-register the Addin with regasm but no luck. I then decided to search the registry for the name of my Addin and was supprized to find thousnads of registry entries. I then decided to clean my registry of all occurances of the Addin name. After removing all occurances of my Addin from the registry my Addin would not load.
I tried putting a message box in the first line of the Activate sub but it never executes. I made the assumption that it was a problem with the registry and changed the GUID value. When I did a rebuild I got the following error:
Error 1 The "UnregisterAssembly" task failed unexpectedly.
System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x80030002): could not be found. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80030002 (STG_E_FILENOTFOUND))
at Microsoft.Build.Tasks.NativeMethods.UnregisterTypeLib(Guid& guid, Int16 wMajorVerNum, Int16 wMinorVerNum, Int32 lcid, SYSKIND syskind)
at Microsoft.Build.Tasks.UnregisterAssembly.Unregister(String assemblyPath, String typeLibPath)
at Microsoft.Build.Tasks.UnregisterAssembly.Execute()
at Microsoft.Build.Framework.ITask.Execute()
at Microsoft.Build.BackEnd.TaskExecutionHost.Microsoft.Build.BackEnd.ITaskExecutionHost.Execute()
at Microsoft.Build.BackEnd.TaskBuilder.ExecuteInstantiatedTask(ITaskExecutionHost taskExecutionHost, TaskLoggingContext taskLoggingContext, TaskHost taskHost, ItemBucket bucket, TaskExecutionMode howToExecuteTask, Boolean& taskResult) AnthroAddIn
I ran the build again and did not get the error.This Addin is loaded on every CAD workstation in the company using an install program written with the Inno Setup Compiler. I installed the Addin using the installer and the Addin still will not load on my machine.
What is the best approch to debugging an Addin that will not load?When is it necessary to re-register your Addin using regasm?Is it possable that this problem is being caused a problem with the registry?I have read a number of posts regarding problems with Addin's not loading but have not found anything simmilar to this.
Here are two ones I have created (comments welcome) but I was looking at some on deviantart and getting some idears I wanted to know how to do a few things: -Milkyway (Whole Galaxy)SunShadows (Like in Startrek voyager intro where the sun light hits the ship and casts a shadow)Spaceship (just wanted to know how people put these in to there pictures.
View 1 Replies View RelatedFor one of the students first projects I would want them to make a solar system. Of course there would be spheres representing planets with pivot points in the center of the system (the sun) and some would revolve slower and some faster around the sun. Now I was able to create the planets and set the pivot points in the center (the sun) and have them rotate but I'm trying to take this a step further. I really want to create moons that would circle the planets.
That's where my problems starts. I have a planet that I want a moon to revolve around. I was able to change the moons pivot point to the center of the planet but the pivot point remains there while the planet circles the sun. What I need to do is have the moons pivot point locked onto the planet that way if the planet moves, then the moon moves along with it. In this case, the moon will be rotating around the planet as the planet rotates around the sun.
My Content Center Add-In is not loading in Inventor Pro 2012. It's listed as unloaded in the Add-In manager (see below), and, of course, "Place from Content Center" isn't shown as an option on any of the menus. If I double-click on Centent Center in the Add-In Manager, the word "Unloaded" changes to "Loaded" and I don't get any errors. It looks like it should have loaded fine. But then if I close the Add-In Manager and open it again, it has gone back to "Unloaded". I haven't found anything that can restore the Content Center functionality.
I have installed Inventor Pro 2013, and this could have been around when the Inventor 2012 Content Center broke. I'm not positive about the timing... If I start Inv 2013, the Content Center works fine in it.
What to do before uninstalling 2013 and/or reinstalling 2012?
I have an issue where an addin loads once the first time Inventor is opened. If the addin is unloaded and reloaded via the Addins dialog and no documents are open it loads once. If the addin is reloaded while a file is open is reloads twice.
I came to the conclusion it is loading multiple times because the it seems to go through the Activation method of the addin twice. When is the Activation method called during loading an addin?
Inventor Addins
FlowTools for Inventor
ilxButton Panel (Buttons for iLogic Rules)
I have problem with Hole and Thread load menu input Thread.
i see only Loading thread data spredsheet .Please wait
win xp x32
inventor 2013
Recently we have switched from VBA to iLogic code. We have stripped out all of the VBA code, but when parts and assemblies are opening there is a big delay and the words "Loading VBA Project" is displayed at the bottom of Inventor.
Is iLogic or some facet of Inventor 2012 still using VBA Projects? If not, then can I disable this to shorten the amount of time it takes to open models? If possible how would I do this?
Using Inventor 2013
I want to know all about solar radiation analysis in revit 2013. any tutorial link? I have tried it on my design but it only opens sun path. and there is no "add ins" option.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI'm working on a script with an UI element. I want all values of the 2. cloumn (Rasterkeilfarbe) returned in one array and all values of the 3. column (Klischeenr.) returned in another arry.
var farben = ["black", "red", "blue", "green", "bla", "blupp"]
var myName = myInput (farben);
// rest of the script
[Code]....