Autodesk inventor api samples

I'm happy to provide more details, code, assembly files to demonstrate the problem. Many thanks Dan Solved! Tags 6. Tags: API sample code. Message 2 of 6. Ananye v. Pay attention to matrix operations in the following code fragment: ' Get the transform from the occurrence where the surface body currently exists.

Transformation ' Get the matrix of the second occurrence and invert it. Transformation oMatrix2. Invert ' Combine these matrices.

Call oMatrix. PreMultiplyBy oMatrix2 ' Copy the surface body from the first part into the second. Call oPartDoc2. Add oBody, oMatrix This combined transformation ensures correct orientation of the copied body relative to the target body. Message 3 of 6. Hi Vladimir - thanks for the reply - yes i'm aware of that sample code and have used it successfully but i need solid output. Add oBody, oMatrix this call allows specification of the position within the.

Message 4 of 6. Try this workflow. This is a self-paced tutorial guide for a smooth introduction into the programming world. This is a "one-stop shop" learning path for users who know Autodesk products but are absolutely new to programming and are thinking about taking the plunge. Get easy access to Forge APIs and documentation, tutorials, GitHub samples, support and more for Autodesk cloud-based software and components in your own web and mobile applications.

It includes overviews, detailed descriptions of the objects and functions, and sample program. Start here. A self-paced video tutorial demonstrating how to get started developing with Autodesk Inventor. Illustrates how to set up registry free AddIns for Inventor, and also how to format the install folder ready for publication in the Store.

It contains additional sample programs and tools to use when programming Inventor. To access the SDK information you need to install one or both of the.

The UserTools. When this component is installed, it creates the directories for the tools that include add-ins and standalone executables. The dll and exe files are installed so you can immediately use the tools without having to compile any source code. The source code for the tools is also installed which you can use as a sample and also can modify to change and extend the behaviour of these tools.

For more details regarding these tools, please refer to the individual "ReadMe. The DeveloperTools. When this component is installed, it creates the directories that contain the DeveloperTools sub folder which contains the following subfolders.

This contains an object model diagram chart that can be useful in understanding the relationships between various objects. This folder also contains some guidelines to use when creating the user-interface for your Inventor programs.

This folder contains several header. Occasionally information in these files is also useful in other circumstances. This folder contains a utility that is currently only used internally and is now obsolete with registry-free add-ins.

This folder contains many larger programs written in several different language that demonstrate various ways to access and use Inventor's API. This folder contains two programs that are useful utilities when working with Inventor's API.

The first, called EventWatcher, allows you to specify and watch certain events as they occur within Inventor. Another feature of Apprentice is the cost. Apprentice is freely available and is distributed as part of Design Tracking, which is available for download from the Autodesk website.

Much of Design Tracking actually uses Apprentice. A simpler example of the use of Apprentice is a small application that updates the cost property of an Autodesk Inventor part document based on the current cost that is stored in a business database.

In this case Apprentice is being used to write the document properties of a part. The utility can quickly go through a set of Autodesk Inventor part documents and set the cost property with a value it obtained from a database. Most of the features that Apprentice supports are identical to those in Autodesk Inventor. For example, to traverse an assembly you would perform the traversal the same way in Apprentice as you would in Autodesk Inventor.

The basic traversal function can be written to be used for both cases. Because most of the API supported by Apprentice is the same as Autodesk Inventor's, this section on Apprentice will focus on the differences between the two.

The primary differences between Autodesk Inventor and Apprentice are in the Application and Document objects. The objects that represent the Application and Document are completely different in Autodesk Inventor and Apprentice. In Apprentice there isn't a Documents collection. The ApprenticeServerComponent supports a few methods and properties that are unique to Apprentice. These are the Open and Close methods, which are used to open and close documents within Apprentice; DisplayAffinity, which is used to optimize the behavior of Apprentice for viewer applications; MinimizeFileSize, which compresses files by removing versions, and FileSaveAs, which we'll discuss in more detail later in this section.

The document objects used within Apprentice are different from the document objects used in Autodesk Inventor. In Apprentice, the ApprenticeServerDocument object represents the part, assembly, and presentation documents and the ApprenticeServerDrawingDocument represents the drawing document.

The code below illustrates using Apprentice to open a document. The "New" keyword is used in the declaration of the variable for the ApprenticeServerComponent. This creates a new instance of an object of ApprenticeServerComponent type. Apprentice isn't actually loaded at this point, but is loaded the first time the variable is used--in this case, when the Open method of Apprentice is called.

Even though there are differences between the application and document objects of Autodesk Inventor and Apprentice, once you get past these top-level objects, the objects below them in the hierarchy are the same.

For example, a function that extracts information from the B-Rep or from an assembly can be used with Autodesk Inventor or Apprentice without any changes. The function below will display an assembly tree given a ComponentOccurrences object regardless of whether it is used in Apprentice or Autodesk Inventor.