13 Jan 2021
Most products work with fonts that are installed on the system. If you check how to use custom fonts in Inventor or Revit the articles will...
8 Jan 2021
Forge released Automation APIs for Revit, Inventor, and 3ds Max last year. Now that it has been a year we wanted to check in with the...
6 Jan 2021
If you need to work with an SQLite database, one way is to use System.Data.SQLite It's not part of the .NET framework install, but available...
24 Nov 2020
You can only set the commandLine in the Activity, so how could you add job-specific arguments to it when starting the WorkItem? Many people...
23 Nov 2020
I already talked about running iLogic code that was defined in the Activity - see Run iLogic Rule without AppBundle. You could also provide...
10 Nov 2020
Inside your AppBundle's code, you do not have direct access to the values that were provided for the WorkItem parameters. However, the...
12 Oct 2020
As it was announced on the Configurator 360 website, current customers are encouraged to migrate to Inventor Automation API. In order to...
29 Sep 2020
When using Automation API for Inventor, you might have to change some of the code in the iLogic Rules of your documents. 1) ThisApplication...
10 Sep 2020
When working with documents, one problem might be not knowing what other documents they reference. E.g. if you want to translate an Inventor...
3 Sep 2020
When using Automation, you often want to show the updated model to the user as soon as possible. That means, after updating the model you...
1 Sep 2020
The Visual Studio project template we provide for Automation API for Inventor is only available in C# However, some Inventor add-in...
26 Aug 2020
I wrote before about the Visual Studio project template for Automation API for Inventor and how it can help with local debugging. This time...