Actually transcript files do exactly what you ask. Turn them on using
iTweak from my site...
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Sean Dotson, PE
RND Automation & Engineering
www.RNDautomation.com
www.mcadforums.com
wrote in message news:5115167@discussion.autodesk.com...
Is there any way to build a part via an external text specification? For
example, suppose I wrote down every mouse click and function I use to create
a part -- I could describe it well enough to a friend that he could
reproduce the part. I'd like to be able to codify this well enough to feed
it to Inventor and have it build the part for me.
The reason I want to do this is partially for archival purposes, but mainly
I would like to build complicated, mathematically described parts -- for
example a 3D surface obtained from data, or a 3D model of the nearest 100
galaxies, or mathematically derived function such as the real part of a
cosine in complex space.
I suspect the answer is "yes, use visual basic and the Inventor API", so my
next question is whether anyone has done such a thing and if not, how do I
learn visual basic and where do I obtain the Inventor API?