Re: Macro Wish

Anonymous · ‎11-22-2005

When I have a drawing or large assembly open, and an individual sheet metal part, I try to run a macro on the part to find the flat pattern extents. However, the macro window lists ALL the macros available. This is unacceptable, since I cannot find the macro for the individual part in the pull down.

How about a filter? How about just listing the macros available to that part?

Anonymous · ‎11-22-2005

Please also try asking this in the autodesk.inventor.customization group (if not already asked). Thanks.

shekar

Anonymous · ‎11-22-2005

Have you tried MrMacro from Charles site www.cbliss.com

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wrote in message news:5019921@discussion.autodesk.com...
When I have a drawing or large assembly open, and an individual sheet metal
part, I try to run a macro on the part to find the flat pattern extents.
However, the macro window lists ALL the macros available. This is
unacceptable, since I cannot find the macro for the individual part in the
pull down.

How about a filter? How about just listing the macros available to that
part?

Anonymous · ‎11-22-2005

Kent,

Can't you add a "Must-Have Addin's Section" to your FAQ?

If you want to do this...use this Addin...
If you want to do that...use that Addin...
Etc.

Just an idea 🙂

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T. Ham
Mechanical Engineer
CDS Engineering BV

Dual Pentium XEON 2.2 Ghz
2 GB SDRAM
NVIDIA QUADRO4 700 XGL (Driver = 77.18)
18 GB SEAGATE SCSI Hard Disc
3Com Gigabit NIC

Windows 2000 Professional SP4
Autodesk Inventor Series 9 SP4
Autodesk Inventor Series 10 SP2
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"Kent Keller" wrote in message
news:5020031@discussion.autodesk.com...
Have you tried MrMacro from Charles site www.cbliss.com

--

Kent Keller
Autodesk Discussion Group Facilitator
http://discussion.autodesk.com/

wrote in message news:5019921@discussion.autodesk.com...
When I have a drawing or large assembly open, and an individual sheet metal
part, I try to run a macro on the part to find the flat pattern extents.
However, the macro window lists ALL the macros available. This is
unacceptable, since I cannot find the macro for the individual part in the
pull down.

How about a filter? How about just listing the macros available to that
part?

Anonymous · ‎11-22-2005

Just wondering if anyone here has experienced as I did with Mr. Macro. It
doesn't seem to work with IV10??
Thx

"Kent Keller" wrote in message
news:5020031@discussion.autodesk.com...
Have you tried MrMacro from Charles site www.cbliss.com

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Kent Keller
Autodesk Discussion Group Facilitator
http://discussion.autodesk.com/

wrote in message news:5019921@discussion.autodesk.com...
When I have a drawing or large assembly open, and an individual sheet metal
part, I try to run a macro on the part to find the flat pattern extents.
However, the macro window lists ALL the macros available. This is
unacceptable, since I cannot find the macro for the individual part in the
pull down.

How about a filter? How about just listing the macros available to that
part?

Anonymous · ‎11-22-2005

Why don't you just create a tool bar with buttons for your favorite macros?

Anonymous · ‎11-22-2005

Actually, what I think would be ideal is if IV could give us flat pattern
extents as reference parameters. The macros are OK, but they don't
dynamically update like other parameters in parts, which leads to all sorts
of headaches when changes are made. Having to go back into every part and
run the macro (or save the part indivdually, if you use iProperty) is a real
pita. If flat pattern extents updated like other parameters, that would be
ideal. However, given that ADesk hasn't seen fit to update anything about
sheet metal for some time, I'm not holding my breath.

wrote in message news:5019921@discussion.autodesk.com...
When I have a drawing or large assembly open, and an individual sheet metal
part, I try to run a macro on the part to find the flat pattern extents.
However, the macro window lists ALL the macros available. This is
unacceptable, since I cannot find the macro for the individual part in the
pull down.

How about a filter? How about just listing the macros available to that
part?

Anonymous · ‎11-22-2005

Hi Teun.

I feel that listing the various sites as is currently done will encourage
people to browse these sites and possibly find other useful tools. Just
providing direct links to the programs or program pages somewhat takes away
from the sites IMO.

Also there is a few similar programs out there, and I don't want to be the
one to say which is better than the other. ;~)

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Kent Keller
Autodesk Discussion Forum Facilitator

"Teun Ham (IV9 SP4 / IV10 SP2)"
wrote in message news:5020038@discussion.autodesk.com...
Kent,

Can't you add a "Must-Have Addin's Section" to your FAQ?

If you want to do this...use this Addin...
If you want to do that...use that Addin...
Etc.

Just an idea 🙂

Anonymous · ‎11-22-2005

You reading our minds again?

Funny...Kent, Charles and I have been working on this...Hopefully by early
next year we'll have something to post.

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Sean Dotson, PE
RND Automation & Engineering
www.RNDautomation.com
www.mcadforums.com

"Teun Ham (IV9 SP4 / IV10 SP2)"
wrote in message news:5020038@discussion.autodesk.com...
Kent,

Can't you add a "Must-Have Addin's Section" to your FAQ?

If you want to do this...use this Addin...
If you want to do that...use that Addin...
Etc.

Just an idea 🙂

--
T. Ham
Mechanical Engineer
CDS Engineering BV

Dual Pentium XEON 2.2 Ghz
2 GB SDRAM
NVIDIA QUADRO4 700 XGL (Driver = 77.18)
18 GB SEAGATE SCSI Hard Disc
3Com Gigabit NIC

Windows 2000 Professional SP4
Autodesk Inventor Series 9 SP4
Autodesk Inventor Series 10 SP2
--

"Kent Keller" wrote in message
news:5020031@discussion.autodesk.com...
Have you tried MrMacro from Charles site www.cbliss.com

--

Kent Keller
Autodesk Discussion Group Facilitator
http://discussion.autodesk.com/

wrote in message news:5019921@discussion.autodesk.com...
When I have a drawing or large assembly open, and an individual sheet metal
part, I try to run a macro on the part to find the flat pattern extents.
However, the macro window lists ALL the macros available. This is
unacceptable, since I cannot find the macro for the individual part in the
pull down.

How about a filter? How about just listing the macros available to that
part?

Anonymous · ‎11-22-2005

Coming to a theater near you very soon.

>Actually, what I think would be ideal is if IV could give us flat pattern
extents as reference parameters.

Anonymous · ‎11-22-2005

Are you familiar with customizing your toolbar? RMB on an existing toolbar, click Customize... Select the "Commands" tab, then in the Categories pane, select Macros. On the right pane, all the macros defined in your application project will be shown. Find your desired macro, then drag it onto your toolbar. This will create a button that give you one-click access to your macro.

Anonymous · ‎11-22-2005

Dave,

You working on this? I have a add-in that is partially written to do this.
The customer backed out (I think, never heard back from them). Shoot me an
email...

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RND Automation & Engineering
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"Dave Hoder" wrote in
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Coming to a theater near you very soon.

>Actually, what I think would be ideal is if IV could give us flat pattern
extents as reference parameters.

Anonymous · ‎11-22-2005

Correct me if I'm wrong. Only macros in the default VBA project are shown
up -
How you get the others not in the default to show?
Thx

wrote in message news:5020328@discussion.autodesk.com...
Are you familiar with customizing your toolbar? RMB on an existing toolbar,
click Customize... Select the "Commands" tab, then in the Categories pane,
select Macros. On the right pane, all the macros defined in your
application project will be shown. Find your desired macro, then drag it
onto your toolbar. This will create a button that give you one-click access
to your macro.

Anonymous · ‎11-22-2005

>Only macros in the default VBA project are shown up

Good question, I don't know. Anyone else?

My general practice is to develop code in a seperate project, then once its "released" I export each module/class/form needed by the new code and import it into the default VBA project. Not the best way, but I haven't bought VB so I can't make add-ins 😞

Anonymous · ‎11-22-2005

Same as I did. I just drag all my macros used frequently into the default
To access to others, I use Mr.Macro from Cbliss. However, it doesn't seem to
work well with IV10?

wrote in message news:5020400@discussion.autodesk.com...
>Only macros in the default VBA project are shown up

Good question, I don't know. Anyone else?

My general practice is to develop code in a seperate project, then once its
"released" I export each module/class/form needed by the new code and import
it into the default VBA project. Not the best way, but I haven't bought VB
so I can't make add-ins 😞

Anonymous · ‎11-22-2005

Actually in re-reading this I am mistaken. The tool I'm talking about will
allow you to access the extents & put them in your title block for instance,
but won't let you use them in the parameters table for equations (I don't
think). No, it's not mine.

Anonymous · ‎11-22-2005

Ahh, ok... The iProperty add-in (by Patrick D.) can actually do this for
you. The bummer part, tho, is that they only update on a Part Save, unlike
parameters, which update dynamically (any time there's a change in the
part). So, if you save the top level of an assembly and all its sheet metal
children, none of the flat pattern extents will be updated. You have to
either do a Save All (and grab a beer while you wait 10 min for it to
finish) or open each part individually and Save. With Parameters (for
example an adaptive Length parameter), on the other hand, I can change my
model (which, for example, changes the Length of the part), and the Length
will be dynamically updated across the board. Saving the top-level assembly
w/ subcomponents will update the Length of all parts. It'd be nice to have
this usability with sheet metal extents. Unfortunately, I don't really know
if that's feasible without ADesk incorporating sheet extents into their
parameters.

"Dave Hoder" wrote in
message news:5020558@discussion.autodesk.com...
Actually in re-reading this I am mistaken. The tool I'm talking about will
allow you to access the extents & put them in your title block for instance,
but won't let you use them in the parameters table for equations (I don't
think). No, it's not mine.

Anonymous · ‎11-22-2005

Brian,

Please visit this page -

www.abcpoolleague.com/yippeepro2/tutorials (this is just a temporary
website)

and watch Tutorial #3.

This is what Dave Hoder (more than likely) was alluding to in his posts
(correct me if I'm wrong, though, Dave).

Anonymous · ‎11-22-2005

On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 21:42:25 +0000, Brian Iwaskewycz wrote:

> www.abcpoolleague.com/yippeepro2/tutorials

Sorry... bad URL... make that:

http://www.abcpoolleague.com/yippeepro2/tutorials.shtml

Anonymous · ‎11-23-2005

Brian,

Will YIPPEE extract the flatpattern extents?

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"Brian Iwaskewycz" wrote in
message news:5020654@discussion.autodesk.com...
On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 21:42:25 +0000, Brian Iwaskewycz wrote:

> www.abcpoolleague.com/yippeepro2/tutorials

Sorry... bad URL... make that:

http://www.abcpoolleague.com/yippeepro2/tutorials.shtml

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