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Informed Design: Unique Codeblocks help page

PaulMunford — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 09:56:11 GMT

We've added a new page to the Informed Design help, specifically focused on the codeblocks which are unique to Informed Design.

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Autodesk Informed Design > Help Topics > Unique Codeblocks

'Informed design makes use of Google Blockly in the rules workspace of a Product Definition to specify the layout, logic, and behavior of the Input Form.

The following Codeblocks are unique to Informed Design's implementation of Blockly and have been added to the standard Blockly library of blocks available.'

Learn how to use Informed Design Codeblocks in the Input rules of a Product Definition to set and get Input Parameter properties (i.e. value, lists, min, max, visibility, etc.), add comments, and print messages to the screen for the Revit user.

Re: Informed Design: Unique Codeblocks help page

PaulMunford — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 09:33:46 GMT

We have also been working up some of these topics into Blog posts. Here is the first one!

Informed Design: Limiting inputs to manufacturable values.

Re: Informed Design: Unique Codeblocks help page

PaulMunford — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 09:17:44 GMT

Here's our latest blog post on Codeblocks: How to add comments to your Codeblock logic in Informed Design for Inventor

Learn how to document your codeblock logic by adding inline comments or comments to the codeblocks themselves.

(It might be YOU who has to edit the code in three months' time… will you remember what you were thinking!)

Re: Informed Design: Unique Codeblocks help page

PaulMunford — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 09:22:42 GMT

Here are two more Informed Design Codeblock blogs you might find helpful.

Codeblocks Best Practices

Tips and best practices to get started with Codeblocks in the Product definition editor.

Codeblocks for Industrialized Construction

A high-level introduction to the concept of Codeblocks as implemented in Autodesk Informed Design for Inventor.