topic Re: iLogic documentation in Inventor Forum

iLogic documentation

Anonymous — Tue, 05 Jan 2016 11:51:07 GMT

Hi,

I am starting to use iLogic and look often over Internet to find some clues.

In the code I often see references to objects methods and properties I cannot find any description in help.

For example Rep_Manager.

Is there a decent iLogic or maybe VB documentation concerning Inventor?

something more user friendly than this, something with decent table of contents, objects, methods, properties lists etc.

Cris.

Re: iLogic documentation

mdavis22569 — Tue, 05 Jan 2016 11:53:24 GMT

Might have better luck on the Customization forum

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-customization/bd-p/120

Re: iLogic documentation

MechMachineMan — Tue, 05 Jan 2016 13:09:14 GMT

"C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Inventor 2016\Local Help\admapi_20_0.chm"

"Rep_Manager" as written like that would not be found anywhere. It is a variable that accesses the object, like such:

Rep_Manager = ThisApplication.ActiveDocument.ComponentDefinition.RepresentationsManager

so that you dont need to re-type ThisApplication.ActiveDocument.ComponentDefinition.RepresentationsManager every time you need to access something that belongs to the RepresentationsManager object.

On the customization forums, most of us follow the syntax of starting object variables with an "o"; ie "oRepManger" instead of "Rep_Manager", which is a good idea to adapt, so if you ever need help, we can understand your code quickly instead of having to decipher it.

Re: iLogic documentation

Curtis_W — Tue, 05 Jan 2016 14:32:36 GMT

HI kmeldfreyssinet,

I think what you're looking for is the API help, see this link:

http://inventortrenches.blogspot.com/2013/10/ilogic-how-to-learn-inventors.html

I hope this helps.
Best of luck to you in all of your Inventor pursuits,
Curtis
http://inventortrenches.blogspot.com

Re: iLogic documentation

SharkDesign — Tue, 05 Jan 2016 15:06:54 GMT

There is plenty of information out there, but you have to cobble it together to do what you want to do.

Be aware that iLogic is not nearly as simple as Autodesk wants you to believe and if you have no previous knowledge of coding, particularly VBA, you are going to struggle to do anything other than the basics.

Re: iLogic documentation

Mark.Lancaster — Tue, 05 Jan 2016 19:59:20 GMT

In my opinion.. iLogic was designed to do only certail things and if you just use only those iLogic functions you really don't need any programming training.. Yes you can add VB and .net code to it but once you do that I don't believe that's an ilogic code anymore.. But that's my opinion...

Re: iLogic documentation

Anonymous — Wed, 06 Jan 2016 14:25:38 GMT

Hi,

Thanks for information.

That's what I was looking for. (VB in inventor).

I am quite familiar with VBA, so that's exactly what I was after. Only had some trouble finding where to start.

Cris.

Re: iLogic documentation

SharkDesign — Wed, 06 Jan 2016 14:27:52 GMT

From what I understand though, it's not true VBA and only based on it.

Some commands I've tried in the past from VBA have not worked.

I may be wrong though as I'm not in any ways a VBA coder.