topic Re: iLogic API Documentation in Inventor Programming Forum

iLogic API Documentation

MechMachineMan — Thu, 05 Jan 2017 19:06:07 GMT

As I could not find any documentation easily available on the call available in iLogic aside from the very limited amount listed in Autodesk's resources and blogs aside from the few places listed, I took the librerty to load the Autodesk.iLogic.Interfaces.xml file and parse it into an excel file that anyone can read without having to load the reference to the file in visual studio.

ex:// Here: http://adndevblog.typepad.com/files/cp2544_ilogic_inventor_api.pdf

Please Kudos if this helped ya!

Re: iLogic API Documentation

Curtis_W — Thu, 05 Jan 2017 19:48:14 GMT

Thanks MechMachineMan!

Re: iLogic API Documentation

richard.joseph.pollak — Thu, 18 Jan 2018 16:37:21 GMT

I found the link to your excel file through a Google search and made sure I found this post to give you kudos. This is extremely helpful. Thank you for making it!

Re: iLogic API Documentation

dgreatice — Fri, 19 Jan 2018 06:51:03 GMT

Hi,

I just create video in my YouTube channel, so anyone can learn basic about VBA in inventor.

see my channel :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPY0X2kKvgk&t=1s

Re: iLogic API Documentation

MechMachineMan — Wed, 28 Mar 2018 16:47:18 GMT

As an update to this, I've found an easy way to do this yourself for future versions.

Step1: Navigate to the Inventor release folder on your PC:

- C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Inventor 2018

Step2: Search for xml files you want to parse.

(I usually copy them out to desktop or some other location... just to be safe)

Step 3: Watch this youtube video and follow the same steps, using the .xml file as the map. I usually just drag the whole folders into the cells so it

automatically maps everything.

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6H7tBL97orE

And that is all! Pretty easy.

Attached is Inventor 2018 with Interfaces, Snippets, and Runtime done. Not all of them will necessarily be useful/accessible to the end user, but it could help you understand the program better!

Re: iLogic API Documentation

AlexFielder — Fri, 06 Apr 2018 08:58:51 GMT

It's never been that great because there is a bunch of XML comments missing or omitted, but I've been using Sandcastle Help File Builder to parse the Autodesk.iLogic.Interfaces.xml file (and accompanying .dll) into a compiled html help file (.chm) format for a while.

Attached is the latest one for Inventor 2018.

As soon as I can get a released copy of Inventor 2019 installed I'll run this again and update it.

🙂

Re: iLogic API Documentation

AlexFielder — Tue, 10 Apr 2018 10:20:42 GMT

Attached to this post is the compiled help file for Inventor 2019 as promised.

Re: iLogic API Documentation

MechMachineMan — Tue, 10 Apr 2018 14:42:31 GMT

@AlexFielder it looks like it only shows the tabs in the index/navigation tab, but none of the text from within to describe what the arguments used in the calls are?

Re: iLogic API Documentation

AlexFielder — Tue, 10 Apr 2018 14:47:44 GMT

I'm not sure what you mean exactly but if I understand you correctly, it is what it is. Like I said in my earlier post, the comments file is missing a bunch of data to make this Help file complete.

I suppose there might be a setting in Sandcastle that can we can tweak to give a better output, but it would take some experimentation.

Re: iLogic API Documentation

MechMachineMan — Sun, 22 Apr 2018 03:50:25 GMT

See attached for 2019!

Many changes over 2017 and 2018 in this, included access to the named faces!

Re: iLogic API Documentation

MjDeck — Tue, 25 Jun 2019 04:46:14 GMT

@MechMachineMan and @AlexFielder , this information is now included in the Inventor help. It's generated by Sandcastle. Here it is for 2019 and for 2020.

Re: iLogic API Documentation

AlexFielder — Tue, 25 Jun 2019 07:44:12 GMT

That's excellent @MjDeck, thank you. And better late than never eh?