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Ilogics Snippits Tab

younus_raza — Tue, 26 Mar 2024 10:37:11 GMT

Hello Folks,

I hope y'all are doing well. I am facing a problem with my iLogic rule editor window. I do not know how my snippets tab disappeared. Can anyone guide me how to bring it back, please.

Thanks in advace.

Re: Ilogics Snippits Tab

WCrihfield — Tue, 26 Mar 2024 12:07:29 GMT

Hi @younus_raza. There are 3 options available for how/where those are located. There is a thumb tack icon for toggling it between "Auto Hide" and "Dock". But if we right-click in the area between 'Snippets' and the thumb tack icon, we get a small list, which also includes an option called "Float". If it was set to Auto Hide, then you should be able to move your mouse over near that edge of your iLogic Rule editor dialog, then it will automatically (but temporarily) show up. If that is the case, then when it shows, click the thumb tack symbol to make it stay. If it is currently set to Float, then it may be behind your current code editor screen, so you may need to reduce the size of you code screen away from full screen, then move the code screen around a bit, to see if the snippets are behind it. If they are, then try moving them back over to the edge of the code screen (change from Float to Dock).

Re: Ilogics Snippits Tab

younus_raza — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 05:46:35 GMT

Hi @@WCrihfield thank you for your kind response but unfortunately, I am not able to see that thumbnail track icon. So i have decided to reinstall inventor again.

Re: Ilogics Snippits Tab

WCrihfield — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 12:44:01 GMT

OK. Sorry to hear that you were not able to fix it easily. Did you have a lot of custom 'Snippets' saved in your iLogic Snippets area? If so, did you ever export those settings out into an external XML file? If so, then you may be able to restore those when you have it all back up and running again, by going to the Custom side, then using the folder icon to open the custom snippets file again.

I have a ton of custom snippets stored on the 'Custom' side, in a long scrolling list of categories, and periodically export them to be safe, because they are pretty important to me and my daily work. I sometimes even store a copy of that exported file in a secondary place, just to be extra safe. It is a good practice to get into if you are planning to write or edit a lot of your own iLogic rules.

Re: Ilogics Snippits Tab

younus_raza — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 06:01:20 GMT

Hi @WCrihfield thanks a lot for your support. But I never had any custom snippets also I tried reinstalling the inventor but the problem still persists.

Re: Ilogics Snippits Tab

WCrihfield — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 12:13:23 GMT

Wow! That sucks. Sounds like you may need to contact the folks at Autodesk Technical Support about that one.

https://www.autodesk.com/support/contact-support

https://www.autodesk.com/support/technical/article/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Contacting-a-technical-support-provider.html

Re: Ilogics Snippits Tab

MjDeck — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 15:14:22 GMT

@younus_raza , which version of Inventor are you running?
Inventor automatically stores a file with settings for the snippets and other windows. The filename depends on the version of Inventor. Let me know the version and I can provide more info.

Re: Ilogics Snippits Tab

younus_raza — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 03:49:52 GMT

Hi @MjDeck I am using 2021.

Re: Ilogics Snippits Tab

younus_raza — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 03:51:37 GMT

@WCrihfield I will ask the support as thanks a lot for your assistance so far.

Re: Ilogics Snippits Tab

MjDeck — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 14:47:26 GMT

To fix the problem on Inventor 2021:

exit Inventor
in Windows Explorer, go to the folder
%LocalAppData%\Autodesk,_Inc\DefaultDomain_Path_4twf4mcvy1gtdqjszvslgd331vck0x3s\Autodesk_Inventor_2021
You should see just one file in that folder: user.config

The easiest way to fix the problem is just to delete that file. However, that would cause you to lose other iLogic settings in Inventor. If you don't mind restoring your other settings (such as windows sizes and positions), just delete the file.

If you want to fix just the snippets problem, edit the file (it is an XML file) with an editor such as notepad++.
Delete everything between this starting line:

and these ending lines:

</XtraSerializer></value> </setting>

Also delete that starting line and those ending lines.

Re: Ilogics Snippits Tab

younus_raza — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 10:26:04 GMT

@MjDeck Thanks a lot for your assistance.