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Inventor Add-On Suggestion: Macro Recorder

Inventor Add-On Suggestion: Macro Recorder

Some years ago AutoCAD got a facelift that included a macro-recorder. You could tell it to 'start record' and type in a series of picks, clicks and commands, then tell it to 'stop record'...then name it. Thereafter, all you had to do was invoke the macro thus saved (by name) and a single-pick followed by a 'return' keystroke and you were through that series of actions. This was great for repetitive tasks. 

 

Please add this to Inventor, especially in the .iam environment. Right away, the business of adding 'color' to parts that don't get painted until they are in a weldment will become less tedious and time-consuming. Particularly so on the very part-intensive assemblies/weldments.

 

Thanks, Jeff M.

7 Comments
salariua
Mentor

ProE had that, was quite handy.

Anonymous
Not applicable

Yep, VERY handy for speeding things up

r_lehmann79
Advocate

I just started typing a new idea, but then found this already existing!

I'm also missing a record macro tool in Inventor.

 

I'm using this in MS Excel: it's so easy to create a macro code by simply clicking the steps you are doing!

 

Excel macro.jpg

 

 

Maybe the recording tool can be combined with iLogic!?

 

machiel.veldkamp
Collaborator

oh yes

imajar
Advisor

Solidworks does this too and I loved it!  Its a great way for a non-programmer (or amateur programmers) to create semi-automated tasks.

weiser
Advocate
Would be great to have this Feature! I am using it along with Excel for a very long time for now and I am very happy having it! Though I'm an mechanical engineer with only normal programming experience it is great to record a "tamplate" for solving a similar problem. After having recorded a process it is very easy to adapt the code for solving my problem... The difficulties in using VBA along with Inventor is not the programming itself but more to figure out which command or method has to be used to perform a certain process ...
weiser
Advocate

Hi,

I have seen that there are several different ideas that deal with almost the same issue.

For a successful implementation on the part of Autodesk it would probably be good if all efforts were bundled in one post... Maybe you also support this effort, which can be found at the following link:

 

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-ideas/recording-mouse-keystrokes-and-commands-for-using-in-i...

 

Best wishes & thanks in advance for supporting

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