Can the iLogic "form" work /live outside of Inventor?

[chris]

Just wondering if there is a way to create a "form" that is not in Inventor, but that would allow the values in said form to control the parameters as they would in a regular iLogic form?

example: I build a automated assembly, but our Engineers are not Inventor users, they don't want to come to my desk each time, so I'm looking for an alternative that would allow them to enter the values as if they were in a regular form, but that is not a form in Inventor.

Does iLogic give the ability to export the form to Excel or perhaps as a JavaScript .html form?

Or can a form be placed on a network location where they can access it outside of Inventor, but that it's entries would in turn build the model?

[MechMachineMan]

If the computer doesn't have inventor, it CANNOT drive the model. In that case, it would be a 2 step process.

1. Modify the values

2. Upload the modified values to the model.

This means that the users can easily input information, which then gets stored somewhere. But nothing will happen until Inventor loads that information then updates the models.

Excel files are typically how people accomplish this storage/retrieval because of it's familiarity.

[AlexFielder]

Hi @chris,

As @MechMachineMan alluded, there is no current (easy) way of achieving what you want.

However, this topic on the Inventor BETA forum may or may not lead to being able to achieve it in future:

https://beta.autodesk.com/project/forum/thread.html?cap=fb14413735ee42c99624e3793b19a0b2&forid={deb2...}

You will need to join the BETA to see/contribute to the topic I have linked above.

Perhaps @ChrisMitchell01 can share with us how to join the BETA - since I'm not sure if clicking the link above will take you to the "join" page if you aren't a member.

Thanks,

Alex.

PS. apologies for being coy about the topic above, NDAs and all that. 😉

[ChrisMitchell01]

If you don't already have access to the Inventor Beta project then you can apply using this link:

http://Autode.sk/InventorBeta

Thanks,

Chris

[bradeneuropeArthur]

Hoi could use apprenticeserver or excel for this.
I would use a vb.net stand alone application for this.
I would not use I logic for this.
And then it is definitely possible.
If you need assistance for this please let me know.