Ilogics Snippits Tab

[younus_raza]

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.

[WCrihfield]

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).

[younus_raza]

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.

[WCrihfield]

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.

[younus_raza]

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.

[WCrihfield]

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-techn... 

[MjDeck]

@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.

[younus_raza]

Hi @MjDeck I am using 2021.

[younus_raza]

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

[MjDeck · Accepted solution]

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:

<setting name="SnippetsDockPanelLayout" serializeAs="String">

and these ending lines:

&lt;/XtraSerializer&gt;</value>
            </setting>

Also delete that starting line and those ending lines.

[younus_raza]

@MjDeck Thanks a lot for your assistance.