Old post, code snippets, and examples ( over 10 years old) are now archived

[Curtis_Waguespack]

Update: everything before 12.16.14  has now been "archived"

FYI in case you didn't see the notice. This month any post over 10 years old will get archived ( and might no longer be viewable or come up in search results).

This means that a lot of the helpful examples that you might otherwise have turned up while searching the forum are likely to no longer be available.

The community notice has suggested that you save all of the posts that you find helpful as PDFs or screenshots... so get busy I guess. 😕

[bradeneuropeArthur]

Very unfortunate that this is necessary.
A lot of experience is lost this way.
It does not mean that past solutions are no longer useful for current releases and future releases of the Autodesk Software. There I am sure of....
I also often look back at solutions and posts () that I have proposed to solve problems for myself and others.
It is (or was) for me a very large library.

But away is away, and we will find our way again.

[Curtis_Waguespack]

As of this morning. Everything before ‎12-16-2014 04:24 AM is gone from this forum. 

My understanding is that Autodesk  was saving and recreating some content, according to some criteria. The details around this have not been clearly communicated... well nothing about this was clearly communicated. 

@CGBenner can you please provide any update on this, since the team that was working on this refuses to communicate with specifics about any of this?

[hollypapp65]

We can use GitHub.

[mslosar]

Well, the word Archive implies it has been saved off somewhere. I'd like to think it will be put somewhere, perhaps in a read only state. Anything else is misusing the word and they should have said 'deleted'.

[andrewdroth]

Given how sudden and drastic this was I'm guessing something other than "efficiency" is at play here, right?

In that announcement thread AI, gets brought up. How does this decision align with "AI" (Where those comments before the thread got locked? I know some of my comments where moved there, then moved back when I pointed out that the post was locked.)

This almost seems like a legal reaction to something? Perhaps that does align with AI from a training model perspective?
I have to assume once you post your code to the ADesk forums they own it?

ChatGPT and Copilot are getting reasonable at coming up with working snippets. But because ilogic and Inventor are rather niche, AI struggles a bit. 

Has Autodesk purchased any AI companies recently? I am starting to understand why they would want in on that action.

They are being oddly tight-lipped about the whole thing, and even the team behind the forum redesign seem blindsided by it.

So... Does it make sense to push the community to Github or similar for prosperity's sake?

[hollypapp65]

AI on iLogic will completely screw up all VB codes.

Most iLogic code are mixed VB and iLogic.

[Curtis_Waguespack]

@andrewdroth, I have reservations about contributing to this forum in way I have in the past as well. Not sure what that means at the moment. But I think your concerns are founded.

[Curtis_Waguespack]

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@hollypapp65 wrote:

AI on iLogic will completely screw up all VB codes.

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This can be true, but it is not that it is always true.

I have been able to get very good iLogic results out of the AI tools I've experimented with.

You do need to have some understanding of effective "prompt engineering" methods to get good results though.