Real time control of assembly with physical sensors

[Whitaker_Mac]

 Does anyone know of a plugin for Inventor (2015) or separate program that will let me control an assembly in real time using code and sensors? I would like to be able to CAD a project and only build the control system, demonstrating it by controlling my assembly on-screen with a physical control system. 

[Anonymous]

Not aware of any plug-in, but I can imagine a possible solution. Your sensors would need to be able to expose their value to excel, csv or similar - i.e. provide a real-time value, visible in a csv file. Not a datalog, but a single value - Value A = 150 for example. You could then use Inventor Parameters to link to that value so it correlates to an assembly constraint or part dimension... 

I expect the hardest part would be exposing the sensor value in a useful way.