Brian,
With more users coming across from Acad - where you didn't even need to know AutoLisp to be able to program it - Adsk will seriously
have to think about a book from "Hello World" onwards.
A lot of Acad users - myself included - could get by with a basic understanding of ASCII, English and pen-up & pen-down etc. You
didn't need to know AutoLisp to create a Script file, compound functions (such as ^C^C_copy \ \ _rotate p \ -90 ), specialist
functions (such as Stretch with Crossing Polygon) and even the first or basic level of AutoLisp where the code was used to silently
send commands to the command line - as opposed creating the full paired list and then displaying it.
Now these users are moving across to Inv they want to do little bits of automation etc, but haven't the confidence to tackle VB(A).
Personally I would like to write little VBA routines to help automate some of my tasks, but I'm not going to do it in a production -
work - environment until I feel confident. I'm trying to find time to sit down at home. but I'm put off by the fact that there isn't
a single book that shows users the basics of VBA in Inv.
This is something ADSK must get to grips with. It is well known that the Help DSS documentation is back to appalling in Inv, but the
lack of a book for VBA and porting to VB (and even sections on VC++ VC# dotNet etc) is tant-amount to criminal.
There must be somebody is ADSK technical writing dept. that can start writing a book on VBA in Inv. Look at the books that came out
with Acad12, after reading them you had the confidence to attempt a lot of the customising and simple programming in Acad.
The book is need to aid with confidence.
--
Duncan
"Humour ... is one man shouting gibberish in the face of authority, and proving by fabricated insanity that nothing could be as mad
as what passes for ordinary living."
(Terence 'Spike' Milligan K.B.E., 1918-2002)
www.autodesk.co.uk/inventorjobs
"Brian Ekins (Autodesk)" wrote in message news:5206740@discussion.autodesk.com...
Just so you know this site is in the process of being updated with Inventor
11 content, including the object model chart. The new content should be
available in the next few days. The easy to remember name of the site is
www.autodeskcom/developinventor
I would also be interested in hearing from any of you about suggestions
regarding material that you think would be the most beneficial in helping
you to get started using the API and to make it easier to use once you're
over the initial learning curve. Specific items will be the most useful.
For example, saying that you want more samples doesn't help very much but
saying that you would like more samples that demonstrate assembly
constraints (for example) will help. This helps in understanding particular
areas of the API that might be more difficult to understand and where we
need to focus efforts in writing more documentation and samples. Besides
samples, any comments on documentation are also very welcome.
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Brian Ekins
Autodesk Inventor API
wrote in message news:5205217@discussion.autodesk.com...
Never seen any books myself. Try this site
http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?id=1079044&siteID=123112
Of note are the zipped documents. Exspecially nice is the DWF of the
Inventor Object Model. Plot it out and hang it on your wall for reference.
Another resource I did not see right away at first was the overviews section
in API help.
What area of the Inventor API did you want to get into?
Regards,
