Autodesk inventor my first plugin

I would also check to see if using iLogic would meet your requirement. Also Inventor Engineer-To-Order is a configurator which may also be of interest.

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Filter by Lables. NET 28 vb. Message 1 of Tags 1. Tags: first plug-in Inventor. Message 2 of Hello, I read about Visual Studio Express. Thanks, Christoph. Tags: Visual Studio Express. Message 3 of Just figured out how to add a form in my vb. Message 4 of Plugins are a great start, but at the end of the day Add-ins are the way to go. Message 5 of Message 6 of Message 7 of Wayne: I've been following lessons 1 - 7 of your self-paced guide. I'm looking forward to your next self-paced guide!

Lincoln, how was the play?? Message 8 of Hi, Visual Studio Express can create other types of applications. Message 9 of Thanks once again for your insightful reply! Message 10 of Is there a C version of "Lesson 1" available? Message 11 of Hi, Unfortunately not, at this point in time we only have VB. Message 12 of Ok, thanks. Message 13 of Tags 3. View Original Translate. English Original X. View Original X.

Products and versions covered Inventor Products. Please replace the text '20xx' to the product version that you are using throughout the guide. Lesson 2: Programming Overview In this lesson, you will look more closely at what happens when you execute the plug-in code, exploring the Visual Studio Community environment. Lesson 3: A First Look at Code In this lesson, you will take a closer look at the Inventor API by continuing work on the project you created in Lesson 2, extending it to use the Inventor API to connect to or start a session of Inventor while taking a close look at how the code actually works.

You will now spend some time to understand how the code functions. Attaching attributes provided by the Inventor API will allow us to identify and perform different operations on your tagged components. Lesson 6: My Final Plug-in In this lesson, instead of toggling the display of the components, you add a button to provide the user with the direct capability to either show or hide the components.

The code that actually does the work can be narrowed down to these few lines of code:. As you can see, a small amount of code can go a long way to simplify working with Inventor. Software programming allows you to capture the logic of a particular manual procedure once and then reap the benefits over and over again, every time you want to perform this functionality.

What is Programming? A simple answer to this question is: Computer programming is the process of creating a sequence of instructions to tell the computer to do something.

You can look at your program as a sequence of instructions. During the course of the upcoming lessons, you will look at the various lines and blocks of code in the context of being instructions for a computer.

If you were to explain what computers are to a young child, you might say: a computer is a tool that follows instructions you provide.

Programming is one way of giving instructions to the computer. Internally, a computer sees these instructions encoded as a series of numbers also called machine code. The human-readable instructions you saw at the beginning of this lesson are called source code and the computer converts these instructions into machine code which it can then read and execute.

A sequence of such instructions or code , written to perform a specific task, is called a program and a collection of such programs and related data is called software. Autodesk Inventor is one such software product. Source code can be written in different languages, just as humans use different languages to communicate between ourselves. The language you will be using in this guide is called Visual Basic. NET VB. What is an API? API is the acronym for Application Programming Interface: the way a software programmer can communicate with a software product.

For instance, the Inventor API is the way programmers can work with Inventor, and establishes what functionality a software programmer can use within Inventor. Such as the Inventor API allows you to write instructions for Inventor to execute one after the other.

Putting this slightly differently: commercial software companies, such as Autodesk, often distribute a set of libraries that you can use in your own program to interact with a particular software product, such as Autodesk Inventor, and extend its functionality.