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Working with PropertySets and Model States

If you wish to change a Property's value on a document having Model States, the workflow via API is the similar to the Inventor UI: Activate the required Model State using ModelState.Activate. Set the ...
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Custom Python Scripts for AutoCAD Plant 3D – Part 2

Check here the Part 1 of this series. The first example script is taken from an older Autodesk University class (AU Python PDF). The pdf is available here. Beginning on page 44, the pdf creates a ...
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Porting guide from Level of Details to Model states.

Model States were introduced in Inventor 2022. While product documentation covers the basics well, our ADN team has offered extensive support for developers transitioning to this feature. With ...
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Registry values for ProductID and LocaleID for AutoCAD and the vertical products

These digits like E000:409 are a ProductID (E000) and a LocaleID (409). The ProductID structure is a 4-digit value. However, prior to AutoCAD 2006, the ProductID structure was only 3-digits with a ...
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Autodesk Desktop API Update: .NET Core Migration

On January 30th, 2024, we hosted a webinar on moving to .NET core covering Autodesk's flagship products, AutoCAD, Revit, and Inventor. - How to Create, Build and Debug .NET 8 Plugin for AutoCAD ...
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Automating PLANTPROJECTCOLLABORATION: Seamless Plant Project Sharing to ACC

AutoCAD Plant 3D provides a command to share a plant project to the ACC cloud: PLANTPROJECTCOLLABORATION . For more details, refer to To Share a Plant Project to the Cloud . However, this command ...
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Working with Unicode Text: Reading from and Writing to Files

Before AutoCAD 2021, AutoLisp/VLisp was not fully Unicode compliant.
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How to Convert Polyfacemesh to 3dSolid

We have an inbuilt AutoCAD command CONVTOSOLID, but this command is very limited doesn’t work effectively on Polyfacemesh <AcDbPolyFaceMesh> entities. We will create an in-memory subDMesh ...
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Accessing COM applications from the Running Object Table

Here is a topic that comes up every now and then: how do you access a specific instance of a COM application if several instances are running with a similar ProgId? The GetActiveObject(progId) ...
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Deleting xdata

How do I delete Xdata that is attached to an entity?
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Copy Model iProperties to Drawing Document via iLogic code

Question: Is there any Inventor API to enable “Copy Model iProperty Settings” in a Drawing Document as shown in below? Answer: Unfortunately, there is no direct Inventor API to enable “Copy Model ...
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Autodesk Desktop API Update: .NET Core Migration in Inventor

On January 30th, 2024, Autodesk hosted a webinar on moving to .NET core covering Autodesk's flagship products like Inventor, AutoCAD, and Revit. Please find the same webinar recordings in the YouTube ...