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APS Design Automation 2026 Update to .NET Core Add-In Save/Update Failure
I'm having difficulty trying to update our 2025 .NET Framework version to 2026 .NET Core.
I started with my own solution receiving these errors, then switched over to start from scratch using the ...
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Status failedInstructions Job finished with result FailedExecution
WorkItemId - 26d61b66378742f29fdf127cbb421972
Last week, I was testing to see if I can upgrade my app to support inventor 2026. But it didn't work. In order to see if it was some issue on the app ...
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Autodesk Inventor VBA: detect auto-mitered corners?
I'm trying to write a sub to essentially check if more than 1 flange was added during the addition of a 'flange feature' to a sheet metal part and if so, were there any that shared a vertex. ...
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iLogic Rule Not Executing in APS Environment
I'm using an iLogic rule embedded in an assembly file to update parameters, open linked drawings, and export PDFs for use in Design Automation. However, the rule doesn't seem to be running correctly, ...
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Pushing text to a file in VBA that contains ", \, and > characters
I am trying to push text to a file that consists of the following string:
<exportfolder value="C:\placeholder_loc" />
In this, the "C:\placeholder_loc" is a different ...
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VBA to enter the filename into an open dialog box and click 'enter'
I am trying to add a macro to interface with a plugin we recently added for Inventor that saves the file in a format specific to another program. It is not using the 'save as' interface within ...
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Update Design Automation Rate Limit for Inventor Engine in APS
The default Inventor engine max rate limit is 900 as given in:
https://aps.autodesk.com/en/docs/design-automation/v3/developers_guide/rate-limits/da-rate-limits/
Since it's defined by the attribute ...
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Using InventorServer.MeasureTools in an AppBundle uploaded to Autodesk Platform Services
I have an Inventor plugin written in C#. One of the lines is MeasureTools MT = App.MeasureTools;, where App is an InventorServer object. However, when I upload it as an AppBundle to APS, I get the ...
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APS Inventor Design Automatiion Failed Instructions
I'm trying to modify a model built using iLogic in Inventor 2023 using APS Design Automation.
But I'm getting Failed Instructions in the status and not sure with the reason. Please find the reports in ...
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Does Forge Support for inventor 2023?
Currently im working on design automation of forge api. my inventor version is 2023
Does forge support inventor 2023? if does then what is engine name.
How to solve?
Forge inventor 2023 it is possible ...
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Does design automation run your plugin in an Inventor process?
I am using the Design Automation for Inventor template to convert my add in to a plugin for use with Autodesk Platform Services (APS). I have setup my addin and DebugPluginLocally for use with the ...
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Retrieve thumbnail from SVF output using Inventor translator addin
I followed this blog post about Svf generation using Inventor, and I was able to achieve the functionality described in the example.
Speed up viewable generation when using Design Automation for ...
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Is there a setting in the APS viewer for 3D Annotations from Inventor to flip text direction on rotation as within Inventor?
The below GIF is from the APS Viewer. You can see that the 3D annotations' text direction does not flip to allow readability from both sides.
The below GIF is from Inventor 2022. You can see that the ...
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use ExportBuildingComponent in Design Automation for Inventor
we can run a local Inventor add-in for convert a iam assembly to RFA, using ExportBuildingComponent API.
As explained in documentation (https://aps.autodesk.com/en/docs/design-automation/v3/...
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List of Inventor versions supported by Autodesk Platform Services
Can someone help me by sharing the list of Inventor versions supported by APS?
I'm using Design Automation API and Visualization API.
I tried this API https://aps.autodesk.com/en/docs/design-...
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Design Automation Inventor shut down error
I have a working plugin width Autodesk Design Automation API for 2 years and suddenly stop working and throw next error of time out server.
[01/11/2023 14:55:28] display name input.iam
[01/11/2023 14:...
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System.IO.FileNotFoundException with NuGet package. File exists though
I've created a NuGet package with several assemblies in it to be used for an Add-In for Autodesk Inventor.
It's a Solution in Visual Studio 2019 which consists of 3 .net Framework 4.8 Class Library ...
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Linq in Inventor API
I have searched for Linq in Inventor API. but, found nothing.
can anyone share the learning link or syntax for it. that would be great
I can implement Linq in Revit API not unable to implement in ...
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Model Derivative API's - Istance Properties
I'm using Model Derivative API's to upload Inventor's IAM on a bucket (in a zip mode). I'm using Inventor 2022 and Instance Properties. Is it possible to publish SVF/SVF2 file to have instance ...
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Stumbling Block Inventor iProperty doesn't exist
I should start out with this is my first attempt at a vba user form.
I Have some simple code to fill a user form (pulling from Inventor Custom iProperties) the problem I am running into and made a ...
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Is it possible to force Inventor Design Automation to update all views in a drawing before outputting to pdf?
I've run into an issue with a Forge configurator that we are developing, whereby the pdf output does not reflect the configured model.
The general process that it follows is it opens the assembly, and ...
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How to make multiple hexagonal holes on inventor?
i'm trying to make the following pattern on inventor. is there a more efficient way of doing this other than drawing each hexagon and extruding it?
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iLogic (VB.NET) - DistinctBy() is not member of System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable(Of CustomClass)
I'd like to use Enumerable.DistinctBy() Method in my VB.NET code*. But I'm getting 'DistinctBy()' is not member of System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable(Of CustomClass) error.
This is how my code ...
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Inventor VBA save file
I am using Inventor 2022 and VBA in it. I tryed to save file with VBA script (macro - button).
Here is the code, which is included in documentation of old version of Inventor but it include some ...
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Inventor COM object not released when created with Activator.CreateInstance()
My problem is this:
If Autodesk Inventor is not running, my app (console app) creates a new instance with Activator.CreateInstance(InventorType); and uses it as a COM object. When my app does not quit ...
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