Customizing Inventor 2010 Title Block.

Ballooning Custom parts in Inventor

This is regarding the ballooning of custom parts in inventor.
If you have a custom part in the inventor part list & want to balloon a custom part in the drawing follow these steps.

Start with balloon command; select the edge where the custom part need to be shown.
Before you select Done form the dropdown menu select “Custom/Virtual” & then Click on Continue from the dropdown menu.
Customs/Virtual parts dialog will appear, Select the item from the available custom parts & click OK.

These steps shall link the balloon number with the custom part, change in the balloon number shall reflect in the part list & vice versa.

Excel - Engineering formatted values in "“CONCATENATE”.

This is about scientific representation of values in “CONCATENATE”. Excel formula.

Variable which are more than 4 digits in length can be represented in engineering format with following formula.
TEXT(C6,"###.00E+00")

Some of the variables in below worksheet are more than 4 digits in length.

	A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H
1			Number	Formated to scientific
2	tI	=	60.00	60.00
3	JS	=	0.09	0.09
4	MbI	=	8584906.32	8.58E+06
5	JP	=	0.07	0.065
6	MP	=	171412565.14	171.41E+06
7	EI*qrbI	=	-163172576.98	-163.17E+06

Equation in which these variables shall be used is,

9

EIqBI

=

(5.46/(3.142*t13))(JSMbI+JPMP)+(EI*qrbI)/tI3

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=CONCATENATE("(5.46/(3.142*",C2,"^",3,"))(",C3,"*",C4,"+",C5,"*",C6,")","+","(",C7,")/",C2,"^3")

With this formula representation will be,

10

EIqBI

=

(5.46/(3.142*60^3))(0.09*8584906.32+0.065*171412565.14)+(-163172576.98)/60^3

=CONCATENATE("(5.46/(3.142*",C2,"^",3,"))(",C3,"*",TEXT(C4,"###.00E+00"),"+",C5,"*",TEXT(C6,"###.00E+00"),")","+","(",TEXT(C7,"###.00E+00"),")/",C2,"^3")

& the Equation will be.

11

EIqBI

=

(5.46/(3.142*60^3))(0.09*8.58E+06+0.065*171.41E+06)+(-163.17E+06)/60^3

Switch between model & vault tree in Autodesk Inventor Browser

Please find attached the macro & procedure to create a shortcut for switching model & vault tree in Inventor browser pane.

1) Copy below code into any module of Inventor VBA (Press ALT+F11 to go to.)

Sub SwitchVaultModelTree()

    Dim oDoc As Document

    Set oDoc = ThisApplication.ActiveDocument

    Dim oPanes As BrowserPanes

    Set oPanes = oDoc.BrowserPanes

   

    If oPanes.ActivePane.Name = "Vault" Then

        'oPanes.Item(3).Activate

        oPanes.Item("Model").Activate

    Else

        oPanes.Item("Vault").Activate

    End If

   

    If oDoc.Type = kDrawingDocumentObject Then

        oPanes.Item("Model").Activate

    End If

   

End Sub

2) In Inventor Select Tools>>Customize & goto keyboard tab & Category "Macro"

3) In the command box, click in the Keys column next to the associated command. Enter the shortcut( i chose num key 3), you can any of these methods:

• Press any single letter or number key (A-Z, 0-9).
• Press any combination of alphanumeric keys.

With above steeps number key 3 shall switch the browser tree.

 

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