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Preview thumbnails — a new optional Preview column shows each component's shell thumbnail right in the occurrences grid. Settings profiles + redesigned settings page — settings are now grouped into clear sections, with named profiles you…
Docs & Support are now part of the shared Bas Automation Hub. The Docs and Support buttons live in a shared "Bas Automation → Help" panel that works across every Bas Automation add-in. When more than one add-in is loaded, a single Docs/S…
In-app Support button. A new Support button on the Bas Automation ribbon tab lets you report a bug, request a feature, or send feedback without leaving Inventor. It automatically captures a screenshot of your Inventor window and bundles…
Bas Automation Hub — Plane Toggle now ships with and connects to the shared Bas Automation Hub, which adds unified Docs and Support buttons to the ribbon across all of your installed Bas Automation tools. When several tools are loaded, t…
Bas Automation Hub — Part Visibility now ships with and connects to the shared Bas Automation Hub, which adds unified Docs and Support buttons to the ribbon across all of your installed Bas Automation tools. When several tools are loaded…
Settings pages now use a consistent header: a top toolbar with a back button and the page title, replacing the title that used to sit above the navigation list. The Output Path column in the document grid now shows the resolved output fi…
The first public release of Batch Publisher — export drawings to PDF, DWG, and other formats in bulk, with filename templates and configurable per-row overrides.
Bas Automation Hub — Manipulate now ships with and connects to the shared Bas Automation Hub, which adds unified Docs and Support buttons to the ribbon across all of your installed Bas Automation tools. When several tools are loaded, the…
Bas Automation Hub — Reset Representations now ships with and connects to the shared Bas Automation Hub, which adds unified Docs and Support buttons to the ribbon across all of your installed Bas Automation tools. When several tools are…
Bas Automation Hub — Frame Stiffener now ships with and connects to the shared Bas Automation Hub, which adds unified Docs and Support buttons to the ribbon across all of your installed Bas Automation tools. When several tools are loaded…
Bas Automation Hub — Copy Design now ships with and connects to the shared Bas Automation Hub, which adds unified Docs and Support buttons to the ribbon across all of your installed Bas Automation tools. When several tools are loaded, th…
Bas Automation Hub — Mate Origins now ships with and connects to the shared Bas Automation Hub, which adds unified Docs and Support buttons to the ribbon across all of your installed Bas Automation tools. When several tools are loaded, t…
See a selected part's real on-disk file name and location. Click a component in an assembly and the Selected line shows its actual file name, with a tooltip listing the browser name, file name, folder and full path — so you always know w…
Fixed the Reset Representations window failing to open due to a missing shared UI resource. Corrected the product name shown in the installer's license agreement to "Reset Representations". Improvements to infrastructure.
Redesigned the ribbon icons for much better legibility at small ribbon sizes. Mate Origins (one coordinate triad) and Mate With Offsets (two triads) are now bold, fill the button, and are easy to tell apart at a glance. Both commands now…
Internal refactor: lifted Copy Design's document tree control to the shared library, replacing the bespoke tree-node implementation. The tree, its columns, and the copy run behave exactly as before — this is a code-sharing change with no…
Corrected the product name shown in the installer's license agreement. The EULA title previously read "Property Editor Pro" (carried over from another add-in); it now correctly reads "Model Query".
Refreshed all ribbon command icons (Add, Insert Single, Insert Double, Update, Edit, Settings) and the installer artwork for a cleaner, consistent look. The Frame Stiffener ribbon panel now lays its commands out in a fixed order — Add, I…
Improvements to infrastructure.
Added an "Add active document" button to the source panel, so you can add the document you currently have open in Inventor without browsing for it. Improvements to infrastructure.
The first public release of Manipulate — a marking-menu-driven visual glyph for moving and rotating assembly occurrences directly in the graphics window.
Frame Generator has no 'frame edited' event. You stitch one together from OnActivateCommand, OnTerminateCommand, OnDelete, OnNewOccurrence, OnOccurrenceChange and OnCommit — plus two magic command names and the literal string 'Change Frame' as a transaction-name match. Here's the actual sequence and the kBefore/kAfter ordering you have to respect.
How Autodesk Inventor's Frame Generator stores frame members: the com.autodesk.FG attribute set, the Frame.Skeletons XML payload, three different IDs and which one survives a profile change, and why attribute lookups need GetNativeOccurrence() rather than the proxy you receive from events.
The first public release of Model Query — explore any Inventor document's component tree by querying iProperties, geometry, and sheet-metal data with name and type filters.
Inventor 2023 is no longer supported. Stay on v1.1.9 if you still need Inventor 2023.
Inventor 2023 is no longer supported. Stay on v1.3.2 if you need 2023 compatibility.
Inventor 2023 is no longer supported. Stay on v1.0.8 if you need 2023 compatibility.
Inventor 2023 is no longer supported. If you're on Inventor 2023, stay on v1.0.2 — this build targets Inventor 2024, 2025, 2026, and 2027.
Inventor 2023 is no longer supported. Stay on v1.3.9 if you need 2023 compatibility.
Inventor 2023 is no longer supported. Stay on v1.0.1 if you need 2023 compatibility.
Bug fixes and improvements to infrastructure.
Inventor 2023 is no longer supported. Property Editor Pro now targets Inventor 2024, 2025, 2026, and 2027.
Autodesk's compatibility note for Inventor 2027 says existing .NET 8 add-ins should keep working without recompilation, and for most add-ins that's accurate. The exception is paid App Store add-ins that call AdWebServicesWrapper to verify entitlement — free add-ins typically skip that check, so they're unaffected. The wrapper was renamed and retargeted to .NET 10 in 2027, so paid App Store add-ins do need a migration. Here's the conditional TFM / per-version reference / manifest-gate pattern I rolled out across 7 add-ins.
Inventor 2027 support. Refreshed ribbon icon.
Inventor 2027 support.
Inventor 2027 support.
Inventor 2027 support.
Inventor 2027 support. A single installer now ships .addin manifests for every supported Inventor version — no separate download per year.
Inventor 2027 support. Frame Stiffener now lives under the shared BAS Tools ribbon tab alongside the other BAS addins.
Inventor 2027 support. Each .addin manifest is now bracketed so it loads only in the Inventor version it was built for.
Plane Toggle no longer crashes when an Inventor document closes while the addin's event listener is still attached — fixed four termination edge cases that could surface as a silent failure or a delayed exception. Hardened the event list…
Frame Generator copies now save successfully (the save step could previously fail silently).
The first public release of Reset Representations — reset view, position, and level-of-detail representations on selected assembly occurrences or the whole assembly.
Documentation is now bundled with the installer and available online under /downloads/frame-stiffener/docs/. Frame Stiffener now has its own branded installer banner and product icon.
Documentation is now bundled with the installer and available online under /downloads/part-visibility/docs/. Custom Part Visibility installer icon and banner.
Documentation is now bundled with the installer and available online under /downloads/mate-origins/docs/. Custom installer banner and Mate Origins product icon.
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