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Adding a folder no longer closes Inventor when it contains a subfolder you don't have access to (such as D:\Recovery). Those subfolders are skipped and noted in the log.
Licences are recognised again on Inventor 2025.5 and 2026.4. Since these Inventor updates the licence check could not read your Autodesk sign-in and failed. It works again. Autodesk App Store licences are now also checked against the Aut…
Licences are recognised again on Inventor 2025.5 and 2026.4. Since these Inventor updates the licence check could not read your Autodesk sign-in and failed. It works again. Autodesk App Store licences are now also checked against the Aut…
Licences are recognised again on Inventor 2025.5 and 2026.4. Since these Inventor updates the licence check could not read your Autodesk sign-in and failed. It works again. Autodesk App Store licences are now also checked against the Aut…
Licences are recognised again on Inventor 2025.5 and 2026.4. Since these Inventor updates the licence check could not read your Autodesk sign-in and failed. It works again. Autodesk App Store licences are now also checked against the Aut…
Licences are recognised again on Inventor 2025.5 and 2026.4. Since these Inventor updates the licence check could not read your Autodesk sign-in and failed. It works again. Autodesk App Store licences are now also checked against the Aut…
Licences are recognised again on Inventor 2025.5 and 2026.4. Since these Inventor updates the licence check could not read your Autodesk sign-in and failed. It works again. Autodesk App Store licences are now also checked against the Aut…
Licences are recognised again on Inventor 2025.5 and 2026.4. Since these Inventor updates the licence check could not read your Autodesk sign-in and failed. It works again. Autodesk App Store licences are now also checked against the Aut…
Improved compatibility with Inventor 2025.5 and 2026.4. The add-in now loads the build made for your Inventor version.
Improved compatibility with Inventor 2025.5 and 2026.4. The add-in now loads the build made for your Inventor version.
Improved compatibility with Inventor 2025.5 and 2026.4. The add-in now loads the build made for your Inventor version.
Improved compatibility with Inventor 2025.5 and 2026.4. The add-in now loads the build made for your Inventor version.
Licences are recognised again on Inventor 2025.5 and 2026.4. Since these Inventor updates the licence check could not read your Autodesk sign-in, so you were asked to enter your licence email. It works again without that.
Adding the active document is faster. It is now read once instead of twice. You now get a message when the active document has not been saved yet, instead of nothing happening.
Licences are recognised again on Inventor 2025.5 and 2026.4. Since these Inventor updates the licence check could not read your Autodesk sign-in and failed. It works again. Autodesk App Store licences are now also checked against the Aut…
Adding the active document is faster. It is now read once instead of twice. You now get a message when the active document has not been saved yet, instead of nothing happening.
Improved compatibility with Inventor 2025.5 and 2026.4. The add-in now loads the build made for your Inventor version.
More reliable Autodesk App Store licence check. The Suite now identifies you through Inventor's own sign-in, as Autodesk recommends, and no longer depends on a separate Autodesk component that could fail to load. Update notifications. Th…
Licence check on Inventor 2027. Fixed a case where Inventor 2027 could not confirm a valid licence. Licence email prompt. When Autodesk sign-in can't confirm your licence, the Suite now asks for the email address you bought it with, inst…
Drawings follow the model name, also when you type it. A drawing linked to a model now takes the model's new name when you type or paste that name in the grid, and the drawing row updates straight away. A drawing you renamed yourself kee…
Autodesk App Store licences are now recognised. Licences bought through the Autodesk App Store are now checked and accepted. More reliable licence recognition. The licence check signs in to Autodesk's web services again before re-checkin…
More reliable licence recognition. The licence check signs in to Autodesk's web services again before re-checking, so Autodesk App Store licences are recognised reliably. Logging fixed. Messages, including errors, are now written to the…
More reliable licence recognition. The licence check signs in to Autodesk's web services again before re-checking, so Autodesk App Store licences are recognised reliably. Clearer messages in the log when a licence can't be confirmed.
Updated third-party components to versions with known security fixes.
Updated third-party components to versions with known security fixes.
Updated third-party components to versions with known security fixes.
Updated third-party components to versions with known security fixes.
Autodesk App Store licences are now recognised. Licences bought through the Autodesk App Store are now checked and accepted. More reliable licence recognition. The licence check signs in to Autodesk's web services again before re-checkin…
Autodesk App Store licences are now recognised. Licences bought through the Autodesk App Store are now checked and accepted. More reliable licence recognition. The licence check signs in to Autodesk's web services again before re-checkin…
More reliable licence recognition. The licence check signs in to Autodesk's web services again before re-checking, so Autodesk App Store licences are recognised reliably. Clearer messages in the log when a licence can't be confirmed.
Updated third-party components to versions with known security fixes.
More reliable licence recognition. The licence check signs in to Autodesk's web services again before re-checking, so Autodesk App Store licences are recognised reliably. Clearer messages in the log when a licence can't be confirmed.
More reliable licence recognition. The licence check signs in to Autodesk's web services again before re-checking, so Autodesk App Store licences are recognised reliably. Clearer messages in the log when a licence can't be confirmed.
Add the active document as a source. The new Active button under Sources adds the document open in Inventor. You're told when it hasn't been saved yet or has unsaved changes, since Copy Design copies the saved files. The Structured view…
More reliable licence recognition. The licence check signs in to Autodesk's web services again before re-checking, so Autodesk App Store licences are recognised reliably. Clearer messages in the log when a licence can't be confirmed.
Connecting two cap faces with side faces is one face per profile curve. A line edge sweeps to a planar quadrilateral, an arc edge to a cylindrical face, a closed curve (circle, ellipse) to a face with two separate edge loops, one per cap. Each side face has a four-edge loop — the start curve, a connector to the end cap, the end curve back, a connector home — that shares the cap edges built in the previous post. The straight-beam builder here, and the loop-walking rule it uses, are reused unchanged for curved beams in Post 9. Part of the transient-beam series.
A beam's start and end caps are planar faces shaped like the cross-section. The boundary is a closed list of profile curves — lines, arcs, full circles, ellipses — each becoming one edge in an edge loop. Hollow sections add inner loops on the same face, walked the other way round. This post defines the profile representation used by the rest of the series, extends the bridge with arcs, circles and ellipses, and builds the cap face for a rounded RHS with a rectangular inner contour. Part of the transient-beam series.
Fixed an unexpected error when clicking a property type in layout settings. Under Settings > Properties > Layouts, double-clicking the Type column of a standard property showed an error dialog instead of simply doing nothing. Custom prop…
Richer right-click menu on the document tree. Rows now offer Expand All / Expand First Level / Collapse All, Expand/Collapse Selected, and Check/Uncheck Branch to tick or untick a whole subtree at once — the same menu as the other Bas Au…
Make Parts opened as an empty window when Skeleton Tools is loaded through Inventor Suite. The window now shows its page.
Property Editor 1.8.0 — refreshed interface. The dockable Properties and Parameters panels now use a consistent, theme-aware control set that follows Inventor's light and dark themes.
A transient SurfaceBody is invisible until it is added to client graphics. This post sets up the object every later sample draws through — a base class that owns a ClientGraphics and GraphicsDataSets pair under a client id, hands out uniquely numbered GraphicsNodes and cleans up in one call — and a console application that attaches to the running Inventor from outside its process and draws into the active document. With what Inventor does about the undo list, the dirty flag and ActiveView. Part of the transient-beam series.
Refreshed Property Editor interface. The dockable panels now use a consistent, theme-aware control set — buttons, lists, toggles, date pickers, scrollbars and menus follow Inventor's light and dark themes. The fx formula toggles and read…
Improved license activation reliability. Property Editor Pro now activates in cases where it previously could not confirm the licence.
TransientBRep.CreateSurfaceBodyDefinition() returns the root of a tree that describes the topology of a SurfaceBody — vertices, edges, edge loops, faces, shells, lumps. Once the tree is populated, one call to CreateTransientSurfaceBody produces the body. This post walks the tree, sets up the small managed-geometry bridge the rest of the series uses, builds the smallest valid body — a rectangular planar sheet — and records what Inventor does with the errors map, loop winding and mismatched curves. Part of the transient-beam series.
Inventor's TransientBRep API can produce a SurfaceBody that lives outside the document — no undo, no sketch, no extrude. The pieces are well-named (SurfaceBodyDefinition, LumpDefinition, FaceShellDefinition, FaceDefinition, EdgeLoopDefinition, EdgeDefinition, VertexDefinition) and the surfaces and curves come from TransientGeometry, but there's almost nothing public about how to glue them together for anything beyond the built-in primitives. This series walks the full construction path, end to end, using a beam as the running example, with every sample compiled and run. First post in a series.
Fixed licence activation failing for some customers. One unreachable licence route no longer blocks the others, so activation now succeeds whenever any valid route does.
Fixed licence activation failing for some customers. One unreachable licence route no longer blocks the others, so activation now succeeds whenever any valid route does.
Fixed licence activation failing for some customers. One unreachable licence route no longer blocks the others, so activation now succeeds whenever any valid route does.
Fixed licence activation failing for some customers. One unreachable licence route no longer blocks the others, so activation now succeeds whenever any valid route does.
Fixed licence activation failing for some customers. One unreachable licence route no longer blocks the others, so activation now succeeds whenever any valid route does.
Fixed licence activation failing for some customers. One unreachable licence route no longer blocks the others, so activation now succeeds whenever any valid route does.
Fixed licence activation failing for some customers. One unreachable licence route no longer blocks the others, so Property Editor Pro now activates whenever any valid route succeeds.
Skeleton Tools: the Settings page is laid out as a list of sections instead of one long page, the parameter picker no longer clips parameter names so d10, d11 and d13 are told apart, and the template chosen for a build is now used for ev…
Support requests now start on the right product. If you have more than one Bas Automation tool installed, the support form used to pre-select whichever product came first alphabetically. Pressing Enter without checking could send your re…
When a Frame Generator user changes a beam from HEA200 to HEA240, every reference key, assembly constraint and proxy that pointed at the old beam is invalidated. Here's how to survive: tag every dependent with a GUID-keyed attribute, then on the next edit search by attribute and recreate the broken pieces against the new component definition's work-planes.
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.
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.
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