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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…
Inventor Suite only: the Stiffener commands now appear on their own panel of the Bas Automation tab, instead of being dropped into the wrong place on the ribbon. Removed stale internal registrations that could leave a dialog unresponsive…
Columns backed by iProperties now fill in automatically while Drawing Maker scans your documents, instead of staying blank until you opened each file.
View Placer now places views of assemblies, with the orientation taken from the active profile — previously it handled parts only. Per-row view counts are shown, so you can see at a glance where identical components have been de-duplicat…
Keyboard focus is no longer stolen when a grid selection is pushed through to Inventor — you can keep typing in the filter box while the model view follows along. Inventor Suite only: the Quick Filter dock and real progress bars now appe…
Errors are no longer swallowed silently. If something goes wrong in the background, Property Editor now surfaces it instead of appearing to work while quietly doing nothing — so a failure is visible immediately rather than showing up lat…
Press Tab to switch the reference frame between Local (the component's own axes) and World. The glyph re-anchors, and the translate/rotate handles and the X/Y/Z and RX/RY/RZ editors act along the frame you picked.
Part Visibility now works in assemblies, not just parts. Right-click a supported object in an assembly document and the same bulk visibility controls appear.
Works in the Measure workflow too. The right-click options for showing origin planes and axes now appear during Measure Distance, not only while placing or editing constraints.
iProperty columns fill in for folder-scanned rows. Scanning a folder now populates the iProperty-backed columns as it goes, instead of leaving them blank until each file was opened. Thumbnails load lazily while the list is built, so a la…
Inventor Suite only: the Reset window now opens. It previously failed to appear at all when the tool was run from the suite, and settings were not saved to the suite's shared store.
Initial release.
Skeleton Tools is now part of the suite. Model everything as solid bodies in a single part, and Skeleton Tools turns those bodies into an assembly of derived parts that keep following the skeleton — change a body and the part it produced…
The Apprentice Server engine has been removed — Copy Design always drives the live Inventor application. Newer Inventor versions no longer install Apprentice by default, and on machines with several Inventor versions the registered Appre…
Document thumbnails (the side preview panel and the tree's Thumbnail column) now come from the shared, tiered thumbnail service, so previews fill more reliably for files without an embedded picture.
Filing a Support report no longer defaults to the wrong product. The app chooser pre-selected whichever add-in came first alphabetically, so pressing Enter without looking could file your report against a product you weren't using. Nothi…
Added a Replace action to the per-row Action dropdown. Point a copied design at a file that already exists on disk instead of copying the source — for example, swapping a content-centre bolt for your own standard part. Pick the replaceme…
Grids across the suite now load in one pass: file lists appear immediately (structure-only discovery), thumbnails load lazily in the background, and iProperty-backed columns fill while the thumbnails arrive. This applies to Batch Publish…
Create Views now works inside the Inventor Suite. It previously failed with a missing-service error because the standard-views service wasn't registered in the suite. View Placer and the Affixes tools now open inside the Inventor Suite.…
Selection-list thumbnails now come from the shared, tiered thumbnail service, so they fill more reliably for documents saved without an embedded preview picture. Internal build hardening: guarded a duplicated MSBuild import.
The Preview column now fills reliably. Thumbnails resolve through a shared, tiered service that reads the embedded picture first and falls back to the already-open document when a file was saved without one — so rows that previously show…
The document preview panel no longer closes a document you already have open in Inventor. Previewing an open file now reuses that open document and only closes files the preview itself opened.
Existing-drawing detection — each model row now shows whether a drawing already exists for it, with a live thumbnail. Thumbnails fill in on a background pass through the shared tiered service (embedded picture → Apprentice → the open doc…
Closes out a full audit of every module for suite-vs-standalone behavior differences: commands that worked in the standalone add-ins but failed or degraded inside the suite now behave identically in both.
The Settings button is back on the Bas Automation tab. A missing override meant its icon read as null and Inventor silently dropped the button during ribbon registration; it now registers correctly, and any command with an unreadable ico…
Apply a parameter edit to multiple documents at once. With several components selected, an edit in the parameter grid can now fan out to every selected document (opt-in via Enable multi-document apply in Parameter Settings). Documents th…
Model Query and Reset Representations now open correctly from the Bas Automation tab. In the previous releases, launching either add-in failed and its window never appeared. Both now open and work as expected. Reset Representations setti…
Brings the suite's Drawing Maker and Drawing Tools modules up to their latest released code, on top of shared platform improvements.
Fixed PropertyEditor failing to start inside the suite: it was reading a shared suite-level settings file that belonged to another store, which crashed initialization so its panels never appeared. PropertyEditor now uses its own isolated…
Initial public release of the Inventor Suite — every Bas Automation Services Autodesk Inventor add-in in a single installer, under one license, on one Bas Automation ribbon tab.
View Placer: the Done button on the settings page did nothing.
Initial release.
Fixed Copy Design failing to load in Autodesk Inventor 2024. A recent update stopped the add-in from loading in Inventor 2024; it now loads correctly again. Inventor 2025, 2026, and 2027 were not affected.
Fixed Batch Publisher failing to load in Autodesk Inventor 2024. A recent update stopped the add-in from loading in Inventor 2024; it now loads correctly again. Inventor 2025, 2026, and 2027 were not affected.
Fixed Mate Origins failing to load in Autodesk Inventor 2024. A recent update stopped the add-in from loading in Inventor 2024; it now loads correctly again. Inventor 2025, 2026, and 2027 were not affected.
Fixed Plane Toggle failing to load in Autodesk Inventor 2024. A recent update stopped the add-in from loading in Inventor 2024; it now loads correctly again. Inventor 2025, 2026, and 2027 were not affected.
Fixed Property Editor Pro failing to load in Autodesk Inventor 2024. A recent update stopped the add-in from loading in Inventor 2024; it now loads correctly again. Inventor 2025, 2026, and 2027 were not affected.
Fixed Part Visibility failing to load in Autodesk Inventor 2024. A recent update stopped the add-in from loading in Inventor 2024; it now loads correctly again. Inventor 2025, 2026, and 2027 were not affected.
Fixed Reset Representations failing to load in Autodesk Inventor 2024. A recent update stopped the add-in from loading in Inventor 2024; it now loads correctly again. Inventor 2025, 2026, and 2027 were not affected.
Fixed Frame Stiffener failing to load in Autodesk Inventor 2024. A recent update stopped the add-in from loading in Inventor 2024; it now loads correctly again. Inventor 2025, 2026, and 2027 were not affected.
Fixed Manipulate failing to load in Autodesk Inventor 2024. A recent update stopped the add-in from loading in Inventor 2024; it now loads correctly again. Inventor 2025, 2026, and 2027 were not affected.
Fixed Model Query failing to load in Autodesk Inventor 2024. A recent update stopped the add-in from loading in Inventor 2024; it now loads correctly again. Inventor 2025, 2026, and 2027 were not affected.
First public release of Drawing Tools — a productivity add-in for Autodesk Inventor that speeds up drawing layout and annotation. The commands live in the Drawing Tools panels on the Bas Automation tab and act on the active
The document type filters above the list (Parts / Assemblies / Drawings) now take effect on the first document you activate. Previously a freshly activated assembly ignored the toggles until you closed the document and reopened it.
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.
Selection as a clickable list. A new opt-in Show selection as list general setting turns the selection summary into a per-file list. Each selected document gets its own row, and clicking a row filters the property grid to that file's sel…
Refreshed the Show planes and Show axes radial marking-menu button icons with new artwork.
The visibility commands now work in assemblies, not just parts. Right-click in an assembly document and you get the same context-menu options you already had in parts — hide others of a type, hide all of a type, and show all of a type —…
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…
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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