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Manipulate

Autodesk Inventor Plugin
Manipulate

About This Product

Manipulate is a free Autodesk Inventor add-in for moving and rotating a component occurrence in place. Instead of stacking Free Move and Free Rotate operations or building throwaway constraints, you can right-click an occurrence, pick Manipulate, and drive the transform directly with a glyph and numeric inputs. The command is added to Inventor's linear marking menu and appears whenever the selection contains at least one component occurrence. Choosing it opens an in-canvas glyph at the occurrence's origin with three translation arrows and three rotation rings, color-coded per axis. Dragging a handle previews the transform live; the original position remains visible as a translucent ghost so you can see exactly how far the part has moved. A docked mini toolbar exposes the same six degrees of freedom as numeric editors — X / Y / Z translation in millimeters and RX / RY / RZ rotation in degrees. Editor changes drive the same live preview as the glyph, so you can dial in exact values when a snap or eyeball-drag is not precise enough. Confirming with OK commits the transform to the occurrence; Cancel resets the editors to zero, and Esc dismisses the session without changes. Manipulate is free, digitally signed, and does not require a license key.


Technologies Used

Autodesk Inventor API
C#
.NET