iLogic Tutorial – Automatic Board Configurator

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This iLogic Tutorial for automatic board configuration will show how to model and write the iLogic code that will automatically adjust the number and width of boards that make up the top of the Shaker Table.

To begin this iLogic tutorial, we will need to go way back to the beginning of the Shaker Table series to the first sketch in the table’s Layout Part, the Top Sketch. The first thing to do in that Top Sketch is remove the horizontal constraint between the center of the top and the Center Point. Just window select the point shown below, then hit delete…

 

 

Ilogic Tutorial Board configurator Image 01 - The point

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Autodesk Inventor Now Integral Part of TigerStop Workflow

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Autodesk Inventor Rev 1I just heard from Richard over at TigerStop, and he informs me that their software engineers are going to make the Autodesk Inventor .csv output a default profile in TigerStop’s Workflow Manager!

What this means for us Inventor users is that there will be no farting around configuring things in TigerStop’s software, all we will have to do is pick Autodesk Inventor from the list of programs during setup, and we are on our way. Sweet!

Now the thing to do is figure out a reliable way to automate the output from Inventor via iLogic, and maybe some additional help from the Inventor API –possibly triggered by the Rev. number? I could see having a company’s drawing templates having a Rev number set to -1 until RTM, at which point the trigger would be pulled and the Rev number would go to 0 –which would fire an iLogic rule that send the cutlists to the queue.  If that can be done relatively easy, even smaller shops could implement the start of their own mini ERP systems!

I imagine the code would look similar to this…

 

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Inventor Automation – Sending a Cut List to TigerStop

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ED – This is a guest post on Inventor Automation is by Richard Gilmore of TigerStop LLC showing how to send automatically generated cutlists (parts lists) to a TigerStop (TigerFence, TigerCrossCut, Etc.) to speed production time and reduce errors. The cutlist shown here was generated by the model in the Shaker Table series of tutorials.

We use downloading software called Workflow Manager to sort the job files (normally by Width and Thickness) and then send the sorted jobs to TigerStop.  A Workflow Manager user would have to run a onetime file configuration on the .csv file to tell the software how to read it.  I will talk with my software folks to see if we can add Autodesk Inventor as a default profile in the software so the user doesn’t have to do the configuration step.  Next the user would go to the File menu and choose Open.  Once the user has chosen the Autodesk Inventor .csv file they will see this screen…

 

Inventor Automation Tutorial Image 01 - Inventor Tutorial for configuring a TigerStop Workflow Manager

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