iDoor with iLogic - Rules for Automatic Hinge Boring and Size Limits
Page 1 - Setting the Inventor Parameters

    The first thing to do is add the parameters required  to create the hinge layout sketches. They are not iLogic Parameters
(there will be one coming later), but are your everyday Inventor Parameters
. The majority of the functionality added via iLogic in this tutorial will be rules that act upon features created with the parameters below that are driven by the width and height parameters created in the first iDoor tutorial.

If you don't have the iDoor.ipt part open in Inventor, do so now.  Now activate the Manage Tab, and select the regular Inventor Parameters
. Click the 'Add' button and add all of the parameters listed below. If you don't cut & paste, make sure you get them exactly.

Now that you have all of the normal parameters created, we will create the iLogic Parameter
we need called 'Handed'. This parameter will be used to set whether the door is right or left handed, or has no hinge bore.

The iLogic parameter table always has a blank line at the bottom ready to fill in. Enter Handed in the Name column, and choose String from the Type drop-down. Now, right click anywhere in the row and a little box will pop up showing the two choices Make Multi-Value and Delete Parameter. Obviously you want to select the former...

After selecting  Make Multi-Value, the Value List Editor dialog box will pop up to enter the values. Enter the values: Left, Right, and None, hitting enter between them to get a list as shown below left. When the list is completed, click the Add button at the upper right.

           

All of the items entered in the top pane will be added to the bottom pane as shown in the image to the above right. Click OK to accept the values and close the dialog box.

 

iDoor- iLogic Tutorial Introduction Page 1 - Setting the Inventor Parameters Page 2 - Setting the parameters and beginning the hinge sketches Page 3 - Creating the hinge sketches Page 4 - Creating the hinge sketches - continued Page 5 - Creating the hinge sketches - continued Page 6 - Creating the hinge bore extrusions Page 7 - Creating the hinge bore extrusions - continued Page 8 - Creating the hinge bore extrusions - continued Page 9 - Creating and patterning the hinge bore extrusions Page 10 - Creating and pattering the hinge bore extrusions - continued Page 11 - Creating and pattering the hinge bore extrusions - continued Page 12 - Creating the iLogic Rules Page 13 - Creating the iLogic Handed Rule - continued Page 14 - Creating the iLogic Handed Rule - continued Page 15 - Creating the iLogic Hinge Count Rule Page 16 - Creating the iLogic Hinge Count Rule - continued Page 17 - Creating the iLogic Limits Rule Page 18 - Completing the iLogic tutorial