Autodesk Inventor 2026 brings powerful new API capabilities that enhance automation, customization, and flexibility across modeling, documentation, and configuration workflows. Below is a curated ...

Xiaodong Liang has been with Autodesk since 2007, focusing on providing programming support, consulting, training and evangelism to external developers. He started his career China and now lives in ...

If you wish to change a Property's value on a document having Model States, the workflow via API is the similar to the Inventor UI: Activate the required Model State using ModelState.Activate. Set the ...

Model States were introduced in Inventor 2022. While product documentation covers the basics well, our ADN team has offered extensive support for developers transitioning to this feature. With ...

Back in the AutoCAD 2012 time frame a problem AutoCAD arose with people exploiting the LISP auto loading mechanism used by acad.lsp acaddoc.lsp/fas/vlx files to infect user’s machines with viruses. We ...

We have an inbuilt AutoCAD command CONVTOSOLID, but this command is very limited doesn’t work effectively on Polyfacemesh <AcDbPolyFaceMesh> entities. We will create an in-memory subDMesh ...

The "AcDbDatabase::loadLineTypeFile" can load linetypes from a linetype file. If the linetype with the same name already exists in the database, then the ...

We know Revit's parametric modeling feature allows us to change an element and all related elements will be changed automatically to keep the model consistent, e.g. move a wall, the window or door on ...

The most interesting part of this script, other than the geometry, is the metadata. Note that the group defines where the script shows up in the spec editor. The tooltips show when the dimensions are ...

While exporting to DWG file (or other CAD formats) in the 'Export CAD formats' dialog box we have a check box to select / unselect 'Export views on sheets and links as external reference'. How can we ...

will be used to provide an interface for manipulating array parameters that are common to Rectangular, Path and Polar Arrays. AcDbAssocArrayActionBody is an associative action that can be evaluated to ...

On January 30th, 2024, we hosted a webinar on moving to .NET core covering Autodesk's flagship products, AutoCAD, Revit, and Inventor. - How to Create, Build and Debug .NET 8 Plugin for AutoCAD ...