how to publish your own frames into Inventor frame generator tutorial

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Күн бұрын

This almost caused me to have a stroke. WOW IS THIS A CHORE!
But watch on as I make it simple, how to publish your own frame members into Autodesk Inventor frame generator, author parts to use in your own parts list.
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@crisauces Жыл бұрын

I wanted to point out that if you put an equal sign at the beginning of the part number field in the family table it will update your length after you trim or change the length of the shapes in any form. When you don’t put an equal sign as you did in the video it pulls the values from other columns in the table at that point in time and never updates this is why your BOM had all the shapes in one row because by default inventor groups by part number column and in this instance they were all the same.

@anthonycanales336 Жыл бұрын

Wow! Didn't know that. Thanks @crisauces. That was quite a chuck of knowledge Cris. My body came to a stand still while all power had been diverted to the flux capacitor on my shoulder's... that was deep. Genius bro! I'm gunna try that myself just to see it happen.

@scottstewart6624 Жыл бұрын

Holy shitballs, am I glad I happened to see this comment this morning! I have just been using frame generator and it wasn't updating my lengths. This solved it. Thank you!

@benoc9966 Жыл бұрын

This is not the case for Inventor 2024, it may be the case previously. The reason the part number did not work was due to it not being a custom expression with a number range. E.g: [0.001;50000;;] there is no need for an equal sign.

@crisauces Жыл бұрын

@@benoc9966 at the time of my original comment inventor 2024 wasn’t released yet. Whenever I upgrade to 2024 I will test your method.

@bw7166 8 ай бұрын

This is also the case in previous releases.@@benoc9966

@jasongreenawalt2632 Жыл бұрын

So glad to see you making tutorials again. I have yet to find any as good as yours!

@ThatGuy-pf7ju Жыл бұрын

Its worth noting that you should only use "structural shapes" that are solid for frame generator. I added slotted strut to my content center and it doesn't work, unless the frame doesn't need any modifications beyond simply placing its members. Because of the inherent way frame generator works, most modifications will result in modeling errors. You can use solid strut and adjust the parameter mapping accordingly, but it would be nice if it would show slots at least for cosmetic effect.

@wojbrasil Жыл бұрын

I liked the explanation of the Family Table as I was still doing one profile at a time. Very good. 🤓

@pjgamber Жыл бұрын

having authored a bit of parts recently for the CC in general. man there is a lot, and it is EASY to miss the most minor thing. and have to start over. good tutorial

@jackatkinson2207 Жыл бұрын

really enjoy these tutorials on frame generator. I was wondering if you might do a video on weldments in the future?

@andrealves2210 Жыл бұрын

pretty cool tutorial!!! pipes systems would be very good subject to cover

@user-sz7nz5gv8i 7 ай бұрын

Extremely helpful, cheers.

@treyinok Жыл бұрын

Outstanding! Thanks!

@23chaos23 Жыл бұрын

Thanks mate, learnt a few useful things. Heres a good video idea, "dimension and parameter wizardry, deep dive rabbit hole" show us all your fx-fuu

@Neil3D Жыл бұрын

Decent idea, and video title!

@davewiebe2582 Жыл бұрын

Very nice! Could you please do a tutorial on how to publish nuts & bolts with auto drop functionality?

@pjgamber Жыл бұрын

i snicker each time with the intro song love it

@Steveo_Ford Ай бұрын

Hi Niel, great videos! I have followed along step by step with this tutorial and have added my custom profiles to frame generator, but when creating the drawing the parts list is giving me the combined length, but I do need the idividual cut lengths and quantities, please could you explain to me how to change this as I cannot for the life of me figure it out, I keep getting *varies* in the "base qty, unit qty and G_L* and the "item qty" is wrong too.

@andycampbell8048 Жыл бұрын

Good video and thnks for posting, just arrived at the right time as I've been trying to create an Aluminium Alloy section content library and was doing my "napper". Came across a video where you specify the length using B_L, G_OFFSET_END, & G_OFFSET_START, is this still applicable or have thigs moved on?

@64G_Design Жыл бұрын

Excellent. I had inquired about doing this a few years ago at HND. Covid and it being a bit beyond learning requirement got in the way of actually getting any instruction as to how too at the time. I've give the video a like but you'll have to imagine something a bit better than a thumbs up to convey personal delight. No, not that. Dirty,dirty...

@reghasell 5 күн бұрын

Thank you.

@josedaubon9842 7 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@3-body-problem Жыл бұрын

I've gone through this process not less than a hundred times in the past. But I still learned some new tricks from this video, noice! Also, I thought I had to make the initial part an iPart in order to progress it to publishing level. Has my life been a lie? I've also struggled immensley trying to redefine a profile once published, could this be because I've never started a session in admin preveledges?

@dennyventurini5534 Жыл бұрын

Nice tutorial You should do a video about publishing parts in content center and reuse it Thank you

@Neil3D Жыл бұрын

There's quite a lot of potential content centre vids I could do. What kind of parts are you thinking of and for what use?

@PASHKULI Жыл бұрын

27:04 Neil, mate, you missed to select the Template (Standard.ipt) for the In-Place skeletal reference part created to be the one with (mm) in the name. Guilty as charged also.

@anthonyz5671 Жыл бұрын

Is it possible to just copy a family from say tube to Strucutral shapes? I have no idea why they would not include round tuing in structural shapes to use with Frame Generator.

@Barboron Жыл бұрын

'My videos get played in schools...' Conveys more emotion than any vulgarity you could have said.

@Neil3D Жыл бұрын

There's a massive difference between being mindful of the fact that some lecturers might want to play these in educational systems and making videos for kids. I do not make videos for kids.

@songlover2732 Жыл бұрын

The units of measurements have something to do with the language packs. At least I always have problems.

@Neil3D Жыл бұрын

I've only ever installed the English LP, it only seems to switch to Inches when I run Inventor as an administrator. No idea, at this point I'd be disappointed if Inventor didn't continue to have these weird anomalies

Жыл бұрын

I think you need the length in the part number to ensure that the part number becomes unique when you publish from content center? Otherwise your profile that is 50 mm long will have the same part number as the same profile being 60 mm long?

@peterlinsley4287 Жыл бұрын

If you put your length in the part number and change the length in the part, it will not update the part number. You're better off having an individual part number for each frame.

@benoc9966 Жыл бұрын

@@peterlinsley4287 Then you should change the size with content center not by changing the actual part. All the standard structural shapes have length in the part number. You would only have unique part numbers if the lengths were set.

@tomast9034 Жыл бұрын

i personally avoid it if possible. frame generator worked for me like a weather forecast..random outcome as heck:D

@robertogarza5446 5 ай бұрын

at the time i create the BOM, unit qty and qty are the same, how do i change that ? I want to know how many of equal lenght frames i have, so i want to keep unit qty but qty reflects how many of them i have

@mjprinsloo2695 2 ай бұрын

Use reuse when creating frames instead of placing everything all at once

@beckettevans7228 Жыл бұрын

Anyone get a fix for the part number roll-up at the end? I'm coming across that same issue and haven't been able to solve it.

@jamiemoore8314 Жыл бұрын

Where in the maze of parameters and tables do I assign the name to appear in my dropdown at the point of creating a frame, i simply get (Unnamed 1) (Unnamed 2) etc.

@Neil3D Жыл бұрын

In the dialog box titled "Publish Guide" when you do the upload, there's a field called "Family Name" and "Family Description", those are what appear in the frame generator list when you use it. There's also a "Standard" field, which is populated in the same Publish Guide dialog

@jamiemoore8314 Жыл бұрын

@@Neil3D Yes had that already, turns out you need Base length and one other key parameter to populate that 'Size' drop down!

@paadillaa Жыл бұрын

Hey Niel you previously said that you never got into automation in inventor because of coding, have you tried using chat GPT to write some code for you?

@Neil3D Жыл бұрын

Yep! I've been having a good play around with that over the last week and I'm amazed. I haven't figured out how to get it to reference the Inventor API though as it'll need that for specific API calls and reference in the libraries?

@paadillaa Жыл бұрын

@@Neil3D I'm pretty sure inn the next future you will be able to give the model the api documentation and it will figure it out. This friend of mine who uses Catia got a pretty amazing result just by asking a simple visual basic script with visual interface to design a bolt according with ASME standards. You should upload your experimentation with GPT there is no other content related to CAD