If the API could give me access to my CAM templates, access to my geometry (CAD API) and access to toolpath data, then I can potentially even add setups and toolpaths for certain types of recognisable geometry automatically, and then go in and tidy them up manually.If I build a part that can have many different configurations, then I want to be able to control which toolpaths are suppressed/unsuppressed with rules, depending on which configuration is selected.When changing the number and spacing parameters for a feature pattern in CAD, I want to be able to link those parameters to the parameters in the CAM, so my CAM pattern stays in sync with my feature pattern.Preferably without triggering a regeneration. When I use iLogic to switch from Setup 1, to Setup 2 (suppressing/unsuppressing features or components,) I want to be able to also suppress/unsuppress the corresponding toolpaths.Extending configurable designs, to CAM:.So the ways I'm thinking of hoping to use it are things like this:

I think one of my very first questions for the HSM team when the Inventor version was in beta, was 'Is there an API!?!?!?' I am super excited to hear this is getting some focus. I've been meaning to get to this all day today. I'm very excited for this! Please keep us posted on the progress of the API A search could be made for all programs which use a tool with XXXX id number, then replace manually or ideally with a script with the new standard tool. This could also apply to a company which uses standard tooling across many programs, but at some point decides to change the standard.

That info can then be used to generate a change order so when there is some free time, a programmer can go back and replace old workarounds with proper solutions. probing), and filter by a 'modified before' date would be great. Being able to go into Vault and generate a list of all programs which use a specific type of operation (e.g. Surely guys are doing workarounds now for things which later will likely have a clean native solution.

Thanks these types of things have been dreams of mine for quite awhile.Īnother idea I just thought of goes back to the Vault search-ability. There is another thread here talking about probing and workarounds for getting the probe to hit in a specific location.

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