Just a gentle reminder that time is running out to participate in this years Inventor API Wishlist Survey. The deadline is July 31, 2009. Here’s a link to the survey: Autodesk® Inventor®.
Thanks to those of you that have already taken the time to fill out the survey. We’re slightly ahead of the response we had for last years survey. This survey is very important to the Inventor engineering team in deciding what will go into the upcoming releases.
Here’s the wishlist that was generated from the survey in 2008.
- Use Inventor’s functionality through in-process component
- VBA Record and Playback
- Create Solids and Surfaces by defining geometry and B-Rep
- Ability to control Inventor’s progress bar
- Support for modeling in sheet metal flat pattern
- Full support for assembly feature creation
- Creation of all sheet metal features
- Creation of other drawing view types
- Hole notes, thread notes, and punch notes
- Full support for centerlines and center marks
- Ability to participate in Inventor’s error reporting mechanism
- Creation of ordinate and baseline dimension sets
- Support for inspection dimensions
Here’s what we did based on this feedback. The bold items were completed and work was done on the italicized items.
- Use Inventor’s functionality through in-process component
- VBA Record and Playback
- Create Solids and Surfaces by defining geometry and B-Rep
- Ability to control Inventor’s progress bar
- Support for modeling in sheet metal flat pattern
- Full support for assembly feature creation
- Creation of all sheet metal features
- Creation of other drawing view types
- Hole notes, thread notes, and punch notes
- Full support for centerlines and center marks
- Ability to participate in Inventor’s error reporting mechanism
- Creation of ordinate and baseline dimension sets
- Support for inspection dimensions
You can see that we do respond to these lists and need your input to help guide the API in the direction that is most useful to you. Thank you for your help.