A Python based Autodesk Inventor API module!

Welcome to PyInventor! The following is a module that allows for the creation of parts using Autodesk Inventor. I wrote this with the intent of automating the frustratingly slow process of parametrically varying features in inventor either by hand or using the tedius parameter editor or the built in VBA editor (iLogic). The pyinvent library is a wrapper for the Autodesk Inventor API library which is natively written in VBA (Visual Basic for Applications). Because of this both Autodesk Inventor and this library only work in Microsoft Windows. MacOS is completely incompatible (unless running Windows in bootcamp).

This package does not require the Schuster Lab Library (slab) to run and can be used with any normal Anaconda 3.2 install or higher with no additional packages. Of course Autodesk Inventor is required. It is recommended that Inventor 2019 is used for best compatibility however this will run using Inventor 2017 or later (in theory), however the older variants have not been tested in depth. Anything after Inventor 2019 will also be compatible. For more information on this compatibility and to learn more about the Inventor API and its functionality please refer to the API manual:

http://help.autodesk.com/view/INVNTOR/2019/ENU/

This is version 0.4 of PyInventor and only allows for individual part creation and export. Not all 3D functionality has been added. The demos (located in the _Totorial_Notebooks folder) demonstrate the current extents of PyInventor's capabilities. New revisions will likely be added in time.

RECOMMENDED INSTALL PROCESS:

Open a cmd window and run: python setup.py install

Then import pyinvent directly

~Andrew Oriani [email protected]