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Assembly Copier has several methods to change the names of assembly components during renaming/copying. However, in the case of a wide variety of users, the given renaming schemes may not be sufficient and the user may have his/her own vision of how the assembly itself and its components should be renamed. For example, a user keeps a product log in an MS Excel file and wants the code for the next product to be based on the last entry of the previously created product in the log. Additionally, the user wants this entry to be automatically re-generated. Another scenario is when the product created needs to be given codes generated by an ERP system. In this case, the codes can be generated using the ERP system’s API and automatically applied during the renaming of the assembly. The Assembly Copier API allows you to create plugins to implement such ideas.
What are the requirements for someone who wants to create their own plugin?
The user must know:
1.What files are generated by Autodesk Inventor.
2.How Autodesk Inventor files are linked together.
3.Know how Assembly Copier works.
4.Know C# programming.
Below is a general description of how such plugins are developed:
▪Examples and additional information needed to develop plugins.