Part Smarter, not harder.
One way to simplify the process of using parts in inventor is to make a master part file that's driven by parameters and then create a rule in ilogic to save all of your info for each configured variant of that part into the .ipt file, swapping them out when the params change. I've been doing this with Json into a custom AttributeSet, and it seems to work pretty awesome. I've got these .ipt's I call smartparts, and what I do is I make a class that holds a bunch of data to drive the parameters of the model file. i just serialize and deserialize from there. So, for instance, for a pipe you could write this in a rule: Sub main Dim PipeList As List ( Of Pipe ) = New List ( Of Pipe ) Dim SchList As List ( Of ScheduleTableValues ) = New List ( Of ScheduleTableValues ) Dim JSeri As JavaScriptSerializer = New JavaScriptSerializer AttName = "JSON" Dim ThisPartDocument As PartDocument = ThisApplication . Documents . ItemByName...