iLogic - Creating Global Forms & Examples

hey guys i wanted to make a quick video on forms uh it's more specifically global forms i'm going to assume that you guys know what forms are already and if you don't go ahead and leave a question and i can make a quick video about forms but there's a lot of informations on forms already what there isn't a lot of information is global forms uh let me show you my global forms which is located under the i logic tab and this is a very easy way to get people on board in your company who are not really used to using eye logic and to get them using uh these eye logic rules because if you go to external rules it's kind of confusing like oh what does this mean which which code is it that i uh which code does what i wanted to do right in this global forms you can make a little quick you could put images to separate the way i have it separated is if you're an assembly or in a part these are tools you can use if you're an assembly these are tools you can use if you're in a drawing these are tools you can use and so forth we got some custom stuff for our company as well uh so it's pretty useful you could also set this up for the the people in the shop in the fabrication room uh for our fab we have a couple buttons for them which makes them easy uh makes it easier for them to uh do their process actually so i'm gonna show you one of the custom ones we have if i go down here uh where it says mask very controls this shows up so if i wanted to change this gearbox well first i have to select the option which gearbox i wanted right so if i go uh oh oops not that button that button is actually going to put the gearbox in there um give it a sec all right so first i had to pop up this form this form is basically this one right here it just runs a rule saying open a form called configuration so i wanted to change the gearbox let's say i wanted a k402 gearbox a little bit bigger all i have to do is press update gearbox and in the background you can see it being changed out and right now we will see the driveshaft to see if it got updated or not so if you press uh all right so let's take a look take a look inside here have section all right so it looks like uh the shaft got uh updated its length to the right size for this gearbox which is good uh so that's one uh quick way to use or change out gearbox um just by using these global forms right and we have other uh tools so like right here i could open this drawing if i wanted to which is nothing really fancy i press open the drawing it's going to open this uh this drawing up here right now i'll show you how to set up these uh these tools uh after this demonstration all right so i get he's asking me to check out no i don't want to check this out all right so right here we could also uh do some custom stuff so we usually have to have these uh descriptions set up for uh you know the customer so if i had have i had the update i mean if i had the customer incorrect let's say this customer said oh it's not letting me do with my edits i got to check it out i guess i'll just check it out very briefly let's say youtube was a company which is not correct i have a button here that could help me speed that up i just have to press refresh project details and it will update to the correct uh customer of course this is our custom process i'm not sure what you guys do but that's something that saves us a lot of time instead of having to type it out every each time uh let me under check that on this file here all right so how to set this up right that's that's the question you're wondering now now that you see how cool it is and how applicable this is so all you have to do is just when this is all cleared up all you have to do is just press edit it's probably blank i'm pretty sure it's blank for you right now if you've never done this before once you press edit this shows up okay and it's the same thing as a form right right right here where we could have uh you know you i'm assuming that you've made a form before this is just the next level up it's very simple or i mean it's very intuitive from that i guess from making a form you can set up you can put these are your external rules uh you could link these into this form so if i wanted to add an external rules not all external rules are inside this right here but if i wanted to uh add this little configuration guy here it's going to show up now under other and probably not right away they just we can rename this to uh youtube is cool all right and then we'll have a button that says youtube is cool uh so if you go back to edit uh once again we can go ahead or what i mean by once again we could go ahead and and select an image for this uh right here we've got some images already a red dot there's not a lot of editing you can do for for a rule uh but let's go ahead and delete this another cool thing that i can do is i can actually make a form like how i did this uh this button right here this is actually running a form and we can do that by going to edit uh and we just uh how did it do it actually [Music] how i did it oh yeah so i just go i drag this little button here i i'm gonna add a form into under other uh same thing youtube is cool and then right here i can uh drag and drop codes in here into here so if i drop a code here oh let's drop it in here oh how do i do this you know what okay so i made a form here so once you make the form you have to go over here and press edit and right here now you have your your form uh like if it was a a form right here right and right here you can once again you could add rules uh so if i wanted to add this rule right here it will show up so once i hit this button that shows up right there all right let's go back to edit another cool thing about these forms is that you could actually link parameters uh so let's say uh this parameter has a a has a parameter gro okay uh so right here if i press right here if i i could type i could modify this parameter right here so this would be 16 inches now since this is a global form it does show up in every document you have so let's say i start off a new document and this document doesn't have a a parameter called uh gro well oh whoops not that button what's going to happen right what is going to happen if it doesn't have gro well you can't modify it because there's no such parameter called dro but if you have uh multiple documents with the parameter called gro you can modify that now so yeah i can modify to that to for that to be 16 now so let me give you an example of where i have another document with gro if you guys think this is really cool make sure to hit that thumbs up button share with your your co-workers or or be greedy with this information and take it upon yourself to learn this because this is very useful and it does save a lot of company time or at least in my company so right here this is a document that i just opened up i know that this document has a parameter called gro so if i go back to the form we just made i can modify that gro to be 16. that's a little bit too wide let's go to 10 and we can modify that and once again that's only because this is a a form inside of global forms now how i save this file is i save it in the network and in the in the network location so if i go to uh open continue folder this is actually in our network folder and only i or yeah only the cad manager which is only myself i can modify increase this uh this xml file uh in the network and what you can do if you don't have a network folder you can actually store this file in vault the only thing is it's a little annoying because if you store it in vaults every time you make an update to this global forum you have to check it out and then check it back in then you have to tell your users right away hey get the latest revision uh a way i got around this was just by making a network folder and in this network folder it refreshes automatically every time i make an update so every every i always make updates to these things and instead of having to bug them uh hey you know update this folder if you guys already do that you guys know how annoying that is and not everybody listens so that's how i set that up but once again you could store that into vaults just make sure that um it's very limited to the per people who can edit this you don't want people getting their hands in you know deleting buttons because right here you'll notice that if i right click uh let's say i wanted to edit this rule this rule is not clean i know don't hate on me please this is one of the first rules i've ever made so i can actually edit this rule if i right click right there and it takes me right into the the row i know it's super messy and this is the first i hate looking at this one because it just like this is when i first started should i have should put this i'll capture something should i put this here and just oh over right yeah it's a little more cleaner uh so yeah there's always edits that i need to do to record um and if the file this xml file is not under read only for other users they can go ahead and access your your rules and make modifications to it and this is a an external rule if you guys have questions about external rules please let me know uh so this is once again how how to mess with global forms and you can actually see that when we made this youtube is cool form it actually uh made a new file right here so this is a file if we went ahead and deleted these i think it will delete uh well what's gonna happen here oh okay so if i hit this button yeah nothing is there just because we went ahead and deleted it uh yes yes uh we just have to go in here and edit form i'll add a global form and we can delete it here all right boom uh what else can you do here it's mainly just to uh this global form is mainly just to put put external rules link external rules and then also to create forms inside this to give quick access to the external rules that you've already created for your company if you guys have any questions please let me know please bombard me with questions my youtube channel is very lonely so i will probably give you highest priority if you ask a question but anyways make sure to hit the like button and subscribe for more ilogic related videos

Channel: Automation With iLogic

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Keywords: ilogic autodesk, ilogic, inventor, customization, ilogic customization, global forms, design automation, ilogic automation, ilogic example, inventor design, inventor basic

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Length: 12min 2sec (722 seconds)

Published: Wed Nov 11 2020