how to publish your own frames into Inventor frame generator tutorial

[@jasongreenawalt2632]

So glad to see you making tutorials again. I have yet to find any as good as yours!

[@crisauces]

I wanted to point out that if you put an equal sign at the beginning of the part number field in the family table it will update your length after you trim or change the length of the shapes in any form. When you don’t put an equal sign as you did in the video it pulls the values from other columns in the table at that point in time and never updates this is why your BOM had all the shapes in one row because by default inventor groups by part number column and in this instance they were all the same.

[@SaltwaterMesquiteManZ71]

Wow! Didn't know that. Thanks @crisauces. That was quite a chuck of knowledge Cris. My body came to a stand still while all power had been diverted to the flux capacitor on my shoulder's... that was deep. Genius bro! I'm gunna try that myself just to see it happen.

[@scottstewart6624]

Holy shitballs, am I glad I happened to see this comment this morning! I have just been using frame generator and it wasn't updating my lengths. This solved it. Thank you!

[@beno9966]

This is not the case for Inventor 2024, it may be the case previously. The reason the part number did not work was due to it not being a custom expression with a number range. E.g: [0.001;50000;;] there is no need for an equal sign.

[@crisauces]

@@beno9966 at the time of my original comment inventor 2024 wasn’t released yet. Whenever I upgrade to 2024 I will test your method.

[@bw7166]

This is also the case in previous releases.@@beno9966

[@josedaubon9842]

Thanks!

[@wojbrasil]

I liked the explanation of the Family Table as I was still doing one profile at a time. Very good. 🤓

[@robertbenz8260]

Thanks - extremely helpful!!

[@jackatkinson2207]

really enjoy these tutorials on frame generator. I was wondering if you might do a video on weldments in the future?

[@arnekehrenkarlsson1001]

Tak!

[@MOHSENSAMI-s3p]

WONDERFUL TEACHER. WONDERFOR TUTORIAL. TNKS

[@ThatGuy-pf7ju]

Its worth noting that you should only use "structural shapes" that are solid for frame generator. I added slotted strut to my content center and it doesn't work, unless the frame doesn't need any modifications beyond simply placing its members. Because of the inherent way frame generator works, most modifications will result in modeling errors. You can use solid strut and adjust the parameter mapping accordingly, but it would be nice if it would show slots at least for cosmetic effect.

[@reghasell]

Thank you.

[@andrealves2210]

pretty cool tutorial!!! pipes systems would be very good subject to cover

[@davewiebe2582]

Very nice! Could you please do a tutorial on how to publish nuts & bolts with auto drop functionality?

[@DrZeus108]

SO USEFUL! Thank you!!

[@Steveo_Ford]

Hi Niel, great videos! I have followed along step by step with this tutorial and have added my custom profiles to frame generator, but when creating the drawing the parts list is giving me the combined length, but I do need the idividual cut lengths and quantities, please could you explain to me how to change this as I cannot for the life of me figure it out, I keep getting *varies* in the "base qty, unit qty and G_L* and the "item qty" is wrong too.

[@georgekent1356]

Amazing good as always!

[@pjgamber]

having authored a bit of parts recently for the CC in general. man there is a lot, and it is EASY to miss the most minor thing. and have to start over. good tutorial

[@xi4ot]

Super useful THANK YOU!

[@23chaos23]

Thanks mate, learnt a few useful things. Heres a good video idea, "dimension and parameter wizardry, deep dive rabbit hole" show us all your fx-fuu

[@Neil3D]

Decent idea, and video title!

[@ConnorTolan]

Extremely helpful, cheers.

[@PASHKULI]

27:04 Neil, mate, you missed to select the Template (Standard.ipt) for the In-Place skeletal reference part created to be the one with (mm) in the name. Guilty as charged also.

I think you need the length in the part number to ensure that the part number becomes unique when you publish from content center? Otherwise your profile that is 50 mm long will have the same part number as the same profile being 60 mm long?

[@peterlinsley4287]

If you put your length in the part number and change the length in the part, it will not update the part number. You're better off having an individual part number for each frame.

[@beno9966]

@@peterlinsley4287 Then you should change the size with content center not by changing the actual part. All the standard structural shapes have length in the part number. You would only have unique part numbers if the lengths were set.

[@pjgamber]

i snicker each time with the intro song love it

[@andycampbell8048]

Good video and thnks for posting, just arrived at the right time as I've been trying to create an Aluminium Alloy section content library and was doing my "napper". Came across a video where you specify the length using B_L, G_OFFSET_END, & G_OFFSET_START, is this still applicable or have thigs moved on?

[@treyinok]

Outstanding! Thanks!

[@davidfhenderson8313]

thank you :)

[@songlover2732]

The units of measurements have something to do with the language packs. At least I always have problems.

[@Neil3D]

I've only ever installed the English LP, it only seems to switch to Inches when I run Inventor as an administrator. No idea, at this point I'd be disappointed if Inventor didn't continue to have these weird anomalies

[@anthonyz5671]

Is it possible to just copy a family from say tube to Strucutral shapes? I have no idea why they would not include round tuing in structural shapes to use with Frame Generator.

[@64G_Design]

Excellent. I had inquired about doing this a few years ago at HND. Covid and it being a bit beyond learning requirement got in the way of actually getting any instruction as to how too at the time. I've give the video a like but you'll have to imagine something a bit better than a thumbs up to convey personal delight. No, not that. Dirty,dirty...

[@dennyventurini5534]

Nice tutorial You should do a video about publishing parts in content center and reuse it Thank you

[@Neil3D]

There's quite a lot of potential content centre vids I could do. What kind of parts are you thinking of and for what use?

[@TheCuriousOrbs]

I've gone through this process not less than a hundred times in the past. But I still learned some new tricks from this video, noice! Also, I thought I had to make the initial part an iPart in order to progress it to publishing level. Has my life been a lie? I've also struggled immensley trying to redefine a profile once published, could this be because I've never started a session in admin preveledges?

[@robertogarza5446]

at the time i create the BOM, unit qty and qty are the same, how do i change that ? I want to know how many of equal lenght frames i have, so i want to keep unit qty but qty reflects how many of them i have

[@mjprinsloo2695]

Use reuse when creating frames instead of placing everything all at once

[@jamiemoore8314]

Where in the maze of parameters and tables do I assign the name to appear in my dropdown at the point of creating a frame, i simply get (Unnamed 1) (Unnamed 2) etc.

[@Neil3D]

In the dialog box titled "Publish Guide" when you do the upload, there's a field called "Family Name" and "Family Description", those are what appear in the frame generator list when you use it. There's also a "Standard" field, which is populated in the same Publish Guide dialog

[@jamiemoore8314]

@@Neil3D Yes had that already, turns out you need Base length and one other key parameter to populate that 'Size' drop down!

[@paadillaa]

Hey Niel you previously said that you never got into automation in inventor because of coding, have you tried using chat GPT to write some code for you?

[@Neil3D]

Yep! I've been having a good play around with that over the last week and I'm amazed. I haven't figured out how to get it to reference the Inventor API though as it'll need that for specific API calls and reference in the libraries?

[@paadillaa]

​@@Neil3D I'm pretty sure inn the next future you will be able to give the model the api documentation and it will figure it out. This friend of mine who uses Catia got a pretty amazing result just by asking a simple visual basic script with visual interface to design a bolt according with ASME standards. You should upload your experimentation with GPT there is no other content related to CAD

[@beckettevans7228]

Anyone get a fix for the part number roll-up at the end? I'm coming across that same issue and haven't been able to solve it.

[@Barboron]

'My videos get played in schools...' Conveys more emotion than any vulgarity you could have said.

[@Neil3D]

There's a massive difference between being mindful of the fact that some lecturers might want to play these in educational systems and making videos for kids. I do not make videos for kids.

[@steverushton1846]

Please help anyone!! Using 2020 and trying to create a fully welded tubular frame i.e no fittings. I've been trying to do it in Frame Generator but can't find a way to create the multiple tee joints. I've been wading thru' KZbin but with no success. Can anyone offer instructions please...

[@tomast9034]

i personally avoid it if possible. frame generator worked for me like a weather forecast..random outcome as heck:D

[@educationalive4245]

I was wondering why the hell I was always going back to inches!

[@maatwerkengineering3398]

I stopped using Frame Generator after discovering it can’t pattern frame members or reassign an existing frame member to another sketch line

[@ngocharvey3999]

[@robertbenz8260]

Thanks!