The Inventor package allows a Maple user to communicate with the Autodesk Inventor application. This package includes commands to get or set the parameter values of a design.

This package requires Windows, and Autodesk Inventor 2011 or Autodesk Inventor 2012.

The following is a list of available commands.

OpenConnection - open a connection to Inventor

CloseConnection - close a connection to Inventor

GetActiveDocument - get the active document

GetOpenDocuments - get a list of open documents

GetDocumentName - get a document name

OpenDocument - open a document

CloseDocument - close a document

UpdateDocument - apply changes to a document

GetModelParameterList - get the list of model parameters in a document

GetUserParameterList - get the list of user parameters in a document

GetSelectedParameterList - get the list of selected parameters

GetParameterValue - get the value of a parameter

SetParameterValue - set the value of a parameter

GetParameterUnit - get the unit of a parameter

GetParameterEquation - get the equation of a parameter

SetParameterEquation - set the equation of a parameter

To display the help page for a particular Inventor command, see Getting Help with a Command in a Package.