I've been fiddling with VBA. it isn't nice, but is pretty easy to use. We use Autodesk: Inventor at work. It's a pretty cruddy 3D MCAD package, but WAY better than Autodesk: AutoCAD. In an effort to make life more interesting I thought I'd have a go at writing some macros in VBA. So far I've managed to produce two things:

• Calculating the mass of visible items only
• Plotting views 1:1

Both of these macros overcome some of the major short comings from Inventor, that any application at rev 10 shouldn't have.

As you can see the response from the Inventor Community is as great as the response I received at work ("Get on with what you are meant to be doing!")

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