In addition to the two bodies you can also see several work points that have been created. The punch has been built relative to the model origin, as can be seen by the base work planes. In this case it can be thought of as a punch that will be used to remove material from the base part. The yellow body will be used as the base or main part material. I have a part model that contains two bodies. I’ve created a small sample to demonstrate the concept and illustrate how to use the API. Using the TransientBRep functionality allows you to do just the modeling work without all of the overhead of creating a standard feature. Although a key part of the process, the actual modeling is just a piece of all of the work that’s done. When you create a feature in Inventor, it’s also using ASM to do the actual model computations but it is also doing a lot more work to remember all of the feature input, adding additional information to the resulting model to allow for associativity, creating data in the browser to represent the feature, and updating the graphics to display the modified model. The TransientBRep object provides functions that are a very light wrapper over the Autodesk Shape Manager (ASM) modeling core. It’s data that exists outside of the model. The Inventor API uses the term Transient to mean data that is not seen or saved in the document. The TransientBRep object supports functionality that makes this possible. be parametric) but just needed accurate geometry. They didn’t need the resulting model to have any intelligence (i.e. There was a question on the Inventor Customization Forum recently that asked about being able to quickly perform many Boolean operations on a body by repeatedly moving another body and doing a difference operation. Luckily you don’t have to understand the complicated in order to use the simple. It supports some relatively simple functionality and also some of the more complicated capabilities provided by the API. It’s called Transient B-Rep and is accessed through the TransientBRep property on the Application object. The Inventor API supports some functionality that’s relatively new (since Inventor 2009) and is not very well known.
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