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INVENTOR PRODUCTIVITY TOOLS
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Author:
QUBE-IT DESIGN, INC
Brian Hall
7/4/2010

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DESCRIPTION
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The current tool set is three distinct rectangle drawing tools that are used inside
the sketch environment for part files, assembly files, and drawing files. They are a 
Center Point Rectangle, a Horizontal Mid-Point Rectangle, and a Vertical Mid-Point 
Rectangle. The Horizontal and Vertical mid-point rectangles create a rectangle from
the mid-points of one of the horizontal or vertical lines of the rectangle. The 
Center Point Rectangle creates a rectangle about the origin of where the user picks.
These tools are located on the sketch tab in the ribbon interface as a separate panel
called "Rectangles". 


SOURCE CODE
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C# source code has been provided with this add-in as a Visual Studio 2010 Solution.



SUPPORTED VERSIONS
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This add-in supports Inventor 2010 forward and does not support the classic
interface. 


INSTALLATION
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An installer wizard ("Qube-It Tools.msi") has been provided. Follow the prompts
for quick installation. You can change the location of the install folder if you
like.

You may uninstall the add-in through your system's control panel. You may also simply
uncheck the "Load on Startup" box if you're only looking to unload it.


KNOWN ISSUES
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This add-in does not support the classic interface. 

The default rectangle button shown on the Rectangles tab is the Center point Rectangle.
When the user selects one of the other two rectangle tools, they will remain displayed
and "pressed" during the life of the tool, but when the user completes the tool or exits
the tool, the displayed button will go back to being the Center Point Rectangle tool again. 
This is intentional because even if the horizontal or vertical mid-point rectangle tools 
are displayed and the user clicks that displayed button, the center point rectangle tool 
will be what gets activated (unless the user selects the drop down first). 

There is no support for the heads up display to be utilized with these tools. It is not 
supported through the API yet.


RELEASE HISTORY
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1.0 Current Release


FEEDBACK
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QUBE-IT DESIGN PROVIDES THIS PROGRAM "AS IS" AND WITH ALL FAULTS. 
QUBE-IT DESIGN SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIMS ANY IMPLIED WARRANTY OF
MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR USE. QUBE-IT DESIGN, INC. 
DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE OPERATION OF THE PROGRAM WILL BE
UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR FREE.


The source code is 1.4 MB in a compressed zip file so it's too large to upload here, but I would be happy to provide it if you PM me your e-mail address. I'm looking into another way to post it and will relay that info here when it becomes available.

Of course, feedback is always welcome.