First time I found Autodesk Assistant useful
I'm not a big fan of generative AI and I was always quite skeptic about all the hype. Today I wanted to give it a chance to do something different than hallucinating about non-existent workarounds and help topics.
The problem - I have a model of PCB which was exported from external program. It has hundreds of components with single bodies in them. I needed to merge this into a single multibody component while retaining the original names. Obviously, this should be done by API script, but I haven't got knowledge and time to do it. Up till now I used to do that manually which is boring and time consuming.
So I asked Autodesk assistant to generate and run a script that will:
- Rename every body in every component so it resembles the original part name
- Make all the components independent
- Move all the bodies from separate components to root component
- Delete all empty component placeholders
And it worked. It took maybe 5 minutes to do everything. I'm quite impressed. I'll be hating generative AI a bit less now.