About Event Triggers and iTriggers

You can set event triggers to run rules according to specific events that occur in Inventor documents (parts, assemblies, or drawings).

You choose an event and the rules to trigger that event. You can select external rules and rules within the document. To run rules in documents in addition to the current document, you must add the path to the external rule directory in the Tools Options iLogic Configuration dialog box.

Events that can trigger a rule include events such as a document opening, the geometry of a part changing, and the suppression of an assembly component.

As an alternative, you can use an iTrigger, an Inventor user parameter that you include in the current document to fire rules manually. This parameter is frequently used to launch a dialog from a rule.