The Autodesk Intent rule-based definition language is a high-level programming language for the Autodesk Inventor Engineer-to-Order family of products. It is uniquely designed to solve problems in the area of automated design. This document is a reference manual for the Intent programming language. It is not a complete language specification or language tutorial.
Intent Language Reference consists of four main sections:
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Designs and Functions Inheritance; system and user designs ; mixins; functions ; annotations.
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Rules Basic rules ; flags; annotations; child rules ; child lists ; methods ; group rules ; dynamic rules .
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Data Types, Keywords, and Operators Supported data types; reserved keywords; operator characters; operator precedence and associativity.
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Statements Conditional statements; iteration statements, exception handling statements; branch statements.
In each section, supplementary code examples, illustrations, and tables accompany most topics.