Render an Intent Model

Progress indicator

If the Render operation takes a significant amount of time, the current progress shows in the Inventor status bar:

Intent does not pre-calculate the steps count, so the percentage can decrease as the model renders.

Set the EnableProgress Indicator

• In the <Install Directory>\Bin folder, in the Intent.Config .xml file, set the EnableProbressIndicator property with a text editor, such as Notepad.
  

Control visibilty of the progress indicator

• Set the visibility of the progress indicator programmatically with the following property:

  IntentAPI.Instance.Options.IsRenderProgressEnabled

Create a custom progress indicator

• Derive from the abstract class Autodesk.Intent.ProgressIndicator.
  

The simplest implementation looks like this:

    class NullProgressIndicator : ProgressIndicator
    {
        public NullProgressIndicator() : base() {}

        public override void OnStart() {}

        public override void OnProgress(long curValue, long maxValue) {}

        public override void OnEnd() {}
    }

Create an instance of your class after the Intent API is initialized (check Autodesk.Intent.IntentAPI.Initialized).

In Intent code, organize the steps/range through a call similar to the following: