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Asdrubal Dagreat
With the intention of better ordering the inventor files (.ipt, .idw, etc.) I need to know if it is possible that when including the part information, that is, the part number and the description, it can be done a rule so that the part has as name the combination of these two properties, part number first and description later. example: "013.050.021" this is the part number; and the description is "clamp clamp". what is needed is that the part be saved "013.050.021 clamping flange".
In this way we can organize the information more easily depending on the part number.
thank you
Having a filename based on PartNumber + description (or other iProperty)... It's possible and fairly easy if you do that when saving for the first time... but... if you already saved the part and then you want to change the filename.... that will be complicated...
This is what I am looking for, save part number + description for the first time, that is, when the part is built and include its properties, the file takes those values and saves the part as "part number + description"
Hi,
As in the screenshot, i want to create a rectangular pattern for those points, based on the dimention of 900 that i called "comp_furo", as such, i tried to insert an equation, "(comp_furo-150)/50" on the number of elements, and 50 on spacing, and inventor prompt me with an error, i was wondering if there is a way around that?
Thanks in advance!
Occasionally, with assemblies (iassemblies/iparts which i imagine play into this), i will make a drawing and the BOM is blank. I can tag items with balloon numbers and they correspond with the BOM but the part number and description is blank. When i switch the active member to the assembly i am making a drawing of, the BOM will generate the right part number and description for the items within it. However, if i switch to a different member, the BOM will become blank again. This presents a problem when opening drawing as the BOM will be blank if the correct member is not active. As well as mass checking the drawings into vault, only the active member will show a populated BOM and all the rest will be blank.
In order to bypass this issue i have always checked drawings into vault and printed them out with the active member selected so that the shop and server are populated with accurate drawings. This doesnt fix the issue but has allowed me to go on my way, so to speak, but i would really like to figure out why this is happening, to start, and how i can fix it or prevent it from happening in the future.
Hi! Without seeing the actual files, I can only speculate. The behavior does not sound normal to me. It sounds like corruption. Could you share the files with us here or send them to me directly (johnso...@autodesk.com)?
The fix that i have utilized as a work around is that when on a drawing where the information in the BOM is missing making sure that the iassembly is set to the same member that the drawing is of. Being on the active member fills in the BOM allowing the drawing to be printed but if ever the member is switched in the iassembly, the fields in the BOM will become blank again.
I am having the same problem, except it's only when I run cables. I have a database my cables pull from. I have verified cable numbers and descriptions are filled in. The weird thing is it doesn't always happen. Like I can run the same cable in two different models and it will show up correctly on one bom but not the other bom. When I annotate the information does not show up for me like the gentleman above. When I run my bus from the same database, all its part numbers and descriptions will show up. I've compared the two as far as settings and they are exactly the same. I am using Inventor 2021.4.1
My problem is that when I create a new drawing and it requires me to detail a specific part in an assembly I have to manually fill in the view label to match the Item number in my parts list. This is a lot of work and also is a recipe for human error.
1. View reps of only that specific part, total PITA if you want to detail a lot of your parts. Plus Inventors habit of contaminating view reps if you create mirror parts or patterns after locking the view rep.
2. I have some I logic code I run on my very top assembly, it writes the Item and qty property to either custom properties of my choosing or to properties that already exist but I do not use. I put my top assembly into an idw sheet and create a BOM, I then organise the BOM the way I want and renumber. Then when the top assembly is saved the item and qty get written to the desired property of each part and is readily available even in another idw file.
With your example you are using the "part number" as an Item number and view label. I cant rename those part numbers as more than one company works on these models and we require that part number to never change.
*Sub assemblies Drawings - Would be featured on my welded assembly detail drawings (This includes welding and bubbles for each welded assembly. Each welded assembly is a level of detail from the main assy).
2. The logic code seems like the best option, would you be so kind as to share the I logic code? Also with regards to this option I suppose you would be able to use the custom or unused property as a selectable option in your view label?
The code, I am sure you can work your way thru it and change the properties you use. This code is in our IAM template but gets turned so to speak only on the very top assy and is set to run before saving. There is some issues with mirror parts if you use them, may require manual changes to the BOM in the IAM file.
I have some code you might be interested in, when using your Level of Details. If your models and drawings are finished and you need to insert new parts it usually adds that part to every LOD. This code allows you to suppress the new parts in all but the active LOD. Saves me a bunch of time.
I really need to start working on figuring out this whole iLogic thing, it took me way to long to figure out what that code does - and I'm still not sure: it gets the part number from the assembly's BOM and puts it in the part?
I've been using the view rep method - I got this code from somewhere (I think you could maybe put a comment line with your [screen?]name in the code or something, I feel bad that I have no idea where this came from)
The only problem I have with it is that I usually have sub-assemblies: I'm making a weldment with a top half and a bottom half but I detail them together. This code will create a view rep for each part in the assembly it's run in but only gets the visibility right it the part is in that level: it will make a view in the "Housing" assembly for the "End wall, Top" that is in the "Top half" sub assembly but the visibility is off for everything - if I ran it in the "Top half" assembly it would give me a view rep with just "End wall, Top" showing.
(And then I have to got through each and set the visibility manually - I guess it looks like just the line or two between that End If and Next near the end, if I could just remember to change/delete that it would save me so many clicks.)
My code (not my code, one of my co-workers firgured it out) takes the item # then writes it to the engineer property, then takes the qty and writes it to the authority property. Now those numbers are properties of that part and can be used in multiple BOM's and IDW files.
But what if I have a left hand and a right hand each? The left hand housing is item 1 in the left hand assembly and the right hand housing is number 1 in the right hand assembly - now I've got two number 1s.
And if they each use six 1/2-13 x 2" lg. hex bolts, are there two item 15s of 6 bolts each, or does the BOM combine them but use the quantity from one? (Does "Sum of Values" for Merged Rows work for the Engineer column? But that's just for Parts Lists - or are we using the terms interchangeably?)
The I-Logic is only applied to your very top assembly, if you have separate left & right hand parts they will get separate "engineer" properties. If you use the same file for all the bolts then yes they will be common and all have the same "engineer" property.
And the bolts have the same item number in everything you make? It's still confusing me. Or would you never need to open an old BOM so the fasteners only need to reflect the quantities and drawing of the assembly that is currently being worked on?
I searched everywhere to try and get this done and ultimately I ended up having to code a button to do this so I thought I would share so other people can use. The button goes through all drawing views in a drawing and compares them back to the BOM to find what ITEM number the part is. It then adds that item number to the drawing view label. See below.
I used Brian Ekins nifftyinventoraddin template to do so. I have attached a compressed zip folder with the entire Visual Studio SLN as well as everything else needed to just drag and drop into the inventor add in location on the local drive.
oops my mistake I copied the code for one of my other buttons. Here is the right code. For reference the other button changes the item number to the last 3 digits of the part number. This is a company specific request.
I've made a structural section for frame generator following Autodesk instructions (and also a word document put up by a forum user). Basically I'm dealing with structural stainless sections with unusual dimensions and wanted a more concise description/stock #. i.e. SHS, 25 x 3, SS 304
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