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[#1]

Is there a way to use the filename to drive the parameters of the file?

Example: I have a cube that is called 4x4x4.ipt its dimensions d0,d1,d2 are 4,4,4 respectively. I want to rename it to 4x4x6.ipt and have the dimensions d0,d1,d2 resize to 4,4,6.

Thanks

[#2]

Option 1: Through VB code read the filename and parse it and then set it to the parameters d0,d1,d2 and update. autodesk.inventor.customization group could provide more help here.

Option 2: You might be knowing this already you can create an iPart with d0,d1,d2 as columns and then create keys for them and then see if that works out. You could add rows for as many variations as possible. This does create files though.

Thanks

shekar

[#3]

Free of charge ;-)

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[#4]

option 3 get a copy of yippee pro.

use the parameters to drive the filename

[#5]

The only problem...he wants it the other-way-around :-)

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T. Ham
Mechanical Engineer
CDS Engineering BV

HP xw4300 Workstation
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4 GB SDRAM
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[#6]

some say tomato, some say tomato, wait that doesnt work here...

i really should think about learning some code, nice work

[#7]

For those of you who are curious how Teun did it he used Option 1. When you open the IPT file attached by Teun go to Tools, Macro, Visual Basic Editor to see the script that will be run when the file is opened. Nice job Teun. Thanks.

shekar

[#8]

One remark: the macro is embedded in the IPT. This can cause problems when
you have a lot of IPTs open at the same time (it's a VBA limitation, so you
can blame Microsoft for it)

An Add-in would solve that problem, but my example is just to show that it
can be done!

Cheers,

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T. Ham
Mechanical Engineer
CDS Engineering BV

HP xw4300 Workstation
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[#9]

You have all been very helpful, especially you Teun, I was trying to do this for a while now and only found out about this discussion group yesterday. My first experience has been very good !!!!

Cheers !!!

[#10]

No problem!

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T. Ham
Mechanical Engineer
CDS Engineering BV

HP xw4300 Workstation
Dual Pentium XEON 3.6 Ghz
4 GB SDRAM
NVIDIA QUADRO FX 3450/4000 SDI (Driver = 8.4.2.6)
250 GB SEAGATE SATA Hard Disc
3Com Gigabit NIC

Windows XP Professional SP2
Autodesk Inventor Series 10 SP3a
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