Anyway for iLogic extents to ignore workplanes?

[kazsud]

We have a iLogic Rule that measures extents (length, width + thickness) and for some reason it measures work planes instead of just the model. We have been resizing them until they are no longer sticking out but we don't always rememeber.

Any way to stop this from calculating?

[jdkriek]

Please post the rule (code).

[kazsud]

Imports System.Collections.Generic
  ' Make List(of T) type available

InventorVb.DocumentUpdate()

Dim sizes As New List(Of Double)

sizes.Add(Measure.ExtentsLength)
sizes.Add(Measure.ExtentsWidth)
sizes.Add(Measure.ExtentsHeight)

sizes.Sort()

Parameter("LENGTH") = sizes(2)
Parameter("WIDTH") = sizes(1)
Parameter("THICKNESS") = sizes(0)

iLogicVb.UpdateWhenDone = True

[jdkriek]

Pretty simple 😉

Imports System.Collections.Generic

'Turn off work features so they dont calculate
ThisDoc.Document.ObjectVisibility.AllWorkFeatures = False

'Make List(of T) type available
InventorVb.DocumentUpdate()

Dim sizes As New List(Of Double)

sizes.Add(Measure.ExtentsLength)
sizes.Add(Measure.ExtentsWidth)
sizes.Add(Measure.ExtentsHeight)

sizes.Sort()

Parameter("LENGTH") = sizes(2)
Parameter("WIDTH") = sizes(1)
Parameter("THICKNESS") = sizes(0)

iLogicVb.UpdateWhenDone = True

'Turn back on work features - optional
ThisDoc.Document.ObjectVisibility.AllWorkFeatures = True

[kazsud]

Gettting this

Public member 'ObjectVisibility' on type 'PartDocument' not found.

[jdkriek]

Interesting, working fine in Inventor 2011-2013 - unfortunately I don't have 2010 to test with.

So for now just got to View > Object Visibility > Uncheck All Work Features

[kazsud]

it's always done this weither they were on or off

[jdkriek]

As soon as you turn off the workplane it doesn't calculate it, that's how extents works - it has to be enabled.

Here, try this workaround

Imports System.Collections.Generic
'Make List(of T) type available

Dim oApp As Application
oApp = ThisApplication
Dim oPart As PartDocument
oPart = oApp.ActiveDocument

'Turn off work features so they dont calculate
oPart.ObjectVisibility.AllWorkFeatures = False

InventorVb.DocumentUpdate()

Dim sizes As New List(Of Double)

sizes.Add(Measure.ExtentsLength)
sizes.Add(Measure.ExtentsWidth)
sizes.Add(Measure.ExtentsHeight)

sizes.Sort()

Parameter("LENGTH") = sizes(2)
Parameter("WIDTH") = sizes(1)
Parameter("THICKNESS") = sizes(0)

iLogicVb.UpdateWhenDone = True

'Turn back on work features - optional
oPart.ObjectVisibility.AllWorkFeatures = True

[kazsud]

Negative jd

Still says Public member 'ObjectVisibility' on type 'PartDocument' not found.

[kazsud]

I tried my original rule and it did work when i manualy turned off all work features.

Thanks for clarifing that

[jdkriek]

Ok, so it must be that 2010 doesnt support that through iLogic. I would find another method in VBA, because it's too easy for someone to turn it back on and mess up your extents. Whereas a script would always make sure it was turned off first before calculating. I'll keep looking for you.