Variable iProperty Data on placed Components in an Assembly?

[Anonymous]

OK, I thought this should be easy but I'm stumped.

I want to create numerous custom properties for a part. Some of these will be the same for all instances of the part (i.e. vendor, part number, etc).  But some have to vary from instance to instance.

So, as an example - if I place 5 identical tanks into my assembly I need to assign unique text entries for each of these 5 instances (i.e. TANK-01, TANK-02, TANK-03, etc)

Futhermore, all these textual properties have to be able to be shown physically on the part (for identification on plots) and extractable for BOMs, etc.

Can anyone please help point me in the right direction?  It seems that any custom iProperties I set up are global for all instances of the part.

Thanks in advance,

Jim

[nmunro]

Properties are associated directly with the document object so they won't do what you want (without a lot of work). If you are doing this programatically, have a look at Attributes. You can add pretty much any type of information via attributes and each component occurrance can have separate attributes.