Change part by iLogic in Assembly

[zdhrichard]

Before using iLogic, I created lot of iAssembly and iPart. I could change iPart factory member when I need in iAssembly.

Now, I want to move everything to iLogic.

My question is: how could I change the part by iLogic code?

For example:

I generated "Part1.ipt" and "Part2.ipt",...... (I have hundred of member)

In my assembly, sometimes, I need use Part1.ipt, sometimes I need use Part2.ipt.

Which is the iLogic Code I should to use?

Inventor 2009, WIN XP.

[jletcher]

Working on this myself but you may get more responses in the Autodesk Inventor Customize

[mrattray]

iParts/iAssemblies do NOT play well with iLogic. You WILL have many many problems.

However, there is a snippet for this in the default snippets of the iLogic editor.

This is the snippet: iPart.ChangeRow("iComponentName:1", "RowMemberName")

[zdhrichard]

Thanks. But I do not want use any excel in my assembly anymore. I want create everything automaticly.

[mrattray]

Then I don't understand what you're asking.

[zdhrichard]

Let me explain:

Forget iPart and iassembly.

I created myPart.ipt with ilogic rule which could generate different parts as part1.ipt, part2.ipt, and so on (Hundreds of them).

I created myAssembly.iam with part1.ipt.

I want to write some iLogic Rule to change part1.ipt to part2.ipt.

Hope I make myself be understand now.

[Curtis_Waguespack · Accepted solution]

Hi  zdhrichard,

Something such as this should work for you. Note that you must specify both the part name:

Component.Replace("Part1:1", "C:\Temp\Part2.ipt", True)

 I hope this helps.
Best of luck to you in all of your Inventor pursuits,
Curtis
http://inventortrenches.blogspot.com

[Curtis_Waguespack · Accepted solution]

Also note:

True :  replace all instances of this component 

False  : replace only the single instance that you name Part1:9 replaces only instance 9.

I hope this helps.
Best of luck to you in all of your Inventor pursuits,
Curtis
http://inventortrenches.blogspot.com

[jletcher]

Sorry but I don't use iparts.. I will make them and generate the files and make a folder called hardware or whatever it is break the link from master ipart. I have found as nice as iparts are they will slow down inventor like you never thought it would.

[zdhrichard]

Great.

This is what I want.

Thanks lot.

[Anonymous]

HIi!

It's possible to replace a part with a iproperties custom name?

NEWPART = IProperties.Value("Custom", "MYPART")

Component.Replace("MYPART", "C:MYPART\QU001155_00.ipt", True)

Thanks for your help 🙂

[mrattray]

I'm not sure I understand your question. Are you asking if you can use an assembly property to specify the file path and name of a part that you want the rule to replace "MYPART" with? If that's the case then:

NEWPART = IProperties.Value("Custom", "MYPART")

Component.Replace("MYPART", NEWPART, True)

This wants NEWPART to be a string containing the full file path.

[Anonymous]

"newpart" is the complet file part i want to be replace!

Sorry for my english 😞

Thanks for your help!

[Anonymous]

Hi Curtis,

Now suppose those part names and their file paths have been changed in the design assistant is there a way the ilogic rule automatically updates with the new name? 

To be more clear i am looking for a solution for the following 

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-general-discussion/update-ilogic-rule-when-filenames-change/m...

Thanks,

Sid

using inventor 2011