Custom Profile in frame generator

[SoulAsasin]

Hello all.

I recently started to publish custom profiles in my Content Center.

What I wanted to do is to add a custom profile to content center and use it in frame generator. The problem is that I want to write in my Stock Number iProperty the Ordering number of the profile type and the generated length. I did everything in the content center publisher, but somehow it dosent work. It always writes my published file length. I can see that Inventor has the tools to do this, but somehow it dosen't work.

Does anybody have a solution for this.

Thanks.

[alessandro.gasso]

If you want to display the generated length inserting the frame with Frame Generator, you have to include in the expression of the property this:

“=… …<G_L>…”

You can find more details in the blog post below that has been created for the case of a custom column, but the concept can be applied also to the expression of the Stock Number column.

http://beinginventive.typepad.com/being-inventive/2012/04/include-the-length-from-the-steel-shape-pr...

 In case you want to display the length without the unit string and trailing zeros, see also the blog post below.

http://beinginventive.typepad.com/being-inventive/2012/04/edit-custom-property-format-for-a-standard...

I hope it helps.

Kind regards,

Alessandro

[SoulAsasin]

Hello.

Thanks for the fast reply. Unfortunatly it's not working. I tryed it your way...nothing..

I atached some printscreens so you can see my settings. If I insert directly from content center it works. If I insert using frame generator it dosen't.

I'm using Inventor 2010.

Thanks.

[alessandro.gasso]

Well, what you have written in the expression it doesn’t look really like to what you can see in the blog post.

You have written this:

"3842992425 L="&{G_L}

Try to write this:

="3842992425"& "L="&<G_L>

The brackets around G_L are <> and not {}.

The “=” is at the beginning of the expression.

Regards,

Alessandro

[SoulAsasin]

Hey

Yea I know. That was the equation I tried initily.

Tried it out with your version. Same problem.

You can see in print screens

[alessandro.gasso]

Copy the custom family in a new custom library and attach the library, so I can check what it is wrong with it.

Regards,

Alessandro

[SoulAsasin]

Hey.

Sorry for the delay.

On the link belove you can download my custom lybrary

http://www.filetransfer.ro/DDa6g0

In the Structureal Shape/Other section you can find the profile we were talking about. It's called 3842992425.

Thank you very much in advance.

[alessandro.gasso]

Sorry, but I cannot access the link you have provided.

I don’t need your custom library, but just a custom library that contains just the problematic family.

Can you attach it directly to this thread?

Or, if you prefer, attach the part you have authored for using it with Frame Generator and published.

Kind regards

Alessandro

[SoulAsasin]

Sorry again.

I have atached a library with just that one family.

Thanks again.

[alessandro.gasso · Accepted solution]

Thanks for the library.

I’m afraid you didn’t follow the right steps for creating, authoring and publishing the part.

Please, try to follow the steps from the article below for doing that.

http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/item?siteID=123112&id=12193815&linkID=9242016

After that, applying my suggestions and inserting the custom frames with Frame Generator, you should get what you want in the Stock Number field.

If this is not the case, please, attach the part you have created and authored following the steps of the article.

Regards,

Alessandro

[SoulAsasin]

Hey Alessandro.

It finaly works. Thank you very much for the support.

Have a great day.