Autofill Scale?

[elixin77]

Hi all.

The company I work for uses templates for our casting and machine drawings. 

I'm wondering if there is a way to auto-fill some boxes on our template, most notably Author (works, but defaults to username of comp, not initials), and Scale (pulls scale from first drawing placed only).

Author uses the <DESIGNER> tag, and the Scale uses a custom tag in the iProperties menu.  Company uses Inv. 2012.

Thanks in advance for the help.

[jdkriek · Accepted solution]

The CAD Admin should have had users configure thier Tools > Application Options > General Tab > "Username" to be the user's intials. Then when a new file is created the Author and Designer iProperties are automaticly filled in correctly. Then it's filled out on the title block automaticly via <AUTHOR> or <DESIGNER> variables inserted from Drawing Properties.

[matt_jlt · Accepted solution]

If you want your scale iproperty fille out automatically from the first view placed you can use iLogic / VBA / Addin.

For iLogic you can use this:

' Define Document & First Sheet
	Dim oDrg As DrawingDocument = ThisDrawing.Document
	Dim oSheet As Sheet = oDrg.Sheets.Item(1)
	
' Check if there are any views on the sheet
	If oSheet.DrawingViews.Count = 0 Then
		Exit Sub
	End If

' Get the first view on the sheet
	Dim oView As DrawingView = oSheet.DrawingViews.Item(1)

' Update Scale iProperty
	iProperties.Value("Custom", "Scale") = oView.ScaleString

' Update Drawing to reflect changes
	InventorVb.DocumentUpdate()

Just set the rule to run every time the drawing is saved

Inventor > Manage Tab > iLogic Panel > Event Triggers button

Regards, Matt.

If this solves your problem, please accept this as the solution.

[ntreb]

Hi Matt,

How do you stop the code from overwriting a value (back to the scale of the first view inserted) if you have changed the scale manually?

Is there a code which reads whether a field has had a value inserted manually?

I'm sure there is other basic code which could achieve the same result, but I am new to this coding game so not too sure.

Cheers,

Nick