Flat Pattern Display Bend Numbers

[andrewwhiteinc]

Hello All

I've been looking around quite a bit for this one but i can't seem to figure it out.

We have a large collection (approximately 4000 parts) that need to be updated to a new drawing stardard. I am trying to write a program that will select a flat pattern and display the bend numbers on it as if you were to manually go to: Annotate > Table > General > Click on the flat pattern view > Specify Table Data Source as "Sheet Metal Bend Data" > Ok

Right now I can identify the flat pattern and also add the bend table to the drawing, but I can't figure out how to show the BEND IDs on the flat pattern as shown below.

 

[YuhanZhang]

This looks like a question about UI operation:). You can show the Bend Order(ID) in a flat pattern thru Flat Pattern->Manage->Bend Order Annotation, and click on bend order annotation you can override its value. Hope this helps.

[andrewwhiteinc]

Hey Rocky,

Not exactly, i need the program to be fully automated with no user interaction required as there are literally thousands of drawings and templates to be updated.

[YuhanZhang · Accepted solution]

Opps, I did not catch you I think. Is that what you want is to display the Bend ID tags onto the bend lines in the drawing view of a flat pattern? In UI if you create a bend table with specifying a flat pattern drawing view as input the Bend ID tags will be added to the drawing view automatically, but currently API CustomTables.AddBendTable does not accept a DrawingView as argument but full filename of a sheet metail, to support this we need to enhance the API to implement this function. I had logged a wishlist 1393344 for this requirement, you can provide this number to get its status.

[kahn.cad]

@YuhanZhang Any news on this issue, log No.1393344? It seems that until now this feature still pending. In 2020, the user still cannot customize the Bend Table via API.

[YuhanZhang]

This is still not implemented yet, and as we are now using  different defect tracking system, I logged this as INVGEN-44889,  you can provide this new number to query its status. Can you please provide more info how important this function to you? If you have more info about the business value to provide we can evaluate it for future build.