iLogic: "Derive" iProperties from 'doc A' to 'doc B'

[alfaclaus]

Hi'

I am 'new' to this forum and hope some of you can help me out. I want to 'derive'/ export iproperties from a part or assy(Doc A) to a diffrent part or assy(Doc B). If it is possible?

Hope you can understand what I am looking for. I don't want to use VBA or 'design assistent'  if there is a iLogic solution for the problem?

Best,

Claus

[alfaclaus]

Anyone.., is it possible to export a ipropertie to another file with iLogic?

[pcrawley]

It's not really clear what you are trying to acheive.  Can you offer some more detail?

DA does sound logical - or Vault - or iLogic... I think all would do roughly what you are asking, but without some more detail, it's hard t know which would be most useful.

[alfaclaus]

Okay, I will try to descripe it in a diffrent way 😉 I have a 'main assembly' with subpart 'A', subpart 'B' and subassy 'C'. I want some of the iproperties from file A, B and C imported into my 'main assy' or top assembly in this case.

Part 'A' (Subpart in 'Main assy'), have following info put into its iproperties:

Summary-Subject with following text: Vessel Custom property called, 'Test Name A' with following input: ABC123

Part 'B' (Subpart in 'Main assy'), have following info put into its iproperties:

Custom propertie called, 'Test Name B' with following input: DEF456

Assembly 'C' (Sub assy in 'Main assy'), have following info put into its iproperties: Custom property called, 'Test Name C' with following input: GHI789

I hope someone, if possible, can tell me a smart way using iLogic to transfer the listed iproperties from 'Part A', 'Part B' and 'Assy C' into my 'Main assembly'.  So the 'Main assembly' will have the choosen iproperties available from the subfiles and updated automaticly if the text is changes in one of the subparts

FYI: The files will all the time be placed into the 'Main assy'.

[Vladimir.Ananyev]

The solution consists of several steps.

1.  How to read a specified property value from  the given component?

If  the component name is “CompName”,  then you can read custom iProperty "PropA" value:

Dim Prop_A as String = iProperties.Value("CompName", "Custom", "PropA") 

2.  How to save Prop_A value in the custom iProperty “AsmPropA” in the top assembly document?

Use the following code:

iProperties.Value(“Custom”, “AsmPropA”) = Prop_A 

3.  How can we update automatically custom iProperties in the top assembly document?

You could use “Before Save” event to initiate the rule in the top assemply before every save operation.

Cheers,