I'm reposting this because I think I put this in the wrong section earlier:
I've created a set of "generic" equipment drawings for a client. Whenever the client has a new piece of equipment fabricated from the drawings they assign it an equipment number (for sake of argument let's say the number is "426"). The generic drawings don't have a number, instead they have a "XXX" wherever the number should be. Every time they fabricate off of the drawings they revise 100+ drawings to show the equipment number where the X's are. I am looking for a piece of iLogic code or something that will help me replace the "XXX" with the equipment number so that I don't have to do it manually.
Now before anyone says it, I will: this is a dumb system. I've tried to convince the client that since the "generic" set of drawings never changes then they should also have a number that never changes. For some reason the client is not willing to try it this way, they want to continue duplicating and renumbering the drawings for every new piece of equipment.
Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated.
I agree with your suggestion 100%. Problem is the drawings are done. The client was involved in their creation and isn't exactly Inventor-saavy so a lot of the text was entered with field text. I am looking for a way to use what exists; not recommendations on the way it should have been done.
Are all the drawing point to the same model or are the models copied as well.
Hi dschleede,
I posted some code to your other thread:
I hope this helps.
Best of luck to you in all of your Inventor pursuits,
Curtis
http://inventortrenches.blogspot.com