Renaming sheets in a multi-sheet IDW....

[andrew.cox]

Is there any easy way to have sheet name automatically pull the "description" iProperty from the part that is on the sheet?  It can be very handy in a multi-sheet drawing for each sheet to have a descripive name in the browser, but the only way to do this (that I know of) is to manually change it.

Thanks,

Andrew

[Curtis_Waguespack · Accepted solution]

Hi andrew.cox,

Here's an iLogic rule to do this. Note that description might not write to the sheet name correctly if it has characters such as commas in it.

I hope this helps.
Best of luck to you in all of your Inventor pursuits,
Curtis
http://inventortrenches.blogspot.com

Dim oSheets As Sheets 
oSheets = ThisDoc.Document.sheets
Dim oSheet As Sheet
For Each oSheet In oSheets
	oSheet.activate
	Dim oDrawingView As DrawingView 
	oDrawingView = oSheet.DrawingViews(1)
	oModelName = oDrawingView.ReferencedDocumentDescriptor.ReferencedDocument.DisplayName
	oDesc = iProperties.Value(oModelName, "Project", "Description")
	oSheet.Name =  oDesc 
Next

[andrew.cox]

Hi Curtis,

Thanks for this info!  However, I have not even used iLogic, so I don't know what to do with this.  Any chance you could point me towards a good tutorial, or provide me instructions yourself?

Cheers,

Andrew

[Curtis_Waguespack]

Hi andrew.cox,

This should cover it:

http://inventortrenches.blogspot.com/2012/01/creating-basic-ilogic-rule-with-event.html

I hope this helps.
Best of luck to you in all of your Inventor pursuits,
Curtis
http://inventortrenches.blogspot.com

[andrew.cox]

Hi Curtis,

I'm having some trouble with the code you supplied.  When I enter in into the "rule", I get this error....

I cut-and-paste the code exactly as you had it in your previous post.  Any thoughts?

Andrew

[Curtis_Waguespack]

Hi andrew.cox,

Most likely there is an issue with a line wrap due to this forums formatting, or something like that. Attached is the rule in a text file, you can copy and paste from it.

If you see the same results post back.

I hope this helps.
Best of luck to you in all of your Inventor pursuits,
Curtis
http://inventortrenches.blogspot.com