Using iLogic to change parameter

[Anonymous]

Hello! First off, pardon my bad English.

I am kind of new to iLogic and I am looking to do something in Inventor, but I cant figure out how.

When I import a part from content center, a tube in this case, I get a length parameter called <PL>.

I am using this parameter in the parts lists, so it shows "=Outer diameter x thickness x <PL>"

However I don't want trailing zeros, leading zeros or units string to be shown.

I know I can open the parameters window, right click the parameter, then click custom property format and then uncheck these boxes and its fine.

But I want to know if there is a smarter way to do this, like creating a rule to execute on all the parts?

I have around 500 pipes with the parameter <PL> that needs to be changed.

Can someone out there help me find a smarter way to do this?

All help appreciated.

[Curtis_Waguespack]

Hi ystrm,

There is an example of this at this link:

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/Autodesk-Inventor/ilogic-Adding-User-Parameters-with-Custom-Properties...

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

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the reply

Could you explain further what I have to do with this code?

Say my parameter is PL

How should that code look like in a rule?

[Curtis_Waguespack]

Hi ystrm,

It occured to me that the example I linked to didn't show everything you were after, and it used fractions for the precision. Here is another example using your parameter name.

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

'get the parameter
oPL = Parameter.Param("PL")
'export the paramter as an iProperty
oPL.ExposedAsProperty = True
'set the parameter as a custom property
oFormat=oPL.CustomPropertyFormat
'set the custom iProperty as a text type
oFormat.PropertyType=Inventor.CustomPropertyTypeEnum.kTextPropertyType
'set the precision
oFormat.Precision=Inventor.CustomPropertyPrecisionEnum.kThreeDecimalPlacesPrecision
'set the unit type
oFormat.Units="mm"
'set to show/not show the unit string (use True to show)
oFormat.ShowUnitsString=False
'set to show/not show the trailing zeros (use True to show)
ShowTrailingZeros = False
'set to show/not show the leading zeros (use True to show)
ShowLeadingZeros = False

'write values to the description property
iProperties.Value("Project", "Description") = "=Outer diameter x thickness x <PL>"

[Anonymous]

Hi again!

Thank you very much for the detailed information.

It did not solve everything though.

It removes the units string, but not the trailing zero's. I still get "250,000" in the parameter / custom iprop.

Any ideas?

[Curtis_Waguespack · Accepted solution]

Hi ystrm,

My applogies, I had a mistake in the previous example.

I had this:

ShowTrailingZeros = False

where it should have been this:

oFormat.ShowTrailingZeros = False

Here is the updated code:

'get the parameter
oPL = Parameter.Param("PL")
'export the paramter as an iProperty
oPL.ExposedAsProperty = True
'set the parameter as a custom property
oFormat=oPL.CustomPropertyFormat
'set the custom iProperty as a text type
oFormat.PropertyType=Inventor.CustomPropertyTypeEnum.kTextPropertyType
'set the precision
oFormat.Precision=Inventor.CustomPropertyPrecisionEnum.kThreeDecimalPlacesPrecision
'set the unit type
oFormat.Units="mm"
'set to show/not show the unit string (use True to show)
oFormat.ShowUnitsString=False
'set to show/not show the trailing zeros (use True to show)
oFormat.ShowTrailingZeros = False
'set to show/not show the leading zeros (use True to show)
oFormat.ShowLeadingZeros = False

'write values to the description property
iProperties.Value("Project", "Description") = "=Outer diameter x thickness x <PL>"

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

[Anonymous]

That did it!

Thanks alot 

[bionorica2015]

Please help with this:

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-forum/vba-ilogic-rule-to-rename-model-parameter-names/td-p/1...