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Sketched symbol dont pop up prompted entry in titleblock - new drawing

DeepshipEngineering — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 09:36:34 GMT

Inventor 2023, soon to be moving to 2025... In our template the drawing is made up from a number of sketched symbols and some of them have prompted entries. When I start a new drawing I do not want the pop up box to fill in these prompted entries every time.

Same for copy and paste but that can be fixed with putting a value into the prompted entry which sticks and doesnt pop up. again, copying and pasting a new sheet, if the prompted entry is populated it doesnt pop up the dialogue box but I cant work out how to make that behaviour work starting a new drawing from a template

Thanks

Re: Sketched symbol dont pop up prompted entry in titleblock - new drawing

blandb — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 13:30:07 GMT

Are these sketch symbols needed on the start of the template?

Re: Sketched symbol dont pop up prompted entry in titleblock - new drawing

DeepshipEngineering — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 15:01:14 GMT

yes

Re: Sketched symbol dont pop up prompted entry in titleblock - new drawing

DeepshipEngineering — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 08:38:04 GMT

Any thoughts on this? I can find some old ilogic code but cant get it to work as desired

Re: Sketched symbol dont pop up prompted entry in titleblock - new drawing

blandb — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 12:27:54 GMT

Can you share an example of what you have, maybe there is an alternate solution?

Re: Sketched symbol dont pop up prompted entry in titleblock - new drawing

DeepshipEngineering — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 13:19:25 GMT

Simplest explanation is its a prompted entry for scale on a sheet, it needs to be different on other sheets.

Re: Sketched symbol dont pop up prompted entry in titleblock - new drawing

blandb — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 13:42:19 GMT

Does the Initial view scale option not work for you guys? This will auto populate the title block scale based on the initial view scale for each sheet. Meaning the scale will be based on the first view placed on the new sheet.

Re: Sketched symbol dont pop up prompted entry in titleblock - new drawing

DeepshipEngineering — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 14:02:17 GMT

No, it’s not flexible enough and sometimes the initial view is not going to be the scale for the sheet

Re: Sketched symbol dont pop up prompted entry in titleblock - new drawing

DeepshipEngineering — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 14:03:58 GMT

No, it’s not flexible enough and sometimes the initial view is not going to be the scale for the sheet

Re: Sketched symbol dont pop up prompted entry in titleblock - new drawing

DeepshipEngineering — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 08:37:43 GMT

With some help from the forums I figured it out. I have a rule triggered by new drawing which fires a load of other rules 1 each for each symbol that look like this

Dim oDoc As DrawingDocument = ThisDoc.Document
Dim oSheet As Sheet = oDoc.ActiveSheet

Dim oSymDef As SketchedSymbolDefinition = oDoc.SketchedSymbolDefinitions.Item("Tolerance & Machining")
Dim sPromptStrings(3) As String 
sPromptStrings(0) = "-"
sPromptStrings(1) = "-"
sPromptStrings(2) = "-"
sPromptStrings(3) = "-"


Dim oPosition As Point2d =  ThisApplication.TransientGeometry.CreatePoint2d(58.4,36)

Dim oSymbol As SketchedSymbol
oSymbol = oSheet.SketchedSymbols.Add(oSymDef, oPosition, 0, 1, sPromptStrings)