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Origin folder always expanded

admaiora — Mon, 10 Feb 2020 16:11:55 GMT

Hi,

is there a way a trick to create a part and have already expanded the Origin Folder?

Re: Origin folder always expanded

mcgyvr — Mon, 10 Feb 2020 17:14:58 GMT

Open your part template.

Create a new design view rep.

Activate that design view rep.

Expand the origin folder.

Save the template

Re: Origin folder always expanded

Curtis_W — Mon, 10 Feb 2020 17:46:41 GMT

Hi @admaiora

I think I'd go with mcgyvr 's suggestion, but the other way to do this would be to place this ilogic rule in your template, and then set an event trigger "New Document" event trigger so that the rule runs when a new file is created from the template file.

I hope this helps.
Best of luck to you in all of your Inventor pursuits,
Curtis
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Dim oDoc As Document
oDoc = ThisApplication.ActiveEditDocument

Dim oPane As BrowserPane
oPane = oDoc.BrowserPanes.ActivePane

Dim oDocNode As BrowserNode
oDocNode = oPane.TopNode

Dim oNode As BrowserNode
For Each oNode In oDocNode.BrowserNodes	
	If oNode.FullPath.Contains("Origin") Then
	oNode.Expanded = True
	End If
Next

Re: Origin folder always expanded

admaiora — Mon, 10 Feb 2020 17:46:22 GMT

You epic! You genius!

Thanks @mcgyvr !!!

Re: Origin folder always expanded

admaiora — Mon, 10 Feb 2020 17:47:15 GMT

Thank you @Curtis_W !

You epic and genius too!

Re: Origin folder always expanded

leonque — Sun, 30 Aug 2020 20:06:53 GMT

Looking on the forum on how to expand origin folder in a selected component in an assembly, I found your interesting code solution addressed to a part template.

Since my case has to do with large assemblies I would like to know if it would be possible to adapt it for this purpose:

At the time to repetitively place and constraint components at one of their origin planes (against a face, edge or the like from other parts), it is quite annoying to search and expand once and again the origin folder in the browser pane and find the right plane to work with.

Although is true that once the component is just placed in the assembly, its location in the browser it is always at the lower position, but in large assemblies, it happens quite often that the other half to constraint to, might be a mile away in the browser but on the very nearby at the screen area.

In this scenario, a rule that would expand the origin folder from the selected component (usually the one that has more depths/parents on the browser), before launching the constraint menu/options dialogue, would be a great time saver.

Since the recently placed component will always be found at the bottom of the pane, expanding the origin folder of the more hidden component and look there for the right plane, before the constraint menu call, it would save a lot of mouse clicks, since at the time to make the first selection you would already be placed at the right spot in the plane browser.

Thanks in advance.

Re: Origin folder always expanded

Hochenauer — Mon, 31 Aug 2020 08:29:55 GMT

Hi, if you repeatedly constrain components using their origin planes, or specific planar faces to specific origin planes, you could write your own alignment tool using the API.

Somehing like: first pick a planar face on one component, then pick anything on the second component and align the face to the XY plane of Component2.