topic Re: Valve TAG in Inventor Forum

Valve TAG

Anonymous — Wed, 18 Apr 2018 06:09:22 GMT

What is the right workflow if you have an assembly with multiple identical valves, but they need a different TAG number (from P&ID). Physically it is only 1 ipt-file used for all the valves, so custom iProperty "TAG" will be the same in all valves. Should i copy/rename the ipt-file for each instance of the valve?

Re: Valve TAG

Xun.Zhang — Wed, 18 Apr 2018 07:02:28 GMT

Hello,

Sorry, it is not supported currently, here is an idea for it which is still gathering support now.

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-ideas/custom-iproperties-instance-level/idi-p/7466909

The workaround more like create multiple customized property say Model 1, Model 2,..., Model 10 with ten different value and try to retrieve each value for different instance.

Hope it helps!

Re: Valve TAG

Anonymous — Wed, 18 Apr 2018 07:37:30 GMT

Thanks, Added my vote for this feature

Re: Valve TAG

Mark.Lancaster — Wed, 18 Apr 2018 12:49:06 GMT

@Anonymous

Here's a couple of things you can do...

1. Rename the browser node in the assembly to the P&ID tag for those given valves

2. If you are using Inventor 2018 and have Inventor 2018.1 installed use the MBD Definitions and apply general notes pointing to those valves in your model.

However if the tag changes on the P&ID, well you have to manually update your model. @cbenner any other thoughts?

Re: Valve TAG

cbenner — Wed, 18 Apr 2018 12:52:23 GMT

@Anonymous @Mark.Lancaster

No other ideas,.. the Idea mentioned by @Xun.Zhang was authored by yours truly, and I am anxiously awaiting it's inclusion. Maybe in 2019.1?