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Hide units visibility in iLogic Form

Anonymous — Fri, 06 Apr 2018 14:25:34 GMT

Hi,

I have an application where user should not see units in ilogic form.Is it possible to hide?

Can anyone help on this

Re: Hide units visibility in iLogic Form

Curtis_W — Fri, 06 Apr 2018 15:24:45 GMT

Hi @Anonymous,

From what I recall, the way I've had to do this in the past is to create a user TEXT parameter and use that in the form, and then in the iLogic code, hand the value from the TEXT parameter to the numeric parameter.

I hope this helps.
Best of luck to you in all of your Inventor pursuits,
Curtis
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Re: Hide units visibility in iLogic Form

Anonymous — Mon, 09 Apr 2018 05:04:57 GMT

Thank You Curtis.It worked.

Re: Hide units visibility in iLogic Form

johnsonshiue — Tue, 28 Apr 2020 20:00:11 GMT

Hi Axel,

It does literally work just like what Curtis described. Let's say you have a numerical parameter call "LENGTH" and its value equals 1200mm. You can create a text parameter called "LENGTH_TXT" and set its value to "" or anystring.

In the iLogic rule, simply write "LENGTH_TXT = LENGTH." Then LENGTH_TXT's value will become 1200 without the unit.

On the Form, simply show "LENGTH_TXT" instead.

You do want to keep the two parameters in sync at all time.

Many thanks!

Re: Hide units visibility in iLogic Form

Anonymous — Wed, 29 Apr 2020 07:23:06 GMT

Hi,

Good! you're right the units were eventually hidden. However the matter now is that I cannot change the value when I try to write a different one from (i.e.) 1200, it does not change, it stays at 1200. Then I check the user parameter text on the parameters window and its value is actually 1200 (instead of "") but does not modify neither in the parameters window nor the form. I most provably overlooked something. I followed your steps: create a txt param, create a rule (txt param = model param), and use the txt one within the form. It make sense, when you change the txt one it'll change the model one at the end. But as I said it does not change for some reason. BTW, another thing I did not get was keeping values sync, what did you mean exactly with this? (perhaps this is my mistake?)

Re: Hide units visibility in iLogic Form

johnsonshiue — Wed, 29 Apr 2020 20:41:59 GMT

Hi! Please share your files here. It should be doable. I suspect the rule was not structured properly.

Many thanks!

Re: Hide units visibility in iLogic Form

Anonymous — Fri, 08 May 2020 09:30:29 GMT

Hi,

Sorry for my late answer. The file is attached. As I said it works (no units shown) but I can't change the value on the form, most probably because of the rule as you commented. I'm sure it'll be something stupid.

Thanks in advance.

Re: Hide units visibility in iLogic Form

johnsonshiue — Fri, 08 May 2020 20:21:38 GMT

Hi! The rule is correct but there is no trigger. Go to Manage -> iLogic -> Event Triggers -> add "HideUnits" to "Any Model Parameter Change" or "Part Geometry Change."

It should work.

Many thanks!

Re: Hide units visibility in iLogic Form

Anonymous — Mon, 11 May 2020 08:22:39 GMT

Hi,

It worked eventually! Told you that it was something stupid: it worked just interchanging the equality params within the rule ("model=TXT" instead of "TXT=model"). BTW, I did not eventually need any event trigger.

Thanks a lot for your help after all!