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iLogic. Retrieve parent assembly property (like stock number) by child part rule

Vadim-the-Engineer — Mon, 16 Oct 2017 12:22:53 GMT

My goal is to force every part that created inside the parent assembly to retrieve property from the parent assembly and copy the property to itself (for example Stock Number)

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stockNum = iProperties.Value(ThisDoc.Path, "Project" , "Stock Number")
iProperties.Value("Project", "Stock Number") = stockNum

I believe instead of "ThisDoc.Path" should be some other command...

I also found an example to do such an operation from assembly rule other than part rule however it runs in a loop over all parts each time to change their properties which not good enough considering I'd like to retrieve different properties for different kind of parts...

For better understanding: parts are saved as templates and created using iLogic within the assembly...

Re: iLogic. Retrieve parent assembly property (like stock number) by child part

tdant — Mon, 16 Oct 2017 12:59:55 GMT

This thread might help: https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-customization/ilogic-how-to-run-an-assembly-level-rule-from-a-component-rule/td-p/4352346

Re: iLogic. Retrieve parent assembly property (like stock number) by child part

MechMachineMan — Mon, 16 Oct 2017 14:04:54 GMT

Inventor also doesn't store Parent file information in parts.

Parts only contain information about that part.

Assemblies are like a recipe and tell you what files are needed.

To get parent information, you need to instead iterate through the assembly and add the information to that assemblies children components.

Re: iLogic. Retrieve parent assembly property (like stock number) by child part

tdant — Mon, 16 Oct 2017 19:00:43 GMT

As long as there's some way to distinguish which parts need changes from the assembly level, the iLogic is not that difficult. Is there some sort of naming convention that's reliable enough to tell what parts need to be updated?

Re: iLogic. Retrieve parent assembly property (like stock number) by child part

Vadim-the-Engineer — Tue, 17 Oct 2017 04:14:13 GMT

There is actually: SC1, SC2..., TS1, TS2..., LL1, LL2..., LT, RB... could You give me an example for recognizing part by name, please?

Re: iLogic. Retrieve parent assembly property (like stock number) by child part

tdant — Tue, 17 Oct 2017 11:04:18 GMT

This loop, placed in a rule at the parent assembly level, will find all instances of a part in the assembly with the target name and do something to them:

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Dim targetVariable As String
targetVariable = "part name"

For Each oOcc In ThisDoc.Document.ComponentDefinition.Occurrences.AllLeafOccurrences
    If InStr(oOcc.Name, targetVariable) Then
        'do something to the part found by name
    End If
Next

Re: iLogic. Retrieve parent assembly property (like stock number) by child part

Vadim-the-Engineer — Tue, 17 Oct 2017 11:05:26 GMT

This should do the trick. Thank You very much!