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iLogic - Bulk Feature Browser Rename

jason_snyder — Tue, 02 May 2017 06:17:33 GMT

Hi All,

I'm currently looking for a solution to bulk rename browser items.

I've attached photo showing how to rename one at a time. However, this is time consuming as I have 300-400 to go.

I have a excel spread sheet marrying current name to future name. Cell A1 = Work Plane 88, Cell B1 = WP88 etc.

Does anyone have code so I can quickly rename the rest of my 300-400 work planes via my spread sheet?

Cheers

Re: iLogic - Bulk Feature Browser Rename

mcgyvr — Tue, 02 May 2017 12:56:06 GMT

You will just need to do a loop (for each) through each workplane name and use excel find row to find the one matching your workplane name then change the name to the cell next to it..

See if you can figure it out from here..

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/inventor-products/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2015/ENU/Inventor-Help/files/GUID-00F9D915-B53A-46BF-AAAC-3535F9FD9970-htm.html

If not please post your excel file and ipt file and someone can whip something up for you..

Re: iLogic - Bulk Feature Browser Rename

Curtis_W — Tue, 02 May 2017 15:55:03 GMT

Hi jason.snyder,

I don't have the time to include the Excel part of this, but here is a quick example of how to rename all work planes (skipping the origin planes).

Also just as a tip, you can search and ask programming questions of this type on the Inventor Customization forum too:
http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/Autodesk-Inventor-Customization/bd-p/120

I hope this helps.
Best of luck to you in all of your Inventor pursuits,
Curtis
http://inventortrenches.blogspot.com

oDoc = ThisApplication.activedocument
i = 1
For Each oWorkPlane In oDoc.ComponentDefinition.WorkPlanes
	'skip origin planes
	If oWorkPlane.IsCoordinateSystemElement = False Then 
	oWorkPlane.Name = "WP" & i
	i=i+1
	End If
Next

Re: iLogic - Bulk Feature Browser Rename

Curtis_W — Tue, 02 May 2017 16:00:15 GMT

Another option:

oDoc = ThisApplication.activedocument
i = 1
For Each oWorkPlane In oDoc.ComponentDefinition.WorkPlanes
	'skip origin planes
	If oWorkPlane.IsCoordinateSystemElement = False Then 
	oWorkPlane.Name = oWorkPlane.Name.Replace("Work Plane", "WP")
	End If
Next

Re: iLogic - Bulk Feature Browser Rename

mcgyvr — Tue, 02 May 2017 16:06:45 GMT

Great examples from Curtis (again.. of course)...

Assuming that the naming is as simple as Work Plane 88 to WP88 then no excel is needed...

Re: iLogic - Bulk Feature Browser Rename

jason_snyder — Wed, 03 May 2017 00:01:29 GMT

Thanks Curtis,

Both your codes work perfectly, However, just one more question ...

How do I get the end number in the rename to increment? Instead of going 1,2,3,4 etc, I want say 0,5,10 etc.

I thought where i = i+1 you'd have i = i+5, though this comes with an error. Any thoughts?

Cheers

Re: iLogic - Bulk Feature Browser Rename

jason_snyder — Wed, 03 May 2017 06:25:49 GMT

Disregard previous, I found the error.

To get the i = i+5 working I had to alter the "WP" in this line: oWorkPlane.Name = "WP" & i. & then re-run.

All works. Thanks again Curtis. So speedy now.

Cheers,

Jason Snyder