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Positional Representation Name in Drawing View Label or Text

rcolquhounPUE4B — Sat, 04 Mar 2023 00:56:46 GMT

I have an assembly with multiple positional representations, and am creating a drawing for it. I would like to show these positional representations with separate views. (Yes, I know about Overlay, have used that on some other drawings. This particular one will be clearer to understand showing the PosReps in separate views.)

To make things clear for the reader & easy for me, I wanted to pull the PosRep name into the view label or a note, but cannot seem to locate the correct Type/Source/Property combination to do so. Is this capability available in Inventor? Entirely possible it's right under my nose and I've missed it, I'm into my 6th month-ish of using Inventor, but so far I have been unable to locate it. Nor was I able to find any forum posts about it.

Thanks for your help.

Re: Positional Representation Name in Drawing View Label or Text

A.Acheson — Sat, 04 Mar 2023 18:54:41 GMT

Unfortunately if your not seeing it the drawing view properties then it likely doesn't exist.

Here is an ilogic method to retrieve the pos rep for each view and put it in the view label. Majority of the code sourced from this helpful post to retrieve design view rep name.

And to get the Active Position Rep here is the API help for that property from the drawing view object

If you need a specific format in the label there is many methods to achieve this and you can search on the ilogic customization forum.

Dim oSheets As Sheets Dim oSheet As Sheet Dim oViews As DrawingViews Dim oView As DrawingView Dim ViewRep As String Dim PosRep As String oSheets = ThisDoc.Document.Sheets For Each oSheet In oSheets oViews = oSheet.DrawingViews For Each oView In oViews oView.ShowLabel = True ViewRep = oView.DesignViewRepresentation PosRep = oView.ActivePositionalRepresentation oView.Label.FormattedText = "Design View Rep: " & ViewRep & "Positional View Rep: " & PosRep Next Next

Re: Positional Representation Name in Drawing View Label or Text

rcolquhounPUE4B — Sat, 04 Mar 2023 19:11:35 GMT

Alas, as I feared, but thanks for confirming. The post to retrieve design view rep name was more what I was looking for, i.e. how to pull the active pos rep name from a selected view.

Do you happen to have a code snippet which prompts the user for a view selection & returns the DrawingView object? I have spent nearly 0 time with iLogic, but looks like I could just jam that together with the bit buried inside your for-loops to do what I want?

Re: Positional Representation Name in Drawing View Label or Text

A.Acheson — Sat, 04 Mar 2023 22:02:46 GMT

Sure, i believe there is an ilogic snippet buried in the ilogic editor for the pick command, it is hard to find and use unless you have seen enough samples. But here is the source from API help. The sample is written in VBA so needs tweeeking for the ilogic environment. To pick a specific object you need to set the Selection filter Enumerator.

    Dim oDrawView As DrawingView = ThisApplication.CommandManager.Pick(SelectionFilterEnum.kDrawingViewFilter, "Pick a Drawing View!")

    MsgBox "Picked: " & oDrawView.Name

Re: Positional Representation Name in Drawing View Label or Text

rcolquhounPUE4B — Sun, 05 Mar 2023 02:26:35 GMT

Hey @A.Acheson thanks much for the pointers & snippets. Got it working without too much trouble - finalized script below.

For those who pick this up later, this also adds the view scale in parentheses, so if you don't want that, be sure to take it out of the view label string.

Dim PosRep As String Dim oView As DrawingView = ThisApplication.CommandManager.Pick(SelectionFilterEnum.kDrawingViewFilter, "Select Drawing View.") oView.ShowLabel = True PosRep = oView.ActivePositionalRepresentation oView.Label.FormattedText = PosRep & vbCrLf & "(" & oView.ScaleString & ")"