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Content Center - Family Table - Custom Column Not Working

willAM42F — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 19:33:36 GMT

Hi there,

The company I work for is switching to a new ERP system and is applying a new company part number to all materials and items used in our designs. Previously, the part number had a loose format. For this change, I've been tasked with applying this unique, sequential part number to every row of every family in the custom Content Center libraries that we have. Between the number of families we use and the variety of materials we use in each family, there are almost 700 families that need to have this unique part number added to them. This task would be cumbersome, time consuming, and prone to error if I was to do it manually for each family.

The two questions I have are:

- What's the fastest way that you can think to do this (iLogic, automation, custom column, etc.)?

- I've been trying to use the Custom Column feature in the Column Properties of the Family Table to create a sequential list of numbers in a column without success. I haven't gotten it to generate a sequential list. It usually creates a single value equal to the Default value. What am I doing wrong?

I'm running Inventor 2024.3.3 on Windows 11.

Thanks in advance for any help you're able & willing to provide!

Re: Content Center - Family Table - Custom Column Not Working

andrewiv — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 20:30:24 GMT

The custom column is for user input to define things like length of a structural member. There is no way to do what you want using the table but you can edit the table in Excel and input one number and then drag that down to the rest of the rows to fill in the sequential numbering. I think that would be the fastest way of doing this.

Re: Content Center - Family Table - Custom Column Not Working

willAM42F — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 12:02:20 GMT

Hi there,

I really appreciate you getting back to me.

With nearly 700 families, opening each family table, then opening in Excel, and manually inputting the next successive number would be very time consuming and presents opportunity for human error. Is there no way to automate the process using iLogic or some other means?

Re: Content Center - Family Table - Custom Column Not Working

andrewiv — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 12:38:42 GMT

I do a little bit of iLogic, but if there is a way to automate this I am not aware. Maybe if you post this question on the Inventor Programming forum there would be someone there that knows how to do this.

Re: Content Center - Family Table - Custom Column Not Working

willAM42F — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 10:24:13 GMT

Hi, Andrew,

Thanks for the guidance. I've posted the question on the Inventor Programming forum and will see what happens.