topic Re: Stop "EDIT ATTRIBUTES" from prompting when opening drawing template in Inventor Forum

Stop "EDIT ATTRIBUTES" from prompting when opening drawing template

ICanSpinIt — Sun, 12 Dec 2021 15:23:22 GMT

I have a .dwg file that was created in AutoCAD. It is a drawing template. The file contains multiple pages and dozens of attributes.

- I open it in Inventor and save it as a template,

- When opening the template it opens the "EDIT ATTRIBUTES" window and I have to hit cancel a lot of times before it opens.

How do I get this prompt to not show up when I open the template?

Thank you

Re: Stop "EDIT ATTRIBUTES" from prompting when opening drawing template

SharkDesign — Sun, 12 Dec 2021 17:44:06 GMT

You need to edit the title block probably.

There'll be prompted entries in it.

Re: Stop "EDIT ATTRIBUTES" from prompting when opening drawing template

Gabriel_Watson — Mon, 13 Dec 2021 02:11:40 GMT

I've only seen a way to do that through iLogic for Inventor prompted entries, but I have not tested this with AutoCAD blocks:
https://adndevblog.typepad.com/manufacturing/2016/03/prompted-entry-prompted-texts-promptstrings.html

Another hint someone else provided in the post below tells us to "Set SilentOperation to true (on Application object) before you create the document via the API. This will suppress the prompted entry dialog. Don't forget to revert the setting of SilentOperation after you are done."
https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-forum/close-or-disable-quot-prompted-entry-quot-textbox-on-drawing/m-p/8588209/highlight/true#M732292

If the above fails, the short answer is no. Then your workaround would be to open the Inventor DWG in AutoCAD and remove the parameters in the title block or border/etc. that are prompting for manual entry, to later add Inventor text fields that are not prompted entry in Inventor (for ex., acquiring their property from any custom iProperties).