topic Re: Ongoing Number Tags in Inventor Forum

Ongoing Number Tags

randy.redekop — Thu, 09 Dec 2021 21:21:21 GMT

Hello all,

I am creating number tags and i know there is a fast way of doing this i just cant remember how. Ill attach a picture of what the part is. It will start from 4001 then 4002 and so on for a couple hundred. Any help is appreciated,

Thank you.

Re: Ongoing Number Tags

pcrawley — Thu, 09 Dec 2021 21:51:04 GMT

How are you currently doing it? I'm guessing it's a sketch with some text; then you add additional bridges to hold everything together.

If you switch the font to a stencil font (e.g. https://www.fontspace.com/category/stencil), you could simplify the process by creating a user parameter for the number, and insert that parameter as your sketch text. Increment the parameter by 1 for each output.

Depending on the output you need, I don't think it would be too difficult to automate. We had to output 15,000 unique triangle shapes as DXF files for one project. Once the automation was running, Inventor spat them out at about one every 0.5 seconds. Very satisfying!

Re: Ongoing Number Tags

gcoombridge — Fri, 10 Dec 2021 00:16:54 GMT

@randy.redekop Peter is right - an easy iLogic task!

I automated something similar recently - I only had about 10 to do but was bored... For each number of a range it updates a parameter with the range value (which was embossed onto the label), it then updates, saves (with newly generated name) and moves to the next number.

Dim oDoc As PartDocument = ThisDoc.Document Dim oDef As PartComponentDefinition = oDoc.ComponentDefinition Dim i As Integer = 1 Dim oPath As String = ThisDoc.Path & "\" For i = 1 To 100 Parameter("XXXXX") = CStr(i) RuleParametersOutput() InventorVb.DocumentUpdate() oDoc.SaveAs(oPath & "Common File Name_" & CStr(i) & ".ipt",True) Next