topic Rename Positional Representations in Inventor Programming Forum

Rename Positional Representations

Brett.G — Tue, 04 Apr 2017 21:38:44 GMT

Is it possible to rename positional representations through the API? I've tried setting the name as PosRep.name = "Test" but the method fails.

Re: Rename Positional Representations

Owner2229 — Wed, 05 Apr 2017 05:50:57 GMT

Something like this? Remember, you can't rename the "Main" representation.

Dim oDoc As Inventor.Document = ThisApplication.ActiveDocument
Dim oCD As ComponentDefinition = oDoc.ComponentDefinition
Dim oPR As PositionalRepresentation = oCD.RepresentationsManager.PositionalRepresentations("OldName")
oPR.Name = "NewName"

Re: Rename Positional Representations

Brett.G — Wed, 05 Apr 2017 13:08:39 GMT

Mike,

Thanks for the reply, what you wrote out is essentially what I was doing in my code. My issue was that I was trying to rename a positional representation with a name that was already in use. Oops!