Placing iParts into an assembly with iLogic

medwardsNKCFQ — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 14:48:21 GMT

Hi,

I'm trying to automate nesting several hundred rectangular sheet metal plaques with sequential ID numbers.
The parts are fairly simple just a rectangle, rounded corners, 2 mounting holes, and text such as "AA PRODU 999".

I've successfully setup an iPart with all the required text variations being read from a spreadsheet.

What I want to do now is iteratively nest each variant of the iPart into an assembly in a grid layout.

I need help with using iLogic to place a specific variant of an iPart into an assembly at some specified location.

I'm new to iLogic, but have done some coding in Python, C# and Arduino/C in the past, so any help is appreciated.

Re: Placing iParts into an assembly with iLogic

medwardsNKCFQ — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 13:42:38 GMT

For anyone with a similar problem I figured out a solution, may not be the most efficient or user friendly, but it works for me:

'import parts folder as string EDIT ME! Dim partsFolder As String = "R:\Industrial Engineering\A-ME\CAD\Dolly plaques v2" 'define number of plaques EDIT ME! (could be improved by reading this value from the selected part?) Dim numOfPlaques As Integer = 500 'define size of plaque and spacing of laser EDIT ME! Dim plaqueLength As Integer = 280 Dim plaqueWidth As Integer = 40 Dim laserClearance As Integer = 5 'define size of sheet for nesting EDIT ME! Dim sheetLength As Integer = 2440 Dim sheetWidth As Integer = 1220 'define x y location variables Dim xLocation As Integer = 0 Dim yLocation As Integer = 0 Dim sheetNum As Integer = 0 'main loop for number of plaques Dim i As Integer = 0 While i < numOfPlaques i += 1 'debugging window text 'Dim txt As String = String.Format("X= {0} Y= {1}",xLocation,yLocation) 'MessageBox.Show(txt, "Part placed:") 'set name and pos for adding component Dim name As String = String.Format("Plaque-{0}",i) Dim pos = ThisDoc.Geometry.Point(xLocation,0,yLocation) 'add Component dolley plaques v2.ipt Dim componentPlaque = Components.AddiPart(name, partsFolder & "\Dolley plaques v2.ipt", row := i, position :=pos, grounded := True, visible := True, appearance := Nothing) 'increment collumn xLocation += plaqueLength + laserClearance 'increment row once collumns full If xLocation >= sheetLength - plaqueLength + ((sheetLength + plaqueLength) * sheetNum) 'increment row yLocation += plaqueWidth + laserClearance 'go back to bottom left corner of current sheet xLocation = 0 + ((sheetLength + plaqueLength) * sheetNum) End If If yLocation >= sheetWidth - plaqueWidth 'this loop getting entered every collumn after first sheet 'increment sheet number sheetNum += 1 'go to bottom left corner of next sheet xLocation = 0 + ((sheetLength + plaqueLength) * sheetNum) yLocation = 0 End If End While

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