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Conversion from string to type 'Double" is not valid

blucas0325 — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 18:01:38 GMT

I have an iLogic Rule that is tied to a Custom "Form" assembly. This has been working for year but recently we upgraded to Inventor 2023 and I am now getting an error when I try to use it.

I am getting a "Conversion from string "value" to type 'Double' is not valid" error message. I have done some searching and it sounds like I need to incorporate a "CDbl()" but I am not familiar enough with this to know how it should be setup.

Here is my iLogic rule:

LENGTH = RoundToFraction(Length_ID, 1 / 16, RoundingMethod.Round)
WIDTH = RoundToFraction(Width_ID, 1/16, RoundingMethod.Round)
DEPTH = RoundToFraction(Height_ID, 1/16, RoundingMethod.Round)
L = RoundToFraction(LENGTH, 1/16, RoundingMethod.Round)
W = RoundToFraction(WIDTH, 1/16, RoundingMethod.Round)
D = RoundToFraction(DEPTH, 1/16, RoundingMethod.Round)
iProperties.Value("Custom", "Item #")=ITEMNUMBER

iProperties.Value("Project", "Description")=NAME & "," & " " & L & " X " & W & " X " & D
iProperties.Value("Custom", "EXPORT")=PARTNUMBERorPKGNUMBER
iProperties.Value("Summary", "Title") = NAME
iProperties.Value("Custom", "DESIGN STATUS") = DESIGN_STATUS
iProperties.Value("Custom", "CUSTPN") = CUSTPN
iProperties.Value("Custom", "PKG") = PKG

Could someone give me a hand and point me in the right direction?

Thank you in advance!

Re: Conversion from string to type 'Double" is not valid

abdullah_elq — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 18:24:33 GMT

Which line of code does your error pop-up mention?

Re: Conversion from string to type 'Double" is not valid

blucas0325 — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 18:35:23 GMT

Line 1 & Line 2

Re: Conversion from string to type 'Double" is not valid

blucas0325 — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 18:36:19 GMT

@abdullah_elq it is line 1 & 2

Re: Conversion from string to type 'Double" is not valid

Frederick_Law — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 20:17:31 GMT

What is the value of Length_ID and Width_ID?

Program could fail if they're empty or not numeric.

Re: Conversion from string to type 'Double" is not valid

blucas0325 — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 20:20:19 GMT

@Frederick_Law the values will be in decimal form. Below is a screenshot of the Form dialog window that we use to input the values.

Re: Conversion from string to type 'Double" is not valid

abdullah_elq — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 20:30:53 GMT

Try this:
LENGTH = RoundToFraction(CDbl(Length_ID), 1 / 16, RoundingMethod.Round)

Re: Conversion from string to type 'Double" is not valid

blucas0325 — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 20:46:17 GMT

@abdullah_elq - that didn't work. Got the same error message. Below is a screenshot of the error message tabs.

Re: Conversion from string to type 'Double" is not valid

Frederick_Law — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 20:51:52 GMT

It cannot convert fraction string to number.

Re: Conversion from string to type 'Double" is not valid

Curtis_W — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 22:17:08 GMT

Hi @blucas0325

Maybe something like this.

I hope this helps.
Best of luck to you in all of your Inventor pursuits,
Curtis
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imports System.Text.RegularExpressions wholeNum = CDec(Math.Truncate(Length_ID)) decNum = Length_ID - wholeNum fraction = RoundToFraction(decNum, 1 / 16, RoundingMethod.Round) 'convert rounded fraction back to decimal Dim div = Regex.Replace(fraction, "(\d+)/(\d+)", Function(m) Decimal.Parse(m.Groups(1).Value / Decimal.Parse(m.Groups(2).Value))) LENGTH = wholeNum + div L = RoundToFraction(LENGTH, 1 / 16, RoundingMethod.Round) msgbox(L)

Re: Conversion from string to type 'Double" is not valid

Frederick_Law — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 22:28:14 GMT

LENGTH = Length_ID - (Length_ID MOD 0.0625)

Re: Conversion from string to type 'Double" is not valid

blucas0325 — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 12:01:27 GMT

@Frederick_Law That worked! Thank you!