topic Re: Determine if SubAssembly was created with Design Accelerator in Inventor Programming Forum

Determine if SubAssembly was created with Design Assistant

Maxim-CADman77 — Sun, 02 Dec 2018 16:30:37 GMT

I wonder how can I determine if subassembly was created with Design Assistant.

AFAIK subassembly created with Cable&Harness has "HarnessAssembly" as DocumentInterest.Name

When I read this value for spring subassembly created with Design Assistant I get "ClientObjectVersion". I found no references to this value in API help ... if it what I'm looking for?

Re: Determine if SubAssembly was created with Design Assistant

chandra.shekar.g — Tue, 04 Dec 2018 06:54:51 GMT

@Maxim-CADman77,

Unfortunately, Inventor API does not support for Design Assistant. Please log this wish list at idea station using below link.

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-ideas/idb-p/v1232

Thanks and regards,

Re: Determine if SubAssembly was created with Design Assistant

Maxim-CADman77 — Thu, 06 Dec 2018 08:29:21 GMT

What "ClientObjectVersion" means (i don't see it in the API)?

Re: Determine if SubAssembly was created with Design Assistant

chandra.shekar.g — Thu, 06 Dec 2018 08:48:50 GMT

@Maxim-CADman77,

Can you please provide reproducible steps, source code and dataset to investigate? please make sure that files are non confidential.

Thanks and regards,

Re: Determine if SubAssembly was created with Design Assistant

LukeDavenport — Thu, 06 Dec 2018 09:05:46 GMT

Hi @MaximUdod

From your description it sounds as if you want to identify whether a sub assembly was created with a design accelerator (such as the spring generator in the 'Design' tab) not Design Assistant (which is a simple file management system for Inventor).

This might help Chandra to assist you,

Luke

Re: Determine if SubAssembly was created with Design Assistant

Maxim-CADman77 — Thu, 06 Dec 2018 09:13:25 GMT

You are right - there is a mistake in the name of Inventor Component in the initial Description of the issue (and thread subject).Thank you for noting that.

Re: Determine if SubAssembly was created with Design Accelerator

Maxim-CADman77 — Mon, 17 Dec 2018 08:12:03 GMT

Is it possible by means of Inventor API determine that SubAssembly was created with Design ACCELERATOR (not Assistant)?

Re: Determine if SubAssembly was created with Design Accelerator

chandra.shekar.g — Mon, 17 Dec 2018 09:14:10 GMT

@Maxim-CADman77,

Unfortunately, Inventor API does not support Design Accelerator. Please log this wish list at idea station using below link.

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-ideas/idb-p/v1232

Thanks and regards,

Re: Determine if SubAssembly was created with Design Accelerator

LukeDavenport — Mon, 17 Dec 2018 09:56:46 GMT

It is possible.

See this Autodesk article - you need to use the 'HasInterest' method.

https://adndevblog.typepad.com/manufacturing/2012/08/identify-parts-created-by-frame-generator-with-documentinterests-object.html

Here's a more general purpose function I used a while ago. I haven't tested it recently though. Let me know if it helps.

Luke

Function CheckDesignAccDocTypes(ByVal oDoc As Document) As Boolean

Dim oTypeList As New List(Of String)

oTypeList.Add("Piping Runs Environment")

oTypeList.Add("Piping Run Environment")

oTypeList.Add("Piping Route Environment")

oTypeList.Add("Piping Hose Environment")

oTypeList.Add("HarnessPart")

oTypeList.Add("HarnessAssembly")

oTypeList.Add("NailboardDrawing")

oTypeList.Add("SkeletonDoc")

TypeList.Add("FrameMemberDoc")

oTypeList.Add("FrameDoc")

For Each S As String In oTypeList

If oDoc.DocumentInterests.HasInterest(S) Then

Return True

End If

Next

Return False

End Function

Re: Determine if SubAssembly was created with Design Accelerator

Maxim-CADman77 — Tue, 18 Dec 2018 19:29:25 GMT

Thank you. Your function returned false on the sample attached.
I guess for ny needs function should be like this:

Function CheckDesignAccDocTypes(ByVal oDoc As Document) As Boolean

If oDoc.DocumentInterests.HasInterest("ClientObjectVersion") Then 
   Return True 
End if 
Return False

End Function

Have I understand you correctly?

PS:

Supposedly for Design Accelerator:

DocumentInterest.Name = "ClientObjectVersion"

Document.Interest.ClientID = "BB8FE430-83BF-418D-8DF9-9B323D3DB9B9"

PPS:

There is a thread referencing some ClientIDs strting from this message -
https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-customization/ilogic-save-assembly-copy-amp-replace-specified-parts/m-p/5535992#M54568

Re: Determine if SubAssembly was created with Design Accelerator

dba78 — Tue, 19 Feb 2019 14:07:54 GMT

I think, your Code should check for the ClientId instead of the name

...HasInterest("{BB8FE430-83BF-418D-8DF9-9B323D3DB9B9}") , which is the clientId of the Design Accelerator Addin. The Interest.Name could vary by type of the accelerator used (not tested... just an assumption)

As for finding out, which accelerator was used, there is an Attributeset "FDesign" on the ComponentOccurrence Object in the hosting assembly. This Contains an Attibute Named: "Data". This contains some XML-Fomatted Info about the creator. Not checked yet, but I guess, this info will be present for all DA-created Components. I guess the Class Names and/or clientId-s may map to the definitions in the DA-Xmls (Desing Data Directory)

HTH,

Daniel