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eli_duykers
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Referencing data stored on SharePoint

Hi all,

 

I'm looking to understand Inventor's capabilities and workflows around referencing a database stored on Sharepoint, to populate values in a drawing. If Inventor is capable of this, any pointers to resources would be greatly appreciated. As an amateur programmer, I could spend considerable time attempting something that may simply not be supported.

 

The goal would be to create a drawing template which references a Sharepoint spreadsheet to fill values in drawing annotations and tables. Ideally the template would contain a selection which allows the user to choose which values  in the table to reference (eg user selects row 3 > populates multiple values based on this data). The motivation is to eliminate errors created through manual data entry, and save time by minimising the drafter's inputs. The absolute holy grail would be to replace models in the drawing through this same macro, but I'm not expecting that to be workable.

 

Is any of this worth attempting?

Thank you