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jmfowler1996
in reply to: Anonymous

Hello again Mitchel.

Thank you for making the issue very clear in your drawing. It was very useful.

I will address the issues individually:

 

1:

issue: round bar is called out as plate.

Cause: the iLogic code recognises different types of part by checking a part's parameter names. The parameter names in standard round bar taken from the content centre are very different from the names of the parameters in your custom part.

Solution: instead of extruding round bar, use round bar directly from inventor's content centre. In your case, maybe create a frame sketch part with the sketch lines of the frame members (round bars), and insert it into the assembly. You can then use frame generator to create round bars from the content centre.

Alternative Solution: You could technically also create a list of parameters which are the same as those in a content centre round bar, and the code will then recognize it as such.

 

2/3:

 

issue: plates are called out with incorrect dimensions

cause: this happens when the part's User Coordinate System (UCS) is not aligned with the part.

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Workaround: there currently isn't a good way around this. You could create parts from scratch for diagonally placed parts. If you need them to be linked to the master assembly, you could link the parameters to the original sketch.

Solution: I have an idea about how to create a better workaround for this, based on the user adding a custom user coordinate system and the rule recognising that the latest UCS is the one to be used. I will add it to my long list of things to do!

 

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issue: when part dimensions are changed and the rule is re-run, the dimensions given by the rule are outdated.

my comments: I couldn't reproduce this issue. Please see the screencast below where I change the sketch and the rule runs with the correct updated dimensions.

Screencast will be displayed here after you click Post.

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If you mean that you want the sizes in the BoM to update without running the rule again, I will look into it, but I don't think it will be easy.