Checking Constraint health in ilogic

[Thomas.Long]

I have a program with a dynamic assembly that either checks for pre existing parts and inserts them in, or else inserts a dynamic part, feeds it the geometry necessary, and then saves it as a new part and reinserts the new part. The problem is some of the older parts were generated differently, meaning the faces on them are different from the faces on newer parts.

Until now I've been using a work around with regards to constraints, basically telling the program to check distances to see if they're breaking. I'm hoping that there is a more effective way to check the health status of constraints in an assembly, or possibly even have it fix the constraints on its own, though I think that might be much more difficult (sorry I'm very new at this). Could someone possibly help me with some code for constraint check? I'm not using the visual basic only code right now, I've just been using the built in inventor stuff.

Thank you all for your help.

[Curtis_Waguespack]

Hi Thomas.Long 

You'll wan to use the HealthStatusEnums.

Here's a related link:

http://inventortrenches.blogspot.com/2013/01/ilogic-delete-all-sick-assembly.html

Also just as a tip, you can search and ask programming questions of this type on the Inventor Customization forum too:
http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/Autodesk-Inventor-Customization/bd-p/120

I hope this helps.
Best of luck to you in all of your Inventor pursuits,
Curtis
http://inventortrenches.blogspot.com

HealthStatusEnum Enumerator

Description

Constants signifying the state of the Object.

Methods

Name	Value	Description
kBeyondStopNodeHealth	11785	Object is beyond stop node in the browser.
kCannotComputeHealth	11783	Object cannot be evaluated.
kDeletedHealth	11782	Object has been destroyed. You may be holding on to an empty 'shell' of the Object.
kDriverLostHealth	11780	Object is driven by data from other Object(s), and one or more of them have been disconnected.
kInconsistentHealth	11786	Object is inconsistent with another object.
kInErrorHealth	11781	Object's internal state is in error.
kInvalidLimitsHealth	11789	Object has bad limits. e.g. max < min.
kJointDOFLockedHealth	11790	Object is locked Joint.
kNewlyAddedHealth	11788	Object is newly added or unsuppressed and has not been solved yet.
kOutOfDateHealth	11779	Object needs to be recomputed with respect to its 'driver(s)'.
kRedundantHealth	11787	Object's solution is redundant with another object.
kSuppressedHealth	11784	Object has been suppressed.
kUnknownHealth	11777	Object's status is not known.
kUpToDateHealth	11778	Object is up to date.