How to truncate an iproperty for use as a view label in an Inventor drawing.

[Anonymous]

I would like to use the P/N as part of my view label.  However, I need to truncate the characters shown.  (see attachment)

Regarding attachment:

    -first snippet is of my label formatting

    -second snippet is current results

    -third snippet is desired results

thanks in advance for any help.

[Curtis_Waguespack]

Hi @Anonymous,

I think you'd need to use a bit of iLogc code, to do this. Would you want all of the views on the sheet to be updated? Or just select one view at a time?

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

[Anonymous]

I would prefer to update one view at a time.

thanks

[Curtis_Waguespack]

Hi @Anonymous,

Here is a quick iLogic rule to do this:

Dim oSSet As SelectSet = ThisDoc.Document.SelectSet
If oSSet.count = 0 Then
	MessageBox.Show("You must select a drawing view first", "iLogic")
	Exit Sub
End If

'Reference to the drawing view from the 1st selected object
Dim oView As DrawingView = trycast(oSSet.item(1), DrawingView)

If oView IsNot Nothing Then
	oView.ShowLabel = True
	
	
	'get the part number from the model in the view
	oPN = "<Property Document='model' PropertySet='Design Tracking Properties' Property='Part Number' FormatID='{32853F0F-3444-11D1-9E93-0060B03C1CA6}' PropertyID='5'>PART NUMBER</Property>"
	oPartNumber = "<StyleOverride Underline='True'>" & oPN & "</StyleOverride>"
	
	'set temp view label
	oView.Label.FormattedText = oPartNumber
	'add ITEM and get last 2 digits
	oPN2 = "ITEM " & Right(oView.Label.Text,2)
	
	'format text for view label
	oPartNumber = "<StyleOverride Underline='True'>" & oPN2 & "</StyleOverride>"
	oStringScale = "<Br/><StyleOverride Underline='False'>" & "SCALE <DrawingViewScale/>" & "</StyleOverride>"
	oDescription = "<Br/><StyleOverride Underline='False'>" & _
	"<Property Document='model' PropertySet='Design Tracking Properties' Property='Description' FormatID='{32853F0F-3444-11D1-9E93-0060B03C1CA6}' PropertyID='29'>DESCRIPTION</Property></StyleOverride>"
	
	
	'add to the view label
	oView.Label.FormattedText = oPartNumber & oDescription & oStringScale
Else
	MessageBox.Show("The selected object is not a drawing view", "iLogic")
End If

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

related link:

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-customization/ilogic-code-to-change-view-label-text/td-p/3625130

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

[Anonymous]

Thanks Curtis!  That works great.  I do have one last request...

Is it possible to have the first line of text height be at .18 in and the next two lines be at .125 in?

I appreciate your assistance.

Tim

[Curtis_Waguespack · Accepted solution]

Hi @Anonymous,

Try this version. Note that the Font Size numbers are in centimeters.

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

Dim oSSet As SelectSet = ThisDoc.Document.SelectSet
If oSSet.count = 0 Then
	MessageBox.Show("You must select a drawing view first", "iLogic")
	Exit Sub
End If

'Reference to the drawing view from the 1st selected object
Dim oView As DrawingView = trycast(oSSet.item(1), DrawingView)

If oView IsNot Nothing Then
	oView.ShowLabel = True
	
	
	'get the part number from the model in the view
	oPN = "<Property Document='model' PropertySet='Design Tracking Properties' Property='Part Number' FormatID='{32853F0F-3444-11D1-9E93-0060B03C1CA6}' PropertyID='5'>PART NUMBER</Property>"
	oPartNumber = "<StyleOverride Underline='True'>" & oPN & "</StyleOverride>"
	
	'set temp view label
	oView.Label.FormattedText = oPartNumber
	'add ITEM and get last 2 digits
	oPN2 = "ITEM " & Right(oView.Label.Text,2)
	
	'format text for view label
	oPartNumber = "<StyleOverride Underline='True' FontSize=' 0.4572'>" & oPN2 & "</StyleOverride>"
	oStringScale = "<Br/><StyleOverride Underline='False' FontSize=' 0.3175' >" & "SCALE <DrawingViewScale/>" & "</StyleOverride>"
	oDescription = "<Br/><StyleOverride Underline='False' FontSize=' 0.3175'>" & _
	"<Property Document='model' PropertySet='Design Tracking Properties' Property='Description' FormatID='{32853F0F-3444-11D1-9E93-0060B03C1CA6}' PropertyID='29'>DESCRIPTION</Property></StyleOverride>"
	
	
	'add to the view label
	oView.Label.FormattedText = oPartNumber & oDescription & oStringScale
Else
	MessageBox.Show("The selected object is not a drawing view", "iLogic")
End If