Inventor not importing Company iProperty correctly

[Brandon_Mooney]

Good afternoon,

When exporting an Inventor assembly as a .stp file, the "Company" iProperty correctly does as described here:

https://www.autodesk.com/support/technical/article/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Inventor-Which-iPr... 

Issue:

When importing a .stp file, Inventor does not treat the 4th parameter of the FILE_NAME() line as the "Company" iProperty, and instead imports it as a custom property titled "Organization".

Desired Behaviour:

What goes out should be what comes in, no?

I'm looking at how to automatically populate the "Company" iProperty upon import of a .stp file. Currently, the desired "Company" information is present in the 4th parameter of the FILE_NAME().

ex.: FILE_NAME('name','time','author',COMPANY_PARAMETER_AS_EXPORTED_BY_INVENTOR,'','','')

Does anyone have a solution kicking around to automate this by chance?

Thanks,

-Brandon

[johnsonshiue · Accepted solution]

Hi Brandon,

On importing the STEP file, the Import dialog has a property mapping button. Click it to map the properties desirably. Have you tried that?

Many thanks!

[Brandon_Mooney · Accepted solution]

Thank you Johnson!

For those who find this post wondering the same thing:

The "Property Mapping" button lets you map any custom properties that get imported to a standard property.

Because Inventor is importing the 4th parameter of FILE_NAME() as a custom property titled "Organization", mapping "Company" to "Organization" for STEP files is a modal solution (Property Mapping selections are saved).