Inventor Title Block Date

[Anonymous]

In AutoCAD, the date in the title block automatically changes to the current date whenever I save the drawing.  Is there a way to have the date in a Inventor 2D drawing title block do the same thing?  Normally I have to go and manually do this which just more extra steps I would like to avoid.

[bengee5454]

You can make an iproperty with the current date, then add that to your title block.

Does this help?

[Mark.Lancaster]

@Anonymous

Welcome to the community..

You will have to create an iLogic code for this and then have it triggered on save.  Do you know how to write a iLogic code?

Also not saying you can't change the date every time you save..  Just wondering why you want to do this?

[Anonymous]

I am unfamiliar with creating iLogic Code.  Is there a tutorial that would help?  The company I work for wants the current date displayed on all 2D drawings whenever the drawing gets saved.  The date does not need to change if you are just opening the drawing to view it, but if you save the drawing, they want the day you hit the save button to automatically change the date in the title block.  Strange, but that's their rule.

[Mark.Lancaster]

@Anonymous

This code does a little more but it can be adapted to meet you needs.  I will also tag the author @Curtis_Waguespack..   He has an app for everything. 

[mcgyvr]

It could be done as simple as this..

Open your drawing template file..

Create a new ilogic rule (called it "Saved Date" or whatever) and paste this into it..

SavedDate = Now
iProperties.Value("Status", "Checked By") = SavedDate
'update the file
InventorVb.DocumentUpdate()

The edit your titleblock to use the "Checked By" iproperty from the Status tab..

Then use the "Event Triggers" button in the ilogic tab to set that rule to run on the "Before Save" event..

This will throw the data and time even into the title block automatically.

[Anonymous]

Hi, and thank you for your help.  I pasted the code as directed but received an error message that said the following:

Rule Compile Errors in Saved Date, in Drawing4

　

Error on Line 1 : End of statement expected.

Have I missed something?

[Anonymous]

I take back my previous reply.  I tried your fix again and it works.  Is there a modification I can make to remove the time stamp portion of the code?

[mcgyvr · Accepted solution]

@Anonymous

SyntaxEditor Code Snippet

SavedDate = Now.ToString("MM/dd/yyyy")
MessageBox.Show(SavedDate, "Title")

iProperties.Value("Status", "Checked By") = SavedDate
'update the file
InventorVb.DocumentUpdate()

[Anonymous]

Thanks so much!  Great solution.

[tobias.hammer]

Would it be possible to leave out the pop up message box?

[Frederick_Law]

Comment it out.

Add ' in front of 

'MessageBox.Show(SavedDate, "Title")

[tobias.hammer]

Perfect, thank you mate!