iPart Properties in a Drawing?

[Anonymous]

We have started playing with iParts recently and ran into a major snag. 

When I insert the part into a drawing the properies do not match the iParts iProperies.  

Material in the drawing is showing MILD STEEL A36/44W but the iParts material is set to STEEL - 1018.

The Stock Number and Desctition are also wrong and I am not sure where they are coming from either. 

Where is the information on the drawing coming from?

[Mark.Lancaster]

If you changed the Ipart table did you regenerate the members?

[Anonymous]

I am not sure what you mean by regenerate the members?

[Mark.Lancaster]

Attach your ipart factory here and let me know what version of Inventor you're using.   I will review your part table.

[salariua]

What Mark is suggesting is that you delete any generated ipart members (folder next to the ipart with same name as the ipart browser name) and then you use generate files on the ipart table.

[mcgyvr]

Adrian,

Have you seen any reasons that it actually helps to delete the members from the folder like that?

I never delete them.. just do the generate.. generate should just overwrite whats there..

Just don't think thats needed at all..

[salariua]

It should but it doesn't (or maybe in not all the cases).

Try and change material on the ipart (make sure you have some childs generated first).

then try and generate the childs (existing ones to see if they get overrited)

open the child and check if the material is updated.

[Anonymous]

We think we have it figured out, didn't know we had to insert the properties in to the iPart table then regenerate.  

Thanks.

[DRoam]

This is precisely why I created this suggestion in the IdeaStation:

Improvements to iParts, Multi-body, and Derived Parts

It's completely counter-intuitive that we should have to add iProperties (including the Material) to the iPart table for them to be synced with the Master part. The intuitive function would be that unless it's added to the iPart table, it's the same for all iPart members.

Dealing with the multiple files is also a pain.

The above Idea requests a fix to both those issues. Please kast Kudos for it if you'd like to see Autodesk address this.