Announcements
Attention for Customers without Multi-Factor Authentication or Single Sign-On - OTP Verification rolls out April 2025. Read all about it here.

iPart: Renaming a feature breaks the iPart because the iPart table column name doesn't update

jeffg28CLY
Collaborator

iPart: Renaming a feature breaks the iPart because the iPart table column name doesn't update

jeffg28CLY
Collaborator
Collaborator

v2022.4

I made an iPart, but missed updating a feature name.

I changed "Extrusion18" to "end miters."

 

The iParts didn't work though, and I found that it was because the table's column still said "Extrusion18."

 

Why isn't that column name linked to the feature it's controlling? Why wouldn't that change automatically when a feature name is changed or corrected?

0 Likes
Reply
Accepted solutions (1)
367 Views
4 Replies
Replies (4)

sgwilliams
Collaborator
Collaborator

@jeffg28CLYI feel your pain. We actually Purchased Inventor Ver 5 back in 2006 and have been on subscription ever since. We tried using the iPart factory over the years many times hoping that Autodesk would improve it to function within reason, but alas it never happened. We gave up on using it except for only crude model generation for our website. It's not robust enough to do what your looking for. At least from my point of view over the years. The iFeatures has the same issue, no development that has amounted to a functioning thing within reason so we just draw the same features over and over and over, it's quite annoying. The iFeature is just a hexed hole placed on the face of a surface, You would think that would be a simple thing. Try getting it to work properly is next to impossible. The last version I tried was 2020 and it still failed miserably. I have to say Other things in Inventor has grown by leaps and bounds and makes the software worth using but some of the their "i" stuff has a lot to be desired.

Work Station : Custom built, Liquid Cooled, Asus Pro WS X570-ACE Motherboard; AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 3.8 GHz 12-Core Processor; ASUS TUF Gaming NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 V2 OC Edition Video Card; 32 GB CORSAIR Dominator Platinum DDR4-2132 Memory ; Samsung 850 EVO 1TB SSD Drive.
0 Likes

johnsonshiue
Community Manager
Community Manager
Accepted solution

Hi Jeff,

 

I believe the feature name change can be propagated to the author table. The reason you are not seeing it is because the Edit Scope was set to Factory scope when the change was made. Factory scope means disabling table edit.

Many thanks!



Johnson Shiue (johnson.shiue@autodesk.com)
Software Test Engineer

jeffg28CLY
Collaborator
Collaborator

Yes, this did it.

I don't think I ever would have been able to discern that from the help info for the Member/Factory Scope button.

 

Is there a way to set Inventor to default to Edit Member Scope instead of Edit Factory Scope?

johnsonshiue
Community Manager
Community Manager

Hi Jeff,

 

Unfortunately not, this option is always set to Factory scope by default. The Model State on the other hand sets Member scope by default.

Many thanks!



Johnson Shiue (johnson.shiue@autodesk.com)
Software Test Engineer
0 Likes