Quick Question: Removing Occurrence number on all Parts and Assemblies

[Anonymous]

As the title says I am trying to remove the occurrence number that displays in the assembly hierarchy without having to go to each part/assembly and removing them manually in the Properties - Occurrence and changing the name.  Is there an option I can toggle off or any other way I can remove this?

[swalton · Accepted solution]

I don't think that there is an out-of-the-box setting for removing the occurrence number in an assembly.

I'd look at a custom iLogic rule to remove it.

[Anonymous]

I looked everywhere and noticed the same thing.  Thank you for the quick reply

[machiel.veldkamp]

Just curious though... why would you want that?

[Anonymous]

It is something the clients wants. I am updated models of PLETS, PLEMS, ILS, etc. with a new hierarchy and names of valves, pipes, etc to match the clients database. I am sending them a STEP file from Inventor where they will load it up in Max. For the database to match the models, they wanted the :1, :2, :3, etc removed in order for the models to match exactly what their database shows. The whole purpose is all these models are going into a new program where you are able to see an entire subsea field with fully rendered 3D models where you can go and identify different components, reroute lines, etc.

[machiel.veldkamp]

I think you are in bad luck sir, I think the occurrences need to be unique.

Sub main()
	' set a reference to the assembly component definintion.
	' This assumes an assembly document is open.
	Dim oAsmCompDef As AssemblyComponentDefinition
	oAsmCompDef = ThisApplication.ActiveDocument.ComponentDefinition

	'Iterate through all of the occurrences
	Dim oOccurrence As ComponentOccurrence
	For Each oOccurrence In oAsmCompDef.Occurrences
		
		oName = oOccurrence.Name
		oNameArray = Split(oName, ":")
		oName = oNameArray(0)
		Try
			oOccurrence.Name = oName
		Catch
		End Try
	Next
End Sub

I tried this on a smaller assembly and it will remove all comments  ": xx" from the name as long as they are unique.

As soon as the occurence already occurs it will catch an exeption and move on to the next one.

So if your model contains ONLY unique files. GREAT! This code will solve your problem.

At least 1 double file and well....