Revision Table row gap issues

[Anonymous]

Hi

I am having a strange problem with Inventor's revision table with regards to the heading and row gaps. I created a company template and set up a revision table style in the Style and Standards Editor. The heading gap has been set to a size of 2.25 mm and the row gap to 1.25 mm. Both the row  and heading take a text height of 2.5 mm. This would then sum up to a heading cell height of 7 and a row cell height of 5. This works well and fits in perfectly with the template. See attachment Rev 1. I can save and open this file again and the revision table is correct.

The issue comes in when instead of selecting open I select new and select the template the revision table heading and row gaps are no longer correct as indicated in attachment Rev 2. If I check the gap setting in the Style and Standards Editor they are as per what I initially set up. Has anyone come across this issue?

Thanks 

Mark

[mdavis22569]

What version of Inventor? 

Also are all of the updates installed?

[Anonymous]

INV 2018 all updates have been installed.

[mdavis22569]

Can you share a templates / idw with this ....

[Anonymous]

I save the template as a .dwg not .idw.

[johnsonshiue · Accepted solution]

Hi! Indeed, there was a change in 2017 or 2018 consolidating definitions of drawing tables (hole table, general table, revision table, partslist, and so on). In the past, revision table had its own way of calculating row height and width, which was different than other types of table. It created a lot of confusion.

Unfortunately, due to redefining the row height, legacy revision table in a template file is affected. You will need to adjust the row height (header gap and row gap).

I took a look at your file. The ideal header gap is 1.89mm and row gap is 0.88mm. Please make the change to PC_Rev Table style.

Many thanks!

[Anonymous]

Hi Johnson.

Thanks for the work around, much appreciated.

Regards

Mark

[Anonymous]

Hi.. We have had the exact same issue as you mentioned.

Im happy to see a "fix" for this. However my question is, if i apply this change (changing the row gap height) to my Style, wont that then affect all previous drawings we have created since they all read the style too. ??

[johnsonshiue]

Hi! The change will not affect existing revision tables. It only applies to newly created file and newly created revision table in an old file. For old files, if you do not create new revision rows, the old revision table should stay as is.

Many thanks!

[m_scottW4DSR]

@johnsonshiue Can you provide a formula for calculating row height?

[johnsonshiue]

Hi! I am sorry I don't have the formula. The work done back in 2018 was to consolidate the row height compute for all Drawing tables (Hole, Rev, PartsList, General, and so on), instead of individual styles.

If you have an example that does not behave expectedly, please share it here. I can help take a closer look.

Many thanks!

[m_scottW4DSR]

@johnsonshiue Thanks.

Using iLogic: oTable.rows.item(i).height = 0.5 to set row height to 5mm.