Content Center Edit

[bradeneuropeArthur]

There was a case for one of the Inventor users.
The company he works for is switching to a new ERP system and is applying a new company part number to all materials and items used in their designs.
Previously, the part number had a loose format.
For this change, he has been tasked with applying this unique, sequential part number to every row of every family in the custom Content Center libraries that he has.
Between the number of families he uses and the variety of materials he uses in each family, there are almost 700 families that need to have this unique part number added to them. This task would be cumbersome, time consuming, and prone to error if he was to do it manually for each family.

There were two questions:

1. What's the fastest way that you can do this?
2. I've been trying to use the Custom Column feature in the Column Properties of the Family Table to create a sequential list of numbers in a column without success. I haven't gotten it to generate a sequential list. It usually creates a single value equal to the Default value.

The best way of doing this is by creating a add-in for Autodesk Inventor achieving this goal.

Please see in the video that in the tool there is a box available creating categories or prefixes. the numbering sequential makes the parts unique.

Also, the new Custom Property can be defined.

Of course you need to create a read write library first.

Maybe something like this is a good idea for implementation in future releases of Inventor.

Knoors Inventor (Tools Content Center Edit) ‐ v.mp4