Ilogic rule to change the BOM Item Renumbering

[mdavis22569]

Does anyone know of a Rule to change the Item renumbers in a structured BOM ..

On where you are prompted for the Start Value and Increment ... or it's reset to be the 10, and 10 values?

Thank you

[mrattray]

I'm not sure what your asking for, Michael. I assume you're aware of the Renumber method.

[mdavis22569]

Yeah ... What happens is we do our numbering in our BOM's in 10's ...so 10, 20 , 30 ... However I'd like to get an ilogic where I go to the model run the Ilogic run and basically it would change them all to this renumbering Version .. 1) click on Asssemble 2) click on Bill of Material 3) click on Structured if it's not picked 4) click on Item renumber 5) Input Start value 10, Increment 10

[mdavis22569]

Maybe I don't know of the renumbering you're talking about ...but looking ..

[mrattray]

The Renumber method supports optinal arguments for starting number and increments. Here's a snippet I use for automatically sorting and renumbering my BOMs.

Sub bomSort()

Dim oAsmDoc As AssemblyDocument
Dim oAsmCompDef As AssemblyComponentDefinition
Dim oBOMView As BOMView

oAsmDoc = ThisDoc.Document
oAsmCompDef = oAsmDoc.ComponentDefinition

Try
	oBOMView = oAsmCompDef.BOM.BOMViews.Item("Parts Only")
Catch
	oAsmCompDef.BOM.PartsOnlyViewEnabled = True
	oBOMView = oAsmCompDef.BOM.BOMViews.Item("Parts Only")
End Try
Try
	oBOMView.Sort("WORK CENTER CODE", True, "VISUAL PART NUMBER", True, "Description", True)
	oBOMView.Renumber()
Catch
	MsgBox("Any error was encountered while sorting your BOM. The most likely cause is missing custom properties(WORK CENTER CODE " _
	   & "& VISUAL PART NUMBER). Please, add these properties and try again.", vbOKOnly, "Error")
	Exit Sub
End Try

Try
	oBOMView = oAsmCompDef.BOM.BOMViews.Item("Structured")
Catch
	oAsmCompDef.BOM.StructuredViewEnabled = True
	oBOMView = oAsmCompDef.BOM.BOMViews.Item("Structured")
End Try
Try
	oBOMView.Sort("WORK CENTER CODE", True, "VISUAL PART NUMBER", True, "Description", True)
	oBOMView.Renumber()
Catch
	MsgBox("Any error was encountered while sorting your BOM. The most likely cause is missing custom properties(WORK CENTER CODE " _
	   & "& VISUAL PART NUMBER). Please, add these properties and try again.", vbOKOnly, "Error")
	Exit Sub
End Try

End Sub

[mdavis22569]

Getting an error when I try it

[BrandonBG]

Michael--

See an earlier thread on a similar issue with BOM numbers:

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-customization/make-a-custom-iproperty-equal-to-the-item-in-th...

After poking around with the BOM in iLogic, I determined that the BOM numbering can't be changed with iLogic. You'll have to use VB outside Inventor to access it with the API.

BrandonBG

Inventor 2015

[MechMachineMan]

Simply change the Sub bomsort to Sub Main(). Sub bomsort would be useful for it you are calling it within Sub Main().

Chcek here for some more learning on the topic if you plan to delve any deeper into API that you currently are.

http://au.autodesk.com/au-online/classes-on-demand/class-catalog/2013/product-design-suite/ma1936

[mrattray]

MechMachineMan is correct. I use this snippet as a component of more complex rules, but you can simply change bomSort() to Main() or delete that line and the End Sub line.

[mrattray]

Brandon, the issue you had in that thread was with ThisBOM, which I'm not using. I'm accessing the BOMView directly.

[mrattray]

Sorry for the multiple posts, but I keep forgetting to mention things.
You'll want to do some tweaking to that code anyways, as it's not written to do exactly what you want. Really, you don't need any of the sorting code unless you want it and you need to add the optional arguments to the renumber method to get your increments.

[mdavis22569]

It's ok keep posting

 ...I'll work on it more tonight.   I'm not that great at ilogic at all ..

don't be surprised if I ask for some more help.

Mike