Access iProperties/ parameters of iPart Members

[Frank-Oosterwaal]

Hi all,

I tried to find the answer but can't seem to find how to access and change iPropeties & parameters of a iPart member (factory member no problem). We sometimes need to change material standards or whatever and these are stored in iProperties and parameters. When this happens I update all library parts and assys using iLogic. This is all fine, it just fails on iPart and iAssembly members.

This is part of the code I'm working on now:

Dim oPartDoc As Inventor.PartDocument = ThisDoc.Document

'Other code to retrieve values

Dim isIPartMember As Boolean = oPartDoc.ComponentDefinition.IsiPartMember
If isIPartMember Then
	MessageBox.Show("iPart", "Title")
'Cannot figure out how to access and change the members iProperties/parameters

Else
	MessageBox.Show("Normal part", "Title")


'-----Set material properties to custom iProperties-----
	'oPartDoc.PropertySets.Item("Inventor User Defined Properties").Item("Material_Name").Value = oMat_Name
	'oPartDoc.PropertySets.Item("Inventor User Defined Properties").Item("Material_std").Value = oMat_Std


	'-----Fill user properties to iProperties-----
	oPartDoc.PropertySets.Item("Inventor User Defined Properties").Item("Certification").Value = Parameter("Certification")
	oPartDoc.PropertySets.Item("Inventor Document Summary Information").Item("Category").Value = Parameter("Supply")
End If

It sees it's an iPart member but using the same method as for normal parts it runs into errors. I understand I can change the iPart factory and regenerate the members but I would like to avoid that.

Hope somebody can point me in the right direction. Thanks in advance!

Greets,

Frank

[A.Acheson]

Hi @Frank-Oosterwaal 

You will need to open and change the ipart factory and not the member. The information is then pushed to the members on generate. Here is a helpful article.

And as long as you have writable access to the ipartfactory you can get to it from the ipart member. See help file here

Syntax

iPartMember.ParentFactory() As iPartFactory

[Frank-Oosterwaal]

Hi @A.Acheson ,

Thanks for the reply. Ah yes, makes sense. I'll approach it that way. So just skip the iPart members for data population and just perform a update. Can use the iPartMember.ParentFactory() As iPartFactory to make sure the factory is populated with the data first before performing the update on the iPart members.

Thanks again!

Greets,

Frank