Change visiblity depending on material asigned

[Anonymous]

Hi,

In an assebly, I want to only show on screen parts with a defined material only.

I.e. All parts that the material is set to "steel" are visible / all other parts are not visible

OR

All parts that the material is set to "steel" or "glass" are visible / all other parts are not visible

Thanks for you help

Mike

[CCarreiras]

Hi!

There's no automatic View filters based in properties, but you can create several View Representations mannually to achieve what you said.

[Anonymous]

Is there some Ilogic that could do this? (I am new to Ilogic so am not sure what you can do or how to do it!)

[CCarreiras]

I don't think so.

iLogic programing is a way  that uses inventor capabilities. Doesn't add new features that do not exist already in the inventor, simply you can automate them.

i mean, directly not, but... you can start trying something like this:

IF iProperties.MaterialOfComponent("partA:1")="Steel" THEN

Component.Visible("PartA:1") =true

ELSE

Component.Visible("PartA:1") =False

END IF

[MechMachineMan]

Public Class PVars
 Shared oMatl As String = InputBox("Conatining Phrase of Mat'l to Isolate", "ISOLATE", "Steel")

Public Sub TraverseAssemblySample()
    Dim PVar As New PVars
    ' Get the active assembly. 
    Dim oAsmDoc As AssemblyDocument 
    oAsmDoc = ThisApplication.ActiveDocument 
    Debug.Print oAsmDoc.DisplayName 

    ' Call the function that does the recursion. 
    Call TraverseAssembly(oAsmDoc.ComponentDefinition.Occurrences, 1) 
End Sub 

Private Sub TraverseAssembly(Occurrences As ComponentOccurrences, _ 
                             Level As Integer) 
    ' Iterate through all of the occurrence in this collection.  This 
    ' represents the occurrences at the top level of an assembly. 
    Dim oOcc As ComponentOccurrence 
    For Each oOcc In Occurrences 
        If oOcc.Definition.Document.PropertySets.Item("Design Tracking Properties").Item("Material").Value Like "*" & PVar.oMatl & "*"
              'oOcc.Visible = False
        Else
              'oOcc.Visible = True

        If oOcc.DefinitionDocumentType = kAssemblyDocumentObject Then 
            Call TraverseAssembly(oOcc.SubOccurrences, Level + 1) 
        End If 
    Next 
End Sub

End Class

[LukeDavenport]

Hi Mikey,

This looks like a perfect job for my addin on the Exchange App Store:

Youtube video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qem8o-R2mqQ

App Store: 

https://apps.exchange.autodesk.com/INVNTOR/en/Detail/Index?id=appstore.exchange.autodesk.com%3aviewr...

It does the exact thing you describe - allows as many assembly filters as you like to be created and saved for iProperties (including Material), that can be updated with one click whenever the assembly changes.

I hope this helps,

Luke

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the reply.

I have tried your rule but get the following error message...

Error in rule program format:

All other Sub's or Functions must be after Sub Main()

This doesn't mean anything to me. Is it something that can be solved?

Thanks for your help

Mike