Content Center changing a items length (B_L)

[Anonymous]

I'm not sure if this has been answered yet  but I'm customizing my content center and Im wondering can I change the {B_L} to show feet with inches and fractions

Just like you can in BOM for quanity

"AISC HSS" & " - " & {G_D} & " - " & {B_L}

[xiaodong_liang]

Hi,

As I remember, it seems no API for publishing part to CC, so I am not sure if you are asking for the ability of product or API. could you clarify? 

[Anonymous]

Basically for an eample of what I want it to fill out like is

HSS, 2" x 2" x 1/4" (L= 8'-4 3/8")

I can get the HSS  2 x2x1/4 but I cant figure out if I can get it to spit the length out of the bar

[xiaodong_liang]

Hi gbrass,

I dicussed with my colleague, but we are not still sure if we understood your question. It looks you want to extract the length info from the expression? 

from API perspective (actually string API of Windows), if you have known HSS  2 x2x1/4, that means you could get the latter section (L= 8'-4 3/8"), then use string API to convert string to double. Is it ok to you?

[marco.centenari]

MAYBE read this

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/Autodesk-Inventor/How-to-change-G-L-parameter-from-decimal-to-fraction...