Content Center - Family Table - Custom Column Not Working - iLogic

[willAM42F]

Hi there,

The company I work for is switching to a new ERP system and is applying a new company part number to all materials and items used in our designs. Previously, the part number had a loose format. For this change, I've been tasked with applying this unique, sequential part number to every row of every family in the custom Content Center libraries that we have. Between the number of families we use and the variety of materials we use 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 I was to do it manually for each family.

The two questions I have are:

- What's the fastest way that you can think to do this (iLogic, automation, custom column, etc.)?

- 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. What am I doing wrong?

I'm running Inventor 2024.3.3 on Windows 11.

Thanks in advance for any help you're able & willing to provide!

[willAM42F]

Hi, @bradeneuropeArthur,

I'm sorry. I still don't follow what you mean.

[bradeneuropeArthur]

https://forums.autodesk.com/autodesk/attachments/autodesk/120/177454/1/ContentCenterEdit.mp4

[bradeneuropeArthur · Accepted solution]

Hi @willAM42F,

Any progress on this topic?

I am curious if you have either solved or that you want to try my sugestion.

Best regards,

[willAM42F]

Hi there, @bradeneuropeArthur,

Sorry for the delayed reply and for not seeing the video in your original post. I'm not sure why I wasn't able to.

As far as the solution you presented, I think it is what I was asking for! It appears to be what I was trying to do with the part number generation. Unfortunately, though, my company has since decided to use iParts for hardware instead of the Content Center because of how slow the libraries have become (some of our families have approximately 28,000 rows in them and iParts seem to load a lot faster).

Was that command difficult to develop? If you were still willing to share it, I might be able to adapt it to specifying a part number for individual rows in an iPart Factory based on the iPart Member that is placed.