Custom iProperties VB.NET

[keithjk]

I am not sure if this is possible but will ask the question anyway.

We have some components in our custom library that can be used under several part numbers. (Sortof a "one-to-many" relationship).  For example, file name "Part1.ipt" may be inserted in an assembly several times.  So "Part1.ipt" may have a part number of "PartNumber1", "PartNumber2", etc. within an assembly.

Is it even possiple to do this in Inventor?  If so, has anyone ever done anything similiar with VB.NET?

[xiaodong_liang]

Hi,

The components inserted to assembly are the the instance of the source part. So only one part for the several instances. that means only one 'part number'.

The ways that I can think of are:

either you make copy of the source part, say 'part1_copy1.ipt', 'part1_copy2.ipt and insert them. thus you can modify their 'part number' respectively.
or, you can attach some attributes to the components through ComponentOccurrence.AttributeSets. in the attribute, you can store any information that is unique of this component.

[Balaji_Ram]

Hi Keith,

How about creating an iPart with the part numbers varying ?

When inserting the iPart in the assembly, you can choose the part that matches the PartNumber.

Regards,

Balaji

[Balaji_Ram]

Sorry, I did not see Xiaodong's reply as the page wasn't refreshed at my end.

Regards,

Balaji

[xiaodong_liang]

I think the suggestion of Balaji is a nice way. Although generally iPart is a scenario to have parts in different parameters of geometry, it does not need to consider about the naming as iPart has managed them already.

Keith can decide which way is more closer to his workflow 🙂