How to distinguish iPart vs standard part using Apprentice

[JeffYao28]

Dear Support or Anyone,

How to distinguish iPart vs standard part using Apprentice 2016, or Inventor API?

Thank you!

Jeff Yao

[frederic.vandenplas]

In inventor vba, it can be tested like this

In apprentice you'll need to change it to ApprenticeServerDocument

Sub CheckForIpart()

Dim oDoc As PartDocument
Set oDoc = ThisApplication.ActiveDocument

Debug.Print oDoc.ComponentDefinition.IsiPartFactory

End Sub

[JeffYao28]

Hi Frederic,

Thank you much for the prompt response! I guess I'd appreciate more of  the Apprentice Service method, because it might be faster to open a document. My code is like below:

Inventor.ApprenticeServerDocument objApprenticeServerDocument;
//open the specified file
objApprenticeServerDocument = objapprenticeServerApp.Open(txtFileName.Text);

Inventor.ComponentDefinition definition1 = objApprenticeServerDocument.ComponentDefinition;

But Inventor.ComponentDefinition doesn't have IsiPartFactory property.

My C# project reference to Apprentice is  C:\WINDOWS\assembly\GAC_MSIL\Autodesk.Inventor.Interop\16.0.0.0__d84147f8b4276564\Autodesk.Inventor.Interop.dll

I'd appreciate this "IsiPartFactory" property when I'm opening thousands of part files in batch process to re-organize the documents. I think to open these documents using Inventor API (not Apprentice) can be quite time consuming. But Apprentice seems to be much faster.

Thank you!

Jeff Yao

[wayne.brill · Accepted solution]

Hi Jeff,

You could cast the ComponentDefinition to a PartComponentDefinition and then use the IsiPartFactory property. Below is the code I used to test. I added a button to the form in this SDK sample:

C:\Users\Public\Documents\Autodesk\Inventor 2017\SDK\DeveloperTools\Samples\VCSharp.NET\Standalone Applications\ApprenticeServer\AssemblyTree

(there is no error checking to see that the ApprenticeServerDocument is an ipt)

        private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            Inventor.ApprenticeServerDocument objapprenticeServerDocument;
            string strFileName = @"C:\Users\brillw\Documents\Inventor\WB_2-18-16\iPart_Test_WB.ipt";

            //string strFileName = @"C:\Users\brillw\Documents\Inventor\WB_2-18-16\cylinder.ipt";
            //open the specified file
            objapprenticeServerDocument = objapprenticeServerApp.Open(strFileName);

            Inventor.PartComponentDefinition prtCompDef = (Inventor.PartComponentDefinition)objapprenticeServerDocument.ComponentDefinition;
            bool bIsIpart = prtCompDef.IsiPartFactory;
  
        }

Thanks,

Wayne

[JeffYao28]

Hi Wayne,

Your code worked. Thank you so much!

Jeff Yao