Hello, is it possible to have an ilogic that runes before a file is exported as .dwg, that updates the date.
My objective is to have in the title block of the exported .dwg the date in which it was exported.
Last export date
Hi @t.office. That does sound possible. However, we would need to know more about the title block you are showing. It looks like it does not currently have any date showing in it. Are you currently using a 'prompted entry' to fill that in? Or do you maybe have a custom iProperty linked to the TextBox behind that location in your title box? If you do not have an iProperty linked to that position, then we would have to find which specific TextBox object within the sketch of your title block definition is being used to show that date.
Wesley Crihfield
(Not an Autodesk Employee)
OK. I see now. That is usually the easiest to deal with. However, after inspecting your drawing's title block, and editing that specific TextBox, the Format Text dialog indicates that it is liked to the creation date iProperty of the 'model' document, instead of the drawing itself. In a case like that, we would need to get a reference to the 'model' document first, then access its creation date iProperty, then set it to todays date. But if that is a different value than it was before, we may have to first record the original date, then change it, then set the original date back to it, so we don't change the model in an unwanted way. Here is an iLogic rule code to access that iProperty of the drawing's model.
'third PropertySet InternalName = {32853F0F-3444-11d1-9E93-0060B03C1CA6}
'Creation Date Property is first Index in PropertySet, or use ItemByPropID(4)
Dim oCDateProp As Inventor.Property = ThisDrawing.ModelDocument.PropertySets.Item(3).Item(1)
Dim OriginalDate As Date = oCDateProp.Value
oCDateProp.Value = Today
'<<< now export the drawing with some code here >>>
'<<< now set original date back to model >>>
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Wesley Crihfield
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I'm on my way out for the day, so I have not downloaded your edited drawing yet, but the quick answer is yes. If you will be exporting the drawing by code, you can put this code just before the code to export the file. But if exporting manually, there may not be a way to completely automate it to update the creation date just before it exports. You could either change it manually through the iProperties dialog, or manually run the rule to change it. I am not sure if putting that small iLogic rule under the 'Before Save Document' event in the This Document tab of the Event Triggers dialog would work if exporting, and not just saving the document. I may look into this more tomorrow.
Wesley Crihfield
(Not an Autodesk Employee)
Hi @t.office. I think I have figured out a way to make this happen for you. In your original post, you mentioned that you are exporting something to a DWG file type. I assume the 'original' file that you are exporting from is a regular Inventor IDW drawing file, correct? If that is not correct, then the solution I am providing here may not work for you without further modifications. This iLogic rule solution is a rather complex one. After you run this rule, it will create and launch a custom event handler that will remain running in the background, listening for the event of 'translating a document', until you close Inventor. When this event is triggered, this block of code has to check several things about the event before it will react to it, because it covers a lot of different types of import / export operations and file types. If the event is for importing, instead of exporting, it will not do anything else. If the 'original' file's name does not end with ".idw", it will not do anything else. If the file name of the resulting file it is about to create does not end with ".dwg", it will not do anything else. If it passes all those tests, it must be for exporting an IDW file to a DWG file. Then it attempts to open that original drawing invisibly (in the background), then checks its Creation Date iProperty against today's date, and only if it does not match, it will try to change it to todays date. Then it will attempt to update the drawing. Then it will attempt to save the drawing again. Then, if it did that, it will write a message to the iLogic Log window about it. All that code so far will only run just 'before' the file is exported, not afterwards. Then I left some code in the 'After' side of the event that just writes something to the iLogic Log window after the event. But that 'After' part will be carried out for all import or export operations. If you do not want that part, you can either comment it out, or delete it (just don't delete the final 'End If' line before the 'End Sub' line.
Caution: I have not tested this code yet, so if you run it, and it is not functioning correctly, you may need to close Inventor, then restart Inventor, to get rid of the event handler it creates.
Sub Main
oAppEvents = ThisApplication.ApplicationEvents
AddHandler oAppEvents.OnTranslateDocument, AddressOf oAppEvents_OnTranslateDocument
End Sub
Dim oAppEvents As Inventor.ApplicationEvents
Sub oAppEvents_OnTranslateDocument(TranslatingIn As Boolean, DocumentObject As Document, _
FullFileName As String, BeforeOrAfter As EventTimingEnum, Context As NameValueMap, _
ByRef HandlingCode As HandlingCodeEnum)
If BeforeOrAfter = EventTimingEnum.kBefore Then
If TranslatingIn = True Then Exit Sub 'we only want to respond when exporting (translating out)
If FullFileName.EndsWith(".idw") = False Then Exit Sub 'FullFileName is for the 'original' file
If Context.Count = 0 Then Exit Sub 'if no Context to review, exit routine
Dim TargetData As Inventor.DataMedium = Nothing
Try : TargetData = Context.Value("TargetData") : Catch : End Try
If TargetData Is Nothing Then Exit Sub
If TargetData.MediumType = MediumTypeEnum.kFileNameMedium Then
Dim sDestinationFullFileName As String = TargetData.FileName
If sDestinationFullFileName.EndsWith(".dwg") Then 'check if exporting to a DWG file type
Dim oDDoc As DrawingDocument = Nothing
Try : oDDoc = ThisApplication.Documents.Open(FullFileName, False) : Catch : End Try
If oDDoc Is Nothing Then Exit Sub
Dim oCDateProp As Inventor.Property = oDDoc.PropertySets.Item(3).Item(1)
If oCDateProp.Value <> Today Then
Try : oCDateProp.Value = Today : Catch : End Try
If oDDoc.RequiresUpdate Then Try : oDDoc.Update2(True) : Catch : End Try
If oDDoc.Dirty Then Try : oDDoc.Save2(False) : Catch : End Try
End If
Try : oDDoc.ReleaseReference : Catch : End Try
Logger.Info("Checked / Updated Creation Date of following IDW file before export to DWG file:"& vbCrLf & FullFileName)
End If
End If
ElseIf BeforeOrAfter = EventTimingEnum.kAfter Then
If DocumentObject IsNot Nothing Then
Logger.Info(FullFileName & vbCrLf & "...was just translated to:" & vbCrLf & DocumentObject.FullFileName)
End If
End If
End Sub
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If you just want some simple code for an internal iLogic rule that will be triggered by the document open event, then you could use the following.
Dim oDoc As Document = ThisDoc.Document
Dim oCreationDateProp As Inventor.Property = oDoc.PropertySets.Item(3).Item(1)
If oCreationDateProp.Value <> Today Then oCreationDateProp.Value = Today
If oDoc.RequiresUpdate Then oDoc.Update2(True)Wesley Crihfield
(Not an Autodesk Employee)
