Reaching all material data from Apprentice Server

[tolgay.hickiran]

Hello guys,

We have a small 3rd party that we've written for ourselves and we want to develop the code further. What we want is that get all the material data from the top level assembly without opening it on Inventor.

I know this can be done in apprentice but i have yet to find a solution.

Here's an example.

We have a sheet metal assembly with different types of material and thickness. We want to immediately the unique types on a form so that we can manipulate the data further.

Any suggestions?

[HermJan.Otterman]

Hello JayJay,

Look at this:

http://modthemachine.typepad.com/my_weblog/2010/03/iproperties-without-inventor-apprentice.html

Apprentice has no interface, so no forms....

why do you want to do this with apprentice?

[tolgay.hickiran]

Hello Herm,

This is Tolgay dont mind the ID it was a mistake.

So, the idea here is to get all the material and thickness data in an instant without opening Inventor, and with this data we will know what kind of sheet metal types we are going to use in that particular project in an instant.

I couldn't reach the material data from the inventor BOM, i can reach some data from BOM, such as itemquantity and totalquantity etc, but i wasnt able to get the material data. ( By Inventor i mean the apprentice server )

The main reason is to get the data faster, because it is a bit more slower to get it from direct inventor API.

[NachoShaw]

Hi

From what I understand, Apprentice cannot access the material or appearance. You will need full inventor for that however, you can get the material as an iProperty using InventorApprentice from the link provided earlier. I know you can because I do the same in my application 🙂

Nacho

[tolgay.hickiran]

Hi Nacho,

As i've mentioned earlier, i failed to find how to reach material data from InventorApprentice.

I managed to reach BOM, iProperties and so on. If you can show me how to get to the material data that would be great.

Otherwise we are going to use the "Custom Property" tab in iProperties to be able to read the necessary data, which makes us use another 3rd party to write the material data on it.

[tolgay.hickiran]

Can you give a small code how you reach the material data from apprentice Nacho?

[NachoShaw · Accepted solution]

hi

sorry its taken a while to reply, ive been mad busy with work. below is a code example

Dim apprentice As New ApprenticeServerComponent 
Dim doc As ApprenticeServerDocument  = apprentice.Open("C:\Temp\Part1.ipt")  

Dim oPropSet As PropertySet = doc.PropertySets.Item("Design Tracking Properties")

Dim sMats As String = oPropSet.Item("Material").Value

cheers

nacho

[raith-mb]

You Need to get the FullFileName of all sheetmetal components out of the BOM.

With the FullFileName just open each File in Apprentice and get the Material and the sheetmetal Thickness

Roland.

[tolgay.hickiran]

Thanks Nacho!

[Jef_E]

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@NachoShaw wrote:

hi

sorry its taken a while to reply, ive been mad busy with work. below is a code example

Dim apprentice As New ApprenticeServerComponent 
Dim doc As ApprenticeServerDocument  = apprentice.Open("C:\Temp\Part1.ipt")  

Dim oPropSet As PropertySet = doc.PropertySets.Item("Design Tracking Properties")

Dim sMats As String = oPropSet.Item("Material").Value

cheers

nacho

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Hi @NachoShaw I know this post is over a year old, but is it possible to change the material using apprentice?