Difference between Assembly and Weldment

[rzillich]

In my everlasting quest to automate as much as i feel is actually productive, ive recently started eyeballing drawing sheets. Ive been recently searching for a way to automatically play my detail callouts and my parts lists. I recognize that both of these are wholly possible, however, our company uses different callouts for weldments/standard assemblies. Im looking for and can't seem to find a property that changes or any defining parameter or property that will allow me to write up some iLogic so that inventor can tell which of the 2 ive placed on my sheet. As a continuation (and probably much the same question), is there a similar differance or possibly way to distinguish .ipt's from sheet metal parts (i would like to be able to autmatically switch my stock lists to read ga. sizes for sheet metal parts).  Thanks all in advance for any help

[MechMachineMan · Accepted solution]

Yes, there is.

Under the Component Definition of the object, you will find that there is a Type Method which will return which of any of the document types it is. I suggest looking further into it yourself through the programming help through inventor;

C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Inventor 2016\Local Help\admapi_20_0.chm

[Anonymous]

Ah, Thank you Thank you. I get a feeling this is a little 'above' my current experience, but i think it points me to exactly where my first steppinng stone will be at. again thank you very much.