Inventor 2021 Material Property when assy or fabrication (not assigned in Part)

[aj572]

Hi all, be gentle, 1st post.

When not drawing a part (drawing an assembly or fabrication) we'd like the Material in the titleblock to read 'SEE PARTS LIST" or "SEE CUTTING LIST" (as opposed to the assigned material when drawing a part).  If using the same drawing template for all - is there a way to drag the Material from the model (when detailing a part) and also having an option as above when detailing an assembly of fabrication?

Thankyou in advance.

[A.Acheson]

Hi @aj572 

Welcome to the forum. Assuming the material for an assembly is blank you could place a prompted entry text over the material field in the titleblock. This way you can run an ilogic rule on save to populate the textbox with whatever you need. The down side is now for every titleblock placed you have a prompted entry box which would annoyingly pop up. 

I would suggest you first look at what manual workflow would work the best for you and then we can have a look to automate it. My preference on this setup would be to have a seperate titleblock or remove the material and just have a text field on the drawing.

[aj572]

Thanks for the reply @A.Acheson 

I was hoping for something like - if no material is assigned then it would prompt to choose either "See Cutting List" or "See Parts List", actually saying that, I guess just one option of "See Drawing" would suffice.

I'd like to keep the option of selecting the material from the library in the model and link to the drawing and at the same time not have the user manually enter the other option.

I'm not experienced enough in logic or vbasic, so any help is greatly appreciated. 

[A.Acheson]

I would first pause the use of code for a second and get this to manually work for you. What happens when you place an assembly in the drawing. Is this material text box blank? If it is you have an option to place a text box overtop of the material one linked to a drawing iproperty. Can you now type into the iproperty and display the text? If so you should be able to automate this by code. If it isn't working for you some images of the results will help figure out another workflow.