Material Browser Category Mapped to iProperties

[KWarrenCA]

Is there any way to map the category of the material to iProperties' of the part? So we assign the material as 304L but would also like to add the category of Stainless Steel to the iProperties that we can then map to vault for our ERP system. Possible with iLogic?

[J-Camper · Accepted solution]

There is no way to build a truly dynamic link, but this rule will set a custom iProperty whenever it get run.  It can be set to an event trigger, like before save, to trigger it without thinking:

Dim pDoc As PartDocument = TryCast(ThisDoc.Document, PartDocument)
If pDoc Is Nothing Then Exit Sub

Dim mAsset As MaterialAsset = pDoc.ActiveMaterial
Dim PropertyValue As String = mAsset.CategoryName
Dim PropertyName As String = "Material Category Name"
Dim CustomiProperties As PropertySet = pDoc.PropertySets.Item("Inventor User Defined Properties")

Try
	Dim prop As Inventor.Property = CustomiProperties.Item(PropertyName)
	If prop.Value <> PropertyValue Then prop.Value = PropertyValue
Catch
	 CustomiProperties.Add(PropertyValue, PropertyName)
End Try

[WCrihfield]

And in a PartDocument, we do have the event named "Material Change" in the Event Triggers, which sounds like the perfect trigger to run a rule like that.