placing and constraining an item with iLogic

[Anonymous]

Good Day,

i was wondering if there was a way to place a component into an assembly and constrain it purely with ilogic, without any human interaction?  and if so how?

Thanks in advance 🙂

[JelteDeJong · Accepted solution]

That is possible. Adding a part to a assembly is not a problem. see this rule:

Dim oDoc As AssemblyDocument = ThisApplication.ActiveDocument
Dim matrix As Matrix = ThisApplication.TransientGeometry.CreateMatrix()
Dim occurrence As ComponentOccurrence = oDoc.ComponentDefinition.Occurrences.Add("C:\temp\flange.ipt", matrix)

Constraining is also possible but is much more dificult. you can have a look at the help files. in the help files there are also examples

[Yijiang.Cai]

@Anonymous , If you are using inventor 2019/2020, you could easily get the code samples on placing & constraining a components. Please see the image below. It should work for you.

[Anonymous]

Thank you so much!

Your solution worked perfectly for placing the component.

[Anonymous]

This example worked perfectly for placing a component into the top level of a model.

Is there way to place a component into a sub assembly where the rule is run?

[Yijiang.Cai]

You could use the code lines below -

Dim oDoc As AssemblyDocument = ThisApplication.ActiveDocument
Dim matrix As Matrix = ThisApplication.TransientGeometry.CreateMatrix()

Dim oDef As ComponentDefinition
oDef = oDoc.ComponentDefinition.Occurrences(1).Definition '1: we use the first sub-assembly to add the component, and you could pick the right one

odef.Occurrences.Add("C:\temp\part1.ipt", matrix)

[Anonymous]

Thank you for your reply, but is there a way to go directly to the sub assembly by name?