Data Standard - get the object mass

[FedotovAnton]

• Hello,
  I map inventor mass to Vault property, but to get it I need manually update physical properties. Is there a way to do it automatically, for example when data standard window opens?
  Thanks,
  Anton

[Markus.Koechl]

Hi, 

referencing the Inventor library in your code you could do this in theory. I am saying "theory", because I think, to get mass available for PDM you should set up Inventor to calculate physical props on save; this is an option in Inventor application settings.

In case you continue to investigate your approach you might find these two steps useful: VDS 2017 has direct access to the Inventor document object. And in Inventor API samples there is the code to activate mass without dirtying flag: search for "Computing mass properties without dirtying document API Sample".