Data Standards Define Category in Inventor

[Anonymous]

Hi,

I'm in the process of trying to setup data standards but I am falling at the first hurdle from inventor.

When I select a category and check file in the file is not categorised in vault,looking at the file it isn't writing to a property that i can apply a rule against to categorise and data standards doesn't seem to apply the category i have selected on check-in.

How do i setup the mapping of the category drop down to a property? Or is there a better way of setting this up?

Thanks in advance for any help.

[marco.mirandola]

Hi Stuart, if you like to have Vault appling the according category as selected within the VDS dialog, then you'll need a custom property in Inventor and Vault that are mapped and you'll need to fill the property in Inventor. I made a quick test and it worked nicely. 

I did add a new property in the C:\ProgramData\Autodesk\Vault 2016\Extensions\DataStandard\CAD\Configuration\Inventor.cfg calles _Category like this:

....
<PropertyDefinitions>
   ....
   ....
	<PropertyDefinition PropertyName="_Category" DataType="Text"/>
  </PropertyDefinitions>
...

I've tried with just Category, but it did not work. I guess the property is somehow alreay used internally, so _Category worked for me. 

Then i've added two lines in the OnPostCloseDialog function like this:

function OnPostCloseDialog
{
	$mWindowName = $dsWindow.Name
	switch($mWindowName)
	{
		"InventorWindow"
		{
			#rules applying for Inventor
			$ctx = $dsWindow.DataContext
			$Prop["_Category"].Value = $ctx.DynamicPropertiesCategory.Name
		}
....
.....

bascially, once the files is going to be saved, i extract from the dialog the selected categry and store it inside my property. The syntax here is somehow cryptic as it uses an internal property. But, it works...

now i have in Vault a custom property called _Category which is mapped to the according propety of the Inventor file. And then i have rules based on the value of this property (Engineering = Engineering, Office = Office, etc.)

find attached the cfg and ps1 file i've used. 

i hope this helps

ciao

marco

[emileHGKX6]

This worked like a charm, thanks for the help. 🙂

greetings

Jonas