mapping mass from inventor

[Anonymous]

Hi all,

how can i do a mapping from Inventor 2016 - physical property 'MASS' to an Vault Professional 2016 user Property?

'MASS' from Inventor is not in the choice list in vault Property- Mapping.

thanks for help

[gavbath]

You will need to create a User-defined property in Vault to store the mass value.

On the Inventor side, you'll have to create a custom iProperty to hold the mass. To populate it from the physical properties, I created an iLogic rule that runs on every save of the Inventor file. The rule looks like this:

iProperties.Value("Custom", "ComponentMass") = iProperties.Mass

[m_hermann]

thanks for answer.

Ilogic works, i'm also be able to design an addin, but would it maybe possible to get such a fundamental function without programming?

Maybe some customers don't want the costs and time for administration of that.

[gavbath]

There are a few properties that don't have standard iProperties, like Mass and sheetmetal extents, that require some sort of mapping to access them externally.

You could always put the idea of them being native iProperties in the Inventor Ideastation, I'm sure people would vote for it.

[Anonymous]

Hello,This is the way to solve the problem,

but for our company, i usually import STP file,for inventor 2015 i can save the ilogic code in the template ipt/iam file it works(when i import the stp file the saved ipt file have the custom mass information)but for inventor 2016,change the default template not work.

do you have some idea to solve this?

there is a same question here.

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-general-discussion/step-file-import-template/m-p/5795910/high...

[m_hermann]

Hi,

yes, i know how to fix it with iLogic. But my question was to find a solution without iLogic an API.

I put it in idea Station.

[gavbath]

You posted the question in the Vault Customisation forum, which is why the answers you're receiving have code solutions.

In this case though, I don't think you can do what you want without some form of customisation.

[Anonymous]

For Inventor 2015, I can do what i want, the only thing i do is change the default template.

For Inventor 2016, I can't do what i want, because i have to do some customization.

The Inventor 2016 is an update from Inventor 2015 correct?