AutoCAD Inventor :: Copy Filename To Part Number For All Parts And Sub-assemblies In Assembly

Sep 22, 2006

here's a macro I wrote to copy the filename to the Part Number iProperty for all parts and sub-assemblies contained in a top-level assembly. I wrote this after using a bunch of custom iParts and all the Part Numbers were the same for each part! (my fault of course, but a pain to fix one at a time).

Public Sub SetAllComponentPartNumbersToFileName()
Dim oAsmDoc As AssemblyDocument
Set oAsmDoc = GetActiveAssembly
If oAsmDoc Is Nothing Then Exit Sub
SetAssemblyComponentPartNumbersToFileName oAsmDoc
End Sub

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AutoCAD Inventor :: Get Parts List In Assembly Drawing To Fill Part Number Column?

Nov 19, 2011

I'm using Autodesk Inventor 2012 SP1 64 Bit on a Windows 7 machine without vault.

I seem to be missing something. I cannot get the parts list in assembly drawing to fill the part number column. See the image below.

The BOM has the part number field filled out as shown below. Is there someway that I need to map the iProperty to the part number column in parts list?

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Nov 8, 2011

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If I have a standard part with a blank filename, inventor will make the part number equal the filename at the first save. It is this functionality that I require when using Custom Content parts.

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Jun 13, 2013

When you do a Save As or Save Copy As in Inventor the part number in the iProperties is automatically updated to match the new filename. I would expect the Document.SaveAs method in the API to act in a similar way. However I found out that this is not the case.

SaveAs: Document.SaveAs(filename, False) does not update the part number. The new part will still have the same part number as the original part. This can give problems since in the BOM parts with the same part number are interpreted as the same physical part.

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Is this a bug in the API? or is there a reasonable explanation for this?

Inventor 2013 SP2

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Jan 22, 2013

Is there a way of getting a family tree of all the parts and sub-assemblies of a main assembly?

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Nov 12, 2012

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May 4, 2013

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Jan 30, 2012

I like to copy an assembly and save it under different number or name but the assembly made of huge number of parts. In order to re-name the assembly I have to go through each part and re-name them first.

Is there a way to re-name the assembly and parts all at once. I know there is a way with "pack and go" but i don't know how does it works?

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Jun 23, 2011

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Apr 25, 2012

I don't know how useful this will be but I was trying to figure out how to track what item number in an assembly any given part may be.  I was thinking that on an individual part drawing I may want to reference the item number that is used in an assembly's Bill of Material for that part.  I can't find where this may be stored for retrieval.  If I do this I would want it to be automated so that if the BoM were renumbered the part file and drawing would update to the new item number.

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Oct 3, 2011

I am working in an Inventor Assembly .iam, I have about 250 fasteners (screws) that are constrained to a flat washer and lock washer. I would like to put them in as a single unit (sub assembly if you will) and then promote or explode them in the top level so that my bom has 250 screws, 250 washers, and 250 lock washers all at the same level, not associated to one another except thru the constraints that were entered in the original assembly. I have tried Promote but that doesn't work because it removes the washers from the original file and I end up with only 1 instance of the assembly. Am I approaching this incorrectly? Is there a better way? I run across this scenario with different components quite often.

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Jun 6, 2012

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Feb 13, 2012

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Is there any way to do the copy the assembly to a new folder without the suppressed parts and subassemblies (wich are suppressed in the initial main assembly by iLogic rules)?

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Jan 15, 2012

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Jan 15, 2012

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For the parts I just inserted those into the drawing from their respective part file, allowing me to create the necessary amount of views to capture the needed dimensions for the shop.

When I go to apply a balloon to that part it wants to make it part #1 when it may be part # 7 of the assembly.

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Sep 9, 2012

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Can I link faces within an assembly to one of the assembly components.

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Nov 4, 2011

Having problems with parts lists not showing the correct part numbers of the parts included in the assembly. In some cases I've made a new part by renaming an existing part but when I create a parts list it shows the part no of the original existing part used to create the new part, even though the new part is the one in the assembly. Also I have just had a number of similar assemblies and needed to produce parts lists for them. I created the first one and then used 'save as' to rename the drawing including the parts list. Then when I re-opened the newly renamed drawing I assigned it to it's new assembly. However the parts list did not update to show the new part numbers included in it's new assembly.

Is all this a glitch in the system or is there something in the set-up which is causing this problem?

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Jul 10, 2012

I have an assembly with a lot of purchased parts. I need to create a buy out list for purchasing. I've done this many times in the past and have a template set up for this purpose.

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One of the subassemblies cinsists of two purchased parts. Both parts are set to purchased in the Bill of materials. If I do a parts only list on this assembly, it works as expected, showing two purchased parts. However, if I put that assembly into a higher level assembly, A parts only parts list shows the assembly instead of the individual parts.

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Dec 14, 2012

When I publish from Inventor to DWF (including sheets in the idw and an view of the iam assembly file) numerous part properties are included in the dwf that I would like to strip out so we don't share too much info with.

For example, filenames are included, stock numbers the complete bom from the model (as opposed to the parts lists that are shown in the idw's...  This info shows in the structured bill, and if you click on a part in the iam.

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AutoCAD Inventor :: Highlighting Parts In Sub-Assemblies

Oct 16, 2012

I'm having a problem highlighting parts within a sub assembly.  A simple structure to demonstarte this issue would be:

TopLevel.iam
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ChildPart2.ipt

Using this structure I wish to highligh ChildPart1.ipt, howver my vba macro code below doesn't seem to work (nothing happens):

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Apr 3, 2009

how the file structure works and how to link parts (ipt) and assemblies (iam) to each other. I converted a large file from Mechanical desktop to inventor which was a two day process. All parts and assemblies for the main assembly were dumped into one directory. I would like to move all the part files to one location and the assembly files (sub assemblies) to another location and then tell inventor to go there and pick the items from those two locations. I have set up the project telling inventor where to go and look. I moved all the items out of the original directory and now when I open the main model assembly I have to resolve the link to each part individually. This will take forever, is there a way to have inventor go and look for the parts and assemblies without me having to resolve each one?

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AutoCAD Inventor :: Drag Parts Into New Assemblies

Oct 21, 2013

I just installed Inventor 2014 today and I can't drag a part from the browser of one assembly into another open assembly.

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AutoCAD Inventor :: Parts List Of Sub Assemblies

May 31, 2012

I have one main assembly with two seperate sub assemblies in it.  I need to make two drawings showing the installation of both sub assemblies (one drawing for each).  I need to insert views of the main assembly into each drawing, showing the overall view of the install, but I need the balloons to represent the sub assembly BOM. 

I tried making the sub assembly I'm not currently showing, Phantom, and I have a design view set up to hide the information of the sub that is not part of the current drawing.  That seems to work fine for the first drawing, but when I change the BOM (of the main assembly) to suit the next drawing, it affects the first drawing.  How can I use one main BOM to suit two different drawings, showing only certain components?  Or can I "tell" the balloons which BOM to reference?  (I have the BOM of the sub assemblies set up the way I want them as well)

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Jan 11, 2012

i placed an ilogic component (wich i use as a template to  later change dimentions) into an assembly file after changing dimentions i placed the same "template" ilogic component into the assembly but when i want to change something on the second component it also changes the first one and that only happens with only one feature of the component the other features work fine.

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AutoCAD Inventor :: Reusing Parts And Assemblies

Mar 19, 2013

I'm working on a project with three small and very similar vessels. I'm done with the first vessel and I want to re-use this assembly when I start to design the next one. But vessel number two will require some changes to the parts (nozzle location and so on)

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Feb 23, 2012

How do I scale parts and assemblies in Inventor.  I"d like to be able to change the size of parts, sub-assemblies and full assemblies up and down by a uniform amount.  Ideally, I'd be able to increase or decrease the size of a part or assembly in all three axis or only in one at a time.  

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Mar 9, 2012

I am puttilng parts together on an assembly and right now when I move them they stop when they hit. how do I turn this off?

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Aug 23, 2012

Is it possible to rescale whole assemblies after they are created?

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Does it matter how complex the assemblies are? Could an entire car be rescaled to fit inside, say, a 1 mm cube? Never mind that a normal internal combustion engine that small might not work at all because of the air viscosity at that scale--it's not real. 

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